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- I found Steve Kroft to be unprofessional in his interview with President Obama in one instance, his response to the president's breaking into laughter when talking about bailing out the auto companies and its unpopularity. He appeared to grow angry in response and, insultingly, asked the President if he were "punch drunk." I am a professional social worker now retired, with nearly 20 years' experience as an investigator for Child Protective Services in my home state of Texas. In that capacity I have interviewed literally thousands of people, children and adults, and never once found insulting the subject of the interview to be a productive interview technique. Mr. Kroft, I think, needs a refresher course in appropriate, non-arrogant, interviewing techniques. Perhaps his superiors can suggest some to him. I found President Obama's response to that one question to be rather odd, but otherwise harmless and found the bulk of the interview to be very informative. Mr. Kroft owes President Obama an apology for his rudeness.
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- Who is Obama''s eminence grise?
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- Steve Kroft, CBS News did not ask Obama how $150,000,000.00 donation from UAW to Obama%u2019s election
helped the big 3 auto industries to avoid their bankruptcy: The executives of 3 big auto industries have been
mismanaging their extreme resources last 30 years just like Obama had been taking
advantage of the honorable Federal Student Loan System till he decided to run for the presidency!
Neither Steve Kroft, CBS News did ask Obama how Obama%u2019s life time taking
advantage of the honorable Federal Student Loan System helped the executives of Fannie
Mae & Freddie Mac, Lehman Brothers, Bear Sterns and AIG to avoid their taking advantage
of the Washington for the duration of their organizations!
Nor Steve Kroft, CBS News did remind Obama how %u201CThe drop hollows the stone,
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- Kill the bear market, invest in the future of energy, and help president-elect Obama push the Pickens Plan through congress!
We need American Energy Independence Now! - Reply to this comment
- i see mr. change is filling his cabinet with the same tired garbage that have destroyed our country. with a citizenry stupid and gullible enough to think he represented change we have no hope. have fun eating your ipods and flat screen tv''''s you idiots.
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Posted by jizzumjim at 10:00 AM : Nov 19, 2008
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Sorry, but the team that he is putting together came from the Clinton administration which is one of the better admins we had. It is also said that he is the most organized president-elect in history. Whether you agree or not, be it lack of experience or whatever he''s backing himself with the best professionals in the fields necessary to get this country back on track. - Reply to this comment
- People are more sick of what goes on in urban areas then they truly are racist. For example, In almost all urban school districts more money is spent per head on each child then in their nearby suburbs. The country has spent trillions on poverty and yet nothing seems to improve.
I submit that many people you think are racists are primarily just sick to death of the Urban areas in the country and the continued problems they have. I know I am.
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Posted by CPelzar at 03:52 PM : Nov 17, 2008
They may be getting more money per head in the urban schools, but they are not putting the money back into those schools. A lot of schools here in California are overcrowded and some don''t have enough books or desks to go around. It is ridiculous. Yeah, somebody is reaping the benefits, but it''s not the kids. - Reply to this comment
- Okay, for one, we have had nothing but white presidents and our world is not better for it. Obama is going to bring this country together under all Americans. He is going to change the way that this country deals with all Americans. And for those of you who want to talk about your forefathers and their vision for the U.S., their vision did not include all Americans, only white Americans. If Christianity was part of that vision, black people would not have been slaves. Let Obama get in the White House first. All of you who feel the need to accept what Al Qaeda has to say about him are the ones who do not want him to succeed. The GOP and its followers can overlook the mess that their white president has put us in, yet they have nothing but negativity for a black man, an American who hasn''t even began his term yet.
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- Flobby2,
It is not, as you say, "entirely inaccurate" to call Barack our first black President. Even if you consider him to be bi-racial (half-black, half-white), he is still part black. So, how could it be "entirely inaccurate" to say that he is our first black President? It would only be "entirely inaccuate" if he was not black at all!
Anyway, I find it interesting that people like you want to now try to distinguish between people that are "totally black (both parents are black)" and people who are "half black (one parent is black and the other parent is white)"! Before now (before Barack won the Presidency), most people considered anyone who is half-black and half-white to be "black". Now, all of a sudden, people want to make this "bi-racial" distinction!
He says that his race is "black"! And, that is good enough for me! Because, like Barack said, "Racist people don''t look at a bi-racial person on the street and say, "There goes a bi-racial person, they say, there goes a black person"! I agree with Barack! Why is it when it is looking at black people (including bi-racial people who are part-black) who have done something negative, people consider them to be totally black, but if a black person who is bi-racial has done something positive, they are consiered to be bi-racial? - Reply to this comment
- When millions of Americans as well as billions of people world-wide woke up the morning after Barack Obama was elected President, they probably expected the dawn of a new age. Sorry to disappoint all you Obama-kool-aid drinkers, but America''s enemies still hate us and do so regardless who occupies the White House.
This morning our friends from Al-Qaida posted a message on militant websites aimed at persuading Arabs and Muslims to not believe that Obama''s election will change U.S. policies. While I have sounded the alarm bell that an Obama Presidency will weaken America and be detrimental to the State of Israel, my argument that our enemies hate us because of our freedom and tolerance, regardless of our leadership and policies, stands proven.
If Islamofacists had any goal besides destroying America and the Western World, they surely would have embraced Obama''s opposition to the war, determination to remove our troops in Iraq and his sympathy for the Palestinians. Instead they decide to insult him with racial epithets, calling him a "House Slave" in Arabic and referring to him as a "House Negro" in the video subtitles.
NOTHING CHANGES, BUT YOUR AGE. - Reply to this comment
- jizzumjim: I concur. A sad country with their head so far up their sorry A-- it is almost funny.
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