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September 2008, 60 Minutes correspondent Steve Kroft interviewed
Senator Barack Obama. He asked, "Why you? I mean, why do you
think you would be a good president?" Obama responded with a
litany of gobbeldy-gook.
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KROFT: But what is there specifically about you? You mentioned
disposition. You mentioned disposition. What skills and traits do you
have that would make you a good president?
OBAMA: Look, I'm a practical person. One of the things I'm good at is
getting people in a room with a bunch of different ideas. Who sometimes
violently disagree with each other. And finding common ground. And a
sense of common direction, and that's the kind of approach I think that
prevents you from making some of the enormous mistakes that we've seen
over the last eight years.
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60 Minutes, compelled by desire to get this man elected, later scrubbed that inanity from the public transcript. Continuing.
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KROFT:
We've talked a lot of times, and we've talked a lot about the issue of
experience. And, according to the latest CBS News poll and all the
polls, it still remains one of the things that people are concerned
about with you -- the lack of executive experience. I mean, suppose you
wake up on the day after the election, the president elect of the
United States. What are you gonna do? I mean, how are you gonna govern?
OBAMA: Well, look.
KROFT: You've never run anything. And now, all of a sudden, you're in charge of running the United States.
OBAMA: Well
KROFT: Besides your campaign.
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I don't have to remind you that the Obama tyro, with media allies,
would belittle Sarah Palin's experience as Governor of Alaska as a
joke. Today she gets her digs in. From her Facebook page:
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50 days in, and we’ve just learned another shocking revelation
concerning the Obama administration’s response to the Gulf oil spill.
In an interview aired this morning, President Obama admitted that he
hasn’t met with or spoken directly to BP’s CEO Tony Hayward. His
reasoning: “Because my experience is, when you talk to a guy like a BP
CEO, he’s gonna say all the right things to me. I’m not interested in
words. I’m interested in actions.”
First, to the “informed and enlightened” mainstream media: in all the
discussions you’ve had with the White House about the spill, did it not
occur to you before today to ask how the CEO-to-CEO level discussions
were progressing to remedy this tragedy? You never cease to amaze.
(Kind of reminds us of the months on end when you never bothered to ask
if the President was meeting with General McChrystal to talk about our
strategy in Afghanistan.)
Second, to fellow baffled Americans: this revelation is further proof
that it bodes well to have some sort of executive experience before
occupying the Oval Office (as if the painfully slow response to the oil
spill, confusion of duties, finger-pointing, lack of preparedness, and
inability to grant local government simple requests weren’t proof
enough). [continued]
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Aside: Sarry had a pretty good night as a king-maker.
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These
numbers don't approach the perhaps hyperbolic remark by candidate Obama
in July 2008 that "[w]e've got to have a civilian national security
force that's just as powerful, just as strong, just as well-funded [as
our military]." But a force of 250,000 isn't insignificant; our Marine
Corps numbers 203,000.
America needs a 21st century economic plan because we now know the
market-worshipping, privatizing, de-regulating, dehumanizing American
financial plan has failed and should never be revived, worshipping the
market again. It has failed America and everyone that works here. 
Organized
labor just flushed $10 million of their members' money down the toiled
on a pointless exercise," the official said. "If even half that total
had been well-targeted and applied in key House races across this
country, that could have made a real difference in November.