Posted on 09/13/2008 7:47:40 AM PDT by quesney
ABC "News"
Charles Gibson Interviews Barack Obama
Presumptive Democratic Presidential Nominee
June 4, 2008 (after Hillary Clinton concedes)
http://abcnews.go.com/print?id=5000184
GIBSON: Senator, I'm curious about your feelings last night. It was an historic moment. Has it sunk in yet?
GIBSON: What did your grandmother say?
GIBSON: Public moments are not your own. There's a million people pulling you in a million different directions, but when everybody clears out, the staff is gone, you're in your hotel room at night and you're alone -- do you say to yourself: "Son of a gun, I've done this?"
GIBSON: (inaudible) when you announced, did you truly, in your gut, think that a black man could win the nomination of a major party to be president of the United States?
GIBSON: You don't get much time to enjoy this before people immediately start talking about the vice presidency.
GIBSON: But there obviously is one name that looms over all. Hillary Clinton has already, to some extent, expressed her willingness. There are supporters putting out petitions. There is a drumbeat of pressure. There are those 18 million votes. Is she a special case that you have to deal with before the others, or is she considered just like everybody else? How long can you let the "Hillary Clinton on the ticket" question linger?
GIBSON: Does there have to be a yes or no on the issue of Hillary Clinton before you get to the others, or can this issue linger on, because it pervades everything? You want to move on to the general election. You want to pivot to a campaign against John McCain. Can you do that while this question hovers over you?
GIBSON: So, you won't do -- you won't deal with her first, get that out of the way, and then either move on or not?
GIBSON: As long as that question lingers, can you get about the business of unifying the party, or does that have to be taken care of first?
GIBSON: Did she squeeze you in any way by making known her interest in the job?
GIBSON: Should you choose her, how do you handle Bill Clinton?
GIBSON: On what three issues will this campaign turn to you?
GIBSON: Do you worry that it could turn on race, age and class?
GIBSON: John McCain has issued an invitation to do a series of town meetings (inaudible). Going to do it?
GIBSON: Will you go to Iraq?
GIBSON: Public financing: Going to take it or going to say no?
GIBSON: But there's a dynamic on your side, as well. You originally said you would take it.
GIBSON: That was before we saw a...
GIBSON: If you already see that money coming in, it seems to me you're saying...
GIBSON: Is the hardest part of all this behind you or ahead of you?
GIBSON: The picture of you in the paper, this morning, with your wife, watching the Clinton speech. What did you think of the Clinton speech? She didn't exactly acknowledge your victory.
GIBSON: And finally your daughters. What did they say to you? Did they take it as a matter of course that Daddy could be nominated to be president? They never knew what older people know in terms of discrimination, although they may still feel some. What did they say about that?
GIBSON: I watched closely your countenance last night, your mien, as you stood in that hall. You didn't smile much. Has the joyfulness of this hit home yet? Do you take joy from it?
GIBSON: Senator, thank you.
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ABC "News"
Charles Gibson Interviews Sarah Palin
Republican Vice Presidential Nominee
September 11, 2008
http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/Vote2008/Story?id=5782924&page=1
GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question. Can you look the country in the eye and say "I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?"
GIBSON: And you didn't say to yourself, "Am I experienced enough? Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs? Do I -- will I feel comfortable enough on the national stage to do this?"
GIBSON: Didn't that take some hubris?
GIBSON: But this is not just reforming a government. This is also running a government on the huge international stage in a very dangerous world. When I asked John McCain about your national security credentials, he cited the fact that you have commanded the Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those sufficient credentials?
GIBSON: I know. I'm just saying that national security is a whole lot more than energy.
GIBSON: Did you ever travel outside the country prior to your trip to Kuwait and Germany last year?
GIBSON: Have you ever met a foreign head of state?
GIBSON: And all governors deal with trade delegations.
GIBSON: Who act at the behest of their governments.
GIBSON: I'm talking about somebody who's a head of state, who can negotiate for that country. Ever met one?
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, "Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God." Are we fighting a holy war?
(PALIN: You know, I don't know if that was my exact quote.)
GIBSON: Exact words.
GIBSON: I take your point about Lincoln's words, but you went on and said, "There is a plan and it is God's plan."
GIBSON: But then are you sending your son on a task that is from God?
GIBSON: Let me ask you about some specific national security situations.
GIBSON: Let's start, because we are near Russia, let's start with Russia and Georgia.
GIBSON: You believe unprovoked.
GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they're doing in Georgia?
GIBSON: Would you favor putting Georgia and Ukraine in NATO?
GIBSON: Because Putin has said he would not tolerate NATO incursion into the Caucasus.
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.
GIBSON: Let me turn to Iran. Do you consider a nuclear Iran to be an existential threat to Israel?
GIBSON: So what should we do about a nuclear Iran? John McCain said the only thing worse than a war with Iran would be a nuclear Iran. John Abizaid said we may have to live with a nuclear Iran. Who's right?
GIBSON: So what do you do about a nuclear Iran?
GIBSON: But, Governor, we've threatened greater sanctions against Iran for a long time. It hasn't done any good. It hasn't stemmed their nuclear program.
GIBSON: What if Israel decided it felt threatened and needed to take out the Iranian nuclear facilities?
GIBSON: So if we wouldn't second guess it and they decided they needed to do it because Iran was an existential threat, we would cooperative or agree with that.
GIBSON: So if it felt necessary, if it felt the need to defend itself by taking out Iranian nuclear facilities, that would be all right.
GIBSON: We talk on the anniversary of 9/11. Why do you think those hijackers attacked? Why did they want to hurt us?
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
(PALIN: His world view.)
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
GIBSON: Do we have a right to anticipatory self-defense? Do we have a right to make a preemptive strike again another country if we feel that country might strike us?
GIBSON: Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
GIBSON: But, Governor, I'm asking you: We have the right, in your mind, to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government.
GIBSON: And let me finish with this. I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes? That you think we have the right to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government, to go after terrorists who are in the Waziristan area?
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Sarah Palin - Able to field questions Obama can’t/won’t.
This interview with Obama was after he clinched the nomination after a 12 month battle. That's not when you ask hard-hitting policy questions - Obama had his positions questioned and he explained them throughout the debates.
The Palin interview, on the other hand, was her first major interview. I don't expect "How does your mom feel about this?" type questions when she hasn't faced a single interview regarding policy.
Listen - Gibson was a d*ck and the editing was purposefully, but to compare these two interviews is a false exercise.
Questions to Palin on Experience and Foreign Policy: 37
Show me an interview of Obama by Gibson or anyone else (besides, perhaps, O’Reilly) that was anything like this.
Ping!
Spot on..!!
Great job, BTW. The only time Gibson even mentioned a foreign country to Obama was a simple question about plans to visit Iraq. But Gibson drilled Palin with questions about Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, and Pakistan.
Obama can not answer tough questions with authority or in a manner that will be accepted by the average American.
Palin on the other hand may not have exposure to international affairs as a Sen. or candidate would have, but she isn't afraid to answer or tackle tough issues this country faces.
In the attempt to marginalize Palin, they have in fact showed how intellectually weak Obama is.The fact that our media refuses to ask Obama any serious tough questions should be a wakeup call to the electorate.
Someone should go back and sum up the time Gibson was smiling or pleasant with Obama vs. Palin. That would also be telling.
Not so ironically , all Gibson’s questions to Obama seem to start from the premise that he is ALREADY President, and is for that reason, obviously a BUSY man, and that’s why Gibson starts so many questions with a clipped, “I’ll-get-out-of-your-way-in-a-second” overly-chummy “Gonna do this,gonna do that?” approach. And that is for the presumptive PRESIDENTIAL nominee. With Palin, the fact is that she had ALREADY been picked for VEEP by the REAL nominee of the Republican Party, McCain, the questions from Gibson are EXACTLY WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ASKED OBAMA!
Yet there are more dimensions of irony to this:
It is clear now the appeal of an ObamabinBiden ticket is waning, and waning fast.
So in a sense it’s not illogical that Gibson grills her as if it’s SHE that is President or will be influential in the Administration of which she will be part. Yes, they still want to throw stones in her path, and McCain’s, and make it hard on them, and a big part of that is the resentment they feel privately that McCain/Palin will WIN!
It’s as though they’re getting in one last shot.
I am sure Gibson's intent was to jelp Obama and harm Pain. However, having practiced law for many years, I can tell you that the type of softball interview never helps sway a jury. The are great fodder to the people who are already fans of Obama, but fail to provide any opportunity for the candidate to distinguish himself or convince the most important jury of all - the undecided voter. They just go away thinking the whole event was unremarkable.
Dealing with tough questions, even imperfectly, distinguishes the candidate. Most people will not care that Palin was unfamiliar with the so-called "Bush Doctrine." What they care about is the poise exhibited while dealing with the tough question. On this count Palin passed the test and Obama was given a pass. The jury of undecideds can and will tell the difference.
The MSM is so thoroughly convinced of its own importance, it is blind to the fact that every time another hit piece is done, Palins public support increases. The leftist media has finally come full circle...damaging its own candidate by working so hard to help him. What fun to watch.
Look at the date on that Hitler speech -—almost
EXACTLY 70 years to the day.
The older you get the more amazing facts like this are;
I wasn’t even born until after WW2, but the perspective I have now makes it seem like yesterday. And “the practice of politics’ in most of the West continues rolling along on many of the same tracks.
Better yet, would be a splice of the actual interviews with just the question. First a video clip of a Gibson question to Obama followed by a clip of a question to Palin. If the actual questions are not instructive enough, the demeanor of Gibson will appear startling.
I sent to Rush, ping’d TGO and also sent to everyone on my mailing list. Let’s spread the word!
Thanks for posting this information
I think Sean Hannity got it right, 2008 is the death year of the MSM.
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