Obama’s ‘View’
EmailABC News’ Sunlen Miller Reports: Barack Obama will be a guest on ABC’s "The View" on Friday, March 28th, in the Democratic contender’s only morning talk show appearance next week.
"I am really looking forward to my return visit to sit down with the ladies of ‘The View’," Obama said.
This is the Senator’s second appearance on the show but his debut as a presidential candidate.
Obama’s first appearance came in November 2004 when promoting his book "Dreams of My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance".
"Obviously, this is a huge day for "The View". This is a critical moment for Senator Obama and we will be devoting most of the show to his interview," said the show’s executive producer Bill Geddie.
Obama was previously scheduled to be a guest in September, but had to a cancel to attend to his day job when last minute votes were called in the Senate.
His wife, Michelle Obama, also cancelled her appearance as co-host in December when she refused to cross picket lines while the WGA strike was still ongoing.
In addition to sitting down with the ladies of "The View", Obama will also be in New York City to raise a little coin and plans to attend several fundraisers.
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What’s ‘The View’?
Posted by: LOM | March 19, 2008, 4:57 pm 4:57 pm
Its a women talk show.
Posted by: Vanessa | March 19, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm
more free air time. if someone added up all the free air time this guy’s gotten, it’d be equivalent to many millions of dollars.
Posted by: so saddened | March 19, 2008, 5:04 pm 5:04 pm
BHO is white and black, on Monday says he’s Irish. What now? He’s a woman.
Posted by: smartprimate | March 19, 2008, 5:10 pm 5:10 pm
Wonderful, the View is a very nice show managed by very progressive and intellignet women. Sharing the air time with the next President of the United States of America is just wonderful.
Posted by: BKMC | March 19, 2008, 5:33 pm 5:33 pm
And I suppose Hillary paid for her time on Saturday Night Live?
Give us a break!
Posted by: Jackt51 | March 19, 2008, 5:38 pm 5:38 pm
BKMC and Jackt51, I wish I had your optimism
Posted by: LA in Indiana | March 19, 2008, 5:46 pm 5:46 pm
LA in Indiana, it is easy the math of pledge delegates is on Obama’s side. So this is not about optimism or pessimism but reality check, mathematics have no feelings.
Posted by: BKMC | March 19, 2008, 5:50 pm 5:50 pm
Neither Sen. Clinton Obama can reach the magic number 2025. The superdelegates are there for a reason.
Posted by: Halfy | March 19, 2008, 6:00 pm 6:00 pm
DCVoter, it does not matter, the show is an opportunity to demonstrate that Obama can talk to his supporters and to Hillary supporters, as I told you there is tomorrow after the elections and the 3 ladies who are supporting Hillary will end up supporting Obama as the nominee of the democratic party and help him win against McCain. That is why it is an honor and a privilege to be with the ladies and discuss serious issues, listen to them and get some ideas from the, rather than the DCVoter.
Posted by: BKMC | March 19, 2008, 6:06 pm 6:06 pm
BKMC
aaahhh ye ole pledged delegates
But we have now crossed the threshold of electability. We already know Pennsylvania won’t vote for him. Neither will Indiana and North Carolina. White America is not as forgiving as Black America, and this will keep him from moving forward.
We all know the republicans will hang Wright around Obama’s neck like kryptonite.
Knowing this country’s mood for centuries, the light at the end of the tunnel is more cynicism than optimism.
But I will continue to pray for Barack.
Posted by: LA in Indiana | March 19, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
This election is a joke, so many issues and here we have main headline Obama will be on “the view”.
The man is a compulsive liar, he seems to have a hidden agenda that he cloaks in words and speeches, he is lacking in experience, and most of all dividing this country because if he does not get the nomination it will be divided more than ever.
Yet the media has turned a blind eye to all this and reporting as if its a daily soap opera, while gas is going up, people are losing their homes, the war is still going on but Obama is going on the view is a hot topic.
Posted by: SJ | March 19, 2008, 6:12 pm 6:12 pm
Barbara has defended him as ‘a good man.’ Whoopi has more flip flopping than John McCain. Joy is for Hillary. Elisabeth is for McCain, so you know she owns a lot of flip-flops.
Posted by: kravitz | March 19, 2008, 6:17 pm 6:17 pm
Hillary can win in two ways;
1) Win more than 65% of the delegates from the last ten contests. Something she has not even been closed to doing yet.
2) Superdelegates and if they give her the nod, polls indicate that 20% of the party will either vote otherwise or stay home. This does not take into account all hte new democrats that Obama has brought to the party who will certainly shun her.
Talk about unelectable.
Posted by: Lou - NH | March 19, 2008, 7:29 pm 7:29 pm
Friday’s show is usually on tape. Will this be live on the 28th, or taped on Wednesday 26th?
Posted by: kravitz | March 19, 2008, 8:47 pm 8:47 pm
“No one should be forced to remain silent for fear of religious or political persecution, arrest, abuse or torture. I believe that now, on the eve of a new millennium, it is time to break the silence. It is time for us to say, here in Beijing, and for the world to hear, that it is no longer acceptable to discuss women’s rights as separate from human rights.” (Clinton said this in 1995)
Lissa Muscatine was Hillary Clinton’s speechwriter in the 1990s. Muscatine wrote that speech, and she says it galvanized attention for women around the globe.
“I can tell you from going around the world with her that for years after that everywhere we went, people — women — would run up to her with copies of the speech, clutching it,” Muscatine said. “It was as if it empowered a lot of women and gave voice to their aspirations.”
Posted by: DCVoter | March 19, 2008, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
A few weeks ago, Senator Clinton was on the road to a concession speech in August.
Fortunately for her, David Axelrod is in charge of the Obama campaign and keeps giving her new life… a little byte at a time. And Axelrod used to work for the Clintons…
At any rate, the Obama appearance on “The View” is an attempt to show genuine concern for gender bias when there really is none. In addition, Obama will try to smooth and diffuse his campaign’s attack on Geraldine Ferraro’s comments on gender bias in the United States, which by the way, is significant.
If you don’t think so, then why do women in many jobs get paid less than male counterparts for the same work?
And, why were black men in the United States granted the right to vote before all women?
Such comparisons in reality should send the race issue to the back burner.
Posted by: Ken | March 19, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm
Ken
So did Wright and Obama give black men right to vote before women? Would Obama take credit for that?
Posted by: MattOhio | March 19, 2008, 9:40 pm 9:40 pm
I agree Obama’s appearance on the View is an attempt to try to win female voters back. Of course, Barbara is not going to say no, ratings make money. No doubt they would want Clinton on at a later date. Unfortunately, appearing on talk shows is needed to get exposure to people who might not see them on news shows. Free bytes are free bytes no matter which candidate you are.
Posted by: DCVoter | March 19, 2008, 9:51 pm 9:51 pm
Whoopi is not undecided… she switched from Obama and actually voted for Clinton as she stated in one of the episodes. Sherry is the undecided one as of last week but she may be for Obama now since I dont watch every episode. Barbara does state Obama is a good man but they all say that. Barbara is a Clinton supporter.
Posted by: American Independent | March 20, 2008, 2:38 am 2:38 am
Sorry, Kravitz, I’m hearing the exact opposite. If Obama gets the nomination, many voters simply will NOT vote. They are soured after hearing Jeremiah Wright’s inflammatory, racist comments. If you think this is going away, think again. We all know that if McCain or Hillary, had a white friend like this reverend, and attended a white, supremacy church for 20 years, they would immediately lose everything. If the Super Delegates still select him, the voters will make sure, McCain wins in the end !!!
The Super Delegates need to do the right thing for the Democratic party – Obama is NO longer a viable candidate. The people finally know the truth about him. It won’t be swept under a rug, no matter how much the extreme liberals and extreme, liberal media wish that it could be.
Posted by: Lisa | March 20, 2008, 12:05 pm 12:05 pm
The View should book Ferraro for the next day. She apparently needs to tack on her own post script to everything Obama says or does. Some folks just don’t know when to quit talking.
Posted by: S.E. Croft | March 20, 2008, 12:53 pm 12:53 pm
Obama is now supported by Rev. Wright, Farrakhan, The New Black Panther Party and his ole pal Rezco. Another racist, Rev. Meeks is now been reported to be connected to Obama. With all of Obama’s racist friends it is very hard to believe his message of hope.
Posted by: onenibble | March 20, 2008, 1:18 pm 1:18 pm
I will vote for John McCain or not vote at all if Obama gets the nomination.
Posted by: onenibble | March 20, 2008, 1:22 pm 1:22 pm
We need to be fair America; “everyone” wants Obama to denounce his church over speeches made by his Pastor. To be fair with Obama
How many Catholics actually discontinued, denounced and demonized their Church after they found out that their Reverend, Pastors, Cardinals or Bishops was molesting young boys? Should all Catholics abandon their churches?
One cannot be punish for the sins or wrongdoing of another.
This is unnecessary distraction from the main issues facing America today, issues such as the Economy, the lost of lives of our men and women in uniform fighting in Iraq, health care, education and the future of our country etc…
We have Presidency in denial, who actually believes the war was a success after five years, with so much lives lost, and Trillions of dollars spent. This should be the main attraction/issue for every realistic persons and journalists who love our country.
The main question is why the so-called “journalist” chooses to pick on issues that are so irrelevant to the American lives. Does any one actually care more about the speech Obama Pastor made as compare to the lives of our dead service men and women, or over the endless war or over the economy, health care and crimes in our streets…?
The entire sanitized journalists should be ashamed of the “work” they do. It seems journalism of today are so sanitized and afraid to be a real journalist, instead they have to pick on anyone/issues that secure their employment…what happened to fearless and courageous reporting? That is what journalism is.
Would you please start been a journalist again by reporting issues that actually affects lives of the millions of Americans, issues ranging from how the best country in the world have so much homeless people and possible solution to eradicate homelessness, issues affecting the jobless Americans and their homes, the war, the miscarriage of justice in our society etc. Please be courageous in reporting, tearing people down is not journalism.
Thank you for reading this.
Posted by: Emmanuel Ukpe | March 20, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm
As a Dem. I think Obama political team have issues “the racial” and is going to carrier all to the next level. As a president this issue is going to increase then he won’t have time to focus on any national real problems due to his own racial national problems that he is going to provoke/cause with any action, verbal discussion , etc. so then he is not going to be a good for the Dem. I’m see things that are going to be worse later on
Posted by: ada | March 20, 2008, 7:07 pm 7:07 pm
I wish you so called americans would stop trying to decide who is more american and who is not. This country was built on the backs of slaves black and white. So please people just stop all the madness. We all have different american experiences so grow up and just agree to disagree.
Posted by: konagirl | March 20, 2008, 9:33 pm 9:33 pm
Everyone needs to study the Book of Revelations!! According to The Book of Revelations the anti-christ is: The anti-christ will be a man,in his 40s’,of MUSLIM descent,who will deceive the nations with persuasive language,and have a MASSIVE Christ-like appeal….the prophecy says that people will flock to him and he will promise false hope and world peace,and when he is in power,will destroy everything!! Is it OBAMA????
Posted by: PAPG | March 21, 2008, 10:49 am 10:49 am
Why don’t more people decry Obama’s ‘Typical White Person’ comment? What exactly is a typical white person? That clearly shows he sees people as white or black as is preached in his church. He also said that people’s feelings are ‘Bred’. Where did this guy go to school? I’m white and when I see a black person on the sidewalk I say “Hi! How’re you doin”. I guess I am Atypical and haven’t been ‘bred’ the way typical whites have. This guy is a joke!
Posted by: John | March 21, 2008, 9:22 pm 9:22 pm
First Oprah, now Barbara Walters is using her celebrity and power to promote Barack Obama. I thought Ms. Walters was above this type of biased journalism but I guess not.. Too bad.
Posted by: Dan | March 25, 2008, 6:08 pm 6:08 pm
Connect the dots …
Barbara Walters is a co-owner (with ABC) and co-executive producer of “The View”.
Anne Sweeney, who is rated higher than Oprah on this list “Disney Studio Head Tops Most Powerful Women List”, is Walters’ boss and friend.
Anne Sweeney is friends with Maria Shriver who publicly endorsed Obama.
==> Media Bias!
Let’s have Hillary Clinton on “The View”!!
Posted by: Dan | March 25, 2008, 6:14 pm 6:14 pm
I would *love* to see Ferraro on “The View”!!!! Please
Posted by: Dane | March 25, 2008, 9:11 pm 9:11 pm
Can’t stand to see Bill, Hillary, Ferraro or that bald headed James Carville anymore. They make me cring. What a bunch horrible people, a bunch of losers.
Posted by: John | March 28, 2008, 5:42 pm 5:42 pm