By Natalie Gewargis

Aug 26, 2008 11:49am

Joe and Jill and Barack and Michelle

People…people who read People…are the loveliest people in the world…

Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., and the Robin to his Batman, Sen. Joe Biden, D-Del., the six-term senator who has joined him on the Change-Train, sat down with their wives for an exclusive interview with People magazine last Saturday.

A photog asked the two men to squeeze together for a shot.

"We’re kind of insecure," joked Obama.

"I carry my wife’s pocketbook," said Biden. "I’m fine."

(?)

Obama said that he told Biden he’d been picked by calling his Senate office and having him tracked down. "He said he was at the dentist’s office," Obama recalled. "I realized only later that he was being a doting husband, looking after Jill during a root canal."

And how did Biden tell the Biden brood?

"My granddaughter, Maisy, turned 8 and we were having a little birthday party for her," recalled Jill Biden, the presumptive second lady. "We had just finished blowing out the candles and were cutting the cake. And Joe said to everybody, ‘Hey, I have something that I’d like to announce.’ And he said, ‘Barack called me and asked me to be vice president.’ And everybody — I get so emotional when I think about it — and everybody clapped and started hugging."

"Maisy was totally unfazed," Biden said. "She said, ‘Pop, can I have some more ice cream cake?’"

Michelle Obama told the magazine that she "stayed out of this process. But when he told me his choice, I said, ‘That’s the right choice.’ I was like (snaps fingers) ‘Good!’ And the thing that was important for me is the reputation that Joe Biden has of being a good man, he’s a good guy, he loves his family. I like the fact that he’s on the train every day getting back home. Those are the kind of values that I respect. And uniformly, people have said the same thing about Jill.

"So, you want people you can hang out with, that you trust, that you sit down and have a good conversation with, in addition to the advice, guidance and wisdom he brings," Mrs. Obama continued. "I think about it as a wife who’s got to hang out with this crew, right?"

The interview kind of reads like it could be one of those goofy-guy/awesome-wife sitcoms slated for ABC’s fall lineup. (Is "According to Jim" still on the air?)

Some excerpts:

PEOPLE: This is the first mate you’ve chosen since Michelle.

Barack Obama: That’s a good point.

Michelle Obama: Barack is looking for people who will challenge him, who will tell him no.

Barack: That’s exactly what you need [in a vice president].

Michelle: That’s why he married me. (Laughs.) So, I’d tell Sen. Biden, don’t pull any punches.

PEOPLE:  Now, if Sen. Biden starts yelling at you about picking up your socks…

Barack: Then we’re in trouble. Don’t do that, Joe.

Joe Biden: Don’t worry…

PEOPLE:  Sen. Biden, are you ready to hit the basketball court with him?

Joe: Hell, yeah, man.

Jill: He plays with the grandkids; we have a basketball hoop. He can train with Maisy.

Joe: I can’t keep up with Maisy! The one thing I want my kids to remember about me is that I was an athlete. The hell with the rest of this stuff.

PEOPLE:  You were a college freshman when your new boss was born. Does that make you feel old?

Joe: I’m not old. There are still 44 senators older than me…

PEOPLE:  Mrs. Biden, what should Sen. Obama know about your husband’s habits?

Jill: He’s pretty much a night owl, so they have that in common. He’s on that Blackberry and his phones constantly. I won’t let him drive the car because everything’s ringing. I say, ‘Pull over!’ It’s too dangerous. Or we go to the wrong places. (Laughs)…

PEOPLE:  Have you had much time to get to know the Obamas?

Jill: Not really. It’s always been at the debates, always sort of ‘Hello, how are you? How many more of these do we have to do?’ But Michelle and I spent some time together this morning and we’re really looking forward to being together. (Hugs Mrs. Obama) If you think those guys have chemistry, I think we have chemistry.

Audience: AWWWWWWWwwwwww!

And….scene.

Roll credits.

Produced by David Axelrod.

Directed by Robert Gibbs.

Hair and Makeup: Tommy Vietor.

- jpt

User Comments

am I the only one who sees shades of Bush/Rove type BS here? It all seems so fake.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 11:59 am 11:59 am

This will be a nice contrast with John and Cindy, the “other woman” heiress and the sugar daddy.

Posted by: Bill | August 26, 2008, 12:01 pm 12:01 pm

Celebrities in a celebrity magazine.

Posted by: Sally J. | August 26, 2008, 12:03 pm 12:03 pm

“[Biden]‘s on that Blackberry and his phones constantly. I won’t let him drive the car because everything’s ringing. I say, ‘Pull over!’ It’s too dangerous. Or we go the wrong places. (Laughs.)..”

Posted by: Belle Starr | August 26, 2008, 12:04 pm 12:04 pm

Some people are claiming to be Democrats who will vote McCain because they don’t like Obama. Some people are claiming to be Republicans who support Obama because of his “new politics” or whatever. The problem is: Democrats HAVE A HISTORY of crossing party lines to help vote in Republican presidents. Republicans occassionally cross over to vote Democratic, but not in large numbers. I do believe that most of the people claiming to be Democrats for McCain are real, because I’m one of them, and most of my Democratic family is voting for McCain. I laugh when someone posts that he’s a Republican supporting Obama. I’ve never known a Republican who would vote for someone who promises to raise taxes on capital gains, stock dividends, and inheritance taxes. It simply isn’t believable to me. Every time I hear the “I’m a Republican and I support Obama line,” I think one thing: PAID OBAMA BLOGGER

Posted by: Swing State Voter | August 26, 2008, 12:15 pm 12:15 pm

soooooo fake

Posted by: Frieda | August 26, 2008, 12:18 pm 12:18 pm

Swing State Voter
there are lots of republicans that are voting dem this time
2 words
Bush Cheney
2 words that will be the speakers at the RNC’s opening night of their convention…
nothing says “we get it America” like putting the bad guys up on the first night of your convention to set the tone.
lol

Posted by: dl | August 26, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Give and take, these two look good together. Blind leading the blind. Gaffer leading another gaffer.!!!
Can wait to see the presidency of Obama…will be fun, Give and take!!

Posted by: Frieda | August 26, 2008, 12:20 pm 12:20 pm

Sammy, yes you are the only one. LOL

Posted by: Dem-4-Life | August 26, 2008, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm

Do you think the birthday party story was true or plagerized?

Posted by: Clevelander as in Ohio | August 26, 2008, 12:26 pm 12:26 pm

Jake ask the Senator about The Ayers ads he’s trying to get banned. His campaign says that they are lies. What part of the ad is a Lie?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 12:27 pm 12:27 pm

Some of these McCain haters need to get beyond labeling Cindy McCain as the “other woman.”
The McCains have been married for years, and have grown children together.
While I admire Teddy Kennedy and his family’s long legacy in American politics, I think some people tend to forget that he had a different wife than the one he has now when he ran for president in 1980. I remember going to a campaign rally for him that same year and Joan Kennedy (not Vickie) was campaigning by his side. Catholic or not, he obtained a divorce and remarried.
Divorce and remarriage are a fact of life in this country, and in many, many cases there is overlap between those two events. I just don’t think Cindy McCain needs to be referred to as the “other woman” in John McCain’s life when she has been married to him for decades already.

Posted by: SandyB | August 26, 2008, 12:29 pm 12:29 pm

Biden says that Obama is not ready to be president, and questions his judgement. Michele is not proud of America, writes a racist thesis, and is quoted as saying that she is not sure if she would have voted for Hillary if she were the nominee. A kangaroo ticket, this Dem ticket, stronger in the back, weak in the front.
And the media just fawns over them. Is People going to do the same interview for the GOP ticket? Probably not. Bias as usual. shame on us all.

Posted by: decentAmerican | August 26, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

Sammy– the whole thing is a lie. There is no such person as William Ayers–its all an urban legend.

Posted by: cardinal | August 26, 2008, 12:30 pm 12:30 pm

So glad BO has chosen Biden so Michelle has someone comfortable to hang out with. Jeez! One would think Michelle would come up with a better comment than that.
Fluff! OK, but fluff.

Posted by: countallthevotes | August 26, 2008, 12:32 pm 12:32 pm

“SO belle do you think that we should allow anyone anywhere to put up any ad they see fit on tv or radio or the internet?”
I can’t find any conditions on free speech, ESPECIALLY political free speech in the Constitution, can you?
But more to the point what is the lie, specifically, in the Ayers ad?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 12:35 pm 12:35 pm

Can any Obama supporter tell me the lie in the ad?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 12:36 pm 12:36 pm

Sammy, give it up–they will not tell what the lie is. I’ve been asking for two days now on several different sites.

Posted by: cardinal | August 26, 2008, 12:39 pm 12:39 pm

Its because they know there isn’t a lie. And Obama and his followers want to shut down free speech which is “uncomfortable” for Obama. Imagine the future with such people?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 12:40 pm 12:40 pm

There’s nothing slanderous about the Ayers ad. Why is the Chicago Annenberg Challenge refusing to release the records from the years Ayers was trying to revolutionize education and Obama was overseeing his efforts as Chairman of the Board? Why don’t we have a full and detailed list of the grants these two made jointly through the Woods Fund? Why is Obama scared of William Ayers? If Rev. Wright couldn’t sink his candidacy then surely a homegrown terrorist bomber couldn’t – or could he?

Posted by: marylou | August 26, 2008, 12:41 pm 12:41 pm

Note to politicians, left and right:
I don’t care about your families. I care about your policies. I am sick to death of both sides simpering on about how wonderful their relationships with their families are.

Posted by: Wade | August 26, 2008, 12:42 pm 12:42 pm

Why wont McCain support the Employee Free Choice Act?

Posted by: Mike | August 26, 2008, 12:50 pm 12:50 pm

Cant wait for the four to be in the white house!!!!! obama/biden 08 all the way to the white house!!!!!!!!!!!

Posted by: angie | August 26, 2008, 12:56 pm 12:56 pm

The script writer was left out in the credits.

Posted by: Obama-Yah-Wright | August 26, 2008, 12:59 pm 12:59 pm

Mike,
Because the Employee Free Choice act is a play whereby Union election will no longer be by secret ballot. So Union thughs can intimidate workers by public votes. It surprises me little that Democrats which to do away with secret ballots in a case like this because they don’t trust workers to make their own choices.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

“plan whereby…”

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:00 pm 1:00 pm

OBAMA threatening station managers NOT to run the Ayers ad…..even wants the justice department to make them stop
OBAMA: A CLEAR AND PRESENT DANGER TO THE CONSTITUTION. WHAT IS OBAMA HIDING????

Posted by: Hilly-Billy | August 26, 2008, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm

Sammy, so you agree with the current method by which employers are free to intimidate employees whenever they want, including firing tens of thousands every year for union activity?
BTW, Obama is successfully stopping the ads from being aired because they are illegal under campaign finance laws.

Posted by: Mike | August 26, 2008, 1:06 pm 1:06 pm

Obama and Michelle do appear to be two regualr working people. Maybe that is the change we need. Anything at this point is better than Dictator Bush or his mini-me “McBush”.
Russ

Posted by: Russel West | August 26, 2008, 1:11 pm 1:11 pm

this made me gag
No Republican would vote for someone who promises to raise any taxes,
Think one thing about capital taxes, if you sell your house you will pay more, the stocks that 90% of us own will be more taxed (If you have a retirment plan you have stocks, and alot of it is in oil)
Your social sercurity you get will be taxed more
and all to pay for illegal immigrants!!
Jake – Why dont you do the connections that Rezko has with Biden
Swing State Voter – You are so right!!
But there are a few that registered as a Republican and even served as a republican in party only but legislated like a lib!

Posted by: spock | August 26, 2008, 1:12 pm 1:12 pm

Biden lives in Deleware less than 100 miles from DC. Why wouldn’t he take a train that goes 200 mph? You can bet he shoved millions of earmarks to have those trains run his way too. The Senator from MBNA.

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 1:13 pm 1:13 pm

Apparently the Democrats think I should vote for Biden because he takes the train to work. I can’t imagine why I should care, but it must be vitally important. Otherwise they wouldn’t keep telling me and Joe wouldn’t have done his silly goodbye salute to the train Monday. Someone had better tell him not to turn in his annual rail-rider pass yet. He’ll need it starting November 6th.

Posted by: marylou | August 26, 2008, 1:14 pm 1:14 pm

“What was Barack Obama doing seeking out Marxist professors in college? Why did Obama choose a Communist Party USA member as his socio- political counselor in high school? Why was he spending his time studying neocolonialism and the writings of Frantz Fanon, the pro-violence author of “the Communist Manifesto of neocolonialsm”, in college? Why did he take time out from his studies at Columbia to attend socialist conferences at Cooper Union?”

Posted by: sam | August 26, 2008, 1:15 pm 1:15 pm

Mike,
He has alleged that they are illegal. No doubt many democrats think truthful but “uncomfortable” ads should be banned, no doubt at all. Such is their commitment to free speech.
But his campaign also said the ad was a pack of lies. Yet his campaign, nor seemingly YOU can identify the lies.
Odd that, eh?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:21 pm 1:21 pm

On the Ayers ad, sometimes the truth hurts. We also get a sneek peak into obamas thinking…No free speach in this country unless I approve it first.

Posted by: papa | August 26, 2008, 1:24 pm 1:24 pm

Sammy, FOX and CNN seem to agree, and won’t air the ads.

Posted by: Mike | August 26, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

Here’s all one need consider in this argument about the Ayers ad:
“it’s a pack of lies!”
“which statement is a lie?”
(silence)
Obama’s blown it again. Where the biased press might not have reported the Ayers ads, Obama’s attempt at having the Department of Justice squash free speech will mean the press MUST report on this. People will now wonder “what’s all the fuss, I’d better see the ad and decide for myself…”
A fine campaign Obama is running…

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:25 pm 1:25 pm

“FOX and CNN seem to agree, and won’t air the ads.”
Agree with what? FOX is your touchstone for reality now?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm

still waiting for you to identify the lie Mike…

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:27 pm 1:27 pm

This is exactly why Kerry lost.
He never refuted the “lies”.
So people rightly came to the conclusion that the allegations were true.
It’s not enough to say it’s a lie without explaining why it’s a lie.
This is not China….yet.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:28 pm 1:28 pm

When will the media explain Obama’s ties to Ayres are also ties to Obama’s sugar daddy Exelon.

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 1:30 pm 1:30 pm

geevil,
that’s next. Which is PRECISELY why Obama’s camp is so nervous. This is why they tried to keep the Annenburg papers covered up.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:31 pm 1:31 pm

cat got your tongue, mike?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:32 pm 1:32 pm

Ayers Linked To GOP Governor Through University.
That’s going to be a problem for McCain and the GOP pushing the Ayers non-story.
Gov Sandford of Illinois is a Republican and is a member of the USC’s Board of Trustees.
Since 2005, Ayers has held the title of “distinguished scholar” at USC, has attended various university events, has been praised highly by school administrators, even published columns on university’s website.
Does Gov Sandford approve of ‘terrorists’?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Sammy: heh heh. I am loving this too…the truth hurts, and it’s easier to say everything is “a lie” rather than point to any examples. Also, I can’t believe some networks are complying with Obama’s threat.
Mike?

Posted by: Wade | August 26, 2008, 1:34 pm 1:34 pm

Willem,
That’s the best Obama’s campaign can do? Ayers linked to some other GOP governor?
This is another tactical mistake on the part of the oh so green Obama folks.
First to try to make that link means ITS OK to make such links.
Second, Sanford ISN’T THE GOP NOMINEE!
got it?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:37 pm 1:37 pm

oh no it’s not fake.
I don’t like my President’s to have unrepentant terrorists as political mentors.
I realize it’s no “big whop” to you and others, but lets see what the American people have to say about it.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

marylou: “Apparently the Democrats think I should vote for Biden”
Why so?
Do Hillary supporters think we SHOULD vote for her?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 1:39 pm 1:39 pm

still waiting for someone to “expose” the “lie”.
Think Kerry II, guys. It’s happening all over again.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:40 pm 1:40 pm

Ayres another spoiled rich kid turned marxist terrorist to get the attention of his father. No wonder Obama associates so closely with him.
Exelon would be out of business if they had to clean up their nuclear waste mess.

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm

here you go mike:
“Obama spokesman Tommy Vietor said Obama supporters have inundated stations that are airing the ad, many of them owned by Sinclair Communications, with 93,000 e-mails. He called the ad false, despicable and outrageous.”
“In a letter to station managers, Obama campaign lawyer Robert Bauer wrote: “Your station is committed to operating in the public interest, an objective that cannot be satisfied by accepting for compensation material of such malicious falsity.”
false and falisty mean lying Mike

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:48 pm 1:48 pm

So when a GOP Governer thinks highly of Ayres and employs him, it’s okay.
But when Obama lives in his neighborhood and has sat with him on the same board, it’s a problem?
Can you guys get more ridiculous?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 1:50 pm 1:50 pm

Willem,
I don’t think it’s ok.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:52 pm 1:52 pm

willem,
it’s more than just that. (who’s setting up the strawmen now?)
I like how Democratic Mayor Daley, Omaba supporter and political ally put it:
“They’re friends, so what?”

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:55 pm 1:55 pm

so Mike, what do you think the “malicious falsity” in the ad is? Still waiting to hear….

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 1:56 pm 1:56 pm

Whats strange is that Obama has more terrorist best friends than me and all my friends combined. And we’re not even running for President!

Posted by: p0s3r | August 26, 2008, 1:58 pm 1:58 pm

The McCainiacs seem to have a problem with terrorists.
You know who Randy Scheunemann is, don’t you? Did you also know that Randy Scheunemann has lobbied for the rights of terrorists to buy weapons legally in the US?

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 2:00 pm 2:00 pm

Obama’s backed himself into a corner.
He could say “we’re friends, so what” But he KNOWS then next question will be “why, Do you share his radical left wing politics?”
Obama DOES NOT want to answer that one so he’s stuck.
But his flailing and DOJ squash attempts further BOTH narratives:
1. Obama’s a radical
2. Obama’s a liar.

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 2:01 pm 2:01 pm

Willem,
Scheunemann owns a lobbying firm which gets paid to lobby for issues. The NSSF (a gun manufacturer association) is against a bill which would deny gun rights to people on a government “watch” list. They beleive people should not be denied constitutional rights without due process.
Don’t you believe that too? Or is Guantanamo ok with you.
“Ted Novin, spokesman for the NSSF, says it opposes plugging what supporters of the bill call a “terror gap” because it denies “due process” to gun buyers. “Anyone can be put on this list,” he says.”
So, ok, that explains Scheunemann position on that bill. Can YOU explain what Ayers and Obama have in common and why?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 2:09 pm 2:09 pm

is this the kind of moral blindness we want to empower in this election?

Posted by: Sammy | August 26, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

The 2007 income, poverty and health insurance numbers are out.
Bye Bye McBush

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 2:18 pm 2:18 pm

And now lets all join them Thursday for the big Rock Concert — Bon Jovi and Bruce Springsteen — hmm is Ludacris going to be there to pay final tribute to Hillary?

Posted by: susie | August 26, 2008, 2:20 pm 2:20 pm

Cliff notes version of the Annenberg Challenge -For 3 years William Ayres worked with Obama (prior to his political career)to disturbute nearly $50 million in grant money to set up schools and such. They gave money to such people as Ayres fellow terrorist -a taxi driver -to set up a marxist teaching school

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 2:21 pm 2:21 pm

Ordinary people have to take of their shoes when they board a plane but terrorists have a constitutional right to buy weapons in the US?
That makes sense,

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 2:22 pm 2:22 pm

The Democratic Party is on the skids. Why? Because they would be up in arms over any Republican candidate who sat in the equivalent of Rev. Wright’s church for 20 years… or had a homegrown terrorist bomber associate like Ayers… or took a kickback from a slumlord like Rezko. Any future allegations against their Republican counterparts will ring with the falseness of hypocrisy.

Posted by: marylou | August 26, 2008, 2:24 pm 2:24 pm

And this is only Scheunemann. I’ve not even mentioned Charlie Black, who lobbied for dictators like Mobutu and Ferdinand Marcos. Both people *employed* by McCain.
Or how McCain has supported known terrorists like Guy Philippe or how his campaign is funded by Carl Lindner, who has also financed terrorist organizations in Colombia.

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 2:41 pm 2:41 pm

But Biden early on broke the sitcom spell by making the sexist, politically incorrect remark about carrying his wife’s pocketbook. We know he’s referring a little subtly to Cindy McCain controlling the purse springs in the marriage. As a Robin, he’ll definitely be breaking up stuff in the china shop and pulling hard hitters during the pleasantries. But there’s a tough fight ahead in Bedlam. Or is it Gotham?

Posted by: kat | August 26, 2008, 2:52 pm 2:52 pm

McCain has another problem. He has repeatedly voted against federal legislation banning domestic terrorism against patients, doctors, and staff of health clinics.

Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 26, 2008, 2:59 pm 2:59 pm

“Jill is dead gorgeous” — Biden
I fully agree.

Posted by: lazy to think | August 26, 2008, 3:41 pm 3:41 pm

Geevill,
the only reason you show up anywhere is to do a hatchet job on Joe. You try to take even a positive thing like him commuting on the train to Washington every day and use that against him.
Kat,
If you knew anything about Joe you’d know that he is certainly no sexist!

Posted by: Donna Hughes | August 26, 2008, 4:59 pm 4:59 pm

Donna Hughes,
The obama campaign is making out Biden taking the train to be some heroic deed. It is not. It is an easy commute and he controlled the purse strings to make it easy.

Posted by: geevill | August 26, 2008, 9:24 pm 9:24 pm

Can we trust that Cindy McCain will not steal other’s prescription drugs on the campaign trail?

Posted by: Barbara Smith | August 27, 2008, 11:55 am 11:55 am

Oh yes, what a great combination the head Dems have give us! Steve Erkel and Bluto the bully for President! And, they wonder why we can’t get anyone elected President! UNBELIEVABLE!

Posted by: Mary Anne | August 27, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm

Donna -4:59, 11-27. No, I don’t think of Biden as sexist. I was being a little cynical and dry humored with my previous posting.

Posted by: kat | August 28, 2008, 1:25 am 1:25 am

Michelle has convinced her husband not to select Hillary because Michelle would be overshadowed. Basically Michelle is jelous.
With Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama could have made history – but instead, Obama chose not to do so.
Obama hogged history. So Hillary’s speech will likely produce no gain for Obama. Instead, it will lay the basis for a lasting resentment at Obama’s failure to select her as VP.
Obama can’t win the votes of women, especially older women.
Hillary’s speech the other night made Obama’s chance of winning those women voters a lot harder, if not impossible.

Posted by: Al from NJ | August 28, 2008, 9:20 am 9:20 am

Just in. McCain picks a woman as his VP. Gov. Palin of Alaska. That’s what Obama should have done. I am hoping the woman voters for Hillary will vote for McCain because it is about time for a women to be president or VP. I believe that Obama didn’t pick Hillary because his wife Michele would be jealous of her like Nancy Pelosi. Hillary is a former first lady and now a senator and Michele has not held positions like that and she may never. Obama may not win in November. Only god knows who is going to win.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 29, 2008, 11:08 am 11:08 am

Sammy: You said it right. Obama is a fake, liar and wants to fill the shoes of MLK. For a Harvard graduate he should be able to speak without copying the speeches of JFK, RFK and MLK. If elected Obama will be president in name only and Biden will be running the show. Biden stated himself that Obama is not ready to lead and he said he sticks by that story. Is that the kind of president we want for this country?

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 29, 2008, 11:21 am 11:21 am

MaryLou: I agree with everything you stated. I can’t believe that the people of this country would vote for a candidate that has a background like Obama. True, he was a racist, anti-american and white hater in his younger days and his wife Michele belonged to a racist organisation at that time. If John McCain belonged to a church like that for 20 years that would be the subject for a long time. McCain has picked a woman for his VP and I am hoping women voters will switch from Obama to McCain because he didn’t choose Hillary.

Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 29, 2008, 11:27 am 11:27 am

I love the claims of “reverse racism” on here. It clearly shows that many white folks have absolutely no clue WHATSOEVER about what racism really is. Try living somewhere where you are a minority and you are faced with the reality of your skin color EVERY DAY of your life. It might actually open up your eyes a bit (and I am neither black nor white).

Posted by: Jun | September 18, 2008, 12:35 am 12:35 am

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