Aug 23, 2008 6:33pm
Men of the ‘People’
EmailSen. Barack Obama, D-Ill., hasn’t given a press availability in half a month, since the day before he left for his Hawaiian vacation.
He and his new running mate are currently giving an exclusive post-announcement interview to “People” magazine.
- jpt
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Network and cable TV ‘news’ is about as trustworthy as People Magazine.
Posted by: Karen | August 23, 2008, 6:37 pm 6:37 pm
How come there’s no coverage of McCain and Romney?
Posted by: QUESTIONER.. | August 23, 2008, 6:44 pm 6:44 pm
Romney hasn’t been offically named VP.
Posted by: Karen | August 23, 2008, 6:53 pm 6:53 pm
Wonder how much People paid for that exclusive?
Posted by: KB | August 23, 2008, 6:59 pm 6:59 pm
Sorry! Obama and Biden are not men of this person. They might represent the views of some of the less informed, but I will support McCain and whoever he picks! McCain by himself is better than Obama and Biden together!
Posted by: Ed | August 23, 2008, 7:08 pm 7:08 pm
There he goes again – being a celebrity! What has happened to the serious job of running for POTUS? BO is so narcissistic!
Posted by: Beckie | August 23, 2008, 7:10 pm 7:10 pm
ALL the stars are in People magazine -
obama thinks he is a star – his entire campaign is one big staged show – all FAKE – obama is a FRAUD – he will never be elected. Too bad – he should of picked Hillary – now all 18 Million voters will have to turn out for McCain.
Posted by: Molly | August 23, 2008, 7:19 pm 7:19 pm
Obama team giving exclusives to a tabloid, not surprising.
Democrat for McCain!
Posted by: Wake | August 23, 2008, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
What was the MSM going to ask? Who is your running mate?
I am really mad he won’t talk with you. I am going to vote for McCain now. OH, that is right he won’t talk with you either. Now that puts me in a pickle.
Posted by: Thinking | August 23, 2008, 7:24 pm 7:24 pm
I can only say nothing. Exclusive for a gossip rag is unbelievable. The man has no class. Maybe, Mc was correct when he compared BHO to Hollywood stars.
Posted by: William | August 23, 2008, 7:37 pm 7:37 pm
I just finished reading up on McCain’s health care proposal, and I have to say its the weakest one I’ve ever seen. He wants to eliminate the tax writeoff for employers for employer based health plans. That effectively means raising employer taxes by a substantial amount, and leaving them no tax incentive to offer health insurance. McCain says he’ll offer an individual tax writeoff for what amounts to half the current average individual health insurance cost. He claims that this will reduce costs because it will increase competition, but he seems oblivious to the fact that individuals have little if any bargaining power with insurers. It’ll be worse for people who are sick, especially chronically ill or congenital, who will most likely lose any hope of coverage.
Posted by: Mike | August 23, 2008, 7:44 pm 7:44 pm
by the way, I heard Maccain said to Politico that no pledge for single term…
what to do with Pumas who want only 4 years of Maccain?
Posted by: zen | August 23, 2008, 7:51 pm 7:51 pm
Vote DOwn Biden/Obama. Barack Obama needs a mentor and so Biden has step up to the top of the ticket. Baby Barack Is learning on the job. hahaha
Posted by: Biden/Obama | August 23, 2008, 7:58 pm 7:58 pm
Amazing. Biden got, what?, 1% of the Democratic vote, Hillary got 50%. Makes sense to me.
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Hillary 2012
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Posted by: WestCoastMessenger | August 23, 2008, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm
A “Press Avail”before today… Who’s your VP; Who’s your VP pick?, Who’s your VP selection?; Who’s second in command?, who’s taking Cheney’s job?……. Who could blame Obama?
Posted by: Jennifer | August 23, 2008, 8:30 pm 8:30 pm
“People” is the perfect venue. All bling and no bang.
Posted by: Robert P | August 23, 2008, 8:38 pm 8:38 pm
Do you know how many people who will not vote for BO with Hillary on the ticket? Many MILIONS! That’s a losing ticket for sure.
Posted by: Feather | August 23, 2008, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
How arrogant of Biden to comment on the McCain’s houses. The McCain’s main house is a condo in Scottsdale, and not a Compound of a couple of aches like Biden’s or the Kennedy compound.
Mrs. McCain owns other houses which she inherited and they are in a family trust. McCain owns just the condo with his wife.
Obama is so petty and small.
A true American will only vote for Senator John McCain, the hero.
Posted by: Mrs Phoenix | August 23, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm
mrs.phoenix – there were over 600 POWS in Vietnam, all of whom were heroes. How do I write all their names on my ballot?
Posted by: Paige | August 23, 2008, 9:21 pm 9:21 pm
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Do you know how many people who will not vote for BO with Hillary on the ticket? Many MILIONS! That’s a losing ticket for sure. ”
Posted by: Feather | Aug 23, 2008 8:41:47 PM
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Well, now you don’t have to worry about that BUT,,,
watch him tank just the same!
Posted by: QUESTIONER.. | August 23, 2008, 9:23 pm 9:23 pm
If everyone is so concerned that McCain has too much money and is therefore “out of touch” with the people….
However did we get anyone to vote for John Kennedy? or Franklin Delano RoosevelT?
And you have to admit, they both turned out to be rather good at the job.
Posted by: QUESTIONER.. | August 23, 2008, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
QUESTIONER,
I knew Jack Kennedy, and mccain is certainly no Jack Kennedy.
Obama/Biden 2008!!!
Posted by: pt | August 23, 2008, 10:01 pm 10:01 pm
Now, I may be mistaken, but isn’t “People Magaizne” a “celebrity” gossip mag?
Can Obama be any more dense? Doesn’t Obama understand that Americans love building celebrities, such as himself, up, then tearing them down?
Posted by: OxyCon | August 23, 2008, 10:14 pm 10:14 pm
pT:
my point was that both those presidents were fithy RICH…. and no one could say that their affluence negatively influenced their presidential decisions when it came to determining the pulse of the nation, and acting positively on it’s needs!
Posted by: QUESTIONER.. | August 23, 2008, 10:21 pm 10:21 pm
Do you know how many millions are flocking to the McCain camp because Obama went with Biden instead of Hillary? Well about enough to lose Obama the White House.
Posted by: Hannah | August 23, 2008, 10:24 pm 10:24 pm
The good news is that Hillary is history! Biden…what a do-nothing loser who has been around D.C. forever. And Delaware should not even be a state to begin with. There is nothing there! It is a fly spec on a map and somehow they get two US Senators to do what??!! That is right! NOTHING!!
Posted by: Ed | August 23, 2008, 10:27 pm 10:27 pm
Hannah could you please give me the percentages and the site you got your info from. I must have missed that. Thanks
Posted by: erin | August 23, 2008, 10:32 pm 10:32 pm
Do you know how many millions would have vomited if Hillary had been chosen?
Posted by: Ed | August 23, 2008, 10:33 pm 10:33 pm
This is a slap on the face for the many voters who selected Hillary clinton. Also, Biden performed poorly as a Presidential candidate so what makes him a better vice presidential candidate? McCain has a better chance to win for sure now.
Posted by: sue | August 23, 2008, 10:59 pm 10:59 pm
What makes you think Hillary even wanted to be vp. You have no idea what Obama and Hillary have discussed. Plus Biden has the foreign policy experience, Hillary doesn’t.
Posted by: d | August 23, 2008, 11:10 pm 11:10 pm
That was a great headline..made me laugh after I read the blog. Nice to laugh here once in awhile.
Posted by: i am so I can!!!! | August 23, 2008, 11:14 pm 11:14 pm
Obama supporters keep saying they don’t need Hillary’s supporters, nor do they need Liberals’ votes. Since Obama never had the vote of Middle America or women’s votes in general, what does that leave him with? Young voters, elitists, and African Americans… sounds like a winning combination (hahaha)
By picking Biden, Obama is emulating George Bush picking Cheney, as someone who has the experience, and knows how to “work” Washington.
Obama is just a drama queen who plays the world as his stage. Nothing more, nothing less. He does not have the substance to lead this country in the troubled times we’re in! He is ALL gimmick, and while that may work in Hollywood, it counts for nothing in the real world.
Posted by: BJ | August 23, 2008, 11:32 pm 11:32 pm
Obama is afraid of questions. He does a horrible job every time he is not in front of a teleprompter.
Watch McCain eat his lunch all the way til November.
Posted by: David | August 23, 2008, 11:46 pm 11:46 pm
Everythin has been scripted as a slap to Hillary and her supporters in regards to Obama/Biden….. we tried to tell them that Clinton is the only one capable of helping Obama win his election perhaps Sen Clinton did make a calculation to let the democratic ticket sink this time and come back in 4 yrs… and the Obama people that threaten to sink her in 2012 are blowing smoke because they will be irrelevant after Nov… novices are always allowed to try but hey usually fail!
Posted by: staniam | August 23, 2008, 11:56 pm 11:56 pm
Maybe People is giving Obama as much money as they gave Brad and Angelina for pictures of their twins.
If so — Obama may be able to stop being jealous of McCain’s houses and buy a few more houses of his own.
He is so petty.
And Biden should talk — he lives in a “compound”(like the Kenndy’s). How many homes do they own?
Posted by: gracie | August 24, 2008, 12:30 am 12:30 am
Well I agree with Hannah.
I believe there were large numbers of Hillary supporters who were only paying temporary lip service support to Obama (because HRC asked them to) because they believed (or hoped) that he might pick her as V.P.
I knew as soon as someone other than Hillary was selected (which I never doubted), those temporary supporters would drop Obama like a hot potato.
Just depends on what the actual number of these supporters is to be able to determine what the damages are to Obama’s numbers. I do believe there are enough of them to make a difference though.
Posted by: Lee | August 24, 2008, 12:32 am 12:32 am
PEOPLE MAGAZINE??????
What intellectuals.
Posted by: C Cat | August 24, 2008, 12:56 am 12:56 am
LOL, Biden just RIPPED McBush a new one with the 7 kitchens comments! I am really starting to like this guy!
JW
Posted by: Jack Walters | August 24, 2008, 1:08 am 1:08 am
people magazine??? oh! so they won’t get challenged by a tough journalist.
Posted by: vana | August 24, 2008, 3:18 am 3:18 am
damn right wcm…what in the hell is ohb trying to prove by handing biden aka howard dean the II, a VP spot, who slipped early in the primaries, was and is still a loser,the dem nom???? what the H is up with BHO???? he has really flipped flopped his lid on this one. aka, dropped the ball, dropped the bomb, dropped his drawers, dropped the ball of wax, dropped a turd, dropped EVERYTHING, and screwed up, by ignoring hillary, and picking a tyraid immotation of howard dean III.!!!
Posted by: carlasue | August 24, 2008, 3:54 am 3:54 am
whoops, i mean BHO…. LOL…..he is still an ignorant idiot that follows in the shadows of howard dean…
Posted by: carlasue | August 24, 2008, 3:59 am 3:59 am
Well, Obama does owe Time-Warner some bonus points, after his seventh cover appearance on Time in 26 weeks this year. But I’ll bet the US magazine folks are miffed.
Posted by: John | August 24, 2008, 4:56 am 4:56 am
Obama won’t even attend a Fox News sponsored debate. If he’s afraid to face Brit Hume, what makes anyone think he could possibly deal with our nation’s enemies?
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 5:33 am 5:33 am
peach, exactly, and he won’t face bill o’rielly either. hillary did, and she took him to the damn cleaners….
Posted by: carlasue | August 24, 2008, 5:52 am 5:52 am
People magazine. Wow, I’m all ga-ga over how cool the celebrity Obama is! I wonder if this promise of a glitterati moment was dangled as a carrot to entice Old Joe to prop up the tender candidate? Enjoy your moment in the sun, Joe – darker days are ahead.
Posted by: marylou | August 24, 2008, 6:36 am 6:36 am
Obama dissed his supporters by sending out the text message after the world already knew Biden was his VP pick – after promising they’d be first to know if they’d only help him build a million dollar marketing list of cell phone numbers.
Then he sent out the text message at 3 a.m. – an obvious slap at Hillary and her supporters over the infamous 3 a.m. phone call ad.
Gotta hand it to Obama. It isn’t every politician who can slap down both his supporters and detractors in one fell swoop!
Posted by: marylou | August 24, 2008, 6:51 am 6:51 am
Mike–if you read Obama’s plan for government control of every individual’s health care,forcing employers to cover their employees or be faced with a punitive tax is hardly incentivizing. Please note that we have socialized medicine in our US Military and “public health” abounds as models. If Public Health is so fabulous, why isn’t the current system being built on? Rationing and lack of quality service is an inevitable by-product of socialized medicine–there are plenty of templates around the world that prove that.
Posted by: egbok321 | August 24, 2008, 7:32 am 7:32 am
Obama-Biden First Interview? People Magazine, Of Course
According to Jake Tapper in Men of the ‘People’ at Political Punch, celebrity hound Barack Obama hasn’t given a press availability since before his Hawaii vacation – but he and Joe Biden have granted People Magazine an interview. With Obama,
Posted by: PAXALLES | August 24, 2008, 7:33 am 7:33 am
What? No story about Michelle Obama and Axelrod sterring poor black patients out of the U of Chicago hospital?
Posted by: geevill | August 24, 2008, 7:38 am 7:38 am
EXXON JOHN COMPARED TO BIDEN–WHAT STRETCH OF THE IMAGINATION—-IT IS LIKE COMPARING MCDUMMY AGAINST THE PROFESSOR
Posted by: rodney | August 24, 2008, 8:05 am 8:05 am
HEY JOHN—HOW MANY HOMES DO YOU OWN—DUH I WILL ASK MY STAFF—-WE ARE ALL GEORGIANS TODAY—DUH I THOUGH WE ARE NORTH OF FLORIDA—WE ARE LIVING IN AN ERA OF PROSPERITH TODAY DUE TO NAFTA–DUH I THOUGHT WE ARE IN CHINA
Posted by: rodney | August 24, 2008, 8:11 am 8:11 am
Obama is THE MOST liberal member of the U. S. Senate. He is more liberal than 94% of the Senate on economic issues; 94% of the Senate on social issues; and 92% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 95.5%.
Biden is the 3RD MOST liberal member of the U. S. Senate. He is more liberal than 94% of the Senate on economic issues; 88% of the Senate on social issues; and 94% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 94.2%.
Both Obama and Biden are further to the left than Bernie Sanders, who comes in fourth. He is more liberal than 90% of the Senate on economic issues; 88% of the Senate on social issues; and 98% of the Senate on foreign issues. His composite “Liberal” score is 93.7% — and Bernie Sanders identifies himself as a Socialist.
Source: National Journal 2007 Vote Ratings
Posted by: Beckwith | August 24, 2008, 8:21 am 8:21 am
OBAMA AND BIDEN WERE BORN POOR AND CAME UP THE HARD WAY—-YES THEY EARNED THEIR WAY—UNLIKE MCCAIN WHO DITCHED HIS WIFE AND FAMILY FOR A RICH WOMAN—–YES THEY REALLY ARE OF THE PEOPLE.
Posted by: rodney | August 24, 2008, 8:23 am 8:23 am
Another poster pointed this out:
Senator McCain has donated the royalties from every one of his five books to charity. In addition, since 1991, he has donated the increases in his Senate salary to charity – because he opposed the Congressional pay increase at that time and pledged not to accept them.
Posted by: Peach | August 24, 2008, 8:31 am 8:31 am
PEACH
SO DOES GATES –WHEN YOU HAVE MORE THAN YOU KNOW OF –DOES THAT MEAN SONETHING—OH DONT FORGET IT IS DEDUCTABLE—-if mccain earned what he has you would see a difference in his charity—-give me a couple billion and i will give millions away—-when you have no need it means nothing.you probably give a greater percentage of what you EARN to charity than he does.
Posted by: rodney | August 24, 2008, 8:37 am 8:37 am
SINCE MCBUSH AGREED WITH BUSH 95% OF THE TIME AND WE KNOW WHAT A TERRIBLE PRESIDENT BUSH IS —DO YOU REALLY BELIEVE HE IS FOR THE PEOPLE——OR FOR BIG OIL AND THE FOREIGN COUNTRYS THAT ARE BLEEDING US DRY WITH MASSIVE TRADE IMBALANCE——-THINK ABOUT THIS A LOT BEFORE YOU MAKE A DECISION
BYE
Posted by: rodney | August 24, 2008, 8:43 am 8:43 am
Obama picked Biden because he is another arrogant elitist ultra-liberal (ranked #3 in the Senate).
Posted by: geevill | August 24, 2008, 8:52 am 8:52 am
So McCain is at a high point of his campaign and is behind in almost every poll (6 points in the latest ABC poll) I really don’t see how McCain wins the contest. Even when he has had the field to himself for 2 weeks (when Obama was on holiday) he could only get it back to a a narrow 1-2 point gap. I do think that McCain simply cannot win this election- that may not be entirely his fault, but its hard to imagine what could happen to Obama to lose this thing.
Posted by: markymark | August 24, 2008, 9:13 am 9:13 am
Celebrities giving an interview to a Celebrity magazine.
Who will they share the cover with? Britney? Paris? Tom Cruise?
Posted by: Sally J. | August 24, 2008, 9:32 am 9:32 am
“HEY JOHN—HOW MANY HOMES DO YOU OWN—DUH I WILL ASK MY STAFF”
Seems they all belong to his wife
and since they signed pre-nups, the correct is he doesn’t own ANY.
Unlike Senator “Ketchup” Kerry.
Posted by: Michael | August 24, 2008, 10:22 am 10:22 am
I’m sure People magazine will ask really tough questions.
Posted by: cindy in nc | August 24, 2008, 11:45 am 11:45 am
Obama to People magazine:
Uh uh, er er, but, you know,uh Let me be clear…Can I bring my teleprompter to the interview?
I’m Barack America…
Posted by: riley | August 24, 2008, 11:49 am 11:49 am
Peach: “Senator McCain has donated the royalties from every one of his five books to charity”
to be more precise: HIS OWN CHARITY FUND.
And where did this ‘Charity Fund’ donate that money? Private schools his OWN CHILDREN attended.
So much for ‘charity’. It was a way to reduce his income (tax deductibles) while at the same time keeping the money for the benefit of his own family.
Posted by: Willem van Oranje | August 24, 2008, 1:16 pm 1:16 pm
Do you REALLY want to compare the charitable giving of JM to BHO? One give houses to their relatives to live in. The other has a brother in Kenya living on $12 per YEAR and doesn’t receive a dime from Barry and Michelle.
Oh, I forgot. Barry proposed the US government set up a program to give money to his brother. But DON”T TOUCH his money.
Posted by: Dave in lv | August 24, 2008, 7:49 pm 7:49 pm
>> Willem van Oranje | Aug 24, 2008 1:16:14 PM
>>> Except possibly for his adopted daughter, all of Mccain’s kiddies have graduated from these schools long ago… and even if they weren’t they did not partake of this particular bounty!
And anyone can choose the charity to which he wishes to donate!
The Clintons donated tons of money to the Aids cause.
Charity is a gift which should not be denigrated!
So when was YOUR last foray into charitable gift giving, Mr Tangerine?
When was Obama’s? an and what percentage of his income did it amount to?
There! I split an infinitive; I think I’ll donate my half to you!
Posted by: eyes wide open | August 24, 2008, 9:09 pm 9:09 pm
Rodney: I heard Michelle telling the story about how they both had to earn their way. Let me go on record to say Obama was never brought poor. His mother was educated, he went to good schools and his grandmother paid his way thru college. Who is kidding who. His father was not poor either. His mother was married and divorced three times, and his father four times. He never lived in a shack like his half brother does and his grandmother worked.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:05 pm 8:05 pm
Riley: That’s just how Obama answers the questions when asked. He failed in the forum interview and he failed the debates. And he wants to be president. If elected president it will be in name only, Biden will be running the country. I know that you are aware of Obama not having any experience in politics or foreign policy. That he is using the speeches of RFK, JFK and MLK because he cannot form his own words. I do not know how he graduated Harvard. I certainly would like to see his grades.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:08 pm 8:08 pm
Michael: We all know that Obama owns one mansion paid for by crooked Rezko because Obama couldn’t afford it. He even bought the lot next door for him. If Cindy inherited millions who cares and if they own seven houses who care. Obama can invest in three condo’s himself but he can’t pay over one million dollars each like Cindy. Cindy was right to invest her money into real estate. Why not. If you have it do it.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:12 pm 8:12 pm
Ed: I agree with you. When it comes to politics Obama is no match for John McCain and neither is Biden. McCain know as much as Biden and maybe more. Obama didn’t want Bill Clinton in the white house so he picked Biden. And I believe the Kennedy’s told him to pick Biden. Caroline should stay home and stay out of politics. Ted Kennedy should retire and let a younger person have his seat. He doesn’t need the salary.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:16 pm 8:16 pm
I don’t see anything wrong in donating to the school where McCain’s children attended. That has been done many times before. He still is donating money no matter who it goes to. I would do the same thing. And the rich don’t have to donate their money to any charity if the don’t want to. The Clinton’s donated ten million dollars. Let’s see if Obama donates any money to his half brother in Kenya. He is partial to his half sister Hawaii and he has a half brother here. In fact, he should fly him to America and set him up in an apartment.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:33 pm 8:33 pm
Gracie: I agree with you. McCain’s houses has nothing to do with the issues we are facing in this country today. Obama has the money to buy 2 condo’s for investment. He was fortunate, Rezko bought his house and extra lot for him because he covered up some of Rezko’s crooked deals. The courts didn’t call him in because he was campaigning for the presidency. You know how that works, one hand helps the other and Obama probably talked to the judge.
Posted by: Mariann Pepitone | August 26, 2008, 8:52 pm 8:52 pm