right now looking like a team!

I love it. The announcer was asking why the Democrats didn't make mentiuon of the fact that Sen. Obama was the first black nominee and Sen. Obama said "I think people noticed that" he's good, he's damn good!

I watched it too - Biden and Obama looked very comfortable and at ease with each other and with the interviewer. I like the enthusiasm in Obama's eyes. He comes across as being so sincere, but definitely not a pushover. McBush and McPalin had better watch out!!

I was originally an Edwards Democrat and still adhere to a lot of what John Edwards stands for (no jokes about infidelity, I'm talking seriously here) and I will admit there was a time that I didn't think much of the candidate or some of the people running his campaign, but I am someone who likes to make an educated choice when I cast my vote so when Edwards dropped out I studied Sen. Obama and what I found I liked. I have since had nothing but reinforcements from him that I have made a good choice. I have not always seen eye to eye with Sen. Biden but I do respect him and I think as a team they are a perfect match.
Now having said that I will have to say that I think that anyone of the Democratic candidates that started this run back over a year ago would have made a far better choice than the ones the GOP has made.

I too voted for Obama right after Edwards dropped out. I did it holding my nose, but I have been watching him. When he got in front of the NALEO, he blew my mind what he told them. I was an Obamer then.

I confess I did vote for Edwards in my primary. Here in Kentucky it was Hillary all the way so my vote didn't matter much at that time and if anything I am loyal. I promised my vote to JRE and he got it but now it's on to bigger things.

its times like this that I sorely miss Ed Bradley.... he would've loved this!!!

Thanks for the headsup on this LibLaw. I thought 60 Minutes was still in reruns. I went to the 60 Minutes segment online and watched the interview.

I'm glad Croft asked about why Obama isn't higher in the polls. Obama assured that people are slow to make up their minds and we'll probably have a better idea of the course of the election in October. He said he intends to win and I intend to help him in that.

There's still a lot of racism in people that they don't want to admit and that's what we will be fighting, but when people see him and hear him they will come around.

What I try to impress upon people is the history. We are making history here. People will be writing about what we do in this election for years to come that's why it's so important for this man to get elected. His Presidency can change the world and the way we all look at things. I have never been as excited about a candidate in my life as this one. We have to get him elected.

"Republicans don't govern well, but they know how to campaign."

Barack Obama asked about current polling numbers.

That was a gem. And, if you noticed, he did it without a teleprompter. Just got to see the interview here in Oregon and I'm very pleased. It was so favorable that maybe this is what Schieffer had it in his shriveled little head was what would pass for a counterpoint to the thing he did this morning. Still not a good enough excuse. But this was a good interview. The chemistry between Biden and Obama is one of those intangibles that McCain/Palin will be unable to synthesize for themselves, and is one of those things I hope people take into consideration when choosing where to place their vote. They are 2 people capable of running this country, especially together. McCain and Palin are merely empty socks waiting to be animated by the hand of clandestine interests to give the appearance that they are in charge of something. Big difference.

The problem I've been having, LibLaw, as a fellow Kentuckian, is that this makes no difference to many people I talk to about Obama.

I'm old enough to remember segregated lunch counters downtown.

That's not the kind of history they want to see made. To them, if we get a black man in the White House, Reparations is not far behind, and they won't let that happen!

I had this come up at dinner the other night at a little place near Taylorsville Lake. My husband and I were attending a fish fry with some friends who own a little Lakeside cabin place that holds a fish fry every Friday night.

We were talking about Michelle Obama's speech, one of the wives brought it up, and she was saying how great it was. Which led to a discussion about Obama, making history, the nomination, presidency, all that. But one guy said, "But I can't vote for him, he scares me."

I asked him why he scares him. His reply was that as soon as Obama gets in that's all the other blacks need, and one of the first things he'll do is give out slave reparations!

Almost everyone else at the table agreed with him! I was -- speechless. These are businessmen. Okay, some of them might be "bidness men," but still, supposedly intelligent grown ups.

Now, my sister and her husband (they live in Bullitt County) made this comment before and I just laughed at her and told her she was F***ing crazy! In fact, I think my exact words were, "Where did you get a F***ed up idea like that?! Are you crazy?!" I may have even made a request for her to take her head out of her rear. I can't remember exactly.

But I can talk to my sister like that, I can't talk to these people like that.

My husband just kicked me under the table, and we left not long after that.

Whoa ... glad I live in good 'ol N. California where we have to worry about are earthquakes but not much of that kind of twisted lynch mob legacy stuff.

I know and I'm getting the same reaction, except my co-worker did say he was impressed by his speech. It doesn't surprise me the reaction you got from Bullitt county, for those that don't know, that part, just south of Louisville, is known as red neck country. In fact is wasn't far from where I live that about 10 years ago, some men were prosecuted for burning a cross on a persons yard. There is definitely racial hatred here on both sides black and white. Remember the white flight of the 60s?
Of course the area you were in for the fish fry is very conservative also but you would think they would have had a better educated response than that, of course you have no idea how many I've heard that still believe he's a Muslim terrorist. It will definitely be an uphill fight here in Louisville but I'm willing to do what I can.

Think again... I went to UCDavis... KKK threats were alive and well in 2000 when the student body elected a black student as the president. A lot of controversy ensued and tension was pretty thick on campus. One Asian student had parents that owned a dry cleaners... and until she took an African American studies class, she said her family didn't realize that the robes the were cleaning were KKK robes. Of course it depends where in NorCal though. Lodi to Berkeley is a world of difference.

Obama/Biden, 60 Minutes Pt. 1

Obama/Biden, 60 Minutes Pt. 2

But... but... but, just the other day I saw one of those PUMA folks insist that, without a teleprompter, he's a speaker much like George Bush!

Oh, wait, I know. The liberal media, those bastards at CBS HELPED him! There WAS a teleprompter!

See. Denial is easy. Reality is hard.

Just watching this interview, it is so clear why Obama/Biden are the best team to lead this country. If you don't, then you are clearly putting your party ahead of the good of the country. Or, you are simply a moron. What else can be said. And I approve this message.

Like Michelle said, I feel good about America again.

. . . . America Hater . . . .

LOL I know...I'm just a left wing commie bastard.

One thing I took from the CNN piece done the other night and then again in this interveiw. You'll notice Sen. Obamas face when Sen. Biden said that he "took the lightning from the sky". Sen. Obama looked uncomfortable when he said that. Reflecting back on what the CNN piece said Sen. Obama doesn't want the praise he would sooner empower others and let them get the praise. I can respect that in a person.

They both did a fantastic job.

And both of them are so far above the skillset of McCain-Palin -- fughetaboudit.