Quote Originally Posted by thcbongman
It's the abrasiveness of how the question was asked.
So now we are to expect everyone to be polite and sensitive? I'm sorry but if people can't handle a question that is worded like that then they really have no place being a part of the campaign.

The world is an abrasive place. They better learn to deal with it soon.

Rather than pinpoint ask specific questions of the campaign's policies in comparison with Marxism/Socialism, she asked it in a fashion that is slanderous, as if the campaign itself was the communist party. She asked him to "defend" his policies assuming that his policies are exactly aligned to marxism as 100% factual. She should cite specific examples when asking these questions. This isn't the 50s anymore. Anyone with dignity wouldn't subject themselves to such abrasiveness that is intended for slander rather than insight.
Are you even aware that Obama has stated in his books that he went out of his way to find professors with socialist/marxist views? That much of what he says overlaps the Marxist philosophy?

So where is the problem in the question? I'm sorry but if they can't handle answering an abrasive question with tact during a presidential campaign then what will happen when he has to deal with other abrasive countries? Is he going to tell them "No discussions until I'm out of office"?? As president you can't just blow someone off just because you don't like they way they said something.

Hardly seems presidential or vice presidential to me.
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