Obama Campaign Payback At TV Station

[dragonrider]

No I didn't, but saying that there are rules and regulations on how questions are to be asked are ridiculous. I purposefully ignored it because to me that just seems stupid.

There are not "rules and regulations," but the are journalistic standards for how to ask unbiased questions. If you want straight answers you have to ask straight questions. She could have got the same point across in a professional way, but she didn't do it, and that is why she got sarcasm in return. If I was her news editor, I would probably fire her --- and not for asking probing questions, which is good, but for asking them in biased ways that do not produce results. If you go at someone argumentatively in that way, then it is easy for them to dismiss you as biased and NEVER answer your question. If you lay it out properly, you don't leave that escape route, and you get better answers. She is either a hack who is pandering to an audience who WANTS that kind of pointless conflict, like say Hannity does, or she is an ineffective and unprofessional straight journalist who needs to go back to J school.

She got an answer that was a flat out lie. Giving back taxes to the people that they used to have? We're paying the lowest taxes than we ever have.

If the answer is a flat out lie, then that is something that can be argued on its merits without labeling.

Obama has expressed an ideology that falls in line with Marxism.

My opinion is that this statement is completely false. Obama has never suggested a nationalization of the mean's of production, which is the central tenet of Marxism, at least in how I personally understand Marxism. How do you understand it? And what has Obama said that makes you think he has, "Expressed an ideology that falls in line with Marxism?"

If your definition of Marxism means a robustly capitalist economy with a progressive income tax that has the wealthy pay more than the poor, and a government that provides a social safety net with access to good healthcare, good education, and good infrastructure, then I guess by that definition Obama is a Marxist, and so am I. But I think Karl Marx would probably disagree. I know I disagree.