Opinion: Barack Obama has a great time on ‘The View’ with the ladies there
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Big big news out of ‘The View’ today.
They’ve got Sen. Barack Obama on the pre-taped show, as you may have gathered from this publicity photo from ABC. And the ladies are very excited to have him there with them on the couch, too. They have what looks like a really good time together. But the audience doesn’t get a free car or anything like that.
Just like any real reporter would do, Barbara Walters tells the Democratic presidential candidate that they’ve all agreed he’s sexy. And he waves his hand as if fanning his face.
What’s-her-name Behar wants to know if the candidate is really tough enough to handle the awful Republican attack machine that everybody knows is just waiting to get its hands on the poor guy. Which, come to think of it, pretty much indicates that as far as she’s concerned the Democratic primaries are over and the votes and delegates don’t need to be counted.
Obama says he’s skinny but he’s tough. And he notes that the current primary season, which continues despite his recent days off in the Virgin Islands, hasn’t been....
exactly a cakewalk. He says he always handles every attack in an honest and truthful way. Also quickly. So that’s a relief for everybody.
Elizabeth Hasselbeck, the designated hitter for the Republican attack machine, wants to know if Obama’s two-decade-long association with the violent rhetoric of the Rev. Jeremiah Wright shows bad judgment on Obama’s part?
And you might be surprised to know that Obama thinks it does not. He admits to not ‘vetting my pastor.’ He says, ‘I didn’t have a research team during the course of 20 years to go pull every sermon he’s given and see if there’s something offensive that he’s said.’
Obama says the portrayal of the minister, who blamed the United States for the 9/11 attacks and claims the government created the AIDS epidemic to kill blacks, was ‘a snippet of a man.’
The candidate adds: ‘I don’t purchase all the DVDs and I didn’t read all the church bulletins.’ So that’s a relief too and pretty much takes care of the judgment question for everyone going forward.
--Andrew Malcolm