When is Mr. Kroft going to interview Larry Sinclair about Obama’s crack habit.

Just vote for Obama, and all the bad things will go away!

Yup, you said it, Jeanine. The erosion of our civil rights by the Bush/Cheney kabal should be top priority by the next administration. Obama and Hillary should be all over this one. We’ve heard some promises from Hillary but the media doesn’t nearly hammer both candidates on this issue.

So Jeanine,

Quite a rant, and a long, long, long tale of something that has been happening for..let’s see, maybe 200 or so years? At least to a significant portion of the population? Ever done a little background investigation on the differences in how the law treats women as opposed to men in prison, or in the CRIMINAL JUSTICE SYSTEM OVERALL?

You write like this is some new thing you’ve described. It isn’t, but I’m glad it got your attention.

SO, should we blame either of these candidates for that? How about whatever allowed such inequalities to begin with? Think we might ever get around to addressing any of that?

Yeah, the Fascism and Nazism is far worse now, if only because it’s happening to more people…so it got your attention. And if you think the media today, anywhere, is going to pose any of these questions to ANY candidate, then you’re definitely in the rabbit hole.

Steve Kroft treated Obama with the respect due a candidate for president, asking intelligent, issue-based questions.

Katie Couric not only asked trivial, demeaning questions of Hillary Clinton, but asked almost as many questions about Barack Obama as she did about Ms. Clinton’s own campaign and policy issues. It was amateur hour at its worst. And please, does the camera have to be on Couric as often as it is on the person she is interviewing? Couric did everything but giggle girlishly and flip her hair. Ugh.

It was very lopsided treatment of the two candidates, and very typical of 60 Minutes. I wonder if the late Ed Bradley would have been the Obama interviewer, had he still been alive, so that 60 Minutes could have had “black on black” and “woman on woman” symmetry.

By the way, I am an Obama supporter. But this program was unfair to an extreme degree.

Only time for a shortie comment here and now.  I didn’t get to see the second part of Hillary anyway, because it was really difficult listening/watching thru part 1.

Still, from what I did see, it’s almost like Clinton got the short end of the stick here, since Obama had Mike Wallace, and Hillary got stuck with Katie, asking exceedingly stupid questions. Water, tea, diet drinks, hand washing, and on and on. PUHlease…that has exactly WHAT to do with how many more will become homeless tomorrow, and how much more of Iraq will be destroyed, and how many more innocent people will die there? But, maybe she gets to that eventually…I’ll try looking at the rest later.

Meantime though, she’s still a pathetic sort of a case, with the part that we can’t blame on Katie. She’s totally delusional, because she won’t even CONSIDER the possibility that she might not win the election. And, she had several chances to revamp her answer to that, and she continued to make it clear that SHE ‘BELIEVES’ and so of course, it is. She says she just CAN’T accept or entertain anything else, because for her, it’s just a matter of confidence in ones leadership abilities. Anybody who entertains any thoughts that his or her competition might ALSO have these skills and abilities, should simply ‘leave the field’ as far as she’s concerned. So, she’s either extremely delusional, to the extent that she simply will NOT accept or even consider any of the standard realities of ANY competition, or she’s just so incredibly self-centered that for her, nothing or no one else even exists.

So, instead of ever even CONSIDERING possible alternatives or consequences, or outcomes, or scenarios…Hillary just BELIEVES in herself. That’s what she tells herself every morning, and as long as SHE ‘believes’ it, it pretty much doesn’t seem to matter what the American citizens are thinking or asking, or concerning themselves with. I mean, SHE’S decided what’s important, and what she’s gonna pay attention to, and we’d just better go on and get used to it, because SHE’S gonna be the next ‘decider’.  Because, she’s gonna be ready to get to work on day one.

Yep, pretty pathetic. BUT…not to be written off by any means. Matter of fact, the reality, (which I suspect she may very well entertain, regardless of what she’s saying here) means that she’s gotta be getting closer and closer to desperation. Desperate people do desperate things, and we’ve already had a preview of the dirty tricks she can perform.

So, I’m damn sure not going to underestimate her, especially as it becomes clearer and clearer, that she won’t be able to win the contest WITHOUT performing nasty tricks.

Meantime, Obama is looking better and better…

My quibbles with him are very minor in the grand scheme of things…