2008:

"Mr. President, when you and your brother Bobby are together, who gets the pink and who gets the stink?"

"Mr. President, I have some additional questions to ask you about Marilyn Monroe, but first let me ask you this. Some say that certain leaders of your church committed atrocities during the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, Mr. Nixon has gone on record as saying that he would feel morally compelled to leave his own church if he had found out a leader of his own church had done such things. Once again, I ask you, yes or no: Do you disavow the actions of the Inquisitors? And how can you, in good conscience, remain a member of the Catholic church after having learned of such acts? And finally, Mr. Kennedy, to you believe that Torquemada was as patriotic as you are?"

"Mr. President, your claims about dodging sniper fire have clearly been debunked by all credible sources, yet you continue to remain silent on the issue. How can you defend this? Mr. President?"

JFK was awesome. Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

His handling of that equal right's question slightly reminded me of something Paul Tsongas did once in a campaign. A reporter asked him a tough question, and he said, "that's a very good question. Let me try to evade you." The press corps had the lolz.

A showcase of the Kennedy wit and Kennedy charm that will draw a smile from your face and endear him to you forever

We don't have to take time looking for that from any of the three POTUS candidates that are left.

Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

Or one, for that matter.

Tax cutter. Staunch anti-communist.

He'd never have a chance to get the Democratic nomination today.

I don't get it.

"Mr. President...Oh shiat, where's your head!"

/too soon?

Bufu: Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

Or one, for that matter.

Tax cutter. Staunch anti-communist.

He'd never have a chance to get the Democratic nomination today.

If you're saying he'd be a Republican, you and Sean Hannity are only kidding yourselves.

I uhh did not inhale.

Outtaphase: "Mr. President, your claims about dodging sniper fire have clearly been debunked by all credible sources, yet you continue to remain silent on the issue. How can you defend this? Mr. President?"

HAH!

Thats funny right there, I don't care who you are.

That woman reporter was annoying. He should have responded with a smack and "Shut you're whore mouth when men are talking."

ConservativesBlow:

If you're saying he'd be a Republican, you and Sean Hannity are only kidding yourselves.


He'd be a blue dog democrat like Lieberman. Well, like Lieberman before Joe got bitter. I doubt he'd ever respond to a tax question like Obama did last night.

Outtaphase: "Mr. President, your claims about dodging sniper fire have clearly been debunked by all credible sources, yet you continue to remain silent on the issue. How can you defend this? Mr. President?"

Most days I wonder why I bother to read Fark - but some days I read something like this. Awesome.

Thank you - Fark may now take the rest of the day off.

i don't understand why people laugh at him just for answering the lady's question

black lady: mr president will you see if they can move the highway
jfk: yes i will
press: OMG I SEE WHAT YOU DID THERE

black lady: will you put your papers in DC?
jfk: i'll be putting them in cambridge MA
press: OH NO HE DIN'T

Charisma.

Outtaphase: "Mr. President, your claims about dodging sniper fire have clearly been debunked by all credible sources, yet you continue to remain silent on the issue. How can you defend this? Mr. President?"

A thousand internets to you, sir. You deserve every one of them.

Outtaphase: "Mr. President, your claims about dodging sniper fire have clearly been debunked by all credible sources, yet you continue to remain silent on the issue. How can you defend this? Mr. President?"

Damn you. Someone's gonna ask me why I'm laughing and I'll have to try to explain.

A fun little watch.

/Kennedy was a funny guy

ConservativesBlow: Bufu: Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

Or one, for that matter.

Tax cutter. Staunch anti-communist.

He'd never have a chance to get the Democratic nomination today.

If you're saying he'd be a Republican, you and Sean Hannity are only kidding yourselves.

What he is saying is that he wouldn't be accepted by todays Democrat party rather he would have been marginalized and would have never made it out of the house to a higher office.

boomaze: "Mr. President...Oh shiat, where's your head!"

/too soon?

I lol'd

\I never lol.

Heh, Kennedy comes out as irreverent and somewhat disrespectful. People think Barrack Obama is disrespectful? Jesus. He also says "uh" alot.

I'm sure, uh, this video, uh, will be very educational to, uh, those of us, uh, too young to remember Kennedy.

/uh
//Seriously, awesome vid

Cyberluddite: "Mr. President, I have some additional questions to ask you about Marilyn Monroe, but first let me ask you this. Some say that certain leaders of your church committed atrocities during the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, Mr. Nixon has gone on record as saying that he would feel morally compelled to leave his own church if he had found out a leader of his own church had done such things. Once again, I ask you, yes or no: Do you disavow the actions of the Inquisitors? And how can you, in good conscience, remain a member of the Catholic church after having learned of such acts? And finally, Mr. Kennedy, to you believe that Torquemada was as patriotic as you are?"

Kennedy: "With all due respect, sir, nobody expected the Spanish inquisition."

jso2897: Cyberluddite: "Mr. President, I have some additional questions to ask you about Marilyn Monroe, but first let me ask you this. Some say that certain leaders of your church committed atrocities during the Spanish Inquisition. In fact, Mr. Nixon has gone on record as saying that he would feel morally compelled to leave his own church if he had found out a leader of his own church had done such things. Once again, I ask you, yes or no: Do you disavow the actions of the Inquisitors? And how can you, in good conscience, remain a member of the Catholic church after having learned of such acts? And finally, Mr. Kennedy, to you believe that Torquemada was as patriotic as you are?"

Kennedy: "With all uh, due respect, sir, nobody er uh, expected the uh, Spanish inquisition."

FTFY

/Vote Quimby

Why was it a train wreck? Because *gasp* actually tough questions were asked?!

Obama kool-aid drinkers are laughable if not scary..

MilesTeg: Obama kool-aid drinkers are laughable if not scary..

Where do they find you farking robots? I see more people chanting "Obama kool-aid! Obama kool-aid!" than anyone else.

MilesTeg: Why was it a train wreck? Because *gasp* actually tough questions were asked?!

Obama kool-aid drinkers are laughable if not scary..

If those were your idea of tough questions. . . I dont' understand you. At all. How were those at all tough questions? "Tough" meaning controversial things IMPORTANT to how the president runs the country, not tough as in "What is the proper way to answer this?" In the latter sense, "Do you believe in the American flag?" is a tough question, because I frankly have trouble understanding what it means. If you mean the former. . . I just don't get it. I just wanna cry and scream because it means people are so utterly alien to me that I can never hope to understand their viewpoint, let alone share or tolerate it. If that makes me an ivory tower elitist, fine, but if the questions last night were the kinds America wanted to hear ("You have been caught in a boldfaced lie, care to try and spin out of it?" "Do you believe in the American flag?" "Is your boner for America bigger or smaller than your Pastors?"), then we shouldn't have democracy.

JFK wouldn't make it in politics today. His rampant reliance on pills and surgery to even move around would render him unfit in most votes eyes.

Old Joe's connection to bootlegging would make Roger Clinton and Billy Carter look like saints.

You don't think the media would have a field day with the fact that a botched lobotomy on a Kennedy sister left her a vegetable and institutionalized for the rest of her life?

The man was a walking medical disaster. His family a freaking circus.

MilesTeg: Why was it a train wreck? Because *gasp* actually tough questions were asked?!

Oh yeah.

Tuzla-gate.

Would you name your opponent as your VP?

That's the real, substantive debate that I tuned in to hear.

Stryyder: What he is saying is that he wouldn't be accepted by todays Democrat party rather he would have been marginalized and would have never made it out of the house to a higher office.

On the anti-communist: since there is not even a hint of communism in the US federal government today, that would have been a non-issue. On the tax-cutting: the Republicans have made it impossible to cut taxes and be sane at the same time. It used to be that Cuban missiles were the biggest threat in politics, now it is the Iraq war debt. Different era, different needs.

I think JFK would have been kept out because he quotes Aeschylus and people nowadays are taught that men who quote Aeschylus are fags. Nobody would take him seriously because urbane wisdom is considered unsexy and square.

I see the outrage of Obama's cult continues in wake of their messiah looking bad on television.

randomjsa: I see the outrage of Obama's cult continues in wake of their messiah looking bad on television.

You know, you actually had a chance to post something intelligent here and you blew it.

Goes for you too, Miles Teg. I know you can't hear me.

whidbey: You know, you actually had a chance to post something intelligent here and you blew it.

But if I posted something intelligent I would stand out entirely too much in this crowd so I have to keep things simple for their sake.

randomjsa: But if I posted something intelligent I would stand out entirely too much in this crowd so I have to keep things simple for their sake.

Well you might give it a try next time, just sayin'. You sound like a knuckledragger.

randomjsa: But if I posted something intelligent I would stand out entirely too much in this crowd so I have to keep things simple for their sake.

See, like I said, urbane wisdom is squaresville, man. You wouldn't get the Democratic nomination either.

MilesTeg: Why was it a train wreck?...

Do you know wot the phrase "if you have to ask..." means?

Ask someone now.

Bufu: Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

Or one, for that matter.

Tax cutter. Staunch anti-communist.

He'd never have a chance to get the Democratic nomination today.

Started the Peace Corps and Special Forces programs, both of which are keys to fighting terror (and back then, commies).
Sent us to the moon...

JFK wouldn't make it in politics today....

The man was a walking medical disaster. His family a freaking circus.


Which goes to show you that some factors - family, friends, health -
often have zero impact on a person;t integrity and intelligence.

That was cool to watch... I didn't understand some of the laughter, but I guess you had to be there...

His responses to the woman's questions seemed very dismissive in that 'Oh, those women and minorities again...' way.

After reading some of the ABC responses to their criticism over the debacle the other night I am wondering if Obama, for having made real problems and concerns a part of his campaign, leaves the press with nowhere else to go.

The media, even at its best, is a business. So if Obama talks openly about issues of race, class, poverty, diplomacy and education to the extent that his policies and his ideas are known throught the media - then wouldn't they have no option but to go for those pieces of news that are not so well-known or even of dubious political value?

I am not so much looking to defend Steffie or Gibson and I certainly am not defending Clinton, McCain or pseudo-journalists/celebrities like Sean Hannity or Joe Scarborough but my candidate, Barack Obama, has openly addressed the very real issues that other candidates run away from. This leaves him open to personal attacks and dirty politics.

Sling away then Clinton, you biatch. You're going down and after you are done getting your ass handed to you this time; you will never be politically relevant again. Neither will Slick.

For those of you who are too young to remember JFK, think "Diamond Jim Quimby."

bwesb: After reading some of the ABC responses to their criticism over the debacle the other night I am wondering if Obama, for having made real problems and concerns a part of his campaign, leaves the press with nowhere else to go.

The media, even at its best, is a business. So if Obama talks openly about issues of race, class, poverty, diplomacy and education to the extent that his policies and his ideas are known throught the media - then wouldn't they have no option but to go for those pieces of news that are not so well-known or even of dubious political value?

I am not so much looking to defend Steffie or Gibson and I certainly am not defending Clinton, McCain or pseudo-journalists/celebrities like Sean Hannity or Joe Scarborough but my candidate, Barack Obama, has openly addressed the very real issues that other candidates run away from. This leaves him open to personal attacks and dirty politics.

Sling away then Clinton, you biatch. You're going down and after you are done getting your ass handed to you this time; you will never be politically relevant again. Neither will Slick.

Tell me honestly now, exactly how flexible is your spine that you mange to have your head that far up your rear end? Obama has said nothing, done nothing, and proposed nothing that hasn't been the stuff of Democrat ideas for years and years. His stated positions are nearly indistinguishable from Hillary Clinton and if you don't think McCain has taken positions on important issues... We understand completely because it must be difficult to hear based on where your head is stuck.

What you, and the rest of the Obama cult, don't like is that everyone's positions are known, and we know who Hillary and McCain are as people... Not so much with Obama as every time we talk about his personal life, such as the church he's been associated with, his supporters immediately start screeching about how "issues" are what is important... Fearful as they are of people actually knowing something about Obama other than where he stands on a particular issue.

Guess what? Knowing who your president is as a person is just as important as knowing where the hell he or she stands on the issues. If your president is going to exercise the extremely poor judgment of being associated with a bigot, anti-semite, anti-American racist. If his wife has never found cause to be proud of her country at any point in her adult life until her husband stood a chance of becoming president. If he's going to make elitist statements in a backroom with rich contributors that he doesn't think are being recorded... These are all just as important as "The Issues!" because they tell us what kind of person he is.

Barnacles!: JFK was awesome. Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

He would have gotten creamed by Goldwater.

Saiga410: Barnacles!: JFK was awesome. Too bad he never had a chance to serve two terms.

He would have gotten creamed by Goldwater.

They were friends. They were going to actually campaign together and have a debate 'tour'. Goldwater held Kennedy in extremely high regard.

MilesTeg: Why was it a train wreck? Because *gasp* actually tough questions were asked?!

Obama kool-aid drinkers are laughable if not scary..

No, it was train wreck because meaningless tabloid questions were asked for the entire first hour.

When presented with a chance to spend two hours, asking direct questions to two of the three people on planet earth that have a chance to be our next president, the moderators opted to discuss jewelery.

You want an actual tough question that could have been asked?

Try this:

Senator Obama, it has recently come to light that secret meetings were held in the White House, which were attended by high ranking members of the Bush Administration including Condi Rice, Dick Cheney, George Tenet and Donald Rumsfeld, where the plans to utlize advanced torture techniques on prisoners were outlined in meticulous detail.

If elected president, would you initiate investigations into the legality of these methods and perhaps pursue criminal charges against current and former members of the Bush Administration?

randomjsa: Guess what? Knowing who your president is as a person is just as important as knowing where the hell he or she stands on the issues. If your president is going to exercise the extremely poor judgment of being associated with a bigot, anti-semite, anti-American racist. If his wife has never found cause to be proud of her country at any point in her adult life until her husband stood a chance of becoming president. If he's going to make elitist statements in a backroom with rich contributors that he doesn't think are being recorded... These are all just as important as "The Issues!" because they tell us what kind of person he is.

This is the exact same thing that has happened with McCain and his "bomb, bomb, bomb Iran" line. McCain's detractors are equally as guilty of shrugging off intellectual rigor when it comes putting single-line criticisms of the opponent into a larger context. It's just making another notch in the talking point stick, and it's the kind of laziness that results in the above quoted paragraph of distortions. Delve a little more and if criticism is to be had, so be it. But you shouldn't have to rely on summaries of cut-up, misquoted, and out of context events to prove your point.

Instead, talk about Obama shilling for the coal industry, illegal immigration stances, his ever evolving gun policy, his votes to fund the Iraq war, his 527 rhetoric, his waffling on public campaign funds, his voting against repealing the AMT, his flying home every weekend while in the Senate, his healthcare reform Re: wife's job, his flimsy lobbyist stance, etc., etc., etc.

\Obama supporter

randomjsa: What you, and the rest of the Obama cult, don't like is that everyone's positions are known, and we know who Hillary and McCain are as people... Not so much with Obama as every time we talk about his personal life, such as the church he's been associated with, his supporters immediately start screeching about how "issues" are what is important... Fearful as they are of people actually knowing something about Obama other than where he stands on a particular issue.

People who accuse others of having their heads up their asses should tread lightly when they come off with sad spittle like this.

Firstly: anyone who's an Obama supporter is automatically a cultist. Good. Glad to see you aren't threatened by people who genuinely like their candidate.

Secondly: If you think posing moronic questions like Do you respect the flag? gets you closer to finding out "who he is as a person," I sincerely hope your job, whatever it is, doesn't involve hiring people. Your screening process is less than penetrating.

Thirdly: Hold on to your hat, but those issues you mentioned? They actually are important. But hey, let me know if a hypothetical denouncing of Wright or Ayers by Obama will help you sleep better regarding: a.) the shiatter the economy's in right now b.) the state of the health system c.) the state of the educational system d.) fuel prices e.) Iraq f.) Iran (should I keep going?)

Obama shouldn't whine about the hammering he took; he should just move on. But your attempt to defend Wednesday's "debate" is pathetic.