We all need some laughs, so take a moment to enjoy this video, Saturday Night Live's take on what happens when Obama answers questions posed by the adoring media.
Maybe I was the only one, but when I watched Senator Obama refuse to reject Louis Farrakhan's support last night, then laugh at Hillary when she pointed this out, then pretend that the issue was all semantics and play the point for comedy to the audience, I thought: this is not a man I want as my president. Obama is smart enough to understand Hillary's distinction between denouncing someone's beliefs (and how could a Democratic nominee not denounce anti-Semitism and racism?) and outright rejecting that person's support for your campaign. Sometimes an ideology is vicious enough that only the strongest possible language - free from equivocation and waffling - is what's needed to reject any association with it once and for all. Instead of being presidential, Obama acted as if the exchange was just an opportunity for a cheap debating point. That really got my goat!
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