Can Obama answer a question?
John McEnroe has oft times asked a tennis official a question and then yelled, “Answer The Question!” Listening to a Barack Obama interview, I have almost an overwhelming feeling yell at him, “Answer the Question!”
When asked by Rick Warren, “at what point does a baby get human rights in your view?” Obama first says the question is outside his pay scale (not a very confidence building claim for voters). But then he never comes close to talking about the rights of babies. He instead talks about the rights of women. That’s nice, but, “Answer the Question!” Transcript for the interview can be found here.
Pastor Warren’s next question was, “Have you ever voted to limit or reduce abortions?” Guess what? Obama talked about respecting views, people of faith, and reducing pregnancies, but he never answered the question.
When Stuart Scott asked him on a SportsCenter interview, whether or not, as President, he would have boycotted the opening ceremonies. Surprise! Obama says, Well, I said very early on, I don’t want the olympics to be overly politicized. But when a host country is violating human rights, I think we ought to say sonething. And it would have been an appropriate statement for the President to say, ‘I will not go to the openning games unless we see some progress on the issue of Tibet.’” So would he have gone or not. He thinks it would be apprpriate, but he does not tell us what HE would have done. Here is the video.
Obviously Obama does answer some questions, but most of the time he spins around the question until you forget what it was. Do you think this will work with Putin and Medvedev? With Ahmadinejad? With China? It may work with the voters, but it won’t work on them.
Obama - Answer the Question!
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