This Sunday the May 4th, on NBC (check your local listings) Meet the Press will air a full one hour interview with Barrack Obama. Obama has done many interviews, but Tim Russert will test his metal Sunday and this will likely be a great opportunity to learn something about this little known candidate.
I for one am still undecided, and that includes all the candidates. I'm looking for a reason to like McCain, but his pander of the base and ties to Bush leave me disinterested. Hillary Clinton has been a great disappointment on many levels, but here to all she needs is for Obama to stumble, or for the Reverend Wright to give another speech and she could be back in the running. But, not likely.
This Sunday Obama goes up against a master of the political cross examination. Tim Russert has a staff of research analysts second to none and rest assured Obama will get as many questions on the serious issues as he has recently gotten on the meaningless ones. I don't care if he wears the flag pin or not, or if his Pastor is a nut job, I care about getting detailed specifics on just exactly what "CHANGE" means in an Obama administration.
"Always, never, and forever... don't apply to we mortals. Accept in one important way -- change. Things always change, the never stay the same, and that's a condition that will last forever." So, I'm not so impressed by the concept or the word. Change is the engine that has always driven us, but what Obama needs to do is to clearly and accurately define what his vision of change means for a struggling American middle class. The fallen American dollar, the new global economy, the cost of fuel, the cost of a college education, the sub prime mortgage crisis, and on and on -- and last but certainly not least -- how to end our involvement in Iraq and redirect our Military to focus on Bin Laden and Al Quada.
It's very likely that Russert will provide him the opportunity to speak to these issues on Sunday. I look forward to hearing Obama's position on these matters, and to what you folks out there have to say about this as well.
~A
