Should Obama ask Brokaw to step aside for debate?

[jules1962]

Seeing how Tom Brokaw is "such good friends with John McCain and he is in contact with the campaign daily" should he be moderating the upcoming debate? I personally think it is a conflict of interest. There was so much flack about Gwen Ifill and her upcoming book that includes material on Barack Obama,that Obama asking for a different moderator is justifiable.

The McCain campaign said on Wednesday that they did not have a problem with Ifill being the moderator. Thursday morning, McCain did another flipflop and said that he wished he had asked for another moderator.

If Obama asked for another moderator and the McCain campaign complained, Obama could turn it around and say that "It was your prerogative to ask for another moderator. To say that you wished you had asked for another but didn't just shows that you once again have used bad judgment. We need a President that can make rational decisions and have good judgment. Once again John McCain has proven that he lacks the proper judgment to be President."

He shoots. He scores.
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[grannie4peace]

1. i think so !!!!!! brokaw is so biased

[Cooley Hurd]

2. No...

Senator Obama will do fine and hold his own.

[amb123]

14. Miss Piggy is 100 times smarter that Sarah Palin!

Apologize to Miss Piggy right now!

:rofl: ;-)

[Auggie]

3. Maybe best left to the Democratic Party

[Catch22Dem]

4. Absolutely NOT

Shows fear. Horrible move.

[cali]

5. no. first of all, Obama would look whiney

secondly, it wouldn't stand a chance of working. Waste of time and bad PR. A truly sucky idea.

[mucifer]

6. Obama is used to having the disadvantage. I think he thrives on it.

He can take on brokaw and mcstupid on the same night.

[HughMoran]

7. Nah

Brokaw is just trying to prevent McCain from doing that by appearing to be amiable to McCain. If anything, I think it's a trap for McCain.

[Youphemism]

8. Obama should ask for subtitles, so he can understand the moderator's garbled questions...

I don't know what Brokaw's affliction is. It looks like Bells Palsy has paralyzed half his face. I keep expecting him to drool on himself.

Whatever it is, it's getting tough to understand him.

[No Elephants]

9. No, Obama should not ask. WE should demand, though!

[bluethruandthru]

10. Obama made it through that hideous debate moderated by

George Stephanopolous and Charlie Gibson. I think he can handle Brokaw.

[BeyondGeography]

11. No, but it's good Plouffe threw that quote out there about Brokaw reaching out to McCain's campaign

You can bet the old soldier jock sniffer was rattled by that.

[bdamomma]

12. I cringed when I heard Brokaw was going to be moderator.

[LiberalFighter]

13. No. But sneak in a snark about a question that appears loaded or his connection with McCain.