Thanks for the Rec!

I'm going to link to this every time describes North Carolina as "Deliverance country" over the next week. Thank you for making me proud of my peeps, Ms. Weiss!

(and thanks for the post, jsfox)

She's very old. She probably just got confused and thought she was at a Hillary rally. We all know all the old ladies go for Hillary.

Thanks for the link. Rec'd and emailed to everyone I know.

Why do we need him?

I WOULD vote for that ticket.

However, I think Kathleen Sebelius would probably be more qualified.

Thank you so much for that video.

God I just love that woman - that would have been my mother if she was still alive.

That was fabulous

I gotta say, the vid bugged me.

Why? As cut, anyway, it plays right into the "Obama Offers No Specifics" meme.

We hear him going on for nigh-on 2 minutes about how she's "fired up" and he wants her to be his running mate. Lots of style. No substance.

And then he says "OK, let me answer the question." AND.... Cutoff!

So... does he answer the water question more substantively in the footage on RawStory/CNN?

Unfortunately, someone (CNN, I assume) also faded out in the middle of his answer. He took a bit long to say that the diminshing water supply was caused primarily by global warming. But the 82-year-old questioner asked about whether he and his wise advisors (her words) were working on the problem, and asked him to name one specific thing he'd do to address the problem. We never got to see the complete answer on the clip.

And to be honest, as someone supporting Obama (check my posts if you're skeptical) -- he took too much time to get around to the answer. From what I've seen of Hillary, when she's not channeling Karl Rove or Lee Atwater, she's able to get down and wonky pretty quick. I like that. I imagine she would have gotten to the specifics pretty quick. I want to see more of that from Obama, and less of the "fired-up" stuff. We get that already.