PO, I don't want to rehash the details of her mayorship and her governorship. Let me just say that you can in no way compare her scope to California's. In her city, she was not even responsible for the education or hospital administration...two of the major areas that many mayors deal with. I would honestly not even mention that mayorship in discussing qualifications to be the next VP or President.
I knew I got in the tank with you when I brought it up.
Asking about a right to privacy (apparently in Couric's mind this only applies to abortion) was an attempt to make her look stupid.
Lets see big time constitutional lawyer Obama's response to the question from Rick Warren about a constitutional amendment defining marriage as between a man and a woman Obama responds with no "because historically, we have not defined marriage in our Constitution." HELLLOOO that's why we have amendments because it is not addressed in the constitution.
Baron, I wasn't trying to get into a consitutional debate (you're a lawyer for God's sake) or argue that Obama has a mastery of the Consitution. I was just reading the thread and read your post as to why Couric would even ask her about the right to privacy in the consitution. It just seemed to me that that was not an unreasonable question to any candidate as the right to privacy is a basic and important right in my opinion. I was not trying to make any statement any grander than that.
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