Politico editor-in-chief John F. Harris and ABC 7 News anchor Leon Harris are interviewing Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Sen. Barack Obama on Monday -- one day before the Chesapeake primaries in Maryland, Virginia and Washington, D.C. -- and you can submit questions for us to ask the Democratic presidential hopefuls.

The discussions will air live at 7 p.m. Monday on ABC 7 News and News Channel 8 and will be streamed on Politico.com

They're a fraaaaaauuuuuuud!!!

(I'm being facetious)

I'm just chuckling at how I used to consider Daily Kos a beacon of the reality-based community.  

You folks at MyDD really, really love Hilary huh?

Geez.

Is it up at Politico yet or not? Are they going to wait until after Hillary is done?

I just turned on my local ABC affiliate (Greater Los Angeles area), and I'm not getting it.

It did start on time and there are live blogs at Taylor Marsh and elsewhere. Funny Politico doesn't have it.

full text of Obama's interview up on politico...

Clintons?
There's some commentary on her attacking Obama.

???????????

is heavy against Clinton. The Obama questions and answers, at least how they are being reported at Dkos, are softball.

Progressive Blue

Super Tuesday for example, a big state like California - where we can't cover the waterfront, Sen. Clinton ends up winning because people are much more familiar with her.

From Obama

It really isn't a decent case. Obama and Edwards and the others were simply following DNC rules. You want to punish them for following the rules?

I wonder if Clinton considers Obama's bill to deal with the suicide problem among Veterans as abstract, general talk about how we all need to get along.

I agree- Hillary's is a rather indecent proposal. Go against agreed party rules to win.

"OPEN THREAD: LIVE Q&A with OBAMA and CLINTON in DC"

Was it changed?

Did you say that Obama wants to experiment with Charter Schools?

That is Pure Republican Code!

What is he doing???

Why is the Obama interview up and not the Clinton one?

Charter schools are just private schools!  Religious groups are the biggest beliers in "charter schools".

I do NOT trust Obama to not lean more to the corporate right. People may accuse Hillary of that and I will partially agree but Obama hides his true right leaning roots.

Progressive Blue

Was Hillarys live?

Obama's was edited, and who knows what else was asked that was cut out. Being taped yesterday and all.

Mike Allen put up his recap of Hillary's half of the "Chesapeake Challenge." This stands out:

During the half-hour conversation, she said that when she hears Obama's oratory about a more civil politics, she wonder what fights he would avoid. "You never hear the specifics," Clinton said. "It's all this kind of abstract, general talk about how we all need to get along. I want to get along, and I have gotten along, in the Senate. I will work with Republicans to find common cause whenever I can. But I will also stand my ground because there are fights worth having."

Nice.

Emphasis mine.

I'm pretty effin pissed actually.  I tried to send an email to Mike Allen (he's listed as author for the interviews).  Well, Politico.com keeps telling me I'm using inappropriate language.  What's inappropriate about this:

Dear Mr. Allen,

There was supposed to be a thirty minute interview with Senators Obama and Clinton at Politico.com this evening that would be streamed live.  Imagine my surprise when no streaming was available.  Not only that, but the full transcript and video with Senator Obama was quickly made available after the event, and is at this very moment front paged with prominence, but the only link to Senator Clinton's interview is a woefully inadequate short summary written by yourself.  There is no transcript.  There is no video.  Once again the media has relegated Senator Clinton to a second class status.  You sir, have proved that Politico.com is no better than MSNBC.

Sincerely,
Notable Absence

I'm really not happy about this BS!

Via Ben Smith's blog at Politico:

John Harris: Senator, the presidency is not just an inspirational job. It's also an executive job, in which presidents have to make really tough decisions virtually every day. Neither one of you has executive experience.

Barack Obama:  - Nor Sen. McCain.

JH - Nor Sen. McCain - that's very true. What I wonder is, since you came to Washington, what's the toughest decision you've had to make? What made is so hard? And what does that tell us about you as president?

BO: Well, obviously legislative decisions come up all the time. So one very difficult decision was deciding to vote against the Iraq war. I had consistently said that I wanted to make sure our troops got the adequate and training in the war effort, despite the fact that I opposed the war at the point that the president decided to double down and send more troops. It became clear that he was not going to sit down and negotiate some sort of exit strategy. I had to vote against funding as a way of bringing it back to the table. That was a difficult decision for me, because it was contrary to my view, particularly after you visit Iraq and you visit the troops over there, you want to give them a strong signal that you support them.

Isn't that a bit deceptive? You voted against the Iraq war? Really? Yes, I realize he then specified voting against funding, but still..

Is Obama on the bridge to the 20th century? We've been there, done that, doesn't work.

Hillary is full of it on Michigan.  First, the DNC announces that the results won't count.  Then, the DNC requests all candidates to withdraw their names from the ballot.  Hillary doesn't; Barack does.  So he does what he is asked, and is to be penalized?

This whole thing is like what would happen if the Redskins won their last preseason game, and then came in and asked the NFL to count it.  I mean, both teams showed up.  The game was 60 minutes long.  What else matters?

I have family in Michigan.  They didn't bother to go to the polls on primary day because they had been told in advance that the results wouldn't count.  If they had been told that the results were going to count, they'd have gone.

I think that the DNC needs to say to Florida and Michigan, "You have until mid-June to find a way to select delegates that follows the Party Plan.  Caucuses, conventions, you name it.  But we said that that primary won't count, and it won't.  Solve the problem yourselves.  Don't think you can bluff or scare us into waiving the rules for you."