Obama Postpones SNL Appearance Due To Hurricane Ike

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ABC   |  Sunlen Miller and Matt Jaffe   |   September 13, 2008 01:00 AM


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Senator Obama has postponed his upcoming 'Saturday Night Live' appearance due to Hurricane Ike barreling toward Texas.

"In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Sen. Obama has decided it is no longer appropriate to appear on 'Saturday Night Live' tomorrow evening," Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki explained in a statement.

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Senator Obama has postponed his upcoming 'Saturday Night Live' appearance due to Hurricane Ike barreling toward Texas. "In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Sen. Obama has decided it is no long...
Senator Obama has postponed his upcoming 'Saturday Night Live' appearance due to Hurricane Ike barreling toward Texas. "In light of the unfolding crisis in Texas, Sen. Obama has decided it is no long...
 
 

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- ObamaEdwards See Profile I'm a Fan of ObamaEdwards permalink

Postponing an appearance on a TV comedy show during a natural disaster is appropriate. McCain trying to prove his presidential qualities by dashing to the gulf during his party's national convention is not. You gotta have a brain and some decency to know the difference, though.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:10 PM on 09/15/2008
- aznurse See Profile I'm a Fan of aznurse permalink

Good decision. Fey was great!

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:46 PM on 09/14/2008
- Einstein44 See Profile I'm a Fan of Einstein44 permalink

Excellent move by the one and only..he can always reshedule after his victory.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 01:41 PM on 09/14/2008
- Phil123 See Profile I'm a Fan of Phil123 permalink

Ike isn't the reason that Obama "postponed his appearance." The reason is that his staff is finally figuring out that whenever he insults Palin, he gets his butt kicked in the polls. I have no doubt that he was told to cancel the skit that (I am sure) was written in a way to ridicule Governor Palin.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:29 AM on 09/14/2008
- rocky786 See Profile I'm a Fan of rocky786 permalink

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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:15 AM on 09/14/2008
- rocky786 See Profile I'm a Fan of rocky786 permalink

I really admire this man, OBAMA...he's hardly taken a wrong step in this campaign so far..

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:08 AM on 09/14/2008
- edwarvir See Profile I'm a Fan of edwarvir permalink

I didn't want him to go on there anyway. Sorry the hurricane kept him
from appearing but I don't trust that show since what they did to him
when he was campaigning against HIllary.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 09:15 PM on 09/13/2008
- sound_bits See Profile I'm a Fan of sound_bits permalink

Must see - PALIN SUPPORTS OBAMA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jO6dmBm1SFw
Google "youtube I'd vote for Obama" - If this link doesn't work.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:32 PM on 09/13/2008
- mrJJ See Profile I'm a Fan of mrJJ permalink

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    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:50 PM on 09/13/2008
- pupbayer See Profile I'm a Fan of pupbayer permalink

I'm glad they cancelled Biden's campaign appearance. Joe's looking tired. He can use a little rest.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 06:00 PM on 09/13/2008
- Phil123 See Profile I'm a Fan of Phil123 permalink

Good - we don't need more hot air at this point.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 05:03 PM on 09/13/2008
- Dre3030 See Profile I'm a Fan of Dre3030 permalink

Oh you mean the hot air that McCain used to help George W. Bush blow out his Birthday Cake candles while Americans were suffering and dieing after Hurricane Katrina? Once again ignorant Republican who make no sense.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 07:54 PM on 09/13/2008
- marymansour See Profile I'm a Fan of marymansour permalink

It's not like he cancelled Meet the Press or something. SNL is a comedy show, for crying out loud. He's a no show out of respect to the hurricane victims. BTW, if he had gone on there tonight, the neo cons and Mac supporters would be screaming that he was callous. Obama is between a rock and hard place in this basically bigoted, overly conservative country of ours.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:52 PM on 09/13/2008
- Shannon2008 See Profile I'm a Fan of Shannon2008 permalink

Just because McCain can taste Carl Rove's johnson doesn't mean that we have to lose site of our civility and compassion. It wasn't right to hold a politcal rally in light of Gustav, although Republics chose to, and it's not right to talk about non-critical issues at a time when Lehman Brothers is about to fail, people are suffering in the aftermath of hurricane Ike, and gas prices are surely to rise.

Should he run a celebrity ad featuring Hilton? Get real. John McCain may want to avoid the press and the issues, but a leader with integrity would not.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:18 PM on 09/13/2008
- neenj See Profile I'm a Fan of neenj permalink

it's time to fight fire with fire. as far as I'm concerned, the new Obama campaign slogan should be:

"There Will Be Blood."

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 08:19 PM on 09/13/2008
- alieninvader See Profile I'm a Fan of alieninvader permalink

In order to be a leader with integrity, he needs to be elected, and playing nice isn't working.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 03:48 PM on 09/13/2008
- alieninvader See Profile I'm a Fan of alieninvader permalink

I just sent Barack an email complaining about this and his way too nice tactics in general. It probably won't do any good, but it made me feel slightly better.

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:57 PM on 09/13/2008
- PDXTransplant See Profile I'm a Fan of PDXTransplant permalink

Let's see - I recall during Ka trina we had a Pre sident that was too busy eating birthday cake with JMc to realize what was going on in N.O. and we had Con di Rice shopping for shoes un north some where, and we had Barbara B00sh telling someone that these people were used to having nothing so they were better off living in a fil thy coliseum...and where was F E M A?

O bama should have offered JMc a walk-on opportunity or he could play that creepy husband part he did back in 2002 on SNL...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wAE_NXbdBy8

    Favorite    Flag as abusive Posted 02:48 PM on 09/13/2008
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