Interview with Barach Obama  

It is my hope that people will look at the issues and support the person who supports their views and beliefs.

It is that magazine and he gave them a day talk with him and follow him around. Maybe he is trying to cultivate the pop star to avoid answering tough questions.

Exactly; it's the equivalent of someone going on SNL, Ellen, Oprah, Leno or any of the shows which all of the candidates from both parties have been dying to get on. The "Boxers or Briefs" is a take on the question Bill Clinton was asked on MTV in 1992.
Annie

The article that was posted contained a few questions about his daughters and then the Boxer/Briefs question.

My problem is more with the reporter and the failure to ask questions of substance. Such as ones dealing with policy and what he plans to do as president. I can understand Senator Obama and not wanting to spend the day with some reporter who might pin me down to specifics. When his supporters are interviewed they can not tell you anything about his achievements, or his programs or what he stands for except Hope and Change. When he has commented on a world situation you get something like if Packastan can not control the Taliban then he would bomb them. When asked about Iran he said he would sit down and talk to them with no conditions. Since that occured he has avoided taking a position on any topic except to talk about Hope and Change.

I want to know what the man is about and what he stands for. He tells us that he is not a liberal despite of his voting record. He stresses that he never voted for the war and people forget that he was not in the senate at the time and as Senator Clinton has pointed out many of his votes are paired - he voted on a bill but we do not know which way. We need more information on the man and not pop star questions.

That magazine's target readers aren't interested in anything too "deep" but if reading an article about Obama or any other candidate gets even a few new people interested in the issues that's a good thing. There is lots of information available online and elsewhere about what Obama's plans are if elected. He may not have authored a large number of bills in the Senate but he hasn't been there that long. Also, he wasn't in the Senate when the vote was taken to invade Iraq but he spoke publicly about it many times well before running for President. Sometimes it's impossible to win with some people - you're damned if you have a long Senate career and record and damned if you don't!
Annie

So, are we going to have a situation sometime in the near future where the pundits and talking heads will be analysing on whether boxers, briefs or no underwear will have better chances of making it to the White House? It really it's quite sad that this is what we are going through.

Personally, I don't blame either the senator or the journalist for writing this article. Obhama is doing what Bill Clinton did in 1992 - he's soaring up his appeal to the young. If talking about underwear is the way to do it, he'll do it. As for the journalist, this is merely a regular excersie in appealing to the readers.

However, it's really sad to see how we, as a media consuming audience are so obsessed with all the trivial things about candidates instead of questioning them about the things they will do if we put them into power.