Meet the Press stole the show today. Not only did it start with an interview with Secs. Clinton and Gates, but had a round table with some heavy hitting reporters, including Ted Koppel, Bob Woodward, Tom Ricks, and Savannah Guthrie.

Gates made the headline when he responded to David Gregory's question whether or not Libya was in the U.S.'s "vital interests" and he said no, that it wasn't a "vital interest" but that we did have an interest in it just the same. Sec. Clinton jumped in and they both did give what I thought was some insight into what is driving this.

What I heard them say was that we had gone to NATO and asked for help in Afghanistan and had gotten some help. Now some of the NATO countries, particularly France and Britain had more significant interest in Libya and came to NATO asking for help, and the U.S. was sort of obligated to help them. I wonder if Obama will say that in his speech tomorrow?

Ted Koppel said that the question that hasn't been answered is "why Libya?" He rattled off a list of situations either ongoing or in the recent past where large numbers of people were killed in political violence in countries where we did nothing. So, there has to be a reason why all of a sudden we chose Libya to use this kind of military force, but Obama hasn't stated that yet.

Woodward said that ultimately presidential election politics are playing a major role in Obama's decisionmaking. Ricks said that the military really isn't into doing this in Libya, and Savanah Guthrie said that she thought that the overall political upheaval in the middle east and Obama trying to somewhat stay relevant in all of that is driving what he is doing. They all made a lot of good points, and no one said that Obama was right on and that everything was going to turn out groovy.

But the funniest part of Meet the Press was when Savanah Guthrie, the only female on the panel, shocked the males by supposedly quoting Pres. Obama saying in a meeting discussing Libya that the situation was a "turd sandwich." When Bob Woodward's turn came to comment, he couldn't even say the word "turd" on the air, instead refering to the "T sandwich." Funny, the boys got out machoed by Guthrie.

Kristi says that a "tea sandwich" is a small sandwich that is served with tea. There's a big difference between a turd sandwich and a T sandwich. Not sure what Woodward was trying to say there.

Several of the commentators said that Obama had violated the consitution by failing to properly consult with congress. Dennis Kuchinich was interviewed and said that Obama may get a primary challenge from the left. But no one believed that Obama would get impeached for this.

Obama uses major speeches to his advantage. He has an important one tomorrow. We'll see if he can turn the slide of public support for his actions in Libya around. If I am any test, I am going to be very hard to convince.