Alexis Glick on Interviewing Barack Obama…

FBN’s Alexis Glick blogs about interviewing Barack Obama (via J$)

Getting through to the Obama camp and making it onto his schedule for an interview has been tough. His schedule is beyond hectic and, at least in my case, on economic issues, he has only done a handful of interviews. The great news is that persistence paid off. My producers and bookers have been working on it for months, calling week after week. Finally, in a last-ditch effort, I wrote a personal note to one of the members of the Obama camp. I simply laid out the reasons why the campaign should consider an interview with me to discuss the number one issue at the polls: the economy. Luckily, the note made it into the right hands, and I got the call on Tuesday.

Frankly, I was speechless. It was late in the afternoon and I had just picked up my oldest son Logan from school. We were stepping into a Benjamin Moore paint store when I got the call. Naturally, I assumed it was a stop-pestering-us phone call. Instead, it was an invitation to sit down with the Senator in Pittsburgh, as he was about to complete his three-week tour on American Global Competitiveness. I jumped at the opportunity! Called my Executive Producer right away and within hours our schedule and days turned upside down.

In the middle of this, with 36 hours to prepare, get to Pittsburgh, locate crews and live trucks, accommodations and flights, I was also substituting for my colleague Neil Cavuto on his 4pm Fox News show called Your World. Talk about multi-tasking .