Does Sarah Palin HAVE to talk to the Press? What do you Think?

Palin absolutey has to talk to the press and explain why she is spending the “bridge” money on a road to no where. Also why did she feel ist necessaasry to impede the ethics investigation by her state legislature on the firing of her state safety head over his refusal to fire her brother-in-law She should also explain how being a mayor of a town of 9,000 and two years as governor qualify her to be the GOP vice president, if elected

I cannot even fathom how this is a question that has to be asked.

I’m with George……
Free country – she doesn’t have to talk to the press………..
Just like I don’t have to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket……
And dont worry – I won’t – LOL

Yes, she needs to talk to the press.
We have a right to know about what her views and opinions are on the issues we the american people are facing.
For the McCain camp to not allow her to grant interviews is only saying to us that they do not have the confidence in her to speak on her own.
To only allow her to speak with scripted speeches is ludicrous.
She has alot to answer to and we deserve the right to know these answers.
Her speech on wednesday night was void of any talk of how she as VP would change our economy, stop the war, create jobs and other very very important matters.

Most definitely Sarah Palin should have to talk to the press. No other candidate would get away with not communicating with the media (unless this was Russia). But, McCain is too busy training Palin so that she knows everything that she needs to know about foreign policy, the Lower 48 states, handling difficult media questions, how the US economy works, etc. I expect her to “lose it” at the VP debate.

They’re managing her introduction to the political process quite well actually.
Big impact introduction, let the press dig up the initial dirt so they can see what it might be and prepare for the backlash and questions, big impact speech that draws 37 million curious potential voters, take the big bump in the polls with your message waving in the wind . . . . THEN throw her into the world for a whupping and a whipping.
She’ll probably be fine.

She has to carefully choose who she gets interviewed by if she wants to win. She needs friendly interviewers. FOX news comes to mind. But no real journalists.
Ellen and Oprah are absolute musts for her.
She must have conditions on what can and cannot be asked for everyone but FOX news.

The press is scum. Palin has to talk to the people, not the press.

She has no responsibility to talk to reporters. Who are you to demand she talk to reporters after the disgusting behavior of the press last week?
Why would anyone want to talk to the press? Reporters can be trusted only to twist the truth into lies and fabrications to match their ideology. One must surrender all ethics and integrity to become a “journalist.”

Obama is lowering the field expectation, experience and honesty. I wouldn’t be surprise if I see a college student running for the US President if Obama wins this time.

Whether she HAS to talk to the press is beside the point. I’m sure she is eager to talk to them, and to explain her views and actions she would like to take. The lady is not one of the old career politicians that are well versed in talking for an hour or two, and say nothing. She has decided to take action to help the country, and will do so if given the chance. The leftist media is trying to discredit her in any way they can, and they have been campaigning for Senator Obama from the start. Truth, honesty, and fair play, mean nothing to the media of today. Most of them are interested only in selling a book.

I thought she was supposed to be tough.

==It will come out what a scam she is…==
Even if you gotta make it up, or make a bigger deal outta something than it is.

PLEEEEEZZZE!!! If this individual is in line to potentially be president of this country, i want her to answer the same probing questions and be accountable for her positions as any other candidate would. When she accepted the offer, she put her life and family under the microscope just as Barack Obama and Joe Biden did. We don’t know very much about her, so YES, she should be asked about issues that she may ultimately be dealing with. The voters of the country need to have EYES WIDE OPEN here. We know an awful lot about McCain, Obama and Biden. Sneaking this virtual unknown in at the last minute does not exclude her from scrutiny. In my mind, it makes me more suspicious and curious about her. I don’t care about whether or not she drives to work or what she wears, I want to know how she might handle an international crisis with North Korea and the potential of engagement. I want to know exactly how she plans to undo the gigantic mess her party created. I want to know if her husband loves the United States since he was a member of an organization that actively sought to secede from it. I want to know how she intends to convert her “experience” of managing a state with a population half the size of my city (San Diego)to managing the United States. I want to hear more about her attitude towards the role God would make in her administration. Mitt Romney had to answer that one, so did Obama and McCain. I want to know which books she told the librarian in Wasilla to ban. I want to know how she can defend her “abstinance only” attitude while her daughter is shopping for a wedding dress. There are LOTS of questions that need answers. She said yes, she opened the door. I think the person is a political lightweight and I would love to have her prove me wrong. So far I’ve heard nothing that makes her a viable choice any more than my VERY smart sister who has 3 kids and runs a school district in another state. I have a pretty savvy neighbor who is a personnel manager for a large corporation, coaches little league and barbeques a mean pork loin. He’s got some pretty good ideas about how to change the country, too. Why was this person THE BEST THEY COULD FIND…? I think the answers to our questions may be illuminating.

Absolutely.
If she could potentially be the Vice President some day she should ask questions so we get to know her views.
She needs to be on Meet the Press.
If she isn’t ready for primetime than how is she going to be ready for the Vice Presidency.

Where is the rush forSarah Palin to talk to the press? Press and media knows everything about her and reported exhaustively about her. They know and reported more than she knows about herelf. What additional information press will get out of her? The press and the media is pure racist and sexist.
Oprah won’t even consider to sit with her because of her color. What a hypocrisy?

If I was MCSAME.. i wouldn’t want Beauty Queen Palin to talk to the press either..what is she gonna say when asked about Foreign policy.. I’m want WORLD PEACE!!…lol What a joke, wake me up Nov. 4th.. OBAMA 08

Of course. the more she opens her mouth and demonstrates her cold, uncaring attitude to the rest of America, the more votes Obama will get.

News organizations don’t represent me. I represent me. She has to talk to me, not to reporters who, it has been shown already, are in the tank for NObama.
It’s like “The View” where there are three Libs against one Conservative. The Libs aren’t treated as one, rather three, and, so, after one Lib speaks, another Lib speaks, then the other, and only then does the Conservative get to speak and try to respond to the three Libs. So, it’s her one answer to three other answers, and it appears, to the observer, that the Libs have the edge since the Conservatives cannot hope to answer everything three Libs say. The Conservative has three Libs coming at her from all sides, like a pack of dogs.

She does have to talk to press. We have a right to know what she has to say if she will be vice president. President/vice president is a job that will affect everyone. How can we hire her for the job if she hasn’t interviewed for the job? Besides why wouldn’t she want to talk to the press? She has plenty to say when she’s the only one doing the talking.
They don’t want her to talk to the press because she doesn’t know what’s going on outside Alaska.
They’ll fill her with all of this information for her to regurgitate, then let her talk to someone who will go very easy on her.

Yes! McCain will have to loan Lieberman though to whisper in her ear. And that speech writer Scully would be nice, too.

So far all we know is what the press has found about Ms. Palin. If she is to be Vice President, and possibly president, then she should take and answer questions put to her directly. The American public have the right to know who they are voting for. Right now, she is acting suspiciously like someone afraid to reveal too much. Sure, she reads a speach prepared by others well, but lets hear some unscripted straight talk from the woman herself. Way to important..

I agree with George. She doesn’t have to talk to the press. And I DON”T have to VOTE for her!
and I will not vote for her. Who does she think she is imposing her views of Pro-life, Pro-gun, no birth control…and she will not talk to the press? What is she afraid of? Guess she can read a speech real good but on her own?
Obama will win

SO the Mccain campaign wants to sell us on his pick of VP that she can go toe to toe with Ahmadinejad or Putiin, yet she can NOT go toe to toe with George Stephanopoulous?.?

It took Obama almost a year to talk to some reporters, he said he was “busy” lmao

==The American public have the right to know who they are voting for. ==
However, news-gathering organizations don’t have the Right to impose on her, and she has the Right to ignore them. They don’t represent me. She must talk to me, not to untrustworthy reporters.
Libs want reporters to chew on her cuz they want them to do their dirty work for them.

==Is ‘s [sic] her duty to talk to the media.==
Where is this spelled out?

but i agree with George. no she doesn’t have to talk to the press, but i don’t have to vote for her either. and won’t.

==Hey Incrediable can you add. Obam got like $10,000,000 in donations after her rip on community organizers etc in her speech. How much of a bump has MCcain gotten of her?==
I don’t care about the money. I care about support, and the polls show she is more popular than NObama.
In any case, you thought NObama would be WWAAAYYY ahead by now, and you’re disappointed it isn’t so. Gee, what happened???

Honestly, who would vote for Palin. Not talking to the press, being interviewed on the Sunday shows, like ‘Meet The Press’- you can’t get elected without answering difficult questions and demonstrating that you have the knowledge and judgment to lead the country. Right now, we only know that Palin can read a teleprompter and deliver a speech written by former Bush speech writers. Does anyone know if she took any history classes in college? What were her grades? We know that she has no experience to be VP or president, but does she have even basic knowledge of history and world affairs? People have to remember that a vote for Palin for VP is really a vote for Palin for President. It’s really that simple. The press needs to step up and not be intimidated by the Karl Rovian Republican tactics that try to indite the press for being too tough on Palin. Nonsense as usual.

Well if she is gonna get peoples votes she is gonna have to speak on something. We know very little about the lady and this is why she is being “attacked”by the media. They are scrambling to find anything on her that they can. notice noone is talking about her daughter now.

Yes, she absolutely does. Every candidate in this race has had to and continues to answer hard questions about their records, policy positions, and claims. She is running in the number two spot for the presidency of the United States. She could serve as vice president and potentially as president. And we know virtually nothing about her. She’s a self-described “hockey mom,” which tells me virtually nothing.
She also needs to face real questions from real voters–not campaign plants–about what her positions are and what her plans are to take this country forward.
The vice presidency is always a serious job, but she is running with a 72-year-old man who has a series of health problems.
So, yes, she needs to face the press.

She doesn’t have to talk to the press.
Not a problem.
And I will still vote for the McCain / Palin ticket.

Incrediable- Hopefully that will change when real Christians who want to help and care for all of Gods children cast their votes.

>>>Hey Incrediable can you add. Obam got like $10,000,000 in donations after her rip on community organizers etc in her speech. How much of a bump has MCcain gotten of her?<<<
McCain wouldn't have gotten anything since he stuck to his word to use public financing for the general election. Obama on the other lied and went back on his promise; I guess integrity isn't one of the things you learn from being a community organizer.

I want to hear Sarah Palin stand in front of a panel of top notch journalists who know how to ask the right questions in a probing way, no harrassment, but pointed and direct. I want to hear how she handles herself without a script or earpiece. If she can support herself with substantive and informed positions, then I guess I’m wrong and would consider voting for that ticket. If they protect her and keep her in seclusion, we’re all going to wonder why. There’s way too much at stake this time to get caught snoozing. I’m also concerned about the integrity of the the balloting again. Everyone should be fully on guard come Election day. Honestly, I think the facade will crumble before then. Sarah Palin needs to back up that whiny mouth of hers without a teleprompter. Joe Biden’s biggest problem will be to take her apart with some sense of gentility. Can’t wait!!

This family values fraud is unfit to be VP and DANGEREOUSLY unfit to be a heartbeat from the presidency of a 72 year 4 time cancer survivor!!!!!!!!

I’m done with McCain, I WAS a ‘community organizer’ for his campaign going door to door for him because I believed in him and his party. My party walked all over their own supporters who are out there breaking their backs for him. I’m hurt the way they attacked community organizers because that’s what I considered myself in McCain’s campaign donating my time organizing events on the ground…
I’m now undecided.

Members of news-gathering organizations don’t represent me.

Are you kidding? OF COURSE SHE HAS TO. Many times — and not just to Fox News or People. She, like all of the candidates, must make herself available to all types of media, whether liberal or conservative.
Any assertion that candidate for VP that doesn’t talk to the press before the election is profoundly absurd!
She must prove that she is capable of withstanding the spotlight if she is to vie for this job. If she isn’t, the voters should know well before voting.

==I’m done with McCain…==
So, vote for NObama and get mo’ of what you don’t want.

Very good question. I think a candidate for public office has a certain responsibility to be accessible and that means to field questions from the press. If they don’t, then that is news in itself. Candidates should know that it really peeves the members of the press when they’re snubbed. Remember when Chelsea Clinton wouldn’t talk to the press how they ripped her apart – saying for example that she was “being pimped with the superdelegates”. If you don’t talk with the press, they will retaliate big-time, that much I know.

Palin was sprung on the US seven days ago, SEVEN, SEVEN DAYS AGO to run for the second highest office in the land by an irresponsible, besotted old man who wants to be President because he was a POW forty years ago.
What we have learned so far from media digging, campaign leaks, people destroyed by her, Alaskan legislative hearings on her abuses of power (public record), etc., is that she is a loose cannon of questionable character.
Since the people who should have vetted her either did and are covering up or did not and are stonewalling hoping to the questions go away.
No way are they going away.
Factchecks indicate that Palin lies continuously even in her acceptance speech.
Today, she made outrageous charges that Biden and Obama have persecuted her personal life in the media.
When pinned down to cite examples, neither she nor her handlers could, because they have not persecuted her.
They have treated her with kindness and respect which is more than she has shown them.
More of her lies.
She just thought she could attack everyone with impunity with no questions asked by pulling the whiner, victim, sexist cards.
She had the nerve to call Hillary Clinton a whiner.
Look who is The Whiner.
While her boss McCain, The Joker, failed to do his job for the good of America, it is up to us the people and/or our free press to demand answers.
This woman even backs Alaskan secession which is treason.
Who does she think she is?
The Whiner is about to find out that she is not above the law or scrutiny.
The pitbull just lost her lipstick.

==…it really peeves the members of the press when they’re snubbed.==
Good.

Clearly she is unprepared to answer questions on the domestic and foreign policy issues she would be questioned about. There is no doubt a desperate effort is underway to prep her so she appears knowledgeable and confident in these matters in the vice-presidential debate… the very issues a vice-president must be conversant with. Will there be enough time? Her failure to face the press now is proof of her unreadiness. Qualified to be VP? I don’t think so! I am seriouly alarmed that she is being hailed as an acceptable candidate for this position. Being an energetic mom with an inclination to civic duty and a comfortable manner at the microphone may be cause for admiration by some who share her values/ causes, but these things do not qualifiy her for the job of vice-president.

Palin will talk to the press, and will show up at the VP debate. I wouldn’t be surprised if the McCain campaign entirely snubs NBC and CNN though, and that wouldn’t bother me at all – IMO they are not needed to win. I was pleasantly surprised that Obama went on Fox News and positioned himself hawkishly in the first portion of the interview; it is yet another sign of the obvious nervousness on the left. While the conservative base has been made rock-solid, the left has never had the promises of 2006 delivered, and the Obama primary promises are dissipating as the national goes forward. Hillary on the ticket, somewhere, anywhere, looks better and better in hindsight. But then again, so did the surge.
Not sure, though, that the MSM can manage to compose intelligent questions on the issues of the campaign. So far they’ve been attempting to destroy Palin. It’s quite interesting how few people know, for example, that Obama was born out of wedlock, or that Obama used hard drugs. I know almost nothing about Michelle Obama or the girls through the MSM after 18+ months – I knew more about Palin’s husband and children in 48 hours, and she’s only the VP pick. For example, as everyone now knows, it’s ‘news’ to the MSM that Palin’s husband had a DUI over 20 years ago and that her daughter is pregnant out-of-wedlock. The double-standard is obvious. (And what do those community organizers do, exactly, for ACORN anyway?)
The funniest thing, though, is that the bruhaha has resulted in record viewers for the RNC and $10 million in donations to McCain/Palin just in the period between the Palin and McCain speeches, and crowds today on the stump so large that they were turning people away from a street venue in Wisconsin.
I’m loving it.

The fact that the right wing talkers and “Jon Do” are focusing on the assumption we are nervous and not the issues sais allot.

Can you say desperate? The Republicans are scrambling to compete with the the Democrats. Why else would McCain make such a desperate pick in Palin? They believe people are going to vote for them because she is a woman? Hello! Maybe she should be qualified for the job first. The Democrats are smarter, represent more of the US population, and are ready to lead this country back from hell!!! The white, rich Republicans can keep their unqualified woman vp wanna be, she will be back in Alaska soon anyway!

mtr2311, next we are focusing on the issues and Sarah contradicting herself. She was for the bridge to nowhere, received federal funds, and then was against it. She is against earmarks, yet she got Alaska 500 million from them. This is not a reformer, this is a hypocrite.

Mr. Incredible – yes, He was moved with compassion for the lost. But how do you reach anyone who is starving, hurting, isolated, broken, lonely? He always gave them comfort – or food – or healing – or understanding first…. He cared for people and understood their needs.

==Mr. Incredible – yes, He was moved with compassion for the lost. But how do you reach anyone who is starving, hurting, isolated, broken, lonely?==
He said that we shouldn’t be concerned with the things of the world, rather eternal things.
== He always gave them comfort – or food – or healing – or understanding first…. He cared for people and understood their needs.==
Not worldly needs. His first mission was to give the Word of God. He didn’t want them to come to Him for the things of this world, rather the things of the next world.

== He always gave them comfort – or food – or healing – or understanding first…. He cared for people and understood their needs.==
Jesus didn’t want them coming to Him for worldly things, rather His Ministry.

Come on people, do you honestly believe that she will NEVER talk to the press? I think she will soon, just not right now. After the major networks trashed her for several days, why would she want to talk right now? She especially shouldn’t talk to the biggest Obama supportors…oh…that would be the major networks, Oprah, Ellen…..
Remember, Oprah is the one who launched Obama’s career. He is kinda like her little pocket pooch.

can anyone beleive this is a question that people are actually arguing “no” on.?
no woonder Bush Cheney won twice.
same tactics…cover the mistake…silence the witness…and draw fire toward the press.

oh and how she sees immigration working since she got her first passport a little over a YEAR AGO! How old is she…and this is the expertise we are going to count on to make decision whether or not planes carrying hundreds of Americans should be shot down in the middle of a crisis..
this woman who doesn’t think science and facts are better than her faith when it comes to policy and proof.
uuuuuugggghhhh

Ready to Lead on Day One. Ready to Meet the Press – Never.
If the american people elect this ticket we will be the laughingstock of the world (we’re more than halfway there already).

I’m sure Palin will hold a press conference as soon as Obama does.

However, she owes nothing to the news media.

So, then, who wants to talk about “secession” now?

All of a sudden, the Libs are quiet about “secession.”

It has been 7 days since Palin’s name was first revealed to the country & she’s already spoken several times…to the people; not the incompetent, bias reporters focused on smearing her, rather then finding out who she is. Not so long ago Obama was never heard of either, and went weeks w/out talking to the press..but did not get crucified as this woman has for the past week. Hands down she has a proven track record that she is ready to lead this country; the jury is still out on Obama. One of the first most important decisions a nominee has to make is who will be his running mate…Obama blew it, McCain proved his genius!!

No, of course she doesn’t have to talk to the press. As a matter of fact I hope she doesn’t.
Talk about the final nail in the coffin.

Of course not. The only good Republican is a completely unvetted, unknown Republican. Once you get to know them, it’s pretty much over.

Considering the hatchet job that most of the media is doing on Sarah Palin, if I were in her shoes, I would treat most reporters as if they had a severe case of herpes (as in don’t get close to them!) Given her abysmal treatment, and the comparable treatment given to the mainstream media “annointed one” I don’t blame her a bit.
She needs to do some vetting herself. She needs to vet reporters. If they are not dedicated to the proposition of unbiased journalism, she needs to ignore them. Once they cross the line, they, and the agency they work for, should be ignored as irrelevent.

Sarah Palin should be held accountable for her record and she should talk to the Press. But since this isn’t happening, and this is a major challenge to the media from a party trying to hoodwink the public into thinking she’s anywhere near competent, they’ll wait until her “poise” will carry her through a few rough spots and until she’s sufficiently coached. The real question is will the press STAND for it? They shouldn’t. The talk shows should be focusing instead on bringing in major journalists, constitutional experts, senior party members who remember Ferraro and Eagleton and who can point out that from all sides, all parties, keeping someone from the press that republicans claim can be president with a 72-year-old running mate is the low road–despicable, manipulative, dangerous. This is a time for the median to play THEIR hand responsibly and show the nation.

Given that Governor Palin has been a candidate in the Presidential election for less than three full days, I would think that she deserves some time to anticipate questions and prepare how she wants to say what she wants to say. At what point in time should that happen? When she has has more than 3 days to prepare her thoughtful answers not as a governor of Alaska but in the broader context of a national candidate. Also consider that only a few days ago, her children found out their Mom would be on the road for the next two months — they have started school this week. Isn’t it fair for her to make sure they are settled in to comfortable routines.

Sara is not talking to the press,yet the Republicans are trying to force Oprah to have Sara on her show. Looks like they’re trying the old divide and conquer tactic. I mean,are they trying to get Oprah to debate her? Do they want

Palin should talk. She must. Alaska was in great economic standing when she took office… so what was there to manage? She’s a reformer? She was running against a fairly unpopular governor anyways… big deal… govern NY or CA effectively, then you’ve done something. the only people this woman is out to please are right wing extremist. she’s out of touch with mainstream America. Sic her Tom Brokaw!!!

@ James…
i understand your point, but the big deal is that after she said she PUT the plane on ebay, the top of the ticket, mccain, said she SOLD it on ebay for a profit… this is a clear indication that he still doesn’t know this woman as much as he’d like us all to believe. she was merely a last minute pawn forced upon him by the GOP in opposition of lieberman. plain and simple.

Gag her or let her talk; it really doesn’t matter. The Obama camp can even take a holiday till election day. The economy does all the campaigning 24/7 and it is telling me in a fairly convincing fashion not to vote for a Republican for at least the next 50 years. The world needs some major healing after 8 years of neglect and outright abuse. I’m tired of the same old white guys in suits messing things up so I’m going with a brand new face and a strong, thoughtful intellect this time. No way, not ever again, will I ever vote Republican!

Talk to the press? That’s not the issue. It’s talking to anyone asking her hard questions so that the American people can know what she really is all about, what her stands on issues are, what policies she supports. That doesn’t mean FOX, or Oprah or The View or some planned town hall meetings. She needs to be grilled. The Repubicans can keep ‘excusing’ her absence from anything because of the so-called liberal media but that’s a sham and the American people know it. ABC grilled Obama, Bill O’Reilley grilled Obama but some how, the same Bush ‘control’ of McCain and Palin have prevented us from seeing how they would answer the same questions. So let’s just ‘become’ Russia and China and not allow ‘disrespectful’ or liberal biased questions to be asked. What horse manure. But as long as the media play along, we will once again elect people we know nothing about and pray for our well being. America, you ARE becoming Russia. How does that feel?

This is a test for Charlie Gibson as well as Governor Palin. I believe he was chosen to interview her because the McCain campaign believes it will be a softball interview. The Main Stream Press had better show soon they are not still cowed by the right wing. I think it’s worked to the point the media is often too cowardly to do their jobs as journalists, because they’ll be called “liberal” if the conservatives don’t like the question. Do your job Charlie, and ask some questions with authority on issues that she needs to address. The American people deserve that kind of questioning of all candidates, no matter who they may be, and especially newcomers to the national scene. The screaming of the right wing will happen no matter what.

I’m with George and Michael.
FREE COUNTRY- She doesn’t have to talk to the press………….
Just like I don’t have to vote for Mccain/Palin ticket…………
But you know what……
I will vote for the Mccain/Palin ticket.
“COUNTRY FIRST”

This is total BS!!!! If Palin is as bold as she portrays, why not talk to the press? If they win, all of us will get screwed, big time!!!! Whether we like it or not. And it will be worst than Bush and Cheney. McCain just wants to win the election, he doesn’t give a damn about the American people, Palin, Evangelicals or anybody else. Palin is McCain’s new mouthpiece in more ways than one. And it seems she will do anything to help him win. Even if it means exploiting her family to get the job done.

I’m glad to see you are interviewing Sarah Palin. Let’s see if you have any journalistic integrity, and call her on her many misstatements and lies about her own record — for example, her lies about the Bridge to Nowhere. But I’m not holding my breath – mainstream media reporters don’t dare challenge the status quo.

Two questions for Sarah Palin are fair game. Firstly, what is her sense of the scientific basis for global warming and secondly, what is the origin and age of the dinosaur bones we find all over the earth? Global warming? Evolution? What does she think? We have a right to know!

She should be asked about her views about killing baby wolves so that Alaskans don’t have to compete with them when they go moose hunting.
Just last month the Alaska DEP pulled 14 one month old wolf cubs from their dens and shot them. I’m sure she’ll present their position under the guise of conservation or ‘kindness’ but it is obviously and clearly a ploy.
Shooting adult wolves from airplanes and slaughtering the cubs is indefensible.

She should talk to the media, but the questions is who to talk to? By choosing ABC, it is probably the best choice. MSNBC and FOX will slant it match their networks rhetoric, so ABC is the best place to start. I really don’t blame her for going slow as most of the media tried to slaughter her within 5 minutes of the announcement because they were not told before the public. As for the baby wolves comment, if you eat any kind of meat, then something is getting slaughtered to feed you, so if you eat meat, don’t complain!

If McCain and Palin want votes they really need to both start talking to the press and everyone else about the real issues effecting us all.

Hey Sarah,Stop hiding and come on out and fight!

Mr. Gibson
Please do not make a repeat of the last interview with Obama and Hillary – your getting a second chance – do not waste it.
Ssk real questions. We do not care if she shoots moose or if her daughter is pregnant or anything about her main dude. I want to know what she is going to do about our economy, why she feels she has the right to tell woman what to do with their body, why her state gets the largest earmarks and wht is her hand in that abuse, why she wants to burn books, why she flat out lied about the bridge to nowhere or the plane sale fiasco, why she attended so many different colleges.
Also, I do not want talking points – or a diatribe on McCain’s POW experience.
If your reading from a script with canned questions and responses your not a journalist your a pitchman for the republican party and this is not an interview its an infomercial.
Whats next – Magic erasers?

Remember McCain’s ads about Obama being a celebrity? Wonder where that went, now that Governor Palin is the media darling. She appears to be George W. Bush in skirts, but can talk better and is attractive, which carries its own power in America. For those of us who are not “low information voters” and vote on issues, the media needs to do their job and ask tough questions. I’m afraid they’re so star struck with the new celebrity, few will. The interview with Charlie Gibson, if not hard hitting, will release her from appearing with other media outlets. The McCain campaign will say. “See, she did go before the press, what’s your problem?” Be tough, but fair, Charlie, do your job.

How can you even ask that question, unless of course you are preparing us for further loss of our civil liberties? At the moment I am worried that Charles Gibson is in cahoots with the McCain campaign. Although I really wanted Hillary Clinton to be our next president, I was horrified by the questions Charles Gibson’s asked Obama during the primary. I am sure that’s why the McCain campaign selected Charlie to do their supposedly unbiased interviews. I fear Mr. Gibson is going to give the hard questions to Ms. Palin ahead of time, that she is being prepped to memorize the answers, and that he is not going to “interrogate” her the way he has other candidates–sexism in another direction. My hope is that Charlie will question Palin as sternly as he would a man. If I sound angry, it is because I am frightened–scared that this country is turning into a location for a bad movie where my hopes and dreams for success and the American dream will be dashed by this country’s self-centered preference for babes, guns, and creationism. I shudder at the reality that what this election is coming down to is racism and what we must look like to people from everywhere else on the globe. Charlie Gibson,it is imperative that you do the job of reporting that we expect you to do, that you do not provide Palin with the questions ahead of time, and that you do not let your personal preferences or fear of reprisals from the McCain campaign and your buddy Brit Hume influence the interview process. You may be an anchor, but you have lots to prove about your integrity. You’ve lost my trust. Whether you regain it, depends on the authenticity and depth of your interviews with Palin. I asasume you will not let the McCain camp see the interview before it is broadcast and that you will not edit it to make Palin or you look better than you were during the interview. Please reassure us of this BEFORE the interview.

As a woman and former Republican, I absolutely think Ms. Palin has to respond to the media’s questions. First of all, as a woman I feel that Sen. McCain insulted women as a group by selecting someone as Palin to run for the most important job in the entire world simply because of gender — this was a true political decision and not in the interest of this country in light of climate of the world. As a voter, I believe the only anyone can make an educated decision to be able to cast a vote is to know the candidate and his/hers position on the most important global issues, but also qualifications, social positions, etc. Hopefully Mr. Gibson will ask in-depth questions of Ms. Palin and not some generic questions which will result in the usual political rhetoric. Additionally, I am hopeful that ABC News and Mr. Gibson will disclose to the country what if any “conditions” were placed/negotiated resulting in the “award” of this interview to Mr. Gibson. I am very frustrated with these elections because for the first time in my adult life I — a regular viewer of multiple news media — have realized the biases in reporting. I want actual facts and less pandering. I want to have clarified the various reporting — Palin attended five colleges in six years; her governing style — cold; her decisions in cutting budgets for social issues in her state; and yes, her daughter’s pregnancy. I believe it is truly hipocritical that she opposes sex education in schools for abstinence and her underage daughter gets pregnant. She has reduced her state’s budget for special needs patients and she gives birth to a child with special needs. While this is very sad, we as constituents need to be able to understand what she will do on specific subjects. Ms. Palin is beautiful, has a beautiful family, etc., etc., etc., but there are far more qualified Republican women in government for McCain to have undermined his party by choosing Palin.

Yes, Sarah Palin has speak to the press in order to let the American people know her views on the world situation (to include our domestic situation), how these problems should be handled and the policies of the campaign she is supporting. I understand she will be appearing on ABC Thursday night – will this be a scripted questioning, will she have a copy of the questions that will be asked ahead of time so she can study and appear to give an informed answer, or will this be an actual interview?

ANY person who is potentially the highest or second highest ranked leader in our country has a responsibility to it’s citizens to demonstrate and explain their qualifications.
Why would anyone in America NOT want to know? As for so many that decry the intense pressure on her, the other candidates have been in the news for months and years. Her time in the spotlight by comparison is less the a month, not to mention the fact that the big surprise of her bursting on the the scene was calculated to focus all attention on her. Frankly, with all that’s going on within the US and the rest of the world, this new poster-child
had BETTER be able to live up to the hype. When you compare dealing with nuclear weapons, wars and various world leaders vs. dealing with the American media, do you think that using ‘sexism’ as an excuse will make it better?
If you can’t stand the heat, stay out of the kitchen. Any candidate that can’t stand up to the press, certainly won’t be able to stand up for OUR country our for OUR needs.

Nope. The press needs to go stick its collective head in the john. We’re sick and tired of all of them twisting the truth constantly.
I used to get the biggest kick out of Ronald Reagan when he used to walk by the press and wave and smile. That’s what Governor Palin should do too.

Lets be truthful here, if we were to sit down and reflect on our views I think we would find that we “trust all” and “mistrust all” at the same time. For those of you who haven’t figured this out yet…its call being independent. Lets face it, neither Party is going to do everything they say they will. We know this because history has shown it to be true each and every 4 years. McCain /Obama and Palin/Biden in either case will do the best they can but they will fall short of success in the eyes of Americans. So, if we can accept that both Party’s will have success and failures then it really doesn’t matter who you pick because there is no way to measure who would do the best job. So who do you choose and why? Certainly not totally on ability or capability as its all a matter of opinion and arguable as well. For me, I feel it’s important to remember that we can teach a person a job but we can’t teach the essence of a person. In business there are many people who do wonderful work but certainly not completely equal. Sometimes the difference between good and great is directly related to the essence ( spirit, heart, soul, fortitude, grit, mind, character and so on ) of the person. So, as you listen to the candidates also try and get a feel for the person ( the essence of who and what they are ) because this could be the tiebreaker you are looking for.