Palin Media Avoidance Watch: Day 8

So essentially she’s like some sort of “spokesmodel” for the campaign — she’s allowed to read canned material and look pretty, but her own thoughts and ideas are strictly off limits.
Women deserve better. Republicans deserve better.

What plans does she and MCcain have for veterans and how does she intend to cope with the foreign policy requirements of the job.

Why would a town of 8000 need to hire a lobbyist to get goverment funding? As a city offical in a town of 35,000, we hired a grant writer to help us secure funding for some infrastructure, i.e. sewer, water and storm. We would not have spent own scant resources on a lobbyist…the retainer for such a service starts out at something like 50k and thats just for lobbying the state, not the federal government.

I’d ask her about which books she wants to ban.

Why is Gov Palin not given the same respect you have for Obama. He is never questioned about his shady deals or his links to terrorists. You have given him a pass this whole election. Only now, when Obama gets nervous, does he go on a show that will actually ask him hard questions. Bill O’Reilly is the only one with the guts to ask him hard questions (even though he never has the guts to answer them). When McCain and Gov Palin win, you in the media with your snide remarks like this one, will only have yourselves to blame. All we want to see is fair questions on both sides.

Governor,
Did you abuse your authority as governor by conspiring to have your brother in law fired? What are your views on contraception and abortion? What are your views on equal pay for women? Have you ever met a foreign leader? What is your foreign policy plan?

Dov. Palin, what exactly are your stances and plans of action regarding the economy, health care, the environment, foreign policy, and Education? Further, please explain why you think a rape victim should be required to have her assailants baby, and why this clear intent on abortion also has consequences in regard to DNR orders, and the ability of relatives to end life support for their loved ones to give them a dignified death?

Angie
Obama and family has survived 19 months of an onslaught of attacks from all sides and survived
Palin 8 days of simple questions.
take your bias blinders off at least she can answer questions from votors in their famous straight talk town meetings.
but to say nothing for your support, whats that all about?

“If she isn’t ready to be VP candidate on day one, how on earth can she be ready to be President on day one?”
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The same can be said for Obama who has dodged media appearances with anyone who asks him hard questions and is not a member of his fan club. He finaly talks with O’Reilly but of all nights to choose he chose the night of the RNC convention. A day that would have low viewer numbers.
By the way did Obama ever run that congratulatory ad for McCain like he promised. I never saw it.
Until a couple of weeks ago the headline could have said this:
Obama debate avoidance watch: Day 90

Submissive Sarah, how does it feel to be a second class person in the McCain Campaign?

Ms. Palin:
WHY ARE YOU HIDING?

Sarah Palin isn’t in hiding, she’s memorizing the speech handed to her by the GOP handlers in which she bows out of the nomination due to “family reasons”.
They’ve got to find a better candidate…

When anyone has nothing to hide, she/he hides nothing.
Palin should face the media like anyother does.
Betting on rent money on a lottery ticket, is a big risk anyone with a right mind would think of twice.
Am afraid to say McCain you are in for it now!

Ms. Palin:
First Obama was called “elite”, now you’re calling the press “elite”. Elite” means “best”.
Why do you object to what’s best?
AGAIN, WHY ARE YOU HIDING?

Republicans can please stop whining about the left-leaning media. What you really mean to say is that you just don’t like what you’re hearing. Does the truth hurt that much? It’s also clear that all this whining is just another one of your lame tactics to mobilize your base. Is there anything honest about your campaign?
Maybe you’re trying to convince everyone to turn off their TVs, stay away from the internet, and remain blissfully ignorant. Then again, that may be the only chance you have of keeping this race close.
Free press is a fundamental part of this great country. It serves the people and is driven by the people. If you want to question the validity of a source, change the channel. If you’re just interested in fiction, visit the library.

Obama has NOT made himself open to the press, but has carefully controlled his exposure to he press. Do you recall the press conf where he was being asked about Rezko, and he sweated and stammered, and then ran off like a dirty criminal? Why hasn’t the press pursued that? Why hasn’t Campbell Brown pressed Obama about such issues with the same viciousness and vigor that she pressed the McCain campaign? That is why we think that the press is biased.
It is perfectly expected to ask questions of Palin , but you need to ask the EXACT same questions of Obama, which, sorry, over almost 2 years, we STILL don’t know details about large aspects of his life and career.
That is bias, plain and simple.

Hey Jake,
Good watch series. And I love the Roger Simon piece at Politico. His sarcasm is so much better than Palin’s scripted sarcasm. When a man has to write a script for a woman who’s upset, something is wrong. Most women I know have their own words, and they want to choose them especially when they’re upset. I wish Palin had written her own speech, at least. The world was introduced not to Palin as politically savvy, but as Palin reading Matthew Scully. Perhaps he would have been a great choice for VP–he writes good speeches.

McCain’s campaign is as dirty if not dirtier than Bush’s and the dolts are gobbling it up.

Concerned in OH: “Palins Itinerary for today. Man, look at her avoiding the Media! She’s avoiding them 3 times today!”
Excellent. As soon as the majority of people see her take a few interviews and manage to identify a foreign country or two that isn’t spelled out phonetically on a teleprompter, we can put to rest that she’s an unqualified lightweight.
Of course, I’m sure those “media interviews” are not fully scripted appearances on FoxNews or love fests with conservative radio. If voters don’t see her taking questions on all of the big networks (hell, Obama finally got browbeat into giving even Foxnews some time) they’ll see the “media appearances” as a lie.

Samantha: why are you trying to change the subject? If Obama answers questions in a way that you don’t like, AT LEAST HE ANSWERS QUESTIONS.
WHY IS SARAH PALIN HIDING?

really:”The media don’t elect the president, the people do. Stop pretending you’re the only one who “really knows what’s going on.” Pretty insulting to everyone.
I think we can all decide for ourselves which candidate seems more genuine, particularly when those debates roll around.”
Wow. You want to elect the vice president with among the thinnest resume’s in history, to serve under the oldest first term president in history and a three time cancer survivor, on the basis of ONE 90 minute, partially scripted debate. And party soundbites. Amazing.

She is scheduled to talk to the media, THREE times today. Check out her schedule.
Maybe you should stop your whining about being ignored and get your butt out there, huh?
And by the way, the eBay story you’re linking to is not false, as you even admitted in the post. She did put the plane on eBay, which is exactly what she said. Who cares that it failed to sell? I never expected it would have. But they still ended up selling it elsewhere and THAT’S what voters like.

Wow. You want to elect the president with among the thinnest resume’s in history, who was a the member of a racist church and an admitted cocaine user, on the basis of eloquent teleprompter speeches? And party soundbites. Amazing.

really
who found out when Nixon lied?
who found out when Cheney and Bush lied?
who do you think are the whistle blowers
the press.
these are the same tactics and a clear sign that a Mccain Presidency with the team he has hired to help him lead
will use the same secretive tactics and sliming of the press… to hide when false information gets in speeches…
and when the facts are not what they appear…
Palin not answering ANYTHINg in her own
words… that she is only allowed to say the things that speech writers started writing BEFORE she was even picked…
in the face that she has NO record of any answer or statement that shows anything besides denials of science…some bad judgements…and NO understandign of a single massive issue we are facing.
stop blowing smoke…and stupid statements like “she doesn’t have to speak to the press she has to speak to the voters…”
the press is the Voters.
the only reason our country works…has ever worked is BECAUSE of the Press…
are you that out of it you people don’t get that?
the reason we are where we are and we have fallen sooo far in 8 years is becuse of the tactics that Mccain is using right now…and showing in one more way…
how he will be justa continuation of the people policies and slime…that got us here.

“You inhaled [marijuana].” Mr. Obama simply says “I did.” He also admits to cocaine use and that he thought about using heroine. He goes on. “It’s not something that I’m proud of, but that’s part of the journey that I’ve taken.
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Interesting that I have been through many of the same trials as Obama. African American, single mother, going to Ivy league university, I grew up in Chicago, yet trying cocaine and thinking about taking heroine was never a part of my “journey” nor did I EVER think about it.

Palin come on out and PROVE that McCain didn’t pick you for the women vote.Show us your just not another pretty face.Show us how qualified you are and not an empty suit. I really do want to hear your positions.Prove to us that think McCain is an idiot for picking you over more qualified republican women.Sarah where are you?

jhw539,
I think we have a misunderstanding.
I’m not suggesting basing your voting decision on just the debate(s) alone. Although I’ll admit the media blackout on Palin isn’t helping anyone except the Republicans.
I just think it will be harder for the candidates to hide, easier to see the contrast, and at least a bit more difficult for the Republicans to scream “bias” once again.
I won’t be voting for a vice president, I won’t be voting for McCain, and I’d appreciate it if you gave me a little more credit (even if you disagree with me).

Ultimately, with proper coverage and pressure, voters can make a judgment about what Palin’s actions as a candidate tell us about her character. She talks tough about reporters, but can’t face them; she talks up government ethics, but won’t answer an investigation under oath; she raves about her own pit-bull image on stage, but betrays a cowardice under actual pressure. In some ways, she is living out the very caricature that she drew of Obama last week — all talk, no action — coupled with the smug attitude of her predecessor, the sarcastic swagger and faux-populism of George W. Bush.

I just love it when Republicans get cornered: instead of addressing the issue under discussion, they retreat to the smokescreen that the other candidate is worse.
Poppycock.
Stay on target: this is about Palin and the electorates RIGHT to know about her.
This is a free and open society, and unless you plan to elect someone for the position of totalitarian supreme commander, then each one of you should be EAGER for Palin to speak out on issues.
How else do we know who to vote for?
Well, if we have a brain and need to think things through, that is.

for all you who are defending Caribou Barbie, were you the same ones bashing obama by not going on Fox News.
This is hypocrisy at the highest level.
We have here the potential Vice President of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and even potentially being the PRESIDENT OFTHE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA yet to appear on a national news outlet in an one-on-one interview.
get a grip folks. i know they got her behind the scenes teaching her what to say …. but at least admit it.

Has anyone asked Obama about William Ayers, oh thats right George did and we all remember how that went over. The media is watching the politicians to keep them honest, but who keeping the media honest? that includes JPT. thank you very much.

You negative posters should be ashamed of yourself for lying!
Where were you when the media was muckraking Obama over Wright?
Where were you when the news came out the over 70% of the media’s articles on Obama were negative, vs about 50% for McCain?
You can reinvent history all you want, but the same folks who are saying hands off Sarah Palin are the same folks who are insisting the media dig deeper into Obama.
Take about hypocritical. You should all be required to go to school and takes Civics 101 over again, then take a lesson in what the 1st Amendment means, and then take some anger management courses. Maybe at the end of the day you will have come to understand the real strength of America comes not from being afraid of the truth, but by embracing it.
But probably not. The truth would probably lose the Republicans the election, so vicious and off-target attacks will have to do.

Don’t worry Gov. Palin – The Obama/Biden campaign will do what you can not do for yourself. Inform the world of your pro-lobby, pro-earmark,anti-choice, anti-science, anti-environment, anti-special needs, anti-help for teenage mothers, bridge to nowhere supporter before it was uncool to be against it, etc.. etc….

Here is a start of reasonable fairly base knowledge/awareness of presidential questions…
how do you expect to be involved in any kind of administration that can negotiate with China and India as their population and industrialization is exploding and their pollution and carbon is catching up to our own?
since you are “not one of those people who buys into humans having any effect on global warming and the massive amount of the scientific community who beleives this could be our doomsday if people don’t wake up… …who also say what if idiots like you are wrong”
how do you propose to deal with that?
what is the historical consequences when the executive branch has stepped over the line of separation of powers? and what is the role of separation of powers? what are your thoughts on the constitutionality of presidential signing statements?
do you think George Bush or D Cheney or Rumsfeld lied to get us into the war?
on september 11 when D Cheney was calling the president to get permission to shoot down commercial airliners with massive amounts of Americans on them…
why do you think he did that? what was his thought process? what would be the factors in deciding that? would it matter if it was a foreign plane? Russian? British? Canadian? Columbian?
what is the mujahadeen and where are they now?
what are your thoughts on Reagan’s freedom fighters?
How was world war 1 won?
how was the vietnam war lost? should we have gone into vietnam?
why should or shouldn’t we have gone into Iraq?
what are your thoughts on our infrastructure crumbling (as has been reported by many now) and the effects it will have on our business and economy?
Where is al qaeda? can you tell us some of the cultural differences and political factions that may be influencing terrorists in Africa as opposed to southeast asia?
what are your thoughts on the global ramifications of aids?
what is the history of georgia?
how did russia come to it’s most powerful and then come down from that?
Where do you think that “judges have legislated from the bench?” have they only legislated in one direction …toward democrats? or have some legislated toward the right wing?
why do you think personally that creationism is something that could be taught in school? if thatw ere the case should other christian philosophies be prevelent in schools? where do you think man came from?
do you think if a school board official’s child failed out of school in part perhaps because of the policies that board member continued to push…do you think that person should still be on the school board?
what do you think are the three most economically destructive factors in our healthcare system and it’s exponentially growing costs?
what regions would alternative energies be most effective?
how many people in our country live below the poverty level?
it tajikistan predominantly US visitor friendly or not?
the list goes on and on
and this is a list that I think could be completed on a fairly well informed level if not a very detailed level by Obama, Biden , Mccain (but don’t ask him follow ups outside of anything military), Clinton, Nunn, the senators from states like Maine, Hutchinson, Kerry, Gore,… almost any nationally known pol.
this woman is the worst decision and selfishly tactical choice…(throwing themselves far before the welfare of the country) in the history of Presidential candidacies in our nation.
Rivaling George W. Bush’s Presidential decision and gusto to go to Iraq.

The Leftwing MSM can stamp their feet and hold their breath all they want. The first interview will probably with Greta!, and I hope Kieth O (who is loosing his mind), Chris , Campbell, and the rest of that motley crue of liberal wordsmiths watch their ratings slip further down, except Wolf and George they seems to be far more professional.

and may I add my list of questions is just the start…the list of questions on the issues we face is much longer
and I will say that every pol that has run in the last 2 years was well acquainted, answered most of them and knew the issues fairly back and forward.
this woman is literally like Eliza being taught (literally) about the issues right now by Joe Lieberman…
Obama from the early days when we saw him in NH was being asked and thoughtfully answering 99% of these…with acuity and skill…and literal responses.
as they hide her away like scooter libby and WMD info we see that the mccain campaign is just made up of the assistants of the people who ran Bush and Cheney and Rove’s governemtn.
get them out.

“I understand it is easy to try to do the switch and bait bit when you are trying to cover something up, but really, some research would help.”
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Research on what. The tapes are on You tube and every other video site. Can you tell me that Trinty is not a racist church? Do you know anyone that attends that church? I do! I worked with a woman who cant stand coupes in interracial relationships and as asked countless times how could I be an educated black woman and waste away myself by marrying a white person? At a corporate party, she walked up to my husband and he attempted to shake her hand, she tried to get him to do the ” black hand shake”.
I reported her to HR and was successful in having her go through 2 months of diversity training. She is the typical member of Wright’s church and she attended for years. So do you want to tell me that Obama could attend for 20 years and be affected? Even if he weren’t. I WOULD NOT SIT IN A CHURCH WHERE THOSE THINGS WERE SAID.
Racism is Racism. PERIOD.You sat there among the congregation. You condoned it.

To the obama gang here demanding that GOV Palin be questioned by the media -
Be careful what you ask for – I truly feel she can handle Anything! Just look at how outstanding she did after the media abuse last week!
McCain/Palin – YOU now have My VOTE!

Jim
What I meant to say was
she is not some “potential” nominee in the primaries
she is a definite vp nominee.

Molly
the press didn’t use up time
the mccain campaign would not let her answer on her own…
and yesterday Rick Davis said he will do interviews not if it is good for the nation and voters… …but if it is good for them.
the media is doign their job as they have done with every single candidate that has run
the problem is their is so many misstatements, flips, scandals, omissions, issues, drama
with gov Palin they are overwhelmed…
what the he!! would you have them do?
what candidate has had this much float to the surface from DAY ONE…just from a simple google search…
that’s right on the first day they announced her if you googled her name
lawsuits…sports center legal and financial problems…
personal matters interfering with her governemntal duties and effecting her choices …
scandals…
denials of science.
positions that are …to say the least out there…which have not been mentioned once from her OR the campaign…
this is the worst decision and judgment by ANY presidential candidat ein our history risking our nation on his one bad judgment…
she is not even close to having the knowledge or any recorded understanding of any issue we are facing
and a pipeline that was already in the works in an energy/oil based economy state …is not energy expertise.

David H
if you mean her real beliefs..
that she puts her religion before science and facts
and throws out science and facts if it effects something written in the bible
yeah then I guess she has “real beliefs”
this is not 1820…or 1950.
this woman is the worst decision in the history of our nation by a presidential candidate for his own tactics…not for the good of the country…
McCain just said if he dies…the massive ship will be run by a person that has only stood on the shore and drove a wagon…and has no knowledge of the ocean.

Jake,
Did you look at today’s schedule for Mcain/Palin? It looks as if they are meeting jointly with media several times today.
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Saturday, September 6, 2008
Colorado and New Mexico
10:00am Media Interview
10:30am Satellite into AARP Convention
11:30am Media Interview
12:30pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Colorado Springs, CO
1:45pm MT Depart Colorado
2:50pm MT Arrive NM
3:30pm MT Media Interviews
7:00pm MT “The Road to Victory Rally”
Albuquerque Convention Center

The media response on Obama and his Coacaine usage.
“He took all the controversy out of the sails by being upfront and honest. There’s no controversy in admitting that your human, and most politicians do not get this simple concept. Barack Obama does an amazing job of being human and authentic.”
My response:
I do not think Obama is authentic. Just because he admitted to it does not exclude him from having committed a felony. His drug use and his association with Rezko, Wright, and Ayers shows poor judgment. Simply because he admitted to it the media deems him as better than someone who has never used narcotics? What is wrong with that? A lot of people like me have journey’s of discovery and haven’t tried Cocaine. Are we all clear on the matter that what he did was and it means he can never work in many government jobs like in the military, the post office, and so on. And it means that, for the rest of his life, when he applies for a job, he’ll have to fill out a questionnaire that describes his felony record, and if he lies about it and they do a background check, it’s all over. A felony is the systems way of saying that you have no character and can not be trusted, and you can’t vote for many years in most states. So, you can’t get a government job, you can’t vote, but you can be PRESIDENT? Bad examples set by Bush and Obama.
Personally, I don’t want someone who has made the decision to take cocaine to be making decisions for me. Here’s an idea; let’s elect a candidate who was smart enough to avoid cocaine. Let’s elect an experienced candidate Obama is so inexperienced he thought Canada had a president and not a prime minister.

Thanks, now add the hours and minutes. I do believe the Republican Bastion, Fox was doing that to Obama. The ventriloquist masters haven’t figured out how to give her the answers without anyone noticing. She is probably having a Listening receiver implanted this weekend.

“Anyone who says Obama’s church is racist is a liar. White people attend that church.”
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Then they condone racism. Are you saying that it can’t be racist because white people attend? Because that is a racist statement you know. There were blacks that were slave owners. Does that make them somehow not slave owners?

Thank you, Lara, for posting the text of Sarah Palin’s schedule!
I was about to do that. Apparently my original comment with the link to a Hot Air post with the schedule in it was edited (after it was posted, by the way) and someone removed that part. Guess if people see the truth it kind of ruins the “Palin media avoidance watch” thing.

Aka Dad. Do you live in Chicago? Have you been to the church? Have you met any of the parishioners? Attended a sermon? Been to a wedding or funeral that was performed there?
No, did not think so.

Global Warming Declared Hoax by McCain; Says New Kansas Coastline “A Naturally Occurring Phenomenon”

Sean Hannity Raptured to Heaven during FOX News Broadcast; Alan Colmes, Left Behind, Still Can’t Get Word in Edgewise. Rush Limbaugh in Tears as He Always Expected To Go First.

Samantha
Think. Its Not Illegal Yet.

Gomer,
I am not for abortion and neither was my mother when she became pregnant with my brother and I. Nor did she abort the child that she carried by the 38 year old man who raped her when she was 19. She ended up actually giving him up for adoption to the family of the man who raped her. A man who had dated her older sister one time, and offered her a ride to Grant Park to watch a parade. She did not want to take the bus from the South Side and figured it would be okay. Instead to took her to his garage punched her several times in the face and raped her. My grandmother offered to have the child aborted but my mother said no.She had the boy,and kept it for several months until the rapist family got involved. The family did not condone their son raping my mother and saw that at and the parent of one child already, she was in no position to take care of this child.
Today he is a fine person. My mother is dead now but I am glad that she lives on in me and him.

My goodness but some of you are in denial!
Simply because we want Sarah Palin to answer some questions, simply because we want to know more about the candidate who may be our next VP, you flood the blogs with insulting and demeaning comments.
Don’t you realize this says more about you than about your cause?
If you are so insecure and insincere as to believe temper-tantrums, half-truths, and on-going efforts to besmirch the other candidate and the press is effect, let me offer my opinion:
You are undermining your case and making me increasingly wary of Palin.
What are all you folks trying to hide from the world?

Really.. I would ask the governor why she chose to give a speech then travel for 8-10 hours by plane and automobie to give birth at the age of 44 to a child with a known birth defect after her water had broken?
Yes…A PERSONAL QUESTION!!! Because if she can not exercise good judgment when it comes to the safety of herself and her unborn child how we can we trust her with the safety of our children?
Better yet….I should have David Gregory ask her the question…because his moronic response to learning about Palin’s highly careless behavior was “VERY COOL”. VERY COOL??? Why don’t you interview 100 OBGYNs and ask them if they thought her actions were”VERY COOL” No they would call it childhood endangerment. What if the baby died on that long flight home to Alaska? Would that be considered a criminal offense? Reckless endangerment of a child?
Sarah Palin is nothing but a snarky Caribou Barbie puppet for the republican machine…Watch OUT AMERICA YOU ARE IN THE PROCESS OF BEING DUPED AGAIN BY CARL ROVE AND HIS BAND OF CORPORATE THIEVES!

1. Invoke 9/11
2. Blame the Liberal media
3. Impugn Liberals’ patriotism
4. Blame Clinton
5. Make thinly-veiled racist comments
6. Blame Holloywood.
7. Feign idignation about flag-burning, the war on Christmas, or some other bogas issue.
8. Blame immigrants.
9. Misquote the Bible.
10. Invoke 9/11 again.
11. Complain about paying taxes.
12. Dismiss all liberal arguments as conspiratorial.
13. Change the subject.
14. Blame Clinton again.
This is a Republican method of debating.

HeatherinVT….your comments are a reflection of the people on these sites that can’t admit that the DNC made a mistake picking Obama, and then he followed suit passing over Hillary. You cooked your goose now “eat it”. Also your “insights” into motherhood and the right of a down baby to live and be loved by its family are shallow and krass.

Samantha again think it won’t hurt, I do not care, whether you want me to or not. So stop with the book legnth post trying to garner pity.

I understand folks project what they want to see onto the shoulders of another, but really, it is TOO MUCH to project wheat seems to be projected at Sarah Palin.
She isn’t you. She may not even share enough of your values to win your support. How would you know when YOU KNOW NEXT TO NOTHING ABOUT THIS WOMAN!
So you project.
Samatha, I’m glad your mother had you and not an abortion, but that says NOTHING about the capability of Sarah Palin to be president of the US. It really doesn’t.
I can project from Palin’s taking to the air in a plane with a rifle and shooting defenseless wolves and other creatures from the sky.
You think her pro-life stance is admirable, but I think her willingness to kill in such an unfair fashion is terrible.
You value your life and I value it as well, but I’m also concerned about life on planet earth, not just human life but all life. If nothing else, Sarah Palin is against everything environmentalist stand for; she’s against healing the planet. That is enough for me to know.

Sarah:
Can you make any sense on Obama’s abortion votes while in the Illinois legislature?

Palin doesn’t need to address the media, she isn’t coming to Washington to address the media. They have shown themselves to be a non-factor. Sorry Jake, I know it hurts, but you guys should focus on news and not someones uterus. Media as we know it is dead.

Just thinking outloud why can’t Nancy Pelosi give up the tax payer funded jet and fly commercial? It’s not like she is very busy at her job!

Jack,if I could ask Sara a question it would be: Do you really believe that a woman should not be able to have an abortion, even if she were raped?

I’d like this question to be asked:
“What are the policies of George W. Bush that you do support?”

WE NEED TO KNOW MORE ABOUT THIS WOMAN!
To an outsider, it would seem hard to do, but an oil-rich town with zero debt on the day she was inaugurated mayor was left saddled with $22 million of debt by the time she moved away to become governor – especially since nothing was spent on things such as improving the city’s infrastructure or building a much-needed sewage treatment plant. So what did Mayor Palin spend the taxpayer’s money on, if not fixing streets and scrubbing sewage?
For starters, she remodelled her office. Several times over, as a matter of fact.
Then Palin spent $1 million on an unnecessary, new park that no one other than the contractors and Palin seemed to want. Next, Sarah doled out more than $15 million of taxpayer money for a sports complex that she shoved through even though the city did not own clear title to the land; now, seven years later, the matter is still in litigation and lawyer fees are said to be close to at least half of the original estimated price of the facility.

The biggest city building project you headed up as mayor of Wasilla, an indoor sports complex, ended up costing the 7,000 citizens of your town and extra $1.3M in unnecessary costs because of litigation the city incurred by building without rights to the land. Why did you invoke eminent domain to try and take the land away from it’s owners. And is that your idea of executive leadership?

You were caught on video nodding your head at a church where the speaker was saying that Iraq was a religious war. You also said that our troops were on a mission from god in Iraq.
Do you think it is going to help our national security to make the war into a Crusade? Because that’s what Bush said too, and his leadership has been a catastrophic failure.

Your Dominionist church has said that Alaska will be a “refuge state” during the Apocalypse.
Do you agree or disagree with that? Yes or no?

If you’re against earmarks, as mayor of Wasilla, why were you so giddy as to write a memo saying how well Alaksa did in acquiring an earmark that will cost taxpayers between $450 and $1.5B? [Quote memo, available online]

Governor Palin, why is it that just about everything you have said turns out to be either a lie, a distortion, or a misrepresentation, wehther it be about your accomplishments, or those of Senator Obama.?
Examples:
You say you said “thanks but no thanks” to Congress on the Bridge to Nowhere. But you were FOR the bridge, before you were against it.
You implied (and McCain actually said) that you sold the jet on Ebay, for a profit, when in fact, it was not sold on ebay, and it was sold for a loss.
You say you took on the old Boys Network…when in fact you headed a 527 group for Senator Ted Stevens, the corrupt politician.
You say you decreased taxes as mayor of Wasilla, when in fact you increased sales taxes.
You say you are against earmarks, when in fact you have requested earmarks.
Also… Do you believe in interpreting the Bible as the literal word of God?
Do you believe in creationism?
Did you want to ban books in the library… (Wasilla).
Why did you husband join the AIP? After all, he could potenaially be the first dude, and how much influence has it had over you?
Why do you misrepresent all of your positions?

Do you think it’s dangerous for our national security at this point for the son of a Vice President to be going to fight in Iraq because of 911?
Iraq had nothing to do with 911, and many muslims worldwide are going to see your views on the war as a religious war and a retaliation for 911 as red meat for more attacks on the US. Is it dangerous for our national security for you and your family to make this into a revenge religious war? You seem to be playing along with the terrorists rather than refuting their beliefs about why the US does what it does.

How does being close to Russia provide you with foreign policy experience?

Honestly, if she thinks the media is too mean, then go on Fox News. Let Chris Wallace interview you. He and his network may be conservative, but they give at least somewhat respectable interviews.
She doesn’t have to appear on Olbermann. But she needs to show at least some readiness to lead.

Campaign before country, the true story of McCain Palin.

A family of seven like yours in Alaska would receive $22,400 in payouts from taxes on oil company revenue. An individual will receive $3,200.
If Alaskans are making so much money off of oil profits while the rest of the country suffers… why is your party against taxing oil company profits in order to give non-Alaskans the same deal?
And will you guarantee that John McCain will now agree with Barack Obama and join him in ensuring they do? Or will you ignore this startling hypocrisy and go on helping the oil companies rip off average Americans in the lower 48?

You support teaching creationism in schools. Can you please explain what that might look like? Would it be taught in science classes or in social studies classes? Would other religions’ versions of the creation story also be taught?

Presidents and Vice Presidents are NOT obligated to the “MEDIA”
.. they answer to the AMERICAN PEOPLE and it is McCAIN/PAULIN that are answering the “PEOPLES” questions at town hall meetings..
Obama REFUSED to do town hall meetings with McCain ..even after Obama said he would debate McCain , “anytime, anywhere”.

Jake– Why should McCain/Palin take questions from a “Media” who has shown clear bias, open contempt, and at times even over the line personal attacks?
I do not claim that you (Jake)personally are guilty of such things..but the overwhelming MAJORITY of the “media” are hostile to McCain/Palin.

I would ask her views on race, equal pay, and gender gap.
I would ask her why she thinks man has done nothing to affect global warming and even if that is true, what are her plans for helping the planet.
I would ask her about early childhood education and whether she feels it benefits the society.

If she is so “experienced”, I would think she and her campaign would be chomping at the bit for any interview she could get to support her stance on all the critical issues facing ameicans today.
Truely Yours
- Recently laid off American

If she’s afraid to answer questions from the press then she really needs to do town halls and answer questions from regular people. No democracy can survive an election process where the candidates don’t have to answer any questions. Normally the media is stand-in for the public and we need that since we can’t all ask the questions. But I doubt she’ll even let the public ask her questions. If she gets away with this imagine the next election. No candidates will bother with answering questions or being interviewed. They’ll all just give prepared statements and we can decide which statement we like best. It will set a dangerous precedent because obviously candidates would all prefer to not answer hard questions.

You belittled community organizers, what do you think of the work of one of the most famous community organizers in your liftime, Martin Luther King Jr?
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Who along with his father was a Republican by the way?

1. What would be your first priority as Vice President?
2. What would you like the president to accomplish in the first 100 days?
3. Explain why you believe polar bears shouldn’t be a protected species.
4. Please tell us where you stand on Roe V. Wade.
5. How would you suggest handling Ahmandinajad (sp?)

Why aren’t women outraged that the GOP is using Palin as a spokesmodel? Apparently she’s good enough to stand in front of a crowd and read canned speeches written by male speechwriters, but clearly they think she’s too stupid to give an interview.
If Palin’s the gutsy, savvy woman they’re claiming, they need to quit treating her like Vanna White.

Why will Palin be afraid of talking to the media? We want to hear from her. We want to know who she is. If she is so vested in foreign and economic issues why should that be a problem? The media serves the interest of the general public. She must take questions from every sector of the media, liberal, independent and the conservative media. If she fails to make the media rounds, she will be a liability than an asset to the McCain campaign. She must answer tough questions. She is running to be vice president of the United States.

Governor, you’re on tape saying you don’t know what a vice president does. We have had strong vice presidents and weak vice presidents in our history.
What has John McCain told you your role will be as vice president?
Based on her lack of experience what will he have her do – what responsibilities will be assigned to her? Will she do more than the traditional presiding over the Senate and attending funerals and ribbon cuttings?
I can’t see her moving his agenda through Congress since she has no idea of how Congress works and who’s who on the congressional staff. The economy? What does she know of monetary policy or tax policy or housing policy. Foreign policy? The only thought she seems to have given to the Middle East is we’re involved in God’s war. Will she be responsible for his health care plan? A drastic overhaul of the health care system? What is her experience in health care? Social Security reform? Just what will he have her do?

neville,
I think your assessment of FOX news is way off….but since I do not watch MSNBC or FOX I couldn’t tell you….I watch CNN once it a while just for the news…The problem is no distinction is made between true journalism and sensationalism…Avoiding the media or trying to control the media just does not work…Nor should it. People have the option of turning off the station if you do not agree with it. Seems to me the folks who rail most against the media are those most searching for someone to tell them what to think rather search for the truth on their own. That is why Rush Limbaugh is so popular….He makes you think you’re an independent thinker but, by virtue of tuning in, re-inforcing your support of his views. Maybe you are just watching too much news?

The first sentence of Question 6 was cut off. The full question for Sarah Palin is:
You said that the Iraq War was a task from God. What do you mean by that? Is it your belief that the U.S. invaded Iraq in order to fulfill God’s will? If that is what you believe, please explain. Do you think that the Iraq war is a religious fight?

neville,
If that is so then let’s hear it out of the mouths of McCain and Palin. Let’s me hear them say that they under no obligation to speak to the media. My guess is you never will because, as much as they will allow their base to rail against the media they will have to talk to them. Otherwise, this stalling tactic becomes a real issue of what is it the campaign is trying to hide…Openness and transparency should be a centerpiece of government reform. McCain and Palin say they are reformers but are they really?

Indy voter
News can be gathered from many sources.
My problem is not with “commentators”
My point is that many in the major news organization “media” who claim to be “reporters” or “journalists” exercise their bias. Sometimes openly , sometimes in subtle ways. I consider that to be disgracefully unprofessional.

PS, Fact Check suggests Palin raised Special Needs funds. Not lowered them.
But I do want to ask her why she described the Iraq war as a mission sent from god.

Thank you Sandy.
I stand corrected, especially about the school. Of course, your explanation about earmark money raises a whole host of other questions that should be asked.

Neville –
How exactly do you propose the 300 million Americans find out who the heck Sarah Palin is? Do we just get the memo from John McCain and believe what he tells us because he is so honorable that he would never lie JUST TO WIN AN ELECTION.
The media MUST have access to her. In the end holding her back from the media hurts them. When people walk into the voting booth in November they will ask themselves how they can put her one feeble heartbeat away from the most powerful job on earth when they do not even know her. We are not all as reckless as John McCain in choosing the next vice president.

John McCain said in his speech on Thursday that his administration would be transparent.
Withholding a VP candidate from the media, i.e., the American public is not transparency.
This is one more thing he has in common with George W. He will never be able to distance himself from George and thus, he will never win.

I used to be a member of the DNC until they vilified the Clintons, nominated a liar and hired hate spewing Obamabots to campaign for them.

You and your husband were associated with the Alaskan secessionist group AIP. You’ve been quoted as saying “Alaska comes first.”
Now you’re part of a campaign that says “Country First.”
But given Republican policies and your own statements, it’s hard to take you seriously.
It seems that individuals and states must make sacrifices for the good of the country… so since you were against Country First before you were for it… what is your official position now?
Alaska or Country first? Oil profits or Country first?

Indy voter
Much can be learned about a person by who their friends and associations are.
Much can be learned about a person by their voting record.
Much can be learned about a person by simply viewing their family.
Much can be learned about a person by simply learning where, how and by whom they were raised.
Much can be learned about a person by simply watching and listening with a discerning eye an ear..
I suggest you apply the above techniques to ALL the candidates.

If you aren’t ready on day one to take Katie Couric on in a debate on TV, how can we trust you to debate foreign leaders as part of your potential new job?
Your presence on the ticket seems to make voting for Republicans impossible this season.

Question her on:
Her hypocrisy on earmarks
Her hypocrisy on the Bridge to Nowhere
Her eBay lies
Her experience representing very small populations
Her hypocrisy on oil
Her husband’s job for British Petroleum
Her Dominionist beliefs
Her statements on Iraq being a religious crusade
Why she went to 5 different universities in 6 years
Why she didn’t work for a paper as a journalism student
What did she do from 2004 to 2006? She’s got a hole in her resume
Why was Wasilla the meth capital of Alaska during her time as governor
Does she take any responsibility for her daughter’s pregnancy
Why did her son sign up to fight in Iraq on 911 and why will he ship out on 911… since Iraq had nothing to do with 911

Palin, why are you and McCain trying to delay the results of the Troopergate investigation if you’re sure you’re innocent? How do you feel about the lead investigator moving the release date up 3 weeks in response to your efforts to repress the report?

I would just like to see one member of the press ask Obama to elaborate on his relationship with Bill Ayres.

Palin,
Since the total population of Alaska is smaller than North York, a suburb of Toronto (650,000), how do you think that after only 1 and a half years representing them that you’re qualified to represent all 50 states… particularly when you were associated with the secessionist group AIP and are on record as having said “Alaska comes first?”

Mr. Tapper,
Thanks for your determination to get useful background information about Sarah Palin.
If I could, here’s what I would like to ask John McCain’s VP choice:
Ms. Palin, you present Americans with a fascinating human interest story. But there are a lot of Americans who are also curious about the “boring” details of your education and PROFESSIONAL (not personal) background.
Your apparent qualifications include a Bachelor’s Degree in journalism, with a minor in political science; your terms as Mayor of Wasilla Alaska, a city with a population under 10,000; less than two years of an ongoing term as Governor of Alaska; less than a year as an appointee to Alaska’s Oil and Gas Conservation Commission; and less than two years as director of a 527 group called “Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc.,” which was actually a group for training females for Republican political purposes.
Is there anything else in your education or PROFESSIONAL background that qualifies you to be the leader of government and commander-in-chief of the most powerful nation in the world?

Palin,
Obama represented 250,000 people on the Far South Side of Chicago, straight out of college.
You were mayor of a town of only 6,500 as recently as 6 years ago.
Furthermore, Illinois has a population of 30 million and Alaska only 650,000.
Your experience seems to pale in comparison to Obama’s… at a magnitude of 40 to 1. If you and John want to make such a big deal out of the difference between a mayor and a community organizer, I think Obama and Christians are happy to take you on.
But how do you explain away the fact that Obama represented 40x more people than you did… and he was fresh out of college? But you were 40 years old and only able to handle a small town of 6,500… and still ended up flubbing a sports center construction project and costing the people there an extra $1.3 million dollars?

I have many questions; here are four:
1) Who is tutoring you (Gov. Palin) on foreign policy? What are THEIR credentials? In terms of the past 8 years? What positions have THEY taken in regard to Iraq? Afghanistan? torture and detention? permanent bases in Iraq? bombing or otherwise attacking Iran? Do you see any contradiction in calling yourself a maverick but letting yourself take a crash course in foreign policy?
2) Explain why you claim that SenatorObama has not authored or sponsored significant legislation in his careers in both the Illinois legislature and the U.S. Senate? Were you mistaken? Or was that a deliberate lie?
3) Given your record of firing political opponents, what is your position on the firing of U.S. attorneys by Alberto Gonzales when he was Attorney General, or the politicization of career diplomats at the Justice Department?
4) What is your understanding of the theory of the unitary executive, and would you support continuing the Bush administration’s approach to Congressional hearing and other oversight activities?

Is it true Palin brought in over $100 million in earmarks as gov, and left Wasilla $20 million in debt? Think she coulda paid part of her own tab?

Documents released in August 2008, by the University of Illinois at Chicago shed some light on Barack Obama’s relationship with William Ayers, a founding member of the 1960s and 1970s radical group the Weather Underground.
Obama’s association with Ayers, who now teaches at the university, has become an issue in the Illinois senator’s presidential campaign. The Weather Underground took credit for several nonfatal bombings on targets that included the Pentagon and the U.S. Capitol, and critics accuse Obama of rubbing elbows with an unabashed 1960s radical.
Obama has said that, although he knew Ayers as a professor involved in community outreach efforts in Chicago, he doesn’t share Ayers’ extreme views.
The massive collection of newly released documents — 140 boxes full of them — includes agendas that clearly put Obama and Ayers in the same room for meetings of Chicago Annenberg Challenge, an educational initiative that Ayers was instrumental in starting and that Obama chaired in the 1990s.
Ayers Unrepentant for Weather Underground’s Violence in 1960s, 1970s
The initiative was funded by $49.2 million from the Annenberg Foundation with the intention of establishing community partnerships that would improve schools.
Several news organizations that reviewed the university’s records by appointment. In one agenda, a March 15, 1995, meeting featured Obama making introductions and Ayers giving a briefing.
But more than a year later, Obama pushed the group to be bolder in its reforms, according to the Associated Press, which also reviewed the documents. Minutes from an October 1996 gathering show that Obama, a guest at a meeting of the collaborative, raised questions about what the group should be doing.
The AP reports the minutes characterized Obama’s concerns as twofold: Whether the group was raising additional money and whether money was being used “to prop up existing organizations as opposed to creating fresh educational practices in the schools?”
“At the end of five years, will we have broken the mold? Not much seems to be bubbling up that is inspiring or substantive,” the minutes say, paraphrasing Obama.
Even so, Obama’s association with Ayers should raise questions in the minds of voters who wonder of Obama is as mainstream as he claims to be.
“The fact that Obama and Ayers were working together stems from the pretty sharp left-leaning ideology that both of them shared to some extent,”
Ayers did not respond to an e-mail requesting comment nor did Barack Obama.

Palin is an image, not a candidate. The GOP is trying to create somebody who doesn’t exist. They think if they call her a reformer enough times it will become truth.
If she can’t answer questions honestly from American MSM, how can you expect her to be ready on day one to possibly have to meet with world leaders?
No doubt she is being drilled on a daily basis, mock interviewed if you will and will only be allowed to interview once she gets all the talking points memorized – sorta like how McCain didn’t answer anything honestly at the Saddleback Forum, but just used his stump speech that most closely fit the question posed, or filibustered with storytime.
You’re never going to get a real answer from Sarah Palin. They’re test-grouping and push polling answers to see what will play the best and those will become her answers.
She might as well be a CGI candidate.

Mercer Reader –
I have wondered that very thing. How can she be culturally aware enough to help run, or God forbid actually run, a country with such diversity? Not only has she not traveled outside the US other than that one time to Kuwait to visit the Alaskan National Guard, apparently she has not really traveled extensively within the United States.
I worry about her ability to understand the complexities of this country. Alaska is so isolated from what goes on in the lower 48. I am not confident in her abilities at all. She worries me and I suspect I am not alone in that.

Transparent–
Are you telling me that he was asked one question about Ayres, answered it, and the press dropped it like a hot potato?

To RealisticLib Sep 6, 2008 6:10:49 PM
Obama would have vetted her first you genius. The man actually has intelligence!

Realistic Lib-
Are you telling me that Sarah Palin has answered the question about her husband’s membership to a secessionist group and what her association with that group is or has been?
Frankly, Palin isn’t even an issue really. This election is between Obama and McBush.
I just think she needs to get in front of the media. It’s good for her and it’s good for the country. All personal questions should be off limits, i.e., about her children. But, she should have to answer policy questions. That’s just logical.

Palin,
O’Reilly said the mothers of pregnant teenagers like Jamie Lynn Spears are delinquent mothers.
Do you think O’Reilly and his supporters are right or wrong? What responsibility do you yourself take for your daughter’s behavior, if any? Because you haven’t taken any responsibility so far… you’ve only blamed your daughter.

Transparent–
I’m sure the press will get their chance to question Palin. I’m just saying the Obama’s been on the scene for 18 months and I don’t think we’ve gotten to the bottom of the Ayres connection; the press seems quite uninterested in it. Has he admitted or denied that he launched his political career at a fundraiser in Ayres’ house? Has the question been asked of him? I don’t know. I read these rumors and I would like the press to ask tougher questions.

RealisticLib,
If you didn’t notice, this is a blog about questions for Palin.
If you have questions for Obama, go to one of the infinite blogs and articles written for that purpose.
Distracting people from discussing Palin isn’t going to disguise the fact that she’s got some seriously ugly stuff she’s trying to hide.

Republicans are terrified of Palin being vetted.
Thus… they’re spamming this blog with rumors and defamation about Obama in order to muddy up the questions for Palin.
And just look how many of them there are… Republicans are getting desperate. I think the electoral college numbers are scaring the crap out of them… and all these red states that are all of a sudden up in the air this election.

AL:
What are talking about? Who did Odinga kill? Odinga won the election in Kenya square and fare and the ruling party (Kabila) rigged the election. The United Nations and the African Union interfered through Kofi Annan. What in the world are you talking about? When did Raila Odinga become the villain?

I am concerned with the fact that she has a degree in journalism and a minor in Poli-Sci. That is just very thin on education. I would prefer someone with a high IQ in office for a change of pace from the last 8 years.
That isn’t elitist. The second highest office in the land should require a good education. I am not of the school that I want someone just like me in office. There is no way 99.9% of us are qualified to be president and it astounds me that people would want someone like themselves in office. That’s just nuts.

My own feeling is that as long as Governor Palin refuses to do press conferences or sit down for interviews with the mainstream press corps, the press should simply ignore her scripted appearances. Showing these orchestrated appearances, when Governor Palin has yet to answer questions, amounts to airing campaign propaganda as if it were news. Let each campaign pay for its own ad spots. The press’s role is not to broadcast a campaign’s commericals for free.

QUESTION TO GOV PALIN–
What is the nature of you and your husband’s association with the Alaskan
Independent Party?
Was the airplane sold on Ebay and was it sold for a profit as you stated? Can you provide documentation?
Are you against the use of earmarks and if so, how do you explain your record of requesting significant earmarks while mayor and governor?
What is your position on global warming?

Ted -
How in the world can you say that Obama promotes bigotry and separatism when Ms. Palin’s husband was a member of the Alaskan Independence Party? In case you’re not familiar with it, this is a group that promotes separatism – as in let’s separate Alaska from the United States. Is this someone who has put country first?
And bigotry? Ms. Palin was in church when a talk that was very derogatory towards Jewish people was given.
Let’s face it. EVERY slur that people throw out against Obama can now be thrown right back against Ms. Palin.

While mayor of Wasilla, several earmarked projects appeared on Senator McCain’s famous pork-list. Please reconcile your stated position against earmarks with this fact.

Governor Palin, Senator McCain has promised to use the veto in support of the public’s interest. Can you explain how your veto of following programs have served the public good:
$600,000 for Senior citizen’s programs
$4,527,500 for health care/hospitals
$396,000 for schools/education

Gov. Palin why do you mock “community organizers”? Do you feel this is not an important job? Did you know John Adams and MLK were community organizers?

Mrs. Palin – If your ticket loses this year, do you plan on running for president in 2012? If so, do you expect the people you’d be running against in the GOP primaries (Romney, Giuliani, Huckabee, et al.) to attack you on your experience, your family life and other issues about which they’ve defended you over the past week, or do you think they’ll campaign against you based strictly on your policy positions?

Gov. Palin,
Do you accept the prevailing scientific consensus that the universe is billions of years old, and that the earth itself is more than 4 billion years old?

Gov. Palin,
It has been reported that while mayor of Wasilla, you asked the city librarian if she would be okay with the idea of removing objectionable books from the city library. It has also been reported that after she objected to this idea, you attempted to fire her.
Are these reports accurate? Did you ask the city librarian if she would be okay with banning books from the library? Did you ask her to remove any books? And finally, what books were you considering having banned from the library, and why did you find them objectionable?

A question for Sarah Palin–
In 2000 Senator McCain called George Bush a Pat Robertson and other leaders of the far religious right, calling them “agents of intolerance” and “corrupting influences on religion and politics.” At the time, did you agree with Senator McCain regarding these sentiments?
How do you see those statements of Senator McCain today?

Gov. Palin
If by some chance you became President, and you thought God sent you a message telling you to, would you press that new-clear button?

A question Sarah Palin will actually get on her first interview:
A lot of honest, patriotic, hard-working, church-going Americans feel as though you are just like them.
Can I have your autograph?

I’d like to ask Palin:
1) Are faith-based community organizers also deserving of your ridicule?
2) You turned a budget surplus into a huge deficit as mayor of Wasilla. Why should we believe you’d be a change from Bush if you were in the White House?
3) You’re stonewalling an investigation that you had earlier agreed to cooperate with, and you’re trying to hold it off until after the election when you hope to make it go away completely. Why should we believe that you’d be a change from Bush if you were in the White House?
4) Do you still drive your kids to hockey practice? If not, how many years has it been since you were actually a hockey mom?
5) Why have you been afraid to sit down for an interview with the press?

Governour Palin:
Did you really say you have a lot of reading to do…so you can find out what your positions are?
Uh…isn’t it a little late to be cramming for the vice-presidency of the United States?
Need some No-Doz?

One more for Palin:
A lot of the McCain campaign advisers and conservative pundits are calling it sexism when people try to get answers out of you about your past. Isn’t that just “whining,” as you had accused Hillary Clinton of doing under the same circumstances?

God doesn’t want her talking to people who ask too many questions.

“I sure wish Obama would give a REAL press conference. It’s been a long long time since he’s fielded questions by reporters.”
I guess you missed him on Bill O’Rielly the other night.
Oh wait, you are having a flash-forward to when he will be speaking from the W.H. press room.
Soon enough, soon enough.

When is she dropping out
of the Republican ticket?

If this woman cannot engage American journalists with dialogue that is productive, then certainly the American public cannot trust her to have conversations with foreign leaders and diplomats.

As the American people struggle to find out about Sarah Palin, it’s becoming more and more apparent that she has not been honest and is good at flip flopping on issues that she purports to support. In her acceptance speech she vowed to become an advocate for mothers’ with special needs children. However, in the Alaska FY Operating Budget for 2008 and 2009 she cut spending for special needs schools by 62% Could it be that since she now has a special needs child, she is suddenly going to become an advocate? Just another example of Palin’s dishonesty and is just another example of political maneuvering as she attempt to pull in voters who have special needs children.

I would like to ask her what she would do in a Terry Schiavo situation. Does she believe in a person’s right to die?
I want to know if she would punish a woman and/or her doctor for abortion.
And, does she believe that every fertilized egg has a soul? Would she outlaw fertility clinics for destroying fertilized eggs?

It is unlikely, but possible, that something could happen to put you in charge almost immediately. William Henry Harrison died after he’d been in office only a month in office. If it should fall to you to form a Cabinet and group of advisors, please give us some names of the people you would want to consult or consider asking to join you in the following areas: national security, economics, health care reform, environment, and housing and urban challenges.

The questions I’d like to ask Governor Palin are these:
You were elected mayor of a town of 5,000+ people. You even had a deputy mayor to help.
Why, then, was it necessary to hire a City Administrator? What duties could you not fulfill that this administrator took on?

Last post, then I’m going to sleep:
You and John McCain are claiming to be agents of change. Why, then, are so many of the people behind your campaign either former Bush operatives and/or campaign workers, including speechwriters, advisers, and analysts? Don’t you feel that having these people on board — and using them in policy positions — gives the lie to your claims that you are “different” from the present administration? Why should the public believe that a McCain/Palin administration would be any different from the Bush administration when the advice is coming from the same old crowd?

You have become President. There is a crisis in the Middle East. You know that ordering a nuclear strike will bring on a nuclear war which will result in the second coming of Jesus. If you do not order the strike, nuclear war will be avoided and Jesus will not come. What do you do?

Palin is NOT avoiding the media. She is out in the public daily and being covered constantly by the media.
McCain is showing good judgement in the scheduleing of campaign to become President.
The motivation of many in the “media” to have Palin conduct a lengthy newsconference so they can destroy her with bias, insulting or “gottcha” questions.

neville,
You are drinking too much Republican cool aid. Palin IS avoiding the press. If Biden, Obama, and McCain can all appear on trusted news shows why not Palin? The reason is avoiding tough questions is simple….she is being coached by her handlers on how to answer them. Until she has answers that will play with the America public she will this media is bad game. If the media is so bad why do the others appear? They have all had bad press at one time or another. Your argument holds no water…..same as the Republican argument that she is experienced in foreign policy because Alaska is near Russia. It is absurd.

Governor:
Why do you think Senator McCain believes you are more qualified to be President than Senator Joe Lieberman?

Here are some questions I’d like to ask Governor Palin: 1) Other than the bible, what books have deeply influenced your personal and political philosophy? In what ways have they influenced you? 2) Given your lack of experience at the national level, what do you believe makes you qualified to negotiate with foreign leaders? Can you point to some specific examples of your personal skills in winning consensus on challenging issues? 3) What, if any, actions have you taken in public office that you subsequently decided were mistaken? How did you deal with your errors? 4) You’ve been criticized for your approach to dissenting views expressed by public officials and citizens. Can you explain why, as mayor, you fired people you thought weren’t sufficiently “supportive”? How tolerant you would be of dissenting views in the people who work for and with you if you were Vice President? What evidence can you offer from your public service as governor or mayor that contradicts the case that you are politically vindictive?

Here’s my question: “Do you approve of the intensity of the media’s scrutiny of Barack Obama over the last 19 months has been justified?”
Follow up: “Given that you are even less familiar to most Americans than Barack Obama was when he embarked on his candidacy, is there any reason why you would not expect the media to hold you to a similar standard?”

Governor, the Republican party is the party of Lincoln who, as you know, despised secessionists. A war was fought over those who wanted to secede from the Union. As a Republican, I’m deeply concerned about you and your family’s involvement in the Alaska secession movement. I view this as extremely un-American and unpatriotic. I would wonder if, should you one day become president, one of your first acts might be to help Alaska secede, taking all of its oil with it. Can you please explain to me how this secessionist movement is NOT unpatriotic and un-American, why you’re involved, and if this country could have a president or vice-president who is a secessionist?

A few additional questions for Governor Palin: According to your state Department of Education and Early Development, the graduation rate for high school students not receiving special education services was under 70% for the last 5 years. That statistic alone puts the state below the national average, but it doesn’t include special education students, of whom only 39% graduate. How do you explain the discrepancy in graduation rates within your state? What accounts for Alaska’s below-average graduation rates? What major initiatives have you advocated to address the problems of low graduation rates in your state and/or in specific Alaska communities? What specifically have you done to advocate for improved special education services to increase graduation rates for students with learning or other disabilities? Finally, does the state of Alaska report graduation statistics according to the standards adopted by the National Governors Association in 2005?

Here is my question:
In your speech you stated that Obama had not authored one single piece of legislation. That is patently false (he authored a government transparency act, a nuclear non-proliferation act, an immigration reform act, a government ethics act and more). Why did you tell millions of Americans a falsehood?

OK, one more:
As mayor of Wasilla you fired your librarian for refusing to ban some books. What books did you request to be removed?

In what ways has your daughter Bristol’s future opportunities and choices been impacted by your personal opposition to sex education and birth control for teenagers?
How can I make sure my daughter’s future opportunities and choices are not limited by a McCain/Palin administration?

Under what conditions do you think a war is just?

Having read them all, I vote for these, posted above:
1. since you’ve criticized Barack Obama for his work as a community organizer on Chicago’s southside, please explain what a community organizer does and why it’s inconsequential.
2. Your daughter is underage and pregnant. Do you think sex education should be taught in public schools?
3. Unemployment is the highest it’s been in 5 and a half years. How should we solve this problem?
4. McCain has said the Republicans have failed the American people in the last 8 years. Do you agree and if so, how has your party failed us and what do you believe should be done differently?