Palin Media Avoidance Watch, Day Seven

So I am to believe she is Ready to Lead on Day One in her capacity as VP to step in for the President, yet she is not ready to speak to the press on Day 7 ?

So she’s ready to stare down Putin but can’t handle Time magazine?

We’ve only seen Sarah Palin v1.0. Wait ’til v2.0 next week, after the handlers and tutors try to bring her up to speed. How do you think she will handle a whirl-wind brainwashing? Can you imagine the pressure she will be under constantly? How long does Stockholm Syndrome take to establish itself? Does this mean she has she sold her soul, too?

The media gave up their credibility in order to push Obama. There are consequences to that. I’m sure Palin will meet with “the media” – but who could blame her for it being the time, place, and outlet/interviewer of her choosing.
The press standing on “the public’s right to know” rings false when they aren’t concerned with the right to know about Obama’s background but delve feverishly into the Palin family wombs.

Can she spend some time with her boy before he deploys to Iraq next week, and then come back and face interviews?
That seems entirely reasonable.

Nuclear safety advocates are divided on whether Mr. Obama’s efforts yielded any lasting benefits. David A. Lochbaum of the Union of Concerned Scientists agreed that “it took the introduction of the bill in the first place to get a reaction from the industry.”
“But of course because it is all voluntary,” Mr. Lochbaum said, “who’s to say where things will be a few years from now?”
Last October, Mr. Obama reintroduced the bill, in its rewritten form.*-

The Media deserves this. I can totally understand why she refuses to talk to those mean-spirited reporters.

Whine, whine, whine.
I could think of lots of questions that have not been asked of Obama and Biden if the press has nothing to do.
But just think on the positive side, this gives the Media more time to better plan and coordinate with the Obama campaign on attack plans and next mud-slinging for the remainder of the campaign.
(Where were you the last 2 years when Obama refused to go on Fox news to be interviewed? I don’t remember the cries of outrage.)

How about asking Obama about the Annenberg Challenge instead? Isn’t is reasonable for Obama to answer questions?

The Obama campaign had prepared attacks on Palin. The media has nothing to talk about after they used up the dailykos garbage attacks.

To MayBee:
So if she is supposed to be spending more time with her son before he is deployed why is she on TV in Wisconsin right now with McCain?
There is no way this lady’s family comes first to her so don’t even try to pull that one!

If the McCain-Palin team wants to win over undecided voters, she cannot be kept isolated from the press. Obama has been researched, interviewed and questioned since February, 2007 and I keep reading that America doesn’t know enough about him or his views. With a 72 year old Presidential candidate, I can’t imagine that voters will feel comfortable with a prohibition on interviews of the VP candidate.

She is too polarizing

Let’s face it, Sarah just isn’t ready for prime time. In a couple of weeks she will have a “family crisis” and withdraw from the race. Things are heating up quickly in Alaska.

“Obama has been researched, interviewed and questioned since February, 2007″

The mainstream media never asked tough questions about Obama’s alleged homosexual affair and drug use! The media wouldn’t touch John Edwards hiding in the bathroom from Enquirer reporters! The media didn’t dare ask Bill Clinton about the cigar in Monica’s butt! The mainstream media in this country is bought and sold cheaper than our politicians!

Amy “The Media deserves this. I can totally understand why she refuses to talk to those mean-spirited reporters.”
Horse Hocky. You want mean spirited try her speech or should we say screech.I still cannot believe that she slammed Community volunteers like dshe did.But then this is the party of Lindsey “The recession is all in your head” Graham and others.

I DONT WANT HER TO SPEAK TO THE HOSTILE MEDIA EITHER!!

Palin’s inability to answer what a vice president does in an interview last week with MSNBC factors into the decision, I’m sure. There’s also more surfacing, on a daily basis, from her mayoral and governor past which would be grist for interviewing. Of course, the obvious question is raised. If her handlers don’t have enough confidence for her to participate in interviews, how can she be expected to have the competencies needed for an actual vp position?

Listen to you! If she can’t take the heat from our press – no matter how you feel about the coverage – how can we have ANY confidence she can take the heat from Russia, Iran, China? Our press is easy compared to what’s ahead and if that is frightening to the McCain campaign, that speaks volumes!

This family values fraud is a joke of a VP candidate.

“PRESS INTERACTION: Obama has not held a press conference this week. In fact, it has been 17 days since the candidate has done so.”

belle star
Obama gingerly asked questions…
lol
a year and a half of reporters coming through every detail…3 inch thick dosiers written by the republican attack machines…
questions of his parenting and wife…
questions of his family and character.
questions that he has answered…himself.
not to mention how about the massive amounts of questioning and detail that has gone on with regard to the issues we face…
McCain has trouble on the secodn follow up…
Palin has NEVER uttered a single answer on her own outside of 2 speeches that were written by someone else…
and now they are showing they plan to make decisions and lead by hiding mistakes…not allowing the press to see what they are doing or question
we had 8 years of this and we WILL NOT have more.
get the evil empire and it’s next generation out of the white house…

I never thought in y lifetime I would ever see someone as polarizing as Hillary Clinton. Congrats Sarah Baracutta you take the cake.

belle
Obama takes questions every day.
please…stop.

yesterday’s CBS poll had Mccain-Obama tied. a week ago it was a 7 point Obama lead. We will see if Palin pick is stupid.

You guys in the media have more than enough to fill your time actually investigating Obama. He wants to be president, not VP, and you have failed to vet him at all.

3 out of the 4 candidates will be on Sunday morning news shows this weekend to address the miserable jobs report just out. The fourth will be holed up in her Alaskan igloo with stacks of briefing books by her side. I wonder what the mooseburger-making HOKEYmom’s plans are to revitalize the economy anyway. Hopefully, she got a little bit of education on that in her 5 schools in 6 years.
Obviously, this woman is not ready for prime time.

I can’t believe this. She could potentially be the leader of the free world and they’re afraid the press? O.M.G! How in the heck would she stand up to unfriendly leaders of foreign countries? And they have the nerve to talk about how much tougher the Republicans are.

If you have the nation’s largest newspaper behaving like gossip clearing house, Palin has every reason to not to talk to the mean-spirited reporters.
New York Times admits faulty reporting on Palin
In their eagerness to discredit a politician, even reporters at the best of newspapers can accept shady information as fact, without checking adequately on its source.
This was published in today’s Times:
Alaskan Independence Party officials released a statement Monday saying that Ms. Palin had been a member for two years, from 1994 to 1996, information included in reports in The New York Times and other news outlets. In Internet videos of recent party meetings, other party officials can be seen boasting of Ms. Palin’s past membership.
On Tuesday, though, the party’s chairwoman, Lynette Clark, said the earlier statement was false. Ms. Clark said that she had based it on information another party member had given her, but that a review of the records showed only that Ms. Palin had attended the 1994 conference.
Ms. Clark added that while the review confirmed Todd Palin as a member, it did not indicate that Ms. Palin had been one.
On Wednesday, Ms. Clark released a corrected statement, saying, in part, “I, foolishly, repeated and accepted as fact what an officer of this membership shared with myself, and husband Dexter Clark, over a year ago.”
“I humbly apologize to Governor Palin, and to both national and local press and media,” she added.
Ms. Palin has been registered as a Republican since May 1982, according to the State Division of Elections. Mr. Palin registered as a member of the Alaskan Independence Party in 1995, remaining a member for all but two months of the next seven years, until he registered as an undeclared voter in July 2002.
Oopsies.

what is palin hiding?

Obama wasn’t vetted for months after announcing his candidacy…found out IN MARCH after his FEB. wins all the Wright, Rezko, Ayers, Pfleger, etc. crap. This woman was just announced a week ago….cool off already. She and McCain are travelling to 3 or 4 different states and campaigning NOW.
Lay off.
HILLARY SUPPORTER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

Sarah Palin: Ready to lead, not ready to be interviewed.

amy
Ah — but the mindless lemmings in Obama’s army bought it hook line and sinker. Such gullible people, Obama’s lemmings!

If Obama can do it,
“In fact, they have done so in the past when Obama has gone several days without talking to the media.”
Then why shouldn’t Sarah be able to?
Give her a little time to get her land legs……
You’ll be happy you did because she’s pretty special!

John McCain: Politics first, Country last.

“This shady woman has a shady past … “

Sure she’s ready to lead.
Ask Sarah Palin about her education.
Ask Sarah Palin about her knowledge of foreign and domestic policy.
Education Reform is needed to halt hypocrisy.

“Well, at least she didn’t accept any mansions from known mobsters”.
LOL, you may be in for a surprise.

agree with an earlier post regarding obama…..he has been their darling for a long time, and the biased coverage helped him to secure the nomination (despite having Clinton be the only candidate capable of being the best President that our children, our troops and America needs right now)….had obama received the kind of intense scrutiny that palin is getting right now, Hillary Clinton would probably be well on her way to a reagan-like landslide victory in November…

Debra-No thanks. I don’t care what party a person belongs to, if you are picked to be the VP of this country you better be able to answer questions – not just “campaign”. I’m to believe she’s ready to lead our nation now, but she can’t interact with our press now. If Palin thinks our press is difficult, she is woefully ill-prepared for the likes of Putin.

did sarah palin join and abandon a church purely for her political career? oh wait, that was obama….

lmao AT THE “DAILYKOS KIDDES”, Yep a lot of democrats are junping ship, especially after the DEMENCRAT mayor of Detroit is going to prison, Obama would not comment on his friends impending prison term.Other friends of Obama, felon Rezko, capitol bomber Ayers, babydaddy Edwards and the “gov” disgraced Spitzer could not be reached for comment lmao BTW McCain outdrew obama in national TV ratings, just released by the DrudgeReport

After the grilling Obama took on Rezko & Wright (rightfully so to some extent) & his willingness to address those issues in a gracious fashion. It is ABSOLUTELY right & fair that Sarah Palin face questions from the press. We have NO IDEA who this person is (she seems nice enough but Hitler probably would also in the setting she’s had to present herself so far). After all the screaming from the right about Obama being this that & the other because they simply didn’t know him, now are these same people really willing to put this lady a heartbeat from the Presidency just because they happen to agree with her on morality???
I pray for the good of our Country this lady faces the questions the American people need answered.
The press needs to stay on this & perform it’s duty.
No free pass. ABC has an opportunity here to redeem itself somewhat & do the right thing by our Country. Will you demand answers???

The educated and oh so knowledgeable Palin doesn’t even know what the vice president does?
Laughable if not so sad.

New gallup poll: Obama’s lead down to 4 points from 7 points one day ago and 8 points two days ago.
Change is coming!!!

She can’t take questions because she’s going to McCain policy “boot camp”. They’re trying to teach her everything she needs to know. Like conservative economist Ben Stein said, and I’m paraphrasing here, “Like the baby superman, they need to pour all of the knowledge of the world in her head. She needs Henry Kissinger for a babysitter”. Sad, that.

Belle what does that have to do with the presidency??

again
this is the play from how to run a government from Bush Cheney Rumsfeld Rove and the rest
secrecy hide cover up avoid draw fire toward the press write a “strong” aggressive speech for your witness… thensneak your mistake out the back door of the convention and hide cover up and teach the mistake what to say…
reform …bull
get rid of this evil empire.

Hopefully, the McCain camp will reverse itself and Palin will give interviews again. I don’t think it’s right that she is prevented from allowing the American public to get to know her better.

After Barack Obama lost a debate to Hillary Clinton, he complained about the ABC moderators and then sulked for nearly a week, refusing to speak to the reporters assigned to cover him. Finally, a fed-up female reporter asked if he ever planned on taking another question from a reporter. His answer – “That depends on how well behaved you are.”

This is a train wreck. Worst introduction of a product since New Coke.

I call foul on this one
Oprah should belly up and have her on

Where has the media researched Obama. Americans still haven’t been told about Black Liberation Theology — the ideology followed by Trinity and taught by Rev. Wright and Phleger. They researched a DUI by Palin’s husband, but nothing on the Marxist, racist cult to which Obama belonged for 20 years. They ignored the context and implications of this worldview on his ability to lead all Americans. They’d prefer to call him a “Christian” — when his “church” was simply a forum to advocate concepts associated with Latin American Marxists and the Black Power Movement. They’ve done virtually no reporting on Rezco, William Ayers, his dabbling with cocaine or Marxism as a youth. That’s of interest to capitalists and other large segments of the population. What audience is ABC looking for — and voter is it trying to educate — when it reports on absurd and irrlevant facts and innuendo?

Obama: 22 Debates
56 Primaries and Caucuses
Over 18 Million Votes
Countless Interviews
Biden: 9 Debates
Countless Interviews
Long term Senate Leader
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Palin: Picked by one man, McCain
Refuses to speak with the Press
That, My friends, is not “country first”.

Vhapman– did I miss something? When has been interviewed about Ayers?

Jake,
you know as well as anyone that Obama went onto fox more than 18 months after announcing his bid. Even now he went there as he is not able to close the polls. You are expecting Palin to do that after a long 7 days on national stage???? Incredible.

How many post-nomination interviews has Biden done? How many had he done in 7 days?

But McCain, retelling the story, misstated it today:
“You know what i enjoyed the most? She took the luxury jet that was acquired by her predecessor and sold it on eBay — made a profit,” he said, introducing Palin.
Well, no. And the state sold it at a loss of half a million dollars.

“you know as well as anyone that Obama went onto fox more than 18 months after announcing his bid.”
Last I checked FoxNews is not the only network or media outlet.
Also last night was the first time he was interviewed by O’Reilly but he appeared on FoxNews Sunday in April.
Is it stupidity or dishonesty?

Where’s BIDEN?

Chapman– but didn’t he say ” he’s just a guy from my neighborhood, our kids go to school together”?

“How many post-nomination interviews has Biden done? How many had he done in 7 days?”
Dozens. He appeared on nearly every morning news show yesterday and he’s speaking to one of the Sunday morn news shows this weekend as is Obama and McCain
Meanwhile the pitbull is hiding in her doghouse.

Ryan C. Are you claiming Obama is gutsy for going on his own meida promotion stations? America is watching, they have caught on and they don’t like what they see.

Ryan C, what does Biden have against PRIMETIME?

“Also last night was the first time he was interviewed by O’Reilly but he appeared on FoxNews Sunday in April.
Is it stupidity or dishonesty?”

maybee – Palin will be in Alaska before her son is deployed, but she will be with a team (widely reported) of professionals educating her on the US and foreign policy. Crash course.

Ryan C | Sep 5, 2008 1:24:06 PM
Ryan, maybe you have been missing tons of recent news articles about Obama and Ayers and The Chicago Annenberg Challenge.
Obama was asked about Ayers during the ABC debate and he gave an answer that was largely critical of the question, dismissing Ayers as someone who lived in his neighborhood. Obama has not come close to answering questions about Ayers and his “Executive Experience” as chairman of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge”

“stephany531- she is going back to Alaska before he deploys.”
Today she is campaigning with McCain.

“Ryan C, what does Biden have against PRIMETIME?”
He was on 60 minutes all of 6 days ago.
Got any other bs to spew?
Why is pitbull hiding in her doghouse?

The media sought out to destroy Sarah Palin the second McCain announced her. In many ways, she doesn’t owe you guys anything but a hard slap in the face and a stiletto heel to the rear.

did you see that they literally came out today and talked about how she is being “taught” about the issues by joe Lieberman…behind closed doors…
like this is Eliza Doolittle going to be taught how to be the leader of the free world and whether she can shoot down those passenger planes when the President is out of the line of fire during a terrorist attack.
she is being TAUGHT about the issues that are risking the future of the planet…and our country.
the worst choice/mistake a Presidential candidate has made in the history of our nation.
period.

A new book about Palin will be published early October.
A new biography, titled “Sarah Palin: A New Kind of Leader” by Joe Hilley (Zondervan 2008), will explore themes from her career in politics, her life as a hockey mom, and her strongly held Christian faith, explaining how they influence her new style of leadership and align with our changing economy in the information age. The book is scheduled for release nationwide on October 10, 2008.
We live in an age that values relationship over authority and instant information over accuracy, so breadth of knowledge and depth of conviction are the most prized commodities for our leaders,” said Hilley. “Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin brings both of these qualities and more to her new role as John McCain’s running mate and I’m eager for readers to have the opportunity to know her and her brand of leadership more thoroughly.
At the end, it is millions of Americans who come to judge her, not the newspaper reporters and the bloggers who are so eager to destroy her.

“Wow, he taped an edited interview. DARING.”
You asked about primetime, I give an example. How many primetime news shows have live interviews?
Obama gave an open press conference yesterday. Biden has been making the rounds on the morning news shows taking questions. They both will be on Sunday morn talk this weekend.
Where are McCain and Palin?
McCain will appear Sunday after doing a taped and edited for ABC the other night
Palin? Who knows.

“She is an efficent administrator”
She left a town of 7000 people over $22,000,000 in debt.

What was the explaination Obama gave the media about his association with William Ayers? I suppose the media thought that hanging with a Marxist and admitted terrorists isn’t relevant to his judgement and decision-making ability. What about the fact Obama followed Black Liberation Theology for 20 years? Have the media explained what this ideology believes, how it was developed and its goals? They were eager to ask these things of a conservative Mormom — but not a Democrat who followed a “faith” created by Latin American Marxists and merged with a racial identity. I suppose someone from the McCain campaign or a conservative group will have to do the media’s job. The problem with being a cheerleader and sychophant of Obama is that it will ultimately become evident to the American people. I’m guessing the Dan Rather thing taught the media nothing.

“the fact that we have a candidate who struggled going through her education like most Americans”
I do not want someone who has struggled through their education as potentially the most powerful person on the planet.
We already tried the had trouble with his education guy, and even John McCain calls the last 8 years misery.

“He has gone weeks without talking to reporters”
Obama had a press conference yesterday and taped and interview with O’Reilly.
When in doubt lie, the right wing motto.

Bring on the Press: I pray that the media not back off until all questions are answered.
I, myself have many questions for Mrs. Palin. To start, I’d like her to explain some of the discrepancies in her speech:
She said that she told the congress “no thanks” for money for the bridge to nowhere, but she conveniently didn’t mention that she kept the money.
She said parents with special needs children will have a friend in the white house, but didn’t mention that she slashed funding for special needs children in Alaska.
She also didn’t mention that she used the line item veto to remove funding for housing for pregnant homeless teenagers.
Incidentally, a pit bull with or without lipstick is still just an attack dog

Ryan C. Bush went to harvard. His dad was a CIA man from Harvard. Palin is not their VP she is McCain’s. However, your comment suggests, that those who are not children of Ivy Leaguers couldn’t possibly be intelligent. I guess you just don’t like AVERAGE AMERICANS.

More double standards from the libs favorite sexist Obama.
The Obama campaign employees 33 men (average salary $59,207) and 31 women (average salary $48,279). The McCain campaign employees 16 men (average pay $56,000) and 30 women (average salary $59,104). Equal pay for women?

Matt C. America knows where McCain stands far better than Obama. Yet you as most Obama supporters do; young and old, famous or not, continue to compare Obama with Palin. She is quite a threat to the top of that ticket huh?

Where’s Biden in this argument again. Oh that’s right, he is part of the ESTABLISHMENT Obama claims he has broken away from. CHANGE YOU CAN’T PULL OFF.

So. What do McCain and Palen actually want to change?
McCain’s campaign is entirely run by lobbyists. Will they outsource the White House to private contracters when they win?

Palin should never give the pro-Obama media like CNN, MSNBC, NBC,Time, Newsweek, an interview.
It’s no wonder FOX crushed everyone else in Convention ratings. They have truly been fair.
Decent Americans care about fairness.
They are sick of the media kissing up to Obama.
The only ones that care about Palin not taliking to the media are the Obama supporters shaking in their boots.

Obama takes on Bill O’Reilly yesterday.
McCain runs away crying and refuses to do Larry King. McCain is afraid of Larry King?
Palin can’t even talk to a highschool newspaper.
The GOP’s ticket is cowardly. If they can’t even stand up and speak plainly with the weak US press, how can we trust they’ll be able to stand up to Putin or Iran?
Weak. Really weak John and Sarah.

The media should do their job and vet Obama. They gave Obama a break for too long.

You mean where McCain stands this week, last week, or next week? Because all 3 are different. Sometimes he’ll take the courageous stand of advocating 3 contradicting opinions in 1 day! You know, depending on who he’s talking to.
But not on weekends. On weekends, he disappears and Cheney’s doctors go to work on him, getting him ready for the next week.

MATTC:
” 22 debates, and he EARNED each vote, and won the nomination fair-and-square. ”
There are those who would disagree with BOTH of the above statements!
22 debates?
With whom?
Fair and square?
Not to me… or the actual records… or most other Hillary supporters!
Obama was foisted upon us ( how about THAT for a verb)? by Pelosi and Dean in the presence of a dirtied biased media.
He was/is a skinny Chicago politician with an even skinnier resume. And even with all the legislation GIFTED to him by Emil Jones to assist his climb to a sentorship, he accomplished little… other than voting present 130 times in the state senate…. and about the same in the US.
I don’t want him; he’s yours!

Republicans are terrified of Sarah actually speaking without a script.
They’ll make up every excuse they can to keep her from actually standing up and doing her job.
What a weak candidate.
And McCain’s no better.
He cancelled on Larry King because he was afraid… Larry King? I mean get real.
Obama just took on Bill O’Reilly for chrissake. People should see that interview.
If an interviewer treated McCain or Palin so disrespectfully, they’d be curled up on the floor in a ball crying… but Obama took it right back to him.
I’m a proud Obama supporter today.
The GOP’s ticket is cowardly.

Palin’s media coverage is not as the same as that of Hillary. Hers is truely outragous: the reporters are more interested in when her water broke, whether there was DNA test, how long did she fly back to Alaska to give birth, etc.
They didn’t report anything like this on Hillary.
ABC and NYT both spread rumor about her relationship with AIP, and had to correct it the next day.
Also about the troopergate — I have done some research and am pretty confident that Palin will be proved innocent. This trooper is really something in a bad way — you don’t see the reporters talking about that.
Palin has every reason to be offended.

When is John McCain going to let his new beauty queen speak to the press??
She is not Chelsie Clinton and she is not 12 years old…
What is the problem here? You can’t hide her forever from the press and the American people John McCain!
On top of everything else it just doesn’t look good John…
Afraid of those Bridge to nowhere and Troopergate questions, among many others??

Why don’t you talk about the fact that Sarah Palin cut funding for single teen moms in Alaska.
Or maybe about the fact that the so-called “advocate” for disabled Americans cut funding for such programs by no less than 63%!
Next there is the company that had to lay off workers because of a gas shortage – all the while Sarah Barracuda was making an international gas deal while saying she was sorry while lying through her teeth.
Why didn’t Sarah Palin tell the audience that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, she left a town of 9,000 people ten million dollars in debt, or that she hired a lobbyist to secure pork barrel spending and earmarks for the city?
Palin bragged to the audience about opposing the infamous bridge to nowhere, neglecting to mention that she was actually for it before she was against it.
I guess her outfit is more important…
Now THAT isn’t sexist, is it??

Ooooh boy! Who does McCain think Palin is? Michael Jackson?
Or better yet, Fidel Castro! “Palin does talk to American people! Just not through reporters! She represents the revolution in principle, so there is no need for journalists!”

“Republicans are terrified of Sarah actually speaking without a script.
They’ll make up every excuse they can to keep her from actually standing up and doing her job.
_______________
Wrongo!
Republicans WELCOME that scenario because Sarah will be fine without a script!
Obama’s the one who, in a debate with her.. or ANYONE!… would be the one who’d be “uh-ing” and ‘umm-ing” and “let me make myself “mmm” perfectly “uh” clear-ing!

A sarcastic, mouthy female for VP? The better choice would have been Joan Rivers.

Of course she’s avoiding the media– in HER OWN WORDS she has no idea “what the Vice President even does”…
She’s only got so much time in the day to study her crib notes on “what to say” about foreign policy… she can’t be bothered with the media, hmphh!

Waaaaaaahhhhhh! Oh, poor widdle Sawwah, did the big, bad buwwies of the pwess pick on snookums?
If she can spew scripted bile from the podium, she’d better be able to take 1:1 questions from the press. Or will she only appear on FauxNews?
Because she is, after all, a Faux!

It’s no different from what Castro did in Cuba…
He didn’t need to speak to journalists because they were against the revolution, and because he was the true “man of the people” he could communicate with them directly in spirit… no need to explain or justify anything…
Scary.

Hell, Bill O’Reilly just got Obama to interview YESTERDAY, and dodged him for months…is it selective access to media….only libs on his side? Play with the big boys, Obambi. Not everyone is in the tank for Bozo CNN and MSNBC. FOX News #1 in U.S. for years….because AMERICANS FOR THE MOST PART ARE RIGHT OF CENTER.
HILL SUPPOETER FOR McCAIN/PALIN

It’s been a whirlwind week for Palin and she’s not yet ready to go in front of the press. This is campaign strategy. They have to make sure that she is able to talk foreign policy with reporters, in interviews on her own where she is not able to be coached. They need to make sure she knows all the campaign talking points and can give a little information on each issue to make it seem like she is adept enough for the job. This is S.O.P., it will just be more noticeable now that there is less than 8 weeks till the election. This will only go unnoticed by the mass press for a short time. If she isn’t talking to the press and answering questions after the end of next week, the press will be all over her.

Lisa; You are all making redundant arguments against yourselves. Obama couldn’t discuss policy at all when the debates began. He was a novice which is why Hillary Clinton won the debates. Now she has to save him on the road because with all his money, with all his famous backing, with all the media power, with all his youth push, he can’t even get a decent bounce. Yet, after the Palin anouncement; per CBS POLL, McCain 42% thats a 3point bounce and a negative of 3 points for Obama now 42%. America is NOT buying it.

Palin has much to answer because she is too far to the right of mainstream America and wants to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
Questions that need to be answered by the media and questions we need to ask ourselves as thinking, reasoning voters:
On national televison, Palin asked a reporter: “What does the vice president do?” Does she really not know?
Palin’s position on abortion: No abortions, not ever, for no reason.
What about in cases of rape? A 12 or 13 year girl pregnant from incest? What if the mother-to-be risks death by giving birth? Does Palin care so little for everyone BUT the fetus/unborn child?
Palin’s position on education: Teach creationism, not science. Is this how we prepare our youth for a modern, highly competitive, technological world?
Palin’s position on sex education: Abstinence only education. If it is so effective, why is her daughter pregnant?
Palin’s firing of a trooper who was being divorced by her sister and the firing of a chief of police in Wasilla that she didn’t like: What really happened?
Palin’s overriding ambition is such that she throw her daughter to the wolves as her daughter’s pregnancy is made public fodder. What matters more to Palin — her ambitions or her family?
Why does Palin devalue community service and organizing? Does she not realize that many of us Christian women are doing community service helping those who are pregnant including the teenage mothers, who are the victims of rape/incest, those who need help in education so they can have good jobs and be successful?
What experience does Palin have? Alaska is a wonderful state with wonderful people, but excuse me, there are cities in the country that have a higher population than Alaska. That doesn’t mean Alaska is unimportant, it’s just that it’s not the same as being a heart-beat away from the presidency.
The media has every right to ask all the relevant questions — the news is the 4th estate — and for those of you who don’t believe that the media has the right to “go after” Palin — move to Russia — you’ll feel right at home. Reporters in Russia get killed for asking pertinent questions.
McCain has offered Palin to get the votes of women and the extreme right. He has let down his country and his party by doing so.
If Palin cannot stand the heat of reporters, she needs to go back to Alaska and stay there.

You can run but you can’t hide. Oh and for everyone saying even Hillary didnt have to go through this, where have you been for the past decade and a half? Hillary had to put with beign called a lesbian, her daughter beign made fun of and called ugly by republicans and the meida and not to mention beign made to blame for Bill not keeping his pants zipped, beign called a monster and murderer. So sarah needs to suck it up and come out and talk because like its been said you can run but you can’t hide

Reading a speech from teleprompter written by Bush’s speechwriter… even a dumb beauty pageant can do that…. even as dumb as one who had to hop six colleges to squeeze out a degree…
So, don’t expect Palin to do anything other than hide under the tails of McCain and of his arrogant-idiot-surrogates when trying to find out how dumb she is as far as VP materials go.

Per the Mccain campaign, Palin can go toe to toe with Ahmadinejad and Putin but she refuses to go toe to toe with George Stephanopoulos?

Goodie; Bluto is displaying the types of rumor filled, back up arguments that is prevalent among Obama support.

“.can’t even make a yes or no decision 130 time in the Senate”
A present vote counts as a no vote.

Hey YOURGAMELETSPLAY, it’s a tongue-in-cheek comment, although the irony is certainly there for all to see. I suppose you’re going to say that “hey, I can identify with that, it’s real world stuff.” Intelligent people see that for what it is, partisanship.
I’m no person’s judge. I don’t judge Palin or her daughter for having unprotected sex with her boyfriend out of wedlock against the parental direction of her mother. It sure does make a case for abstinence only sex ed doesn’t it? Should she (Palin) live on this here planet earth, she, perhaps, would have, at some point, mentioned to her daughter, “you know, in case you do, please use protection!” But, that thar thinking will land you in hell won’t it.
My point, she may connect with the base, but not with intelligent, free thinking, grounded, real world folk.
This says a lot about who she is. Head in sand republican. Close your eyes and it will all go away!

She has been talking to voters – so which is more important? Hmm, media doesn’t like having a seat at the table so they can fulfil their 4th estate role? Then they should live up to the 4th estate responsibilities, starting with objectivity. Why bother talking with them, when everyone knows there are filters and bias everywhere? I can pick up any paper, watch any tv show, listen to any radio program, and tell you which journalists are Dem or Rep within 1 minute.

Debra – and Biden, A VP, is on Meet The Press.

SgtPepper, you have no idea what conversations she may have had with her daughter. Making your assumptions with a condescending tone must mean that you are a perfect person who has heeded all the advice that has made you the winner that you are. In which case perhaps you should write a book, because the rest of us would like to know how one becomes perfect like you.

“A present vote counts as a no vote.”
Posted by: Ryan C | Sep 5, 2008 2:24:42 PM
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The “present” button is YELLOW.
Why would anyone vote “present” when the really meant “NO”?
That sounds chicken hearted and/or devious to me!

M: As “strategy” and “pandering” goes, this one must be a real HOOT to have you all trying to disqualify, torment, condemn and everything else so passionately. If you are insulted, turn away. No one is forcing you to buy a product. Just as we won’t buy your commercialized one.

You know what good evidence is:
When Palin makes a joke about how being a small town mayor is harder than being the president.
I laughed… because that’s a cute joke.
But then she went on and used that as evidence for why she is ready to lead the country!
Using a little joke to prove she is ready to step into the Oval Office!
Only a koolaid drinker would cast a ballot for someone who makes that kind of argument.
Scary!!!

Bluto; your quote has just discredited you. You missed the real quote that the REST AMERICA HEARD. I won’t help you. Figure it out.

Not really… Everybody knows that Palin has no clue about what she’s supposed to do.
She thinks that because she ate Mandarin Chicken, she’s ready to deal with Beijing.

How about McCain’s speech… I kept waiting for him to say, “You Maniacs! You blew it up! Ah, damn you! God damn you all to hell!”

Obama took 18 months to step into the lions den. Yet they question the NEW THREAT within hours. Even though, she went to US Mag on invitation to be thrashed like an Enquirer article, while they promoted Obama as the one. My, my you all protest far too much.

hammishdad: you may keep your rock n roll backing for Obama. Feel better?

This country had better be very afraid.
John McCain has become so cynical that he has surrounded himselves with advisors who are willing to start up a culture war in this country in their blind desire to keep the White House
These people are bamking on whippping up angst against the media and female pent up angst and channel all that phony baloney elite stuff and packaging it in the strong voice and Tina Fey like comfortable personage of Gov Sarah Palin
We ALL have to get the facts out there -
This is NOT a media conspiracy against a poor little woman – this is a completely unqualified person who has extereme social views – no world view and could very well be the President of the United States within the next four years.
Sarah Palin has told a series of falsehoods in her two major appearances before the public
Big falsehoods – and small ones – but a pattern
1: She was Ted Stevens Alaska campaign rep in 2006 – and then she distanced herself when he ws indicted
2: She was for the Bridge to Nowhere until it became the laughingstock of the country and then she was against it 3: BUT KEPT THE MONEY FOR THE STATE OF ALASKA FOR HER OWN PROJECTS)
4: Earmarks: As Mayor of Wasilla she hired Jack Abramoff’s firm to lobby for her and got $37m in earmarks for a town of 5,000 people (in 1996 when she was elected). As Gov of Alaska she applied for $1.9 Billion in earmarks
5: She did NOT sell the Gov jet on Ebay – it appeared on Ebay for a day and was sold privately as a great loss to the State. It is now used for private lease for wealthy hunters
AS TO SARAH PALIN’S BELIEFS:
1: She does NOT believe Global Warming is man made
2: She wants to drill in ANWR
3: She wants CREATIONISM taught in the schools -
4: She pulled all funding for teaching Sex Education in the Alaska School system as she is a proponent of abstinence
5: She believes we are in Iraq as an “Act of God”
6: As Mayor Palin she threatened to fire the long time local librarian of Wasila when books that Mayor Palin wanted pulled from the public library were not pulled
7: As Mayor Palin she left a town she headed fron 1996 with a surplus to a town in debt of $22m in 2002
8: As Gov Palin she gave the keynote address this year to the Alaska Secession Party to which her husband was a member until 2004
9: Sarah Palin was a “pitchfork” person for Pat Buchanan in 1992 and 1996 (you recall Pat’s fire and brimstone speech in 1992 and this woman supported him?)
10: Sarah Palin is against abortion in all case including rape and threat of the mother’s health.
11: Sarah Palin wants Roe V Wade to be reversed
AS TO SARAH PALIN’S Background:
1: As Gov Palin she got her passport for the first time in 2007 to visit Germany/Kuwait
2: Sarah Palin went to five colleges in six years.
3: Gov Palin is under an ethics invetigation in Alaska for pressuring a local commission to fire her former brother in law (a police officer) who was in a nasty divorce/custody dispute with her sister
4: Gov Palin gave a stirring (and frightening) speech about the role of God in Government in June 2008
5:On July 28, 2008: Gov Palin asked a reporter what the VP does
6: When asked about her views on the Irag War in March 2008, Gov Palin said “she hadn’t really thought about it”
7: While citing Hillary Clinton gratuitously in the week she has been on the national stage, Gov Palin called Sen Clinton a “whiner” (March 2008) for complaining about “sexism” in the media
and so much more ……
If these sound like the criteria to be a heartbeat away for a four time cancer survivor who happens to be 72 years old – in a world where the ecomony is crashing and we are engaged in two wars and other bubbling international tensions – then as they say “I have a bridge to sell you”
If the American people do not see the pure cynicism of Candidate McCain in selecting this incredibly polarizing and unqualified person to function as a “weapon of mass DISTRACTION” from the important issues facing the people of this country – then we are in deeper trouble than I thought.
And as a 54 year old woman with children myself – I cannot believe the naked ambition of any parent – male of female – who would not discuss with her family/children in advance a decision that could change all of their lives:
(a) Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign said on “Morning Joe” that Palin told her kids they were going on a trip to celebrate her parents anniversary to “surprise” them with the nomination announcement in Ohio
(b) Surprise BRISTOL – you are about to become the poster child for unwed teens everywhere
(c) Surprise LEVI – you aren’t even in my family – but you are getting married
(d) Baby PALIN – you are now a prop to be in a hall of 20000 screaming people and be passed among seven people as your mom gives a speech (and lost count the second night)
(e) and sorry – not disputing the baby’s parentage doesn’t change the odd though pattern of a 44 year old woman giving birth to her fifth child who flies 11 hours back to Alaska, does NOT tell the airline she is pregnant (you need permission past the seventh month, does not tell the flight attendants) then drives two hours past every major hospital in Anchorage to give birth in a local hospital.
And went back to work three days after?
THAT is an issue in JUDGEMENT
This is our country – this is NOT AN EPISODE of MR. QUINN MEDICINE WOMAN
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Before Gov Palin was selected as a running mate, Sen Obama expressed confidence that the american people will select the “President we deserve”
America – the WHOLE WORLD IS WATCHING
Choose wisely

Bluto; maybe the RNC could have used the recording of Wright screaming GDAMERICA….

THANK YOU ALISON. YOU ARE SO SPOT ON. ALTHOUGH THE KOOLAID DRINKERS ON THIS PAGE WILL NEVER SEE ANY OF THIS.

Stop avoiding questions Sarah Palin you are running for vice president. Sarah Palin you are not above anyone. The American people have a right to know your positions.

And, for that matter, why use words to say, “GD America”… when the GOP’s actions offer a louder and clearer testimony in this regard!
Have you been outdoors lately. America sure ain’t what it used to be. The last 8 years of executive leadership have done a number on us.

I’ll give you this one. She should answer questions. I’m sure she will. Hopefully, she’s just letting the BS stuff thrown at her blow over first.

Jake,
There are 60 days until this election and 90% of Americans know very little about Sarah Palin. All we know is the image of her Republicans want to project. We have no idea whether she is qualified to be vice president. The media needs to continue to pursue this issue. She needs to sit down and answer tough questions about decisions she has made as governor, her background, and what are her foreign AND domestic policy positions. Most of America does not know if this woman is qualified. All that is known is she presents a good image and can give a good partisan speech in front of a friendly crowd. The media must continue to pressue on Republicans to have her questioned by news media. If I was betting man I would say the first time she will appear on the air to respond to questions will be on FOX news or Rush Limbaugh. Meantwhile, I think it would wise keep the countdown going. Keep the pressure up. That is the media’s job.

So Heart has added themselves to a list of people telling McCain to stop using their material without authorization
A list that so far includes
Frankie Valli
ABBA (his fav band)
John Hall
Jackson Browne
John Mellencamp

I think she’s not answering because McCain doesn’t know what she will say.
She wasn’t properly vetted… so now they are trying to do some damage control.
Normally, a campaign will vet the candidates… and then as they pick one they negotiate their positions between the two candidates to create a coherent message… and they coach the VP to deal with the inevitable questions that will arise.
But McCain chose Palin in a slapdash, ad hoc, sort of pandering waffle to the extreme right…. Then all her dirt came out… and now they need to do damage control. They need to create plausible answers for her contradictory positions… and they need to deal with troopergate.
It’s not Palin’s fault. It’s McCain’s fault. And this fact undercuts the current theme of McCain’s campaign: “Country First.” Palin was a pander to the party… she was not chosen for the good of the country… she was chosen to keep McCain alive with his conservative base.
As the public realizes this… people will be angry… as they should be… about McCain’s sad use of his own biography to depict himself as someone above selfish motives and crass politics.

It has all the same marks of the Iraq War.
No judgement…. rush to action…. and then try to clean up the mess you made so carelessly.
And why? For politics.
McCain is showing himself to be a bad leader in all this.

Mr Tapper of ABC,
I find it a bit hypocritical for you to imply that Sarah Palin is avoiding the media when Oprah Winfrey of ABC has banned Sarah from her show.

“I’m sure she’ll “speak” to you sooner rather than later – but will you really be listening or just forming your next attack? ”
Exactly right.
“BTW – I’d say THIS is less journalism, and more entertainment. But you’re right, no point wasting time here.”
Zero integrity.

Hey Kravitz, Just because you post it doesn’t make it true. Getting desperate to save your Messiah?

can i ask sarah a question?
why did it take you six years and five colleges to get a degree in “broadcasting”?

She needs to answer questions from the media NOW, not after she’s had a month’s worth of coaching from Joe Lieberman. With every day she avoids the media, the public’s faith that she is ready to step in on day one diminishes. This, more than anything, highlights just how utterly unprepared to be Vice President she is. She can’t even answer questions from journalists without extensive preparation and coaching.
Joe Biden is going to slaughter her at the debates.
The MSM needs to keep asking these questions. WHY IS SARAH PALIN TOO AFRAID TO ANSWER QUESTIONS? Is reading a speech from a script written by someone else the only thing she is remotely capable of?
Obama sat down with O’Reilly – going into conservative territory without fear. And he held his own. Can Palin do the same? If so, why is she hiding like a coward right now?

“THE MEDIA IS THE WATCHDOG”
Some watchdogs. They let the Iraq War slip right past them. Must have been following Paris or Brittney around.

Kravitz… that is horrible!
I bet that is why McCain won’t let her talk to the press.
They are going to need to figure out a way to get a handle on this woman.
I think McCain is trying to figure out how to stay in the race after this really bad choice.

“With every day she avoids the media, the public’s faith that she is ready to step in on day one diminishes.”
You never had faith in her to begin with.

The Obama slugs continue to hammer everything that moves as a way of drawing attention from the fact that their master is simply a bag of hot air. Looks like they’re failing!
Come on Obama – debate McCain in an open forum where real people ask real questions.

You people on the left and in the MSM just flat do not get it do you?
Sarah Palin is the Queen of Rope-a-Dope. She allowed you to lower expectations before her speech then she killed it.
Now the campaign is pretending like she is afraid to speak to the press. But did you see Sarah Palin on the CNBC Interview? She is amazingly smart and connects one-on-one even better than in a speech.
She will OWN you in a press interview like Meet-the-Press, she is just rope-a-doping you into thinking she is afraid.
You guys never learn.

What happened to the fearless barracuda who is so imminently qualified to be VP (or Presiden!) that we can dispense with the whole vetting-the-candidate thing?

“Some watchdogs. They let the Iraq War slip right past them.”
Said without a hint of irony from someone who cheers McCain.

“her approval rate as a governor was the highest in the country.”
Alaska is ranked 46th in education.

Why does Obama look down his nose at his own supporters?

“Said without a hint of irony from someone who cheers McCain.”
Not everyone fits into nice little boxes labeled – Democrat or Republican

“She needs to be asked tough questions to see if she is indeed ready to handle the office.”
Yes like what music is on her i-pod and boxers or briefs. Disgraceful

Just Curious,
And exactly how long has Obama been avoiding FoxNews? Then he finally goes on O’Reilly the night of McCain’s acceptance speech after claiming McCain would be committing Political Malpractice by doing the same thing?
lol, it is to laugh!

She has to be asked whether it
is true that as mayor she left
her town burdened with 20 million
dollars in debt.
This question is important because
she highlighted her experience as
a small town mayor in her convention
speech.

A heartbeat away from the Presidency, but we’re not supposed to be able to ask her questions? This is America! I’ve never heard anything more outrageous! What is she hiding?

Alaska is the most socialist state in the republic.
Per capita, Alaskans are the largest beneficiaries of the redistribution of wealth.
And Palin was an active and appreciative recipient of this scheme. Her record shows that she didn’t oppose the Bridge to Nowhere. She took and kept every penny that the US govt gave her and she spent it in her state.

Well… Mack… Alaskans also elected Stevens and Young… so they aren’t exactly the best when it comes to picking honest people.

But, really, I think they aren’t dumb. They just like people who promise them free money… and can bring it. Like Palin has.

“Wallace: Wait, wait. Questions from who? From him, from you? Who cares? No offense, but –
Carney: I think the American people care –”
WHO CARES?? Are they serious? This is getting beyond ludicrous. If she is Ready on Day One to lead the country, you’d think she’d be Ready on Day 7 to handle the media. When Putin comes calling, is she going to say she’s “not ready” to speak with him? The media must do their job on behalf of the American people and insist that she face the press. We don’t even know who this woman is. My god, it is unconscionable that they are getting away with keeping her in a bubble.

Bill Mitchell,
So how do you know she will kick Biden’s *** in a debate. Must be because of all the tough questions she has answered thus far on her positions, huh.

bluto,
Hmmn…just wondering if the conservatives on this blog consider you a “regular person” like Palin…

“You would have done just find in a fascist country.”
An interview by a media that wasn’t owned and influenced by corporations and their agendas, would be welcome. They’ve already made up their minds about her, so no matter what she says or doesn’t say she’ll be vilified.
The media is biased left. And that’s a fact.

“Then he finally goes on O’Reilly the night of McCain’s acceptance speech after claiming McCain would be committing Political Malpractice by doing the same thing?”
But THAT’s OK…. because he’s B O!

Vitrually every top McCain campaign adviser had been a paid lobbyist for special interests, including the oil companies and tobacco interests he claims he fought. He now claims his running mate fought “big oil.” In fact, when Sarah Palin ran for Governor of Alaska, her running mate for Lt. Governor was a former oil company lobbyist.

Why won’t Oprah invite Sarah Palin on her show? Does she really think we’re going to believe her name hasn’t come up as a potential guest?
Women at the national level are making fools of themselves and setting women back 100 years with their devotion to Obama and shunning of Palin. Oprah, Andrea Mitchell, Sally Quinn. Apparently “choice” for women means THEIR choice only.
Palin is quickly becoming a symbol of common people versus the liberal media and elite. The elite liberals will not win that fight.

“THE MEDIA IS THE WATCHDOG”
“Some watchdogs. They let the Iraq War slip right past them. Must have been following Paris or Brittney around.”
The media did the job Republicans wanted them do and that is promote George Bush’s stampede to war in Iraq. Yes, they failed miserably and it is example of what happens when issues are pursued vigorously and tough questions asked of politicians and leaders. So bash the media all you want but media did exactly conservatives wanted in the runup to the Iraq and now look at the mess we are in.

Obama likes to vote PRESENT? Just to set the facts before you:
Voting “present” on a bill means you agree with most but not all of a proposition–it is a distinct alternative to yes and no which many legislators employ, a firm approval with slight resevations.

“Why not put Palin on a real news show… like Larry King?”
Ha! Maybe she can go on after the cast of American Idol.

marylou,
So you want to elect a symbol rather than someone capable of performing the job? You conservatives are using the media’s natural interest to find out about this woman 90% of Americans do not know to bash the media and to avoid the media. You want non-Republicans to accept her based on John McCain’s recommendation? This is comical…All she needs to do is what every other candidate running for national election had done. Sit down with the mainstream media and answer tough questions. To support the position that she does not need to is ludicrous.

I remember an old guy running for president. What happened to him? Did he get lost in an airport?

This is what we are up against!
A GOP holding on tooth and nail to power they don’t deserve.
And when we try to stick up for ourselves. They kick us in the teeth.

My Father-in-law summed it number nicely on why he simply cannot vote for Obama,
“he’s black.”
That’s what we’re up against.
Don’t worry though, over time, things move towards progression (women voting, civil rights movement, lowering of voting age, gay rights).
Try as you might, my LOYAL CONSERVATIVE PATRIOTS, you’re losing the war. that’s why you’re so angry. That’s why Palin is so damn angry.

“I mean did you see Cindy McCain with her Ming the Merciless outfit on? 300,000$$$ ?…..”
Bluto, it would have looked stunning on you….. just stunning!
But she looked pretty good in it, too.

“Republicans are asking non-Republicans to accept this woman on faith and even questioning the need for her to ever appear to front of the media…They are using this period to bash media interest…That is ludicrous..”
If you knew more about her would you seriously consider voting for their ticket or are you just worried about what other people will do.

Mack,
He’s also never had VETO power. Look, W is the biggest dumb that has ever sat in the oval office (please defend him so we can start a nice McSame dialogue). Obama is smart with great ideas and has a great background and resume for the job. Palin has ideological rhetoric, which is ok for folks like yourself.
But, Barak’s campaign is not about him, it’s about mobilizing folks like myself to knock on doors and talk to folks about real issues affecting them, not about platitudes and ideology and scaring people.

Bill Mitchell,
Choosing to avoid the media, then bashing the media because of their interests, to heighten interest later is political gamemanship. If this indeed the plan then it is childish. I thought Palin and McCain were reformers who would clean up childish tactics such as those? Republicans do not want to have serious debate. They simply want to compare images. Always have since the days of Reagan. That is why I have not voted Republican since then.

“Obama is smart with great ideas”
He is a talker not a doer. You can’t rebuild an economy with hot air.

no …. seriously…. i would really like to know…
why did it take you (sarah) six years and five colleges to get a degree in …. “broadcasting”?
i really want to know because your running mate graduated 895th out of 899…. and this really doesn’t look good if we have two people who can’t … you know… “learn”

Dr. Zoon brings up a good point. Sarah Palin has a degree that would qualify her to be a member of the media she is avoiding. The media has not even figured out and reported that her opening statement “I told Congress thanks, but no thanks on that Bridge to Nowhere” is a lie. The earmarks to build it were eliminated by Congress a year before Palin was Governor. She should have no fear in facing the media.
They’ll buy anything she says.

“Mack, I’m not arguing in favor of Obama. I am railing against the last 8 years of shameful leadership.”
I’ve never voted Republican before so this will be a first, and maybe not the last if the Dems continue down the far left road. For me being left center, I can deal with McCain for 4 years and we’ll see after that.

The media can not allow the McCain campaign to hide Sarah Palin from the press until the election. McCain selected her because he says she IS ready to be VP NOT because she’ll BE ready when they teach her canned answers to questions. McCain has given the impression in the last week or two he’ll hide anything or say anything to beat Obama. He should be ashamed of himself.

DRZOON, the reason McCain and Palin would not allow President Bush to appear at the RNC is because they are afraid he would ask “Is our nominees learning?”

“no …. seriously…. i would really like to know…
why did it take you (sarah) six years and five colleges to get a degree in …. “broadcasting”?”
I don’t care if it took her 20 years if she can do the job. Not having graduated from an Ivy doesn’t mean that she’s stupid.

Rather than continue to bash Obama/Biden, can someone who supports McCain put forth clear policy that he/Palin propose to dig us out of this economic funk? Or, do you view our economy like you do the environment, made up?
Please, I’m really interested to learn more. I didn’t learn anything during the RNC convention. Not one thing. nothing specific. not one original idea. PLease, someone, share the wisdom, the vision.

We don’t know yet b/c PTAlin wont really say anything specific, other than right wing rhetoric. PLease, be the one to provide McCain/Palin policies. please.

“Palin won’t submit to a formal interview anytime soon. She may take some questions from local news entities in Alaska, but until she’s ready — and until she’s comfortable — which might not be for a long while…”
Ummm, I’m a wee bit confused. If she is going to take questions from news entities in Alaska (???) does that mean she is running for Vice-President of Alaska? I mean, I know her husband wants Alaska to secede; does this mean she shares his view? Because if she is running for Vice-President of Alaska, I’ll stop worrying right now. On the other hand,if indeed she is running for VP of the entire country, we don’t have “a long while” to wait for her to start answering questions on her own, without a script. We need to know her views. Is the media seriously going to stand still for this crap? Jake, come on. You guys have got to do your job.

“and barack grew up poorer and in a much more challenging situation than she did… ”
He did not.

Mack,
You actually asked a decent question. No, I wasn’t going to vote for McCain before and it doesn’t matter what Palin says. In my opinion Republicans are to blame for the mess this country is and with all their bluster and chest poundering are really out of touch with working family issues. So whatever questions McCain and Palin answer will not sway me. I have been around too long to fall for empty rhetoric. Obama is a change simply because he is not a Republican. With that said….I still find it troubling that with 90% of the American people not knowing who Palin really is Republicans expect Palin to be accepted on faith or because she is a “regular person” or because she is a symbol instead of whether she has the capability to run this country. I also find it troubling that Republicans think it is okay for a candidate to duck the media. It seems to me that once again Republicans are trying to steal an election by scaring folks of Obama and presenting images with little substance as they did with GWB. Republicans understand all too well that Americans can be easily manipulated if the media is controlled. That is why the media must do its job here. Ask the tough questions. She should answer the tough questions. So should McCain. And if they are elected the country will be better for having these folks, warts and all, brought out into the open…And the same goes for Obama and Biden…

The McCain campaign can make Sarah run back to Alaska, but they can’t hide her. She’s going to have to put some meat behind that rhetoric they made her throw out at us during her convention speech.
All is fair in love, war, and politics. Obama supporters have known this for 18 months now. Sucks, doesn’t it?

Folks need to understand one thing about Obama and his experience issue….18 million voters over an 18 month period have vetted his experience and are comfortable with it. How many have vetted Palin’s experience over what time frame? I know you Republicans will say 18 million Democrats don’t matter and that the select few Republicans who chose Palin do….

American Centrist – Ever been to Chicago?
Alaska also ranks at the bottom on education. Everything else is paid for by big oil via Washington. It’s a very corrupt and crooked state. Palin hasn’t really done all that much (not nearly as much as she lets on) to clean it up.

iNDYvTR: 17 MIL PLUS, but who’s counting? WE ARE! Anyway, everyone who is NOT loving your Obama, is not a Republican.

“Folks need to understand one thing about Obama and his experience issue….18 million voters over an 18 month period have vetted his experience and are comfortable with it. How many have vetted Palin’s experience over what time frame? I know you Republicans will say 18 million Democrats don’t matter and that the select few Republicans who chose Palin do….”
ummm… not to be silly here, but 18 million people also voted against him…

indy-voter:
“….. 90% of the American people not knowing who Palin really is Republicans expect Palin to be accepted on faith or because she is a “regular person” or because she is a symbol instead of whether she has the capability to run this country.
BUT IT IS/WAS OK for Obama to come this far without being fully vetted because…..???????
WHY DID Obama go to Pakistan on an Indonesian passport… EVEN THOUGH INDONESIA DOESN’T SUPPORT DUAL CITIZENSHIP?
HOW did he GET that passport if he wasn’t a citizen?
And WHY DID HE GO?????
Obama is full of words, just words.
Obama is short on answers!

“mack:
do you want your taxes cut?
if you do… then vote for barack.
READ IT. its all there. ”
Who is going to pay for his bloated spending programs? Please don’t tell me “the rich” and evil corporations.

yourgame:
so… if your kids are Idaho State smart… and Idaho state “driven”…
then that’s who they are.
too bad they couldn’t get into a better school.
me? i went to a very very good college.. but truth is.. i didn’t have the chops to get into an ivy league school….

“Who is going to pay for his bloated spending programs? Please don’t tell me “the rich” and evil corporations.”
McCain last night said he would pay people who lost high paying jobs the difference in wages if they took a lower paying job.
And people call Obama a socialist!

“American Centrist – Ever been to Chicago?”
I L I V E in Chicago.
I pay through the nose to live in Chicago.
Vote for Obama, and you, too, will have the opportunity to pay through the nose…..
and you won’t have the chance to drive down to Indiana or up to Wisconsin to avoid doing so.
EVERYONE will have the same opportunity!
Change I’d think you’d rather avoid!

“I went to a state school.”
So did I.
“I don’t like the assumption that if you haven’t graduated from an Ivy then you aren’t fit to lead.”
I don’t think that.
I think if you went to 5 colleges in 6 years and only ended up with a BA in journalism, you’re not fit to lead.
I think when you compare education levels you have to agree Obama academic record is far beyond anything Palin or McCain have done.

“McCain last night said he would pay people who lost high paying jobs the difference in wages if they took a lower paying job. ”
Sweet! Then I’m going to get a pay raise.

“I think when you compare education levels you have to agree Obama academic record is far beyond anything Palin or McCain have done.’
No doubt about the quality of education. Did Affirmative Action play a roll in him getting there in the first place?

the bottom line is….
sarah went to five colleges in six years to get a degree in “broadcasting”
i get the feeling she’s a mess… don’t you think?

Sarah went to college and some how BRZOON thinks that means she’s a mess. Huh….that’s weird.

Aston,
You’re quick to judge. I’ve never accessed KOS in me life.
Every year around 7,500 people apply to Harvard Law School. Roughly 560 students matriculate with, on average, a 3.8 undergrad GPA and a 99th percentile LSAT score. After 1L year studying legal theory, around 40 of the best students are appointed to Harvard Law Review based on their first year grades and writing. Law Reviews are highly competitive student run scholarly journals considered mandatory by many for high-end legal careers. For the 7% that make it on to Law Review, 2L year is more legal theory plus highly detailed editing of emerging legal scholarship pending publication in the journal. At the end of 2L year, one member of Law Review is elected to be the next year’s Editor-in-Chief by the existing members. The Editor-in-Chief then runs the process of producing the next year’s editions of the journal. Since 1887, 121 people have been appointed Editor-in-Chief of Harvard Law Review. There were more than 7,000 Rhodes Scholarships granted during the same period.
In other words, it ain’t easy. it’s not PTA, that’s for sure.

SgtPepper
Changing the subject, huh?

Ashton:
not only was that uncalled for… but it was inaccurate.
why do you (or any of these fearful republicans) have to say stuff like that?
or… let me put it this way….
are you one of those people who got upset when all those stories broke about sarah’s kids? all the mean things that were said?

The longer they keep Moose Lady under wraps, the more it is going to work against them. Furthermore I think it is sexist of them to keep her away from the press. Why does she get special treatment? Every other candidate from both parties throughout the long primary season has had to face the media and answer questions? Are they saying she can’t handle it? Are they hiding something? Do they think she will blow it? How in hell do they think this strategy will work?

Gee, I wonder why she is avoiding the media. Maybe because any press appearance she will have will be filled with “legitimate” questions regarding her daughter’s pregnancy and her parenting skills, from the media that forgets all about Edwards’ “love child,” yet claims that liberal bias is non-existent…

I’ll be laughing all the way to the bank once Obama’s tax cuts become law. Plus, he’ll let get rid of “don’t ask don’t tell” in the military, something that has weighed heavily on me for a long long time.

hmmmmmmm:
barack has been vetted by his own party for the past 19 months. he’s written two books… 21 debates… countless interviews…
BIG BIG DIFFERENCE from sarah…

concerned mom:
sarah palin isn’t taking this time “learn” ANYTHING other than the old republican trick of not answering a question with anything other than attack your opponent.
it sucks… but its just the way these guys operate!

Once again
When has Obama or his big-mouthed wife given a press conference lately where the reporters could ask open questions.
When?

Doc, please.

Ashton:
does that go for “Todd” too? do you want him to have to do a press conference and maybe chat about … oh… alaska becoming its own country?
or cindy? god knows what is going to come out of that mouth.
you know what? now that i think of it… i am all for Michelle doing this if… IF…. “Todd” does it!
He’s a championship snowmachine racer you know!
Yup

Did Jill Hazelbaker actually say “till she is ready”?!?!
Could that mean anything else than: she’s not ready?!
Where’s that headline then:
MCCAIN CAMPAIGN: PALIN NOT READY
Well, we knew it.

Pelosi has 5 kids. Maybe she should stay home and be a full-time mother.

So Sarah is supposed to be a maverick? Then explain why McCain refuses to let her meet with the press. At least she is obedient to her man (McCain) and follows his orders not to speak and to follow the company line. Yeah, a real maverick alright. What a joke, both McCain and Palin.

and i want to know why it took her six years and five colleges to get a degree in “broadcasting”. what’s up with that?

Aston,
Pelosi looks a bit old to be nursing.

Palin is fast becoming quite the celebrity. Isn’t she?
Doing interviews is below her? We have to accept her greatness just by the power of her lipstick?

Oh for Pete’s sake, give the woman a break. Sanctimonious Joe is tutoring her on foreign affairs. That way, she’ll know that if Venezuela attacks us, we should immediately bomb Mexico back to the stone age and ship weapons to Israel. This stuff is going to take a few weeks.

JOhn Doe
Let us start a clock that marks how long Obama keeps his wife’s mouth taped shut.

Those individuals who claim that Governor Sarah Palin used to be a member of the Alaska Independent Party, a party who supports Alaska’s secession from the U. S., might be interested in knowing that Sen. Akaka (D-HI) offered a bill in 2006 that would have given Native Hawaiians their own race-based, sovereign government. Sen. Akaka acknowledged that had that bill passed it could very well have resulted in Hawaii’s secession from the U. S. Fortunately the Democrats failed to end the filibuster. But Sen. Obama and Sen. Biden BOTH voted for closure and would have voted FOR the bill had it been brought to the floor for a vote.
It’s one thing to be a member of a party that supports secession. It’s quite another to actually VOTE for a bill that would likely result in secession of a state.
NOTE: It was actually Todd Palin not Governor Sarah Palin who was a member of the AIP. She has been a member of the Republican Party since 1982. And there is NO evidence that she was ever a member of the AIP Todd Palin has been a registered Independent since 2002.

It’s been an awfully long time since Obama has given a press conference with questions and answers. An awfully long time. And when was the last time he let Michelle talk in a potentially hostile environment.
Get it?

It’s been an awfully long time since Obama has given a press conference with questions and answers. An awfully long time. And when was the last time he let Michelle talk in a potentially hostile environment.
Get it?

I saw Palin and came to conclusion that she is a dumb gal, good pair of buts and nothing else.
Bush team writes her speeches!
Shame on GOP, they have no quality leaders!

Palin is new, so some people come to see a pair of new buts. She will be gone in a few days!!!
her sex tape is on the way!!!!

The guy she’s alleged to have her affair with was trying to seal his divorce records by emergency order today and was DENIED.
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I think you are all being very sexist and you should just give Caribou Barbie some time to learn at the feet of the master. They need time to teach her all about current events in Czechoslovakia and also how to find the Iraq/Pakistan border on a map. You know, no one is just born knowing this stuff.

I do believe that Jake has fallen in love….with Obama.

She should agree to hold a press conference on Oprah. Better yet, she should hold a press conference and invite only those outlets that didn’t write a sexist article or mention anything about her daughter. That way two media outlets will show up and get to answer all the questions.
What they really mean to ask is: We want to try to stump her by asking her who the Preident of Turkmenistan is and then mock her lack of world knowledge. Her speech was direct to the American people. The internet provides the same. The MSM doesn’t like directness……they want to filter the message before it reaches the masses.

There’s a heck of a big difference between going out and answering questions with your own personal opinion as an elected official versus answering them for another person. She has to absorb decades of information about McCain and months of speeches and positions he’s taken during this campaign in weeks. Any campaign will spend inordinate amounts of time briefing a new running mate before throwing them out on the road with anything but their stump speech. Granted, if she doesn’t start showing up on these shows next week or the week after, there are legitimate concerns about why she is being hidden.

For a few weeks, yes, she will be little more than a spokesperson. So will Joe Biden. For better or worse, the campaign is led, ideologically, by the top of the ticket. Everything is very carefully orchestrated. Heck, put Biden’s speeches and Obama’s speeches recently next to each other, they’ll be saying the exact same things. So will Palin and McCain when they do separate campaigning.
Its the old addage that if you say something long enough, loud enough, and often enough, it becomes truth. Messages, on both sides of the campaign, are so very tightly controlled. But that’s not to say the VP brings nothing to the table, on either side. Heck, Palin was instrumental in convincing McCain on the virtues of offshore drilling. We know she’s in favor of responsible ANWR drilling while McCain has been hesitant to support such a move. But I wouldn’t be too surprised to see McCain swing around to that position in the debates.
Its the same thing wherever you work. If you go off and promise a customer (we, the voters) something other than what the boss told them, you’re gonna get canned. But you can take your boss aside in private and say, “Hey, this is what I think we’re capable of and this is what we need to change.” Call me a political cynic, but I don’t believe anything they say on the campaign trail is anything but scripted. Everything has been focus group tested, run by policy advisors, and practiced dozens of times before we see it on TV.

I believe the root of the problem is that journalism is dead in america. All I see is screaming matches between supposedly opposing points of view, each trying to outdo the other in outrageousness. I would not put her in front of any one except perhaps C-span, Charley Rose or the guy that moderated the debate between her, Murkowsky and the other candidate in the 2006 election (he was pretty good). Otherwise the rest of the journalists on TV today are nothing more than a bunch of punks.

Caribou Barbie can’t stand up to CNN, so how can she handle Putin and Iran?
What a complete utter joke the GOP has become. They push this woman to the front of the stage, then quickly rush her off to a secret location where she can study “Vice President for Dummies”
Now, if Obama did this, you wingnuts would be SCREAMING BLOODY MURDER, but it’s okay if you are a Republican.
Of course the average GOP voter is just another pavlovian dog who salivates on cue when told to. They don’t think, they just obey.

I find it ironic that Democrats are trying to compare their Presidential candidate to the Republican’s Vice Presidential Candidate. Especially when Obama’s first instinct during the Russian territorial expansion action into Georgia was to call for “Georgia and Russia to show restraint”. Especially when Obama is willing to sit down with Ahmadinejad without preconditions. I don’t care what side of the political spectrum you fall, the Office of the President has certain powers of presence and meeting with foreign leaders, hostile or otherwise, lends credibility to them. Even when negotiating Matters of State with the former Soviet Union, pre-meetings were conducted so the US could negotiate from a position of power. We know McCain will confront world leaders with backbone. Looking at Gov. Palin’s record of standing up to Republican Party higher-ups and other state officials in Alaska, I think one can argue that Palin has that same strength. I’m not worried about international matters if McCain/Palin is elected. I truly wish, from a non-partisan, American-oriented position, that Obama will have those same abilities if he is elected. But I’m just not sure right now that he does. Maybe something will change between now and Nov 4, but right now, I’m just not convinced.

Good job. Keep counting and drawing attention to this. The notion that a VP candidate would go into hiding from the press is absurd. She’s a joke. Not a funny one, unfortunately.

Sarah Palin
Great Celebrity with Manias,
But no “Meet the Press”, No “Face the Nation”, No “This Week”….
Oh, These are too difficult Programs for her brain.

Hey Concerned in Ohio… that’s the point! At least he went on O’Reilly to answer questions from one of his most adversarial “reporters” (and I use that term loosely in this case). Yes, bullies are rude, vile, mean, obnoxious people who love to interrupt which is exactly who O’Reilly is and other people have more courtesy and tact. Also, all the idiots asking why Michelle hasn’t gone on interviews – well, uhh… last I checked she wasn’t running for any office and I don’t recall Nancy, Barbara, Hillary nor Lauara being grilled on Face the Nation, etc. when their husbands were running for POTUS. LMAO!

Here are some of the things Obama has done “besides running for president:”
After college, community organizer
Saw that helping people would require changing laws and politics
Not only got into Harvard Law School without benefit of family connections, but then became president of Harvard Law Review
Chicago – civil rights lawyer, taught constitutional law
Illinois State Senator for eight years
US Senate:
-first law passed was a measure to rebuild trust in government by allowing every American to go online and see how and where every dime of their tax dollars is spent
-Veteran’s Affairs Committee
-worked on non-proliferation efforts, to help keep our country safe
-alternative fuels and higher fuel standards, to help keep our nation safe and independent
He has worked for over a decade now to help less fortunate people, veterans, and address the real safety issues that this nation faces

Answer no questions = has no brain.

The GOPUSA is behind the boycott to have Palin interviewed on the Oprah show. There reason is because Palin is a woman, and that the Oprah show caters to women. One of Palin lead boycotters said that Palin is breaking a glass ceiling for women.
Obama could use that same argument as to why he should be on Oprah” show. He is after all, the first ever nominated Afro- American candidate in a country that not long ago legally endorsed slavery, discrimination against blacks and other minorities.
But notice Obama campaign is not doing this, he is not using his race as a tactic to gain support. His campaign is not boycotting any group or business by using his race as an excuse to force a hand picked interview. obtain favorable is not saying things like; there saying that because I’m black, there picking on obama and asking him tough questions because he’s black or if he were white he would be considered qualified.
Is Palin using her sex to be treated differently? Is she asking for preferential treatment because she is a woman? Oprah, is not allowing any candidates on her show to be interviewed, democrat or republican of which has nothing to do with Palin sex. She announced her decision months ago way before the world even heard or knew about Palin, as she just appeared on the scene a couple weeks ago.
If Palin wants to be interviewed so bad, why won’t she be interviewed by the tons of qualified professional news anchorage personnel that have been knocking on her door for the opportunity? Is it because she does not want to be asked the hard questions like the other candidates? I think the Palin boycott is more cynical, if Oprah interviewed Palin on her show and asked tough questions, she would be attacked by the GOPUSA who asked for the interview in the first place, as not being fair to Palin because of her support of Obama.
So I say to Palin and her campaign, move on and get Palin interviewed by the appropriate news forum. And stop boycotting Oprah show for enforcing policy that was already in place way before the world even heard of a Palin. The GOPUSA is very hypocritical, for they use sexism when it’s convenient!
E. Ferguson
Missouri