This is now day 9 of the "lock Sarah Palin away and not allow anyone to ask her any questions" watch. McCain campaign manager, Rick Davis, appeared on FOX News Sunday and elaborated on when, or if, Governor Palin would ever be available.
Rick Davis, campaign manager for Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., just told Fox News Channel's Chris Wallace that McCain running mate Gov. Sarah Palin won't subject herself to any tough questions from reporters "until the point in time when she'll be treated with respect and deference."
So when will she subject herself to questions?
"When we think it's time and when she feels comfortable doing it," Davis said, praising a Fox News Channel profile of Palin that ran last night.
Why is she scared of answering questions? Wallace asked.
"She's not scared to answer questions," Davis said, "but you know what? We run our campaign not the news media." (Link)
Does anyone think this is going to work? Or will this, for many folks, answer the question of Governor Palin's preparedness for the vice presidency?
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When she's treated w/respect and deference? For someone who can sling mud and disrespect Obama and Bidden, she wants respect. What I think is happening is that she's not learning foreign policy and healthcare issues as fast as the republicans had hoped.
After watching the despicable personal attacks made upon Sara Palin and her daughter by "reporters," I would think she'd be extremely wary of talking to any of those idiots, and not entirely unjustified.
The real question is if the "reporters" will toss her the same pre-approved, powderpuff, softball questions usually reserved for Obamessiah.
Yeah, I agree with DRH. And that Vladimir Putin better never say anything nasty about Sarah Palin. She will just refuse to talk to him for being mean to her. That will teach him!
SPeaking of interviews, I wish you wuold comment on the Obama /Steph...interview today. I cam away being impressed, but also disappointed about how he manages to slant things, Then I wondered how he is going to get his ideas inserted into the Dem legislative agenda. I just don't see his pushing against the Dem Leadership in Congress. And in any event Congress can set the military budget, and decide they don't like his health care details, nor his merit proposals that would challenge the NEA on education. In fact, I suggest that Congress is going to set the tax brackets, etc. so we can forget his backpedaling on tax increases. So I think his election would be really electing the Majority Leadership on domestic matters.
And now Obama said this. ""And I actually always thought of the military as an ennobling and, you know, honourable option. But keep in mind that I graduated in 1979. The Vietnam War had come to an end. We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point. And so, it's not an option that I ever decided to pursue."
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/newstopics/uselect...
He is saying that BECAUSE "We weren't engaged in an active military conflict at that point", he didn't enlist?
If we were STILL in Viet Nam he WOULD have gone?
Ok then............
The celebrity palin is a mean-spirited, vindictive lying, self-serving, hypocritical ego-maniac. That's why repugs love her. She likes to compare herself to a pitbull. Where i live there is a saying, "you can put lipstick on a pig and its still a pig." she and all alaskans benefit financally from our use of oil. If you stupid people really think she is for alternative sources of energy then vote for Mccain/palin like you did for Bush/cheney(ironic, they also got a check from Big Oil). Alaska receives over 85% of its state revenues (money) from the oil industry. Do you really think she is for any alternative to oil/gas? John McBush has been in Congress for 30 years and is a very senior member yet he has not proposed any legislation, nothing, nada to steer the country to alternative fuels. palin thinks global warming doesn't exist because it cuts into the sale of oil. Reason doesn't seem to persuade stupid people so everybody who is for Obama should conserve gas and encourage others to do the same. Mccain is a sleaze bag who cheated on his wife and his current wife is wacked out again. Her broken arm is a convenient cover to obtain pain pills for which we know she has an affinity. The truth about Mcsame is he would really rather lose another war than lose another election.
How come nobody but the self-righteous, HYPOCRITICAL republicans call Obama messiah? in doing so you take your Lord the messiah's name in vain. Republicans always love a true hypocrite because in our representative form of government they need representation. I was proud today because the girl that waited on me in Home Depot could have been vice-president!!! The dumbing down of America is proceeding along at a faster pace than global warming.
"Joe Biden has been in Congress for 30 years and is a very senior member yet he has not proposed any legislation, nothing, nada to steer the country to alternative fuels."
She DOES believe in GW, just that it is not CAUSED BY HUMANS. Is that NOT allowed in this country?
Oh the hate from the left!
Dearest Jay:
I love you madly, but you're missing a very important thing: facts. First, Palin has agreed to sit down for an interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson. Second, she wanted to go on Oprah but was turned down. Third, she's a hot commodity for both the media and McCain. Why should she take time away from her duties as a running mate to spend it with a media that needs her more than she needs them? Fourth, as Washington Post media critic Howard Kurt noted: "From the moment Sarah Palin stepped onto the national stage, she was mauled, minimized and manhandled by an openly skeptical media establishment." Palin's is no rush nor should she be. Meanwhile, perhaps the media can busy itself correcting reports that she is her son's grandmother. Let Donna and I know when you're in town next. I'd be good to see you again.
Lisa McCormack
Lisa,
First, it looks as though Jay posted this prior to the reported news regarding Sarah Palin and her scheduled ABC interview. Second, if she is being considered for the V.P., then I think we have the right to have her questioned. I'd like to hear about the library incident, troopergate, and the bridge-to-nowhere. And I think Howard Kurt's comments are pulling the gender card. Manhandled? If she is going to take on the second most important job, she needs to show that she can handle it. She was willing to go on Oprah? Does anybody else think that's absurd?
Hi Lisa,
I wrote the post before the announcement about the ABC interview and don't really consider the Oprah show to be real media scrutiny.
Re: Media interviews. The function of the media (if it's working correctly) is to offer voters another view of the candidates, a less rehearsed view. Without it, all we would have to make our assessments of the candidates viability would be campaign speeches and television ads.
There's another reason it's important, and perhaps even more important for Governor Palin than it is for Barack Obama, John McCain and Joe Biden. There's some skepticism in some quarters about the Governors preparedness, which the McCain campaign rebuts. It does seem (to me anyway) each campaign has a responsibility to assure voters its candidates are prepared and able to lead. The burden of proof is on the Obama campaign to assure voters Obama and Biden are ready, and the burden of proof is on the McCain campaign to assure voters McCain and Palin are ready. And that assurance shouldn't/can't come from teleprompters or nifty TV spots, but from watching the candidates in the process of deliberating and answering questions about their past performance and policies. As Governor Palin is the least known of the four, it seems to me the campaign should be very motivated to set aside any concern voters may have that their candidate isn't ready to go.
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