Wny won't they let Sarah Palin talk to the press?
24 September 2008 19:03 | Politics
Did you catch
the frenzy with Sarah Palin's photo op at the UN
recently? It was silly. Totally and completely silly.
The president of Pakistan could hardly keep his eyes off of her. He kept talking about how beautiful she was. He even seemed like he was going to hug her at one point.
The press didn't get to ask questions... well, just one. "How is your day going?" Palin replied that the meetings were helpful. Meetings?? What meetings?? They were photo ops. She didn't meet WITH the dignitaries. She just met them. That's all. Then the Palin Handlers whisk her away quickly with repeated "Thank you"s to the photogs and press.
When do we get to hear from her? When does the press actually get to ASK her questions? How much longer is McCain going to keep her under cover? There are less than 7 weeks until the election.
Supposedly people don't elect based on a vice-presidential candidate. Well, maybe not, but most presidential candidates are 72 with four bouts of cancer in their past. And, frankly, having seen vice-presidents take over the presidency twice in my lifetime already, I want to make sure my vice-president is qualified. Frankly, I don't think being able to see Russia from the front yard qualifies you. I don't think a couple years as commander of the state National Guard (gotta wonder how big that is in Alaska) qualifies much either.
And shall we talk TrooperGate? What happened to the complete cooperation she had promised? How can Obama be involved in a conspiracy with a panel that was set up two months before her nomination as vice-president? And what's with this concept of her hand-picking a new panel? As one old professor of mine was want to say, that's like putting the rapist in the middle of an all-female orchestra.
I want her to stop dragging her feet to postpone that investigation until after the election.
I want to hear the press be able to interview her and ask her *real* questions.
And for pete's sake... I want to hear the same questions asked of her that you would hear asked of any male candidate. Enough with the claims of sexism.
And I want to know... if she's involved in a crisis of country and one of her kids is involved in a serious accident or seriously ill... where is this mother and her "family values" going to be mentally AND emotionally?
Like it or not, mothers (most of them at least) tend to be wired to focus on their kids... hunter/gatherer vs. nurturer.
TALK TO US.
The Republicans must think we're stupid sheep who will just go along and not notice that half their ticket is hiding in the dark.
The president of Pakistan could hardly keep his eyes off of her. He kept talking about how beautiful she was. He even seemed like he was going to hug her at one point.
The press didn't get to ask questions... well, just one. "How is your day going?" Palin replied that the meetings were helpful. Meetings?? What meetings?? They were photo ops. She didn't meet WITH the dignitaries. She just met them. That's all. Then the Palin Handlers whisk her away quickly with repeated "Thank you"s to the photogs and press.
When do we get to hear from her? When does the press actually get to ASK her questions? How much longer is McCain going to keep her under cover? There are less than 7 weeks until the election.
Supposedly people don't elect based on a vice-presidential candidate. Well, maybe not, but most presidential candidates are 72 with four bouts of cancer in their past. And, frankly, having seen vice-presidents take over the presidency twice in my lifetime already, I want to make sure my vice-president is qualified. Frankly, I don't think being able to see Russia from the front yard qualifies you. I don't think a couple years as commander of the state National Guard (gotta wonder how big that is in Alaska) qualifies much either.
And shall we talk TrooperGate? What happened to the complete cooperation she had promised? How can Obama be involved in a conspiracy with a panel that was set up two months before her nomination as vice-president? And what's with this concept of her hand-picking a new panel? As one old professor of mine was want to say, that's like putting the rapist in the middle of an all-female orchestra.
I want her to stop dragging her feet to postpone that investigation until after the election.
I want to hear the press be able to interview her and ask her *real* questions.
And for pete's sake... I want to hear the same questions asked of her that you would hear asked of any male candidate. Enough with the claims of sexism.
And I want to know... if she's involved in a crisis of country and one of her kids is involved in a serious accident or seriously ill... where is this mother and her "family values" going to be mentally AND emotionally?
Like it or not, mothers (most of them at least) tend to be wired to focus on their kids... hunter/gatherer vs. nurturer.
TALK TO US.
The Republicans must think we're stupid sheep who will just go along and not notice that half their ticket is hiding in the dark.
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