Sarah Palin: AWOL from Sunday circuit

She's not even ready to talk to the press.

Heckuva job, John Bush on the VP pick.

It is so ironic or maybe just palin-- I mean plain justice, that the Republicans have exactly in Sarah Palin what they falsely accused Barack Obama of. From day one, Republicans loved to say that Barack was a "Roll of the Dice" a "Celebrity"! However, the hand of Karma is swift and the chickens have come home to roost in the guise of Sarah Palin who is the real risk and Roll of the Dice (no foreign or national experience, under ethics investigation, possible member of the AIP) and Sarah, like Britney Spears and Paris Hilton is a Celebrity now (glosses the the covers of US Weekly, People, National Enquirer, etc.). What you Sow you shall Reap!

Maverick McCain who truly loves to gamble, loves Las Vegas, just risked the safety and welfare of this nation with his risky, roll of the dice VP pick, Sarah Palin. However, this is not Las Vegas or Atlantic City, this the United States of America. We cannot afford a Gambler in the White House and his first true test, Sarah Palin, is not even ready to go on Meet the Press (her first true test)! Tim Russert must be rolling around in his anchor seat in heaven.

By the way, it seems that our Republican Vice Presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, who could be a heartbeat away from the Presidency seems, to have switched colleges at least six times in six years.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080905/...

It's not that the McCain campaign is lacking confidence in Palin. The issue is secrecy and stonewalling and blatant lies. This is not simply about the campaign. This is how McCain and Palin will govern - just like Bush Cheney.

The Not Ready for Prime Time pol.

And Republicans want her to negotiate with Putin?????

I think Palin is a one-note wonder. The McCain campaign is too scared to put her on a national talk show because all the can do is attack, not impress the public with her abilities. So far she's been called the barracuda and pitbull by the republicans. Shades of Bush. This reminds me of the Republican's campaign strategies of the last 8 years - fear and hate.

The McCain camp is keeping Palin out of the talk shows this weekend precisely because they don't want an Obama-like political celebrity. Of course everyone wants to talk to her and she'll be plastered all over the newspapers next week if she does "Face the Nation." Palin's perfectly capable of taking the press on -- she was a TV reporter and has a journalism degree. This is just a savvy strategy from the McCain campaign to get the attention back where it should be -- on the next president.

If Palin is not competent enough to speak with the press on issues, why are we suppose to believe she is capable of being VP, a heart beat away from President. McCain couldn't possibly have the confidence in her ability as he and the campaign claim. This speaks directly to his judgement. The main focus of the VP pick is, "Do no harm" Nice going McSame.
It's certainly seems true in this case, silence speaks volumes.

Switching colleges, hmm I know numerous CEOs who do not have a degree and these folks are incredible leaders. Obama did not remember the number of states in one of his speeches but the media failed to report this mishap as usual. You are fed by the MSM - I believe Palin has shown great leadership and is a fresh face as opposed to Biden, Obama. You are accusing McCain of the same old tactics and Karma but Obama picked a Senate veteran - the same old thing to FILL HIS OWN GAPs.

She is just doing what promised--don't cotton to the left wing media!

Amen!

It never ceases to amaze me the sleaze twist of Liberals and Democrats in general. It's no wonder that I became an independent. This guy is the epitome of the dirt and dig Chicago political machine.
The reality is that Obama is the politicians politician; he will say anything to get elected. God forbid that he actually achieves this goaL, too late he will reveal his true intentions, or lack thereof.

PURE BULL Until you nuts calm down ands stop assuming you know everything (and everything is a negative) she shouldn't be bothered with you!!!

of course she can negotiate with Putin? Are you kidding me? Laura Bush said it her self, Palin has great foreign experience with the closeness of Russia to Alaska. Palin and Putin are pretty much neighbors. I wouldn't be surprised if the Republicans would try and say that Palin travels to Russia several times a week. Oh wait that might be hard considering that she doesnt know how she or someone else sold her jet. Contrary to her speech, she did not sell it on Ebay for a profit. It was actually sold by someone else for a $600k loss. I'm sure the Ebay thing was influenced by Meg Whitman and Gramps McCain who probably doesnt even know how to use Ebay but touts it all the time.

The Palin pick clearly shows that the Republicans are wanting to lose on purpose so that they wont have to fix the huge mess they have created in these past 8 years.

We the people will through Obama.

Obama '08

Obamatons,

Thanks for sharing your PDS insanity with the rest of us. It's simply...breathtaking.

Funny thing, The Messiah finally went on *horrors!* the O'Reilly Factor...and was cornered into a de facto admission that he'd been wrong about The Surge. Messiahs do not make bad calls...otherwise they're not really messiahs, are they?

Joe "Motor Mouth" Biden? The guy can't walk past a mirror without blowing kisses to his own reflection.

Q: How do we know Joe Biden is about to make a gaffe?

A. Watch his lips. If they're moving, hilarity will quickly ensue.

It is time for the press to get over itself, People will not vote on a candidate based on your opinions or commentary. So cry me a river just because someone won't talk to you!! Palin will talk to the press when she is ready and not until then. You guys have already attacked her in the most blatent bias I have ever seen in my life. If it were me, I wouldn't talk to anyone of you. You can't try to rip her to pieces one day and expect her to talk to you the next. I am an independent and have not made up my mind yet, but I have made up my mind about the press. They are nothing but self serving, headline getting pigs. Just do your job.....report the facts!!!

Since Gov. Palin just got the nomination a week ago, and has been a governor, (governing two years and 700,000 people more than Sen. Obama has governed) it is to be expected that she is not on first name bases with
foreign leaders (like John McCain is, and Sen. Obama is not) and needs time to brush up on some issues she did not have to deal with a governor. This would be true of any governor, and always has been. No governor has foreign policy experience, and we usually elect governors to be president. Given the hostility of the MSM to her, and the biased coverage we've seen this year, I'm sure she wants to be completely prepared before going on television, and certainly before taking the VP reins in January. Given how she quickly she mastered her acceptance speech, she seems like a quick study, so I'm sure you'll be seeing her soon, but on her schedule. not Obama's or the media's. We still haven't seen Obama at even one of the town hall meetings proposed by Mccain in June, and he's had years to prepare,

"We're going to do what's in our best interests to try to win the election. If we think going on TV news shows are [sic] in our best interests, we'll do it. If we don't, we won't." -- Rick Davis

Country First? or whatever it takes?

What about the interests of the people? We are electing leaders, not an American Idol. So this is how John McCain puts country first? His motives are clear. Win at all cost because it is my last chance. To hell with who would be the best leader for right now.

Smoke and mirrors, the more you look the less you see. This looks more like sarah Abracadabra than Sarah barracuda.
For how long can she hide from the media?

Of course Palin is a lemon....just like a car salesman trying to sell you a lemon...and McCain knows.This McCain guy is pure evil...worse than BushChenney. He is a coward ...only he has wealth beyond measures via marriage and all.He is not fit to be president.

We have always Respected and Honored McCain’s service to this country. But we know who is spinning the message Schmidt and Rove known as the guys that brought us two George W. Bush terms and now they want to sell us a third Bush term.

McCain called for an end to the“constant partisan rancor”. Yet his campaign ads have attacked American Artists by attempting to brand them as just celebrities. Barack Obama is like Ronald Reagan when it comes to support of the Talented Artists of their time. Obama’s message rings of a “Beautiful day coming to America” which is similar to Reagan’s “Its morning in america again”

McCain’s campaign has gone after the media who are asking the important questions that help keep the voters informed about the contrasts between the Democrat and Republican Parties in the most important election of our times. So far McCain's soul mate is refusing take questions about the issues from mainstream reporters.

When McCain says the last weeks of this campaign will be hard fought, nothing personally, just the nature of the business we know what McCain, Schmidt and Rove are saying – more negative attacks, more slash and burn tactics. When McCain says “Change is coming,” to Washington DC – The voters look at the Schmidt, Rove and Fox News attacking and we know what is coming – A Pit Bull? Avoid The Pit Bull with Lip Stick when The Pit Bull attacks. Who says we must fight on their turf? Let them come to ours. This race is still Obama/Biden vs McCain/Bush.

Common sense now says that its Obama/Biden who can end the “constant partisan rancor” in Washington DC.

America can have a beautiful day in November by Voting for Change we can believe in

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The thing that makes her so appealing, is that they didn't let the media vet her prior. That made my whole darn day.

MEDIA, festering and bubbling over with anger that they had been dismissed in the process, and that WE ALL ADORE AND WILL SUPPORT HER, gosh that's rich! The fact that she said herself that she is NOT HERE FOR MEDIA's HAPPINESS..... she's here for the people, sweet sweet mother of God, someone speaks my language.

Thank Gosh, someone gets how most of us feel.... not only MEDIA, but that it's the PEOPLES CHOICE on a candidate and man, I can tell ya, I would not want a person that this LIBERAL BUNCH OF YAHOOS FINDS TO BE >THE ONE, for them.

One more point in terms of MSM - isn't it utterly refreshing to not see Hollyweird as a focus. Thank goodness for the Olympics, Hillary and Palin. I would rather hear about these folks then about the rest of the celebs including Oprahbama.

Given the controversy and scandalous accusations, I believe that Sarah Palin would be considered the #1 "get" by the Sunday shows. Unfortunately, the McCain camp has no choice but to excercise tight control over the dialog around Palin. She gave an amazing first impression with a lot of tough talk but she is still a novice; any mistake at this point could be disastrous for the GOP. That said, Felicity is correct that this is savvy strategy from the McCain camp. However, it also clearly underscores Palin's weakness and that of the GOP.

She had to go back to Alaska...she is the governor and has an investigation against her to think about...her kids need to get back to school...She should not go on a scripted show. I want to see her as well as the others in front of the press taking questions from all types of reporters. Not town hall meetings or "debates". Let's get Helen Thomas to talk to her.

The Swamp? The Swamp!!!
Where else would quislings, terrorist, thugs, and socialists hide out? You leftists do NOT determine the agenda. Got that?

Of course she's ready to negotiate with Putin - Bush will pass on all his knowledge.

I'd like to ask Gov. Pallin just how much money she has saved Alaska by selling that jet--not on eBay, of course, where it didn't sell. That jet was used to haul prisoners to out-of-state prisons, since Alaska doesn't believe in holding its own. Unless she's implemented a "take no prisoners" policy, the state is still having to bear that expense in one way or another.

Seem like the "pit bull" has lost her teeth. She can only bark from behind her GOP cage.The GOP is pathetic.

By not appearing on the talk-show circuit, Sara Palin is exposing herself to intense criticism and scrutiny by the media, and it will also them compel to investigate her background. I understand she's green and has no real insight of national affairs, but Palin should keep mind, she is vying to become our nations vice president and as citizens we have a right to know who our elected officials are and where they stand issues

She had just been roasted by most of the media and stated in her speech that she didn't need their approval. So if all of a sudden this weekend she is on those very networks everyone would be calling here a hypocrite.

The Dems are worried, and with good reason, she is a real person. Not another politician or lawyer like Obama & Biden.

Let's see, Palin: administrative experience, Mayor experience, Governor experience; Obama: great speaker, no substantive legislation during short career; Clinton: former 1st Lady holding teas, Senator in orchestrated seat. No wonder the Democrats are jealous. Don't forget, the one with zero executive experience running for President is the Democrat. Palin is running for Vice President with McCain, whose experience and dedication to country is unequaled in the Democratic ticket. Heck, Mrs. Obama just became "proud of this country for the first time in my life" this year. Great first lady material.

Did it ever occur to anyone that if Palin was put out in front of the media, that it would reduce the amount of news coverage she and the GOP party receives?

Call me a cynic, but with the obvious liberal slant of the media, if there wasn't any "controversy" over Palin, there would be less discussion and less air time of the GOP. And that's what the GOP wants. More air time.

Palin's daughter was no secret. Definitely something that would come out during the vetting of a candidate. The issue with her ex-brother-in-law. When the facts come to light, less of a controversy.
(C'mon, do you *want* a person to be a trooper who taser's his step-son? Should he be allowed to carry a gun? Also someone who hunted illegally? Definitely a cause for concern...)

And that's the point. Had the GOP put everything out in the open, Palin would get less air time.

Keeping her a bit of a mystery forces the media to dig deeper and report on it, keeping her in the spot light.

If you look at Obama and McCain, their campaigns do not differ on the main issues by much.

Uhh, folks, it's 60 days to the election. A virtual unknown. No policy positions or papers. No ORIGINAL statements re: anything related to the U.S. economy or world politics. Yet she'll only speak to the press "when she's ready?" And only if it's in "our [the campaign's] best interest?" Hmm...interesting way of putting "Country First."
Peace.

Unbelievable how some people ignore reality.

There is documented proof that Palin has lied, not once, not twice, but many times.

There is NO evidence that being mayor of a tiny town or governor of a population small, isolated state equips anyone with the right stuff to govern.

There is at least some evidence that her 'story' has not been fully told and in some of the details that have not been provided may lie evidence that undermine her credibility to govern the US should something happen to JSM.

Her ONLY public appearnaces have been to slash and burn the opponent. Other than that there has been no substance in what she has said.

Despite what many would like to promote as truth, most of the mainstream media have been hands off about her family, though Palin has had no problem exploiting them herself.

So far this candidate is very much an empty vessel and the McCain campaign is trying to keep it that way. They don't want the American people to know her; they don't want her to state her views or offer her policy positions.

These are the basic requirements we, the American voting public, need to know about a candidate.

Yet some of you have this over-the-top response to any question about her ability to lead, her background, her positions on matters of interest to this nation.

So you attack the media for doing its job.

Shame on you. This woman is an unknown, and we the American people have every right to ask question, via the media (the only way we can get to her). And the longer the McCain campaign trots her out only as the attack dog and then denies any real access to her, the more I am suspicious that there is nothing more there than an empty suit in heels.

I am not anti-woman, anti-McCain, or anti-Republican but in this attitude of thumbing its nose at MY RIGHT to know the person who may be the next vice president of MY country, and potential the president, I find myself appalled.

If they cannot, or will not, accept MY RIGHT to know this candidate before I go into a booth to vote, then I am going to assume there are sufficient reasons why they are keeping her away from ME, the American public, and that is very likely to influence my vote.

McBush says: He will bring the country together...he will reach across the isle. So as an olive branch, he gave us the most divisive person he could find. She is against a womans choice. She is against sex education in schools. She is for censoring books. She is willing to lead us forward into the 1800s. She has basically stretched the truth, or down right lied about her record. She is under investigation. Plain and simple.......she wasn't vetted. Sure she is popular in Alaska, she took earmarks to pay each citizen $1200 on top of the $2000 they already recieve to live there. She taxed big oil to pay for it also. Taxed the big oil? I thought that was McBushs' big no no? It is a slap in the face to women. There were plenty of highly qualified women to chose on the right but this also reved up the religious Jihad crowd. Women are more intelligent than that.

As an Independent, I am looking at this dreadful choice of candidates in dispair. But, whats me laugh is McSame's accusation that Obama is just a celeb, when Palin is running on a celeb platform. I'm just saying...

Boy, 300M Americans, and these are our choices?

Did anyone see McCain and Palin campaigning on TV?
She was reading her lines from a paper using her finger to keep her place.
To be on a talk show she would need an earpiece to have her answers, etc. fed to her.

And does anyone else find her speaking voice very annoying?

Did anyone see McCain and Palin campaigning on TV?
She was reading her lines from a paper using her finger to keep her place.
To be on a talk show, or speak to the press,she would need an earpiece to have her answers, etc. fed to her.

And does anyone else find her speaking voice very annoying?

Why should McCain or her appear on leftist media outlets that are clearly in the tank for Obama? Palin's pick was the beginning of a strategy to bypass the dishonest media and appeal directly to the people. Obama's fellow travelors in the msm have their panties in a bunch because they know this. The msm is increasing irrelevant. McCain and Palin don't need Brokaw and Stefanopoulos and their ilk. No one does but Daley's stooge BHO.

There is NO WAY the GOP allows Palin to speak; unless it is scripted, rehearsed, and in front of a friendly audience. There are SO many questions regarding her candidacy, she would wither under the fire of objective scrutiny. And the GOP knows it.

She is there for one thing, and one thing only. To give the evangelical base of the GOP, that NEEDS to believe in someone, someone to believe IN. Outside of that, she brings absolutely ZERO.

Uh, if she's so worried about the so-called liberal media, why doesn't she go on Fox News then and field a bunch of softball questions? They'll ask questions, allow her to lie about her record, and not challenge her in the least.

And while I could understand the GOP not wanting to put her in front of the ol' Clinton lackey on ABC, there's really no excuse for not putting her on the CBS show or especially the NBC show -- are people really going to claim that Tom Brokaw can't be unbiased? If you do, I think we can safely ignore you as completely insane.

And while some CEOs may not have degrees, they aren't running for to be in position for the biggest CEO job in the world. Don't bring up Gates, he was smart enough to get into Harvard without legacy helping him. He was obviously brilliant. She does not exactly inspire confidence in her intelligence.

Furthermore, asking her serious questions and not taking garbage, spin, or proven lies for an answer doesn't mean "liberal", it means "doing the job". Russert would have eaten her for breakfast and everyone considered him to be an equal-opportunity griller.

The McCain-Palin people are smart. They know the TV talk show hosts are not their friends. They know also that they'll have a list of "gotcha" questions like who's the education minister of Lower Slobovia. The media were badly beaten down last week with their bullying of a defenseless 17-year-old girl and they got caught at it. Now, they'll want to seek revenge. Note the absence of hard questions ever to Obama, like "what did you accomplish as a community organizer," or "list your 5 greatest achievements outside of politics."
No, the media by and large are committed left wing Democrats and should be regarded appropriately.

Why should she appear on the talk shows? Thinking Americans can watch the debates. Did Uh-bama agree to the 12 townhall debates McCain proposed? That's a much more useful question to ask. Would anyone ever ask on a talk show what self-professed Mr. Reform did to reform the notoriously and ridiculously corrupt Chicago scene (answer: SQUAT). Uh, umm, y'know, uhh, I guess they were his friends.
We shouldnl't let him get away from his record---or dismal lack of one.

Palin is heading BACK TO ALASKA FRIDAY EVENING, it has been reported. Is it because her son is being deployed on Sept 11? Doubtful. Is it because she is the subject of that ethics investigation (Troopergate) that the McCain team is trying to make dissapear?? Probably.

Give Joe Biden the same press and air time as Palin.

Of course she's not going to appear on Meet the Press. That would be disaster! But it does kind of make you wonder, if she can't stand up to a reporter, how will she stand up to Vladmir Putin? Ah heck, who are we kidding ... if John McCain couldn't stand up to James Dobson and Karl Rove for his original choice -- Joe Lieberman -- how can we be sure he'll stand up to anyone? This is candidate protection program ticket.

For all that people may claim that Obama is a political neophyte, he's at least let out of the house to go play. The only reason to hold Palin back is because she can't do anything more than recite the most basic GOP talking points and the McCain campaign knows she'd be eaten alive. When the campaign says "We'll let her out when it's in our best interests" and then refuses to let her out... well, I guess it's not in McCain's "best interests" to let Palin talk unscripted.

Here are just a few reasons why Palin on uncontrolled and unscripted interviews is too risky:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

I see the conservative fruitakes are at it again. They think there are two Americas here. Whether they like the media or not, it is the American media. As a national candidate she is supposed to talk to them. If you conservatives don't like America, then leave.

Here are just a few reasons why Palin on uncontrolled and unscripted interviews is too risky:
PALIN: "I have protected the taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending ... and championed reform to end the abuses of earmark spending by Congress. I told the Congress 'thanks but no thanks' for that Bridge to Nowhere."

THE FACTS: As mayor of Wasilla, Palin hired a lobbyist and traveled to Washington annually to support earmarks for the town totaling $27 million. In her two years as governor, Alaska has requested nearly $750 million in special federal spending, by far the largest per-capita request in the nation. While Palin notes she rejected plans to build a $398 million bridge from Ketchikan to an island with 50 residents and an airport, that opposition came only after the plan was ridiculed nationally as a "bridge to nowhere."

PALIN: "There is much to like and admire about our opponent. But listening to him speak, it's easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform — not even in the state senate."

THE FACTS: Compared to McCain and his two decades in the Senate, Obama does have a more meager record. But he has worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation.

PALIN: "The Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes, raise payroll taxes, raise investment income taxes, raise the death tax, raise business taxes, and increase the tax burden on the American people by hundreds of billions of dollars."

THE FACTS: The Tax Policy Center, a think tank run jointly by the Brookings Institution and the Urban Institute, concluded that Obama's plan would increase after-tax income for middle-income taxpayers by about 5 percent by 2012, or nearly $2,200 annually. McCain's plan, which cuts taxes across all income levels, would raise after tax-income for middle-income taxpayers by 3 percent, the center concluded.

Obama would provide $80 billion in tax breaks, mainly for poor workers and the elderly, including tripling the Earned Income Tax Credit for minimum-wage workers and higher credits for larger families.

He also would raise income taxes, capital gains and dividend taxes on the wealthiest. He would raise payroll taxes on taxpayers with incomes above $250,000, and he would raise corporate taxes. Small businesses that make more than $250,000 a year would see taxes rise.

MCCAIN: "She's been governor of our largest state, in charge of 20 percent of America's energy supply ... She's responsible for 20 percent of the nation's energy supply. I'm entertained by the comparison and I hope we can keep making that comparison that running a political campaign is somehow comparable to being the executive of the largest state in America," he said in an interview with ABC News' Charles Gibson.

THE FACTS: McCain's phrasing exaggerates both claims. Palin is governor of a state that ranks second nationally in crude oil production, but she's no more "responsible" for that resource than President Bush was when he was governor of Texas, another oil-producing state. In fact, her primary power is the ability to tax oil, which she did in concert with the Alaska Legislature. And where Alaska is the largest state in America, McCain could as easily have called it the 47th largest state — by population.

MCCAIN: "She's the commander of the Alaska National Guard. ... She has been in charge, and she has had national security as one of her primary responsibilities," he said on ABC.

THE FACTS: While governors are in charge of their state guard units, that authority ends whenever those units are called to actual military service. When guard units are deployed to Iraq or Afghanistan, for example, they assume those duties under "federal status," which means they report to the Defense Department, not their governors. Alaska's national guard units have a total of about 4,200 personnel, among the smallest of state guard organizations.

FORMER ARKANSAS GOV. MIKE HUCKABEE: Palin "got more votes running for mayor of Wasilla, Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States."

THE FACTS: A whopper. Palin got 616 votes in the 1996 mayor's election, and got 909 in her 1999 re-election race, for a total of 1,525. Biden dropped out of the race after the Iowa caucuses, but he still got 76,165 votes in 23 states and the District of Columbia where he was on the ballot during the 2008 presidential primaries.

FORMER MASSACHUSETTS GOV. MITT ROMNEY: "We need change, all right — change from a liberal Washington to a conservative Washington! We have a prescription for every American who wants change in Washington — throw out the big-government liberals, and elect John McCain and Sarah Palin."

THE FACTS: A Back-to-the-Future moment. George W. Bush, a conservative Republican, has been president for nearly eight years. And until last year, Republicans controlled Congress. Only since January 2007 have Democrats have been in charge of the House and Senate.

Oh yeah, speaking of the horrors candidates face with those nasty "gotcha" questions. Barack Obama spent a week on the O'Reilly Factor and while he didn't win Pappa Bear's vote, he did win his respect. You should watch on O'Reilly's website.

I'm still waiting for Jeff to praise one of his well liked news outlet...National Enquirer. How's the new "story" in their headlines sit with you? Still jazzed over them?

Palin is a product of an culture that loves American Idol and other reality TV shows that throw a "Normal" person on a national stage. It's exciting and adds drama to otherwise dud of a republican ticket. It doesn't matter if it's extremely reckless and proves poor judgment on McCain's part because the lady adds the drama needed to keep America from completely dismissing an out of touch old man. The proof is the TV ratings outshining Obama's acceptance speech. America simply is waiting to see the train wreck, it won't happen unless she's off script. I suspect her handlers will never allow her to be interviewed. We need force the issue and get her off script to see what the lipsticked pittbull will bark.

Paradoxical that Palin’s party urges private charity and faith based initiatives, yet she mocked Obama’s community organizing. I thought it was horrible.

I am shocked. You mean that she doesn't want to go on the Sunday morning talk shows where inside Washington media personalities (it would be a significant stretch to call most of them reporters) talk with inside Washington politicians about what is wrong with the rest of the country. How will we know what to think if Wolf Blitzer doesn't tell us? As a Hillary backer, I was very hesitant to believe the talk of an "anti-female" bias in the media choosing to feel it was just more of a "pro-Obama" lmedia love affair but with the reporting and "stories" coming out since the Palin pick, I am definitely convinced that there is a significant ant-female bias. Where are the opinion pieces on why Barack, Joe or John don't spend more time with their children (or grandchildren)? The current media mind frame (which in many cases is backed by the rants and attacks on many of these blog sites) is based on the sucker being born every minute belief while I think that with the ability to access multiple sources of info (some good and some bad) the American people are more in line with the statement attributed to Abraham Lincoln: You can fool some of the people all of the time and all of the people some of the time but you can't fool all of the people all of the time. People need to wake up.

This "news" piece is a prime example of why the media has a reputation lower than whale offal. They now want to tell the Republicans how to run their campaign. How full of yourself can one get?

And what sunday morning show was Joe B. on the weekend he was announced (8/24) or the following weekend (8/31)? Answer NONE NONE NONE. He is supposedly the seasoned Washington insider who wasn't ready to "Face the Nation" or "Meet the Press" or even talk to Georgie boy. You all should lay off Sarah P. you sound ridiculous!!!!

Until Palin steps out to meet the press and the people, her persona can appear to be little more that a 'cardboard candidate.'
bjzeitz,
women's historian/gender equity analyst

She was made a celebrity by the constant barrage of the media the week before the convention, trying to destroy her. It would be pretty stupid, even as accomplished as she is, to throw her back to the wolves just because they want to make more money and ratings from 'shock' journalism. I have seen videos of her gubernamental debates and she did good, I think once the rabid newscasters are kept at bay that she would do exceedingly well.

Think about this. 85% of Alaska's state budget comes from taxes on oil companies. The other 15% comes from the federal government. Alaskans pay no state taxes because they are the biggest welfare state in the country. Now, consider the two things that Mrs. Palin did while governor. #1) She raised taxes on oil companies. #2) She used revenue from oil company windfall profits to double the size of the check that the state sends to every citizen.

Sounds a lot like Barack Obama's plans that John McCain has been campaigning against!

Find out more here:
http://www.rationalrevolution.net/blog/

How unsurprising. Palin is still hiding from the press so that she can hide her ineptitude and complete cluelessness. Remember, this is a woman who a month ago went on TV saying that she had no idea what a Vice President does.

I wonder how she's going to get out of the VP debate. I guess that they can give her talking points and the instructions that she is NEVER to say anything not on the talking points. More than likely part of the debate agreement will be that the candidates have to be given all of the questions ahead of time. Just wait and see...

I'm still amazed at all of the people out there who claim that she was "so brave" to "confront" all of the criticism that her selection got. So far she's hidden in a hotel room and given one scripted speech that she didn't even write. How sad.

So she's AWOL, that didn't stop many Americans from voting for President Bush, when he was reportedly, missing from his National Guard Unit, during the Vietnam War. As a matter of fact, many American voters voted twice for the Incompetent team we now have in our White House and look at the mess they have left America with, McCain and Palin !!!
SUPPORT OUR TROOPS, BRING THEM HOME, ALIVE AND WHOLE. NOW.

Hey lefties, at least she can continue a speech after her teleprompter messes up, like on Wednesday, unlike messiah who starts to stammer and stutter. Is anybody out there getting tired of his "uh, uh, uh, uh" when he doesnt have HIS script in front of him?

But why on earth is it important for the people to get to know their VP candidates? I mean, it's not like the VP does anything all day, and it's not like a president has ever died in office or had to relinquish command to the VP.

It's one thing to be able to read off a teleprompter. It's quite another to be able to answer substantive questions. Biden will run circles around her in the VP debates. They can't slither their way out of those...

Sarah Palin has no choice. The media and press would go out of their way to throw her under the bus and would not be fair about any interview. She is smart to avoid the media altogether. A lot of people know the media is for Obama and not giving us the opportunity to make our own decisions. Maybe it is time for the media to clean house.

I see nobody is scheduled for Fox News Sunday. Maybe that's what I'll watch.

Mark Silva, I am sure it's not because she wasn't invited.

Thank you BIll R......You summed it up perfectly...Obviously they think all women will vote for anyone in a skirt { or pantsuit } just to say a woman is in office.. WRONG ASSUMPTION!! McCain just gave his chance at the Presidency away with his choice of VP...

The McCain camp will let Palin speak on their terms. When they have written all the possible questions that may be asked and Palin has had time to rehearse her responses and limit the liability that she poses to the Party. McCain, shame on you for allowing your campaign to pick your VP. We do not need another puppet in the White House, make your own decisions and stop trying to pander to the religious conservative and go back to who you are and think for youself. I live in the state of Arizona and at one time had respect for you as a moderate republican and now you are just disappointing us. Obama/Biden in 08 for this voter.

Palin must do media interviews unscripted now. Sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PalinMediaInterviews/

I can't believe people are actually praising this move by McCain's campaign. They're so caught up in their fued with the MSM....what about us people? McCain's campaign woman said that the people learned all they need to know about Palin from her nomination speech.

I don't know about you guys but that certainly isn't "all i need to know"....if your running for VP and could potentially be president then you should certainly be able to stand up to some tough questions on political issues from some reporters. Hell, Obama went on O'Reily

McCain's campaign treating her like a fragile commodity who can't say anything that isn't written for her is pretty sad. She's supposedly a strong woman so let her answer some questions.

Sarah Palin hasn't been doing any real campaigning. All she has been doing is reading from her script.

Palin must do media interviews unscripted now. Sign the petition:

http://www.ipetitions.com/petition/PalinMediaInterviews/

I have to ask, Does anyone watch those Sunday morning talk shows anymore? The shows are so partisan, with no substantive value. Talk about an insider bias to the press — the notion that someone they've never even heard of could be nominated for the vice-presidency is inherently offensive to a culture where the host of Meet the Press is treated to near–state funeral (ross douthat).
I say, stay away!

Some people will stoop to being gutter scum. In both of her speeches she told the American public that her son Track is being deployed to Iraq on 9/7/08 to Iraq. Now where in the hell do you think she and her family are going to be. HMMMM just maybe at the deployment ceremony for her son and his unit. My son is being deployed on 10/18/08 go Iraq and believe my my husband and daughters will be at the deployment ceremony. It will mean my duaghters missing college and us missing work. I can only imagine how the Palin family feels as I will be crossing that bridge very soon. The media has been all over Palin about her family and something like her son being deployed that forgot about. Priceless liberal bs. God Bless our Troops who have always fought to allow you to have the freedom of speech to spew you venom.

This is my first presidential campaign (I am 19). I have not like a lot of the highly charged negativity--coming primarily from the Republican side of the aisle, I have to say--and that is influencing how I think about my choices.

I have to say I am really put off by the way the McCain campaign is keeping Ms Palin behind the closed curtains. I have a right to know who I am voting for and it seems to me they are trying to take that right away from me. I don't like that. Tie secrecy to their negativity and what is left?

I am trying to keep an open mind but I have to tell some of your more partisan folks who have blogged here that you are not doing your candidate a single bit of good in attacking the news media AND all the rest of us who simply want to know more about this candidate.

This is the most important decision I have to make right now. The choice I make--we make--affects everything for the next for years. I don't think it is too much to ask that I hear the authentic Sarah Palin, unscripted, unrehearsed, in interviews and on television.

All the other three candidates make themselves available.

And I don't buy for one minute that they have to prep her for prime time. If she wants to be president some day, she should come already prepared.

Nor do I buy that they have to keep her away from the press because the press are collectively bad-boys. I bet you didn't think that when the press was all over Obama about Wright or when they attack Michelle Obama.

So, you really are asking this first time voter to elect someone on a wing and a prayer if I support the Republican party. I don't know if I can do that.

IT'S NOT ABOUT THE PRESS.
it's about hearing more than a prewritten stump speech. there are thing she needs to answer and let voters, not reporters, know where she stands. without any questions she can say whatever she wants. but i want real answers.
questions:
you are absolutely against any abortion? what if the pregnancy is life threatening to the mother? is the child's life more important than the wife and mother of 3 other children?

with your stance on abortion, don't you think educating teens on safety and STD's are also valid, along with abstinence education?

do you thinks it's proper to teach creationism in a public school right along side evolution? and if yes doesn't that go against the constitution?

a few months ago you said you had no clue what a VP does, do you know now?

you keep saying you told congress no to the bridge to nowhere. was the money actually offered? i'm pretty sure it never made it into a bill. also you campaigned for governor saying you wanted the fund. when did you change your mind?

we hear you talk about an all of the above energy plan. why did you veto wind and other energy alternative??

did you go to washington to lobby for earmarks as mayor of wasilla?

how many federal earmarks did you get and for how much money?

did you attempt to ban books and threaten to fire a librarian for not removing them?

your husband was a member of the AIP, did he support the vote to declare alaska's independence for the USA??

she may have great answers for these questions, i'd really like to know the answers to these question. wouldn't you??

She has already said she is not going to Washington to please the media. What was it about that remark that they didn't understand?

Typical left wing crap. I can't wait for Gov. Palin to get ahold of Sen. Biden. See you there. Oh, and bring Putin.

Sarah Palin seems to come in quite cockey it'a my way or the highway she won't sit down doen;t it remind you of anyone

To quote the Late Great Bernie Mac, McCain knows they can't stand the heat. “He’s scared. He’s holding the ball, hoping the clock will run out. That’s a punk move…duckin’ and hidin’ like a little b***h!”

Maybe she only wants forums where she can expect intelligent questions.

Wow, never saw a site with so many "EXPERTS". As a woman with a family /did the thought ever occur to any of you that this woman needs to breath/ she needs to get her own house in order before she embarks on a national compressed run. I am an independent voter / I AM STILL UNSURE WHERE MY VOTE WILL GO, but I am smart enough to give this woman a chance to collect herself. To those of you who have made up your minds already I say GET a book / get online / educate yourself but most of all GET A LIFE AND STOP judging others.

Exactly how many offers has she had, and who made them?

Or, like Big "O," are they for after the election?

VPs don't come to your show, they send for you.

Where in this article does it mention that her oldest son is being deployed to Iraq next week? The last time she might ever see him. As Tom Delay said, "Please, media, keep it up!".

How can she take on our nation's enemies if she can't even handle a few reporters?

Governor Palin said she is not running for journalist approval but to serve the American people well and she will.
There are no bigger egos than those attached to journalist noses. Its called being narcissistic.
Get over it koolaid Obama drinkers! Jerry White, Springfield, IL

She probably goes to church on Sunday mornings. Deal with it.

To borrow a phrase from Obama, “we've entered the silly season.” This time his supporters have gone crazy to defend their blind objective of getting a democrat in the White House.

Forget about airplanes that were put on eBay and then taken off. Forget about believing any pictures you see of Sarah Palin; they're fake. You can pretty much dismiss anything you hear from the biased media and the bloggers that propagate their false accusations. This may be the first election cycle where the media has a dog in the hunt and don’t want to lose.

Let's get to the debates where you see real discussions regarding the issues we care about. How will we fix things? Do we turn Washington and the US totally upside down with decades old democratic talking points? Do we reform government to eliminate wasteful earmarks and get our representatives to actually work towards common objectives? Can the do nothing congress actually do something? Or we can focus on what talk shows people are on and irrelevant details about how Palin saved money for her State.

One thing you can count on is the crazy dems will continue to go over board and the normal Americans will see them for what they are; extremists that want to control the lives of others. These crazies will continue to oversell their positions and confirm to all they are not qualified to control our lives.

Looks like Sarah is inviting the exalted pundits to kiss her ---.
The sad part about this entire disaster has to be the disruption to the.00001% of voters who actually watch those pedantic droning shows.
Has Tony Rezko signed up for the Sunday shows or is he waiting to sing to the Feds before his sentencing?

The MSM proved to be a bunch of low down yellow bellied snakes who out of the gate attacked her family.

Unlike you big city boys, in small town America if you can't say anything nice some rat dog twit, you usually say nothing at all.

The MSM blew it and now want Palin to come to them bonnet in had. She does not need your anointment. Screw You guys!!

Did it ever occur to anyone of you geniuses that Sarah Palin might just want to go somewhere and attend church on her first Sunday morning after her debut? I know, I know. That desire would show she's a religious "fanatic," like all the other millions of church-goers, not just evangelicals, in the country.

If she did go right away on the Sunday morning shows, someone would carp at her, as they're always finding a silly reason to do so, and accuse her "if you're so Christian, why don't you go to church?" Even Bill Clinton did that regularly.

As a college professor who knows and lives in the American heartland, I'm continually amazed by the cultural disconnect that seems to be emanating from these Eastern commentators and blogs about Sarah Palin. If the fury and the ridicule against her were informed, it would be one thing, but it's increasingly dumber than dumb. I can hear the sound of political gravediggers along the Ohio.

In the meantime, Barack Obama, the Democratic nominee for President of the United States, hasn't held a press conference since early spring.

He has never answered reporters' questions about his relationship with the Reverend Jeremiah Wright or with William Ayers, an admitted and unrepentant domestic terrorist.

Where's the outrage about that, Mark Silva? Where's your smarmy, snide item about that, Mark?

Keep it up. Every time one of you fools writes biased trash like this, Palin's approval rating ticks up another point.

I think the GOP may be too afraid she'd blurt out more damaging news about her and her husband's membership in the Alaskan Independence Party, the group that supports Alaska's seccession from the union. Reports are that Palin would use the high office to further strengthen Alaska's independence. "Alaska First, Alaska Always".

Has it occured to anyone that Gov. Palin might want to take a day off to spend with her son, who is leaving this week to honorably serve our country overseas?
Country first---she's sending her first born off to defend it! All the rants about
Gov. Palin being at the beck and call of the media would have more credibility if obama was held to the same accountability.

Dream on people - she's already been tested going against the Republican and Democratic establishment in Alaska and becoming governor - unlike Obama who won his election by unsealing his opponent's divorce court records. The only empty suit here is Obama - who can't talk without a teleprompter - "ums" and "uhs" his way through questions - and when his telepromptor malfunctions - calls a kid's nebulizer and breathalizer. Unlike Hillary - she did not have to ride her husband's coat tails to get into the public eye. She earned it on her own every step of the way. Palin is the real deal - wait and see!!!!

America will not reward complete Republican failure.

Not this time.

Is Palin taking correspondence courses while out on the road? Like Jimmy Buffet says, "it takes time on the water" to be a sailor.

The Sunday talk shows and press interviews allow the people to hear what you know, not what you say on the stump.

She will be forced to answer the questions her handlers are trying to dodge way before she learns all the pat answers.

At some point you have to realize that all of the candidates speeches are scripted to a scientifically designed strategy that is contrived to get them elected. We as the people never truly know if the rhetoric is pure or the words are simply those of the political strategist locked in the back room.
What one needs to do is to take a look at what's under then hood. Take the time to look at who shapes the campaigns.
Yes it is true that John McCain's campaign team is littered with lobbyists, and so to is Obama's (they aren't just officially registered.) Just as some of you are taking the time to enter the debate, truly educate yourselves about the candidates with your own personal due deligence.
These are in fact desparate times calling for a different kind of voter. More than ever, people need to make an informed decision based on information that is not all generated by the media. We have a great gift called the internet. I propose that each voter spend a weekend reading up on each ticket.
Look into the individuals who run their campaign.
Look at the major contributors and their affiliations.
Look at their voting records. The best predictor of ones behavior is past experience.
Look at their positions on the major issues and analyze how they may truly effect the country.

We are asking these candidates to bring about change, as voters we should do the same.

This is BS. The press has been fawnining over Obama for months and months. They treated Hillary badly and preferred Obama. And, they are sexist and unfair. I mean they way they unleashed on her mothering skills, asking questions never asked of Obama, Biden or anyone else. This is the same media that gave John Edwards pass after pass about his lies. I supported John Edwards and feel cheated by the media for not telling me where my contributions were going. I sit here wondering what I may not know about O since he has been annointed as our saviour by the media. And, there is outrage because Palin won't enter that wolves den? I mean what is the point?? I, as regular voter, have been frustrated how O has been promoted by the Media. I want to hear from the candidates themselves. Given the bias the media has shown protecting candidates they think should be elected, I don't blame her. I am sure she will get a grilling at the debates and will be questioned by reports in due time. In the meantime, why don't you ask Obama some tough questions?

Palin ought to flip the bird to the press every chance she gets. Who do they think they are? The electorate? They're wrong.

I am.

The way the media has ripped Palin's family vein by vein over non issues re a defenseless little 17 year old, who countless of thousand other kids have had babies and/or are expecting, I don't blame her for being selective at this early stage not just pouncing on the liberal media agenda! They think Oprah and Obama are the saviors of the world---well, sorry to deflate their opinion of themselves--O & O are their biggest fans! "Go Hockey Mom--Puck Obama"

When will the media learn. You just got done telling us she was not ready to do her convetion speech, not ready fro primetime and then she totally destroyed all the media specualtion.

If I remeber correctly, it took Obama 11 months before he would go on Meet the Press and 17 months before he would go before a hostile network like Fox News.

Of course Obama would never turn down speaking to a fawning press corpse, he just tuirns down 10 joint town halls where the people would get to ask the questions.

Obama not ready to face the public??

Some people, like Mr. Silva, are a little slow on the uptake. Ms. Palin doesn't need to be appearing on a Sunday talk show. This particular Sunday happens to be the last one she'll get to spend with her son who is deploying to Iraq. It's also a day of rest - not work. I'm sure the media elites can respect that! (sarcasm off) Finally, her candidacy has exposed the true falacy of the Obama-Biden candidacy. They're trying to convince America that the New Deal, big government policies of the last 75 years should continue. They're spinning it as "change". How can a 36 year senator with family in the lobbyist community change anything? All of the democratic fat cats are lining up at the public funding trough for their piece of the pie. The funding stream will end and true change will occur with a McCain election. Remember, Obama's community organizing was through an organization that utilizes the same tactics that communists did when organizing in the 1930's. That's not the direction that truly patriotic Americans want to see their country go.

I find the comments much more illuminating than the article itself as they clearly show that we are a bitterly divided nation, fully entrenched in hopeless, internal conflict. Karl Rove has succeeded in completely turning the citizens of this country against themselves, which leaves the ruling administration alone to do what it pleases. If, for just one minute, all of us could take a step back and look at the last eight years and individually answer whether we think America is in better shape or worse shape than in 2000, the choice of which party to vote for in the upcoming election would be EASY. Period.

But, no. Instead we have fallen into old, distracting habits. I guess the American people get what we deserve for being so phenomenally easy to manipulate.

I think Palin will surface at some point in the future. I'm betting that right now, she's in training. Cramming for the biggest test of her life. I can just see her in a room with two or three young republican staffers, hands on her head and elbows on the table, studying like mad to memorize the Cliff notes version of "How Our Government Works". Some day in the next couple of weeks, when she's able to spit out what she memorized about the three branches of government and quote the constitution, she'll turn up. And America will see her for the beginner that she is.

"Note the absence of hard questions ever to Obama, like "what did you accomplish as a community organizer," or "list your 5 greatest achievements outside of politics."
No, the media by and large are committed left wing Democrats and should be regarded appropriately."

What are Palin's achievements outside of politics? She has 5 kids and, uh, um, she shot a moose? She took 6 years and 4 different schools to get a college degree? Obama was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Point, Obama. And in politics, what has Palin done? Fired a librarian for not banning books, put her small town from zero debt when she got into office to over 20 million in debt despite having huge federal handouts? She's got experience alright, but it mostly shows she's lousy at governing. Obama has at least worked with Republicans in both Illinois and the Senate to pass ethics reforms, among other accomplishments.

This is the problem with many Republicans right now. They want the media to ask all sorts of questions of the Democrat candidate, but if the media actually asked similar questions of their candidate they'd instantly scream LIBERAL MEDIA, UNFAIR QUESTIONS. Because anything truthful that makes their candidate look bad is unfair. To borrow from Colbert, these days the truth has a well-known liberal bias.

Palin is at and UNDISCLOSED LOCATION.

Palin has inherited the grimy black cloak of secrecy and lies from Dick Cheney.

Palin and Cheney are "On the Dark Side."

"Note the absence of hard questions ever to Obama, like "what did you accomplish as a community organizer," or "list your 5 greatest achievements outside of politics."
No, the media by and large are committed left wing Democrats and should be regarded appropriately."

What are Palin's achievements outside of politics? She has 5 kids and, uh, um, she shot a moose? She took 6 years and 4 different schools to get a college degree? Obama was the first black editor of the Harvard Law Review. Point, Obama. And in politics, what has Palin done? Fired a librarian for not banning books, put her small town from zero debt when she got into office to over 20 million in debt despite having huge federal handouts? She's got experience alright, but it mostly shows she's lousy at governing. Obama has at least worked with Republicans in both Illinois and the Senate to pass ethics reforms, among other accomplishments.

This is the problem with many Republicans right now. They want the media to ask all sorts of questions of the Democrat candidate, but if the media actually asked similar questions of their candidate they'd instantly scream LIBERAL MEDIA, UNFAIR QUESTIONS. Because anything truthful that makes their candidate look bad is unfair. To borrow from Colbert, these days the truth has a well-known liberal bias.

Gov. Palin's son is shipping out this week to defend our freedom; so it's entirely appropriate that she spend this precious time with her family. Liberal Obama sycophanats, including those who make up most of the media, wouldn't understand such a thing. All Democrats understand is the politics of personal destruction - they have no higher calling in life. Read all their anti-McCain/Palin posts here if you need further proof of that.

The "talk shows " Obambi goes on have fawned over him, asked only softball questions, Have gotten a "tingling " on their leg while listening to an Obambi speech that"every schoolchild in America should hear" these are some of the fawning comments spoken by those to whom he will visit.
He would not agree to visit Bill O'Reilly until the polls starting turning. Obambi has not had to answer for Wright, Ayers, Dorhn, Pfleger , his pitiful "voting" record in illinois and the senate.
It serves the media right that they have been so flagrantly biased in favor of Obambi that she not visit them. Greta Van Sustern will have two hours of her on Fox News Channel this Saturday 9-7 and Sunday 9-8 at 8:00 P.M. both days. If you are interested in some truthful, non-fawning ,information on Sarah Palin please tune in.

When you trotted Palin out as your VP pick, you lost the right to hide who she is. Hiding her will never do. Get her rehearsed and out there for all to see.

Where is it written that elected officials are required to get the approval of the Media?

After her treatment by the majority of the Press, I would, if I were the McCain camp, hold out for as long as possible before putting her out there. Then, when ready, I'd give her an exclusive with one journalist. Youknow, someone who has been "fair and balanced".

Why should she go among people who have shown they hate and despise her?She knows she will not be treated fairly and that any interview will be no more than a bear baiting. She would certainly not receive the fawning , softball statement that MSM candidate Obama receives. Has any MSM journalist asked Obama where he got his cocaine ? Have thet asked what he did with the 50 million dollars in Annenberg money that he and friend unrepentant terrorist Ayers managed? Has any journalist asked how he came to be a lecturer in law at a large private university without having hardly ever practiced law? I hear rumors that his law classes were little more than prolonged agit prop and racial/gender grievance moans. Let's lay these rumors to rest. Can we see his syllabus for the courses? His reading lists? We CERTAINLY won't learn about this from the likes of Silva.
Sarah should avoid the press altogether and speak over their heads directly to the American people. Most of us distrust the press, with good reason. We will understand.

She's spending the weekend with her son who goes to Iraq on Thursday. The Sunday shows will be there next Sunday, Trak won't.

Felicity, interesting twist of logic, but it doesn't float.

"This Week with George Stephanopoulos", "Face the Nation" and "Meet the Press" are not Entertainment Tonight or Access Hollywood. These programs are the traditional and time-honored arenas for candidates to intelligently discuss and debate political platforms and issues and are watched by millions of voters.

Instead we learn about Palin from People magazine, the National Enquirer and other celebrity fluff rag mags filled with the likes of Britney Spears and Paris Hilton.

Palin: empty suit? Celebrity without substance? It would seem so.

Yeah she's AWOL, they are still grooming her scripts and tweeking her acting performance. It's to be expected by the Republican Regime while they hold us hostage to their lies.

Here is a very interesting perspective on why Palin was chosen. It is from an unusual religious point of view that you certainly do not hear from often. I highly recommend checking it out:

http://www.newsflavor.com/Opinions/McCain-Hijacks-Christianity-Via-Palin.240929

What a bunch of whining comments. Maybe the mother wants to spend the last weekend with her son going off to war.
Whinning Mark Silva and his headline writer.

Palin is a time bomb, a loose canon and the GOP is not giving her a long leash. She's going to blow up something and nobody, including the GOP, knows whether it's McCain or Obama. Should McCain improbably win the election the administration will continue to suppress her. For all the "country music" republican notions that she's "one of us", believe me, when it comes to "country club" republicans she's not. They want your vote folks and she's the bait.

Of course Palin can't be allowed to talk without a teleprompter! Never mind the need to be educated about national issues, she would have a hard time defending her own record.

Sara Palin, Fiscal Conservative??? This is the same woman who left the tiny town of Wasilla floundering under a $27million debt - that's $3,750 for every man, woman and child in the city. If that doesn't sound like much to you, do the math for your own city - you'l be shocked! And for what - for paving roads and building a sewer treatment plant that the town needed? No - two thirds of it went for a huge sports complex so the hockey mom's kids could play whenever they want!

Be very careful America! Even though she proudly snarls like a pit bull, attacks like a barracuda and smiles like a beauty queen, none of those things qualifies her to be Vice President of our country - nor a faint heartbeat away from the Presidency!

Was Biden on the talk shows the weekend after his nomination? I don't think so. Of course the McCain campaign wants to keep the excitement going. Plus, her son leaves this coming week for Iraq. Somehow, chatting it up with Brian Williams or Tom Brokaw does not strike me as her first priority this weekend.
By the way, Maria Bartoloma (sp?) had an hour long interview with her on CNBC discussing energy policy that was done just a few days before McCain selected her. She was extremely knowledgeable.

Oh, yeah. Let's not neglect the issue of whether or not she's qualified to negotiate with Putin. Several Re-pubs have actually said, with a straight face, that she's well-qualified to do so because Alaska borders Russia! Really?!?!?!? REALLY?!?!?!?!? Maybe our next Secretary of State should be an Inuit housewife, because she may have actually once talked with a Russian while out hunting seal!

Are you ready to be President? "yup yup!"

Can you answer any questions to elaborate on your readiness? "That would not be in my party's best interest"

Joe Biden was out and answering your questions from day one. Sarah the "Barracuda" is hiding like a scared little girl - faking illness while cramming for a World Affairs exam that she didn't bother to study for until the night before the test.

I keep thinking of the scene in "Bridget Jones' Diary" where she's trying to prepare for a party - hoping to appear intelligent by learning a few "smart sounding" phrases about Chechynia.

This is all just too too funny...the poor left wing media didn't get to choose McCain's VP pick, so now she must be destroyed by their lies and smear campaigns, while the Messiah is choking on his own bile and falling off hte pedestal. This is going to be a fun election!

The lie is Obama doesn't have any substantive legislative record. The truth is, as the Associated Press reports yesterday, Obama "worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation."

The lie is Obama doesn't have any substantive legislative record. The truth is, as the Associated Press reports yesterday, Obama "worked with Republicans to pass legislation that expanded efforts to intercept illegal shipments of weapons of mass destruction and to help destroy conventional weapons stockpiles. The legislation became law last year. To demean that accomplishment would be to also demean the work of Republican Sen. Richard Lugar of Indiana, a respected foreign policy voice in the Senate. In Illinois, he was the leader on two big, contentious measures in Illinois: studying racial profiling by police and requiring recordings of interrogations in potential death penalty cases. He also successfully co-sponsored major ethics reform legislation."

I love the smell of liberal panic in the morning.

As noted by the McCain camp days ago, the Governor is going home to wrap up issues before hitting the trail.
In addition, it is more likely to spend time with her son prior to his deploying to Iraq next week to continue to fight and ensure our freedom – even for uneducated posters.
And finally, Mr. Silva, Absent Without Official Leave is not appropriate wording ……. unless you think we should run everything by the media first.

Do you see what's happening? The sly old dog McCain is one step ahead of the media/democrats. Because the McCain campaign doesn't do what's expected you're all talking about McCain/Palin instead of Obama/What's his name. You guys will hype her as a flash in the pan, an idiot, scared, etc. so all she'll have to do is show up and smile to make the democrats look like idiots. It also feeds the story line of the press picking on poor Sarah and you all have taken the bait! Obama and Biden doin the same old borin thin and McCain is doing his part to put the focus on Palin. Brilliant! The USA will be in good hands with McCain/Palin

I just love the claim that Palin's 20 months service as governor gives her such deep "administrative" experience.

If the requirement for President is "administrative experience," where does that leave John McCain? What has he ever run? A campaign? Oh, but we're told that doesn't count!

I imagine she is spending time with her son who is deploying next week. Plus, after the over the top negative pile-on she has experienced from the media this past week, I would not blame her if she did not give them the time of day. The small town residents booing the media at the McCain campaign rally sums up what we think of the leftists in the fourth estate.

"Here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion -- I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country." (Sarah Palin, Sept. 3, 2008)

Maybe the real reason she won't be avaible is that she would like to spend this weekend with her family as they say goodby to their son who is departing for duty in Iraq

Hey, Libs . The more you squeal the more we know that McCain/Palin has hit paydirt with the American people. Please, KEEP IT UP!

Just possibly Sarah will be spending Sunday in church with her family.

After all, this will be the last weekend they have together before her son leaves for Iraq.

Give the woman a break!

Of course Palin won't be appearing on Sunday morning talk shows. They're not beauty contests; they're intelligence contests. She can't speak hypothetically or theoretically about anything, she keeps switching the conversation back to her accomplishments in Alaska. All well and good until it finally dawns on you that dealing in the theoretical (regardless of your political stance) is the hallmark of an intelligent and educated person. Look at Kissinger, Cheney, Biden, Kennedy, Gingrich, Obama or McCain, O'Connor, orPelosi. You may or may not agree with them but they can operate in the hypothetical/theoretical, illustrate with concrete examples and then return to the issue. Pallin is not in their league. This is the potential VP of the United States. We deserve someone with the intellectual acumen of some of the aforementioned individuals. We need to demand the best to run our country, people we can respect. Not someone who can be outhought by a middle class voter

This is a woman who values her religion and doesn't want to give Sunday to the TV media, but to give it to her religious beliefs and her faily. Good for her!!!

Republicans hiding Bush and Cheney, and now Sara. Sad and pathetic when you can't run on your record, and can't even take a question for fear you'll be exposed as a novice.

AWOL? Who's AWOL?

It's the *PRESS* that is AWOL on:

Domestic terrorist Bill Ayers (where is he btw?); Khalid al-Mansour (and his Saudi master); Barry's Columbia U transcripts (why won't he release them? how did he get into Harvard Law? the grades must have been excellent, correct?); Annenberg papers; Marilyn Katz; convicted Barry friend Rezko; convicted Barry friend Kwame Kirkpatrick; Barry's government $$s to his wife's employer; any news about Barry's law license (which bar exam(s) has he passed anyway? he *has* passed a bar exam somewhere hasn't he?); his $1/month brother in Africa---"his brother's keeper?" wtf?; direct quotes from Saul Alinsky's radical recipe book in Michelle's speech; David Axelrod and his political "packaging" of The One; and on and on.

It's not Palin who is AWOL. It's the dying, lying, media. Good riddance.

Sorry, wing-nuts. We're not going to let you hide your little Jihadist under the guise of media bias.

Palin on Iraq:

"Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God," she said. "That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God's plan."

Palin on Alaska's natural gas pipeline:

"God's will has to be done in unifying people and companies to get that gas line built, so pray for that," she said.

I'm not for giving the nuclear code to anyone who's going to make decisions based on what they think is "God's will". McCain is frightening enough as a knee-jerk reactionary, let alone some bush-league Evangenut VP a heartbeat away.

Hey bill r., how ya riding out the storm?

Palin is not ready to be VP! The McCain Campaign is giving her a crash course in Foreign Relations, the Iraq War, Russia (her neighbor that she has not visited), the Economy, How to act and look appealing to "soccer moms", etc.

Scary stuff having a potential VP that is in "VP Bootcamp Training"!

People can say all they want negatively about Obama but he ran an excellent primary, managed to reach across fifty states where he was only known in one over a year and a half's time to win the Dem nomination against the more powerful and connected Clinton machine.

Palin is in the same position. We don't know her and McCain expects us to place her in a position of next in line to the Presidency without seeing what she's made of? That's insulting.

Again and again the Repubs are manipulating us and expecting us to go along like robots. Didn't we learn anything from the last eight years? Haven't we learned??

I think the Repub strategy is to try and repeat the Obama popularity by choosing Palin, then keep her from being interviewed just in case she makes a serious gaffe that will sink the McCain campaign. By the time we figure it out that she's not all they've made her out to be, maybe they'll be re-elected and we'll have another Bush presidency. McCain will be the Repub hero orchestrated by Rove. McCain will be seriously indebted to the orchestrators and will become their next Bush/Bush/McCain puppet. How sweet if it works.

Palin has two months to show us what's she's made of besides the fact that she hunts, fishes, can deliver a good speech, and has little time for family. She needs to get in front of the media and answer some tough questions about what she knows about domestic and world events. And not divert the questions back to Obama like McCain does. That will be the true test. Let Obama handle his own business.

Palin is not ready to be VP! The McCain Campaign is giving her a crash course in Foreign Relations, the Iraq War, Russia (her neighbor that she has not visited), the Economy, How to act and look appealing to "soccer moms", etc.

Scary stuff having a potential VP that is in "VP Bootcamp Training"!

It's one thing for John Mccain to gamble away his money (and perhaps even his wife's) but it is the height of unpatriotic "me-first" cynicism to be prepared to hand over the fate of our country and to a large extent that of the world to Sarah "Who?" Palin. I can see Sarah emerging from her first meeting with Vladmir Putin clutching a piece of paper and beaming "I just sold Alaska back to the Russians for twice -- TWICE, DID YOU HEAR ME -- what we paid them."

Tomorrow Sept. 7th is Joe Biden 1st appearance on a sunday talk show since being picked by Obama, what something like 15-20 days ago...so why would any(other than left wing finatical kool aid drinkers) expect S. Palin to appear 9 days after being named and only 3 days after the convention
....MMMMMMMMMMMMM a bit biased aren't we?

It's very possible that Sarah Palin would like to spend Sunday with her family.

This will be the last weekend they will be together before her son leaves for Iraq.

In fact, it might be their last weekend ever.

Give the woman a break!!

Wow. Just...I'm stunned by the nadir of ignorance expressed by several in here.

Let me give you a little "Straight Talk". WHEN THE PRESS ASKS QUESTIONS, THEY DO IT ON BEHALF OF THE AMERICAN PEOPLE. THIS IS AN INTEGRAL PART OF OUR DEMOCRACY. WHEN MCSAME'S CAMPAIGN SAYS THEY WILL NOT DEIGN TO SPEAK TO THE PRESS, THEY ARE SAYING THEY WILL NOT SPEAK TO YOU.

What they ARE doing is speaking AT you. They have gambled (correctly, in some cases, as your comments attest) that you are too stupid to understand facts, a candidate's voting record, and nuanced issues.

Luckily, Obama's get out the vote campaign has been hugely successful, so the country needn't be beholden to a bunch of inbred, Wal-Mart shopping, rapture-waiting Jesus Freaks come January.

Obama, Biden and McCain have all paid their dues to the policial machines for many years. Any of them could take over the Presidency in an emergency. Whatever we think of them, we know them.
Ms Palin has chosen to throw herself into a big pond where she flashed across it and now wants to hide in the deep waters of obscurity--I assume so that she can't be found out and caught. Yes, it is a pretty good bet that she would not only get caught, but filleted.
We live in a dangerous world, some of the more fragile relationships we have are with leaders who represent religious fundamentalists. They do not uphold unwed motherhood as readily as Americans evidently are willing to do---especially as an image for their countrymen. If Palin has to represent the US in one of these countries, (with pictures of Bristol in the media) how is that a benefit to Americans? So why do Americans want to give ammunition to the terrorists to portray us as an evil and immoral nation? I don't get it. Understanding and compassion are one thing, the appearance of condoning errant actions is quite another. McCain's idea to start cultural wars in America in order to win an election, leaves me chilled. He and Palin's naivity created a stir alright, they have stirred up strife. Obama has spent his life reading, writing, teaching, researching, forming coalitions, thinking about a just and sane world, and leading others to make better and more informed life decisions. Obama's "cabinet" think tank of 300 people, (consisting of both democrates and republicans) should tell the American people that the Democrates are prepared and ready to lead. Palin has spent her time focused on nothing of the sort from what I can read--we don't know her and we can't get media access to her, so we can only surmise what she thinks she is about, and most importantly, what she thinks America is about. Being able to spout old verbal images to make people feel good about the deplorable condition America is in, and then try to divide our differing cultures is not patriotic, in my mind, it's naively subversive to the American way of life down here in the lower 48.

Obama, Biden and McCain have all paid their dues to the policial machines for many years. Any of them could take over the Presidency in an emergency. Whatever we think of them, we know them.
Ms Palin has chosen to throw herself into a big pond where she flashed across it and now wants to hide in the deep waters of obscurity--I assume so that she can't be found out and caught. Yes, it is a pretty good bet that she would not only get caught, but filleted.
We live in a dangerous world, some of the more fragile relationships we have are with leaders who represent religious fundamentalists. They do not uphold unwed motherhood as readily as Americans evidently are willing to do---especially as an image for their countrymen. If Palin has to represent the US in one of these countries, (with pictures of Bristol in the media) how is that a benefit to Americans? So why do Americans want to give ammunition to the terrorists to portray us as an evil and immoral nation? I don't get it. Understanding and compassion are one thing, the appearance of condoning errant actions is quite another. McCain's idea to start cultural wars in America in order to win an election, leaves me chilled. He and Palin's naivity created a stir alright, they have stirred up strife. Obama has spent his life reading, writing, teaching, researching, forming coalitions, thinking about a just and sane world, and leading others to make better and more informed life decisions. Obama's "cabinet" think tank of 300 people, (consisting of both democrates and republicans) should tell the American people that the Democrates are prepared and ready to lead. Palin has spent her time focused on nothing of the sort from what I can read--we don't know her and we can't get media access to her, so we can only surmise what she thinks she is about, and most importantly, what she thinks America is about. Being able to spout old verbal images to make people feel good about the deplorable condition America is in, and then try to divide our differing cultures is not patriotic, in my mind, it's naively subversive to the American way of life down here in the lower 48.

Obama, Biden and McCain have all paid their dues to the policial machines for many years. Any of them could take over the Presidency in an emergency. Whatever we think of them, we know them.
Ms Palin has chosen to throw herself into a big pond where she flashed across it and now wants to hide in the deep waters of obscurity--I assume so that she can't be found out and caught. Yes, it is a pretty good bet that she would not only get caught, but filleted.
We live in a dangerous world, some of the more fragile relationships we have are with leaders who represent religious fundamentalists. They do not uphold unwed motherhood as readily as Americans evidently are willing to do---especially as an image for their countrymen. If Palin has to represent the US in one of these countries, (with pictures of Bristol in the media) how is that a benefit to Americans? So why do Americans want to give ammunition to the terrorists to portray us as an evil and immoral nation? I don't get it. Understanding and compassion are one thing, the appearance of condoning errant actions is quite another. McCain's idea to start cultural wars in America in order to win an election, leaves me chilled. He and Palin's naivity created a stir alright, they have stirred up strife. Obama has spent his life reading, writing, teaching, researching, forming coalitions, thinking about a just and sane world, and leading others to make better and more informed life decisions. Obama's "cabinet" think tank of 300 people, (consisting of both democrates and republicans) should tell the American people that the Democrates are prepared and ready to lead. Palin has spent her time focused on nothing of the sort from what I can read--we don't know her and we can't get media access to her, so we can only surmise what she thinks she is about, and most importantly, what she thinks America is about. Being able to spout old verbal images to make people feel good about the deplorable condition America is in, and then try to divide our differing cultures is not patriotic, in my mind, it's naively subversive to the American way of life down here in the lower 48.

Another clueless media hack. Us "hicks" realize that the Repubs are snubbing the Sunday shows because of the bias that the media demonstrates with every story... plus, why give shows that no one watches their best ratings ever?? The McCain-Palin ticket doesn't need you, old media. And neither do we.

The democrats would not go on Foxnews and Obama had to cut a special deal to get him on Foxnews. Why with knowing that the left wing press are just going to play gotcha politics and lie about her anyhow should she go on these pro Obama left wing programs. Everyone already knows that the press has done everything they can to smear her.
We all know that they will just slice and dice any interview to make it seem she said something wrong, no matter how far out of context they have to take it.

She can't even do Fox (sympathetic to the GOP)? Perhaps they aren't too confident in her ability to ad-lib in front of the press. If she's not on next week, then something is really up, since a week should be long enough to prepare.

AWOL - Absent without leave, did she need your permission? Since when? Your little feelings hurt, baby got booboo? Grow up. Her son is going off next week, and she still is governor. Besides she’s got a family to attend to and it is her prerogative not yours. She is off to enjoy this weekend,to a place far beyond the dimbocrats whine.

The GOP has this pitbull on a VERY short leash. Why? Because although the paperwork says pedigree, she's really just an angry mutt with a habit of going where she eats. Troopergate, library censorship, Bridge to Nowhere flip flops, earmarks, church that thinks Iraq is war for God, anti-science creationist, anti-environment, and like McCain an adulterer and supporter of teen pregancies and no choice.

I for one like my leaders to be people that won't be laughed at by foreign leaders.

The Palin Phantom
Oh where, oh where, has the phantom gone?
Oh where, oh where, can she be?
With her interviews cut short
We can't hear her retorts
And we feel we've been left up a tree!

Ask O about his missing back ground.No one remembers him at columbia;why did he go there from his Cal school?
You tout his head of Harvard Law review but he never wrote any thing for it while he was there.
He ran the Annenburg thinky he won't talk about.
If you dweebs would spend 1th the time looking at him he would be gone.
Gov Palin is going rock your boat twits.

It's very possible that Sarah Palin would like to spend Sunday with her family.

This will be the last weekend they will be together before her son leaves for Iraq.

In fact, it might be their last weekend ever.

Give the woman a break!!

Ooohhh! Obama has SArah quaking in her shoes. The big O would be lost without a teleprompter. Thank God the Tribune is in the tank of the one hit wonder or he'd be lost in Illinois.

It's not that she's afraid or that they're pulling a power play keeping her off of Sunday shows, people.

She just needs to find Karl Rove so he can give her automated Republican spin answers to the tough questions she's posed (or give some coy response that paints the media as sexist when she's asked such a question).

I need help can someone tell me what Obama's experience is compared to Palins. If I'm not mistaken doesn't his term if he is elected start from day one. That is kind of scary considering his real lack of experience. Also can you tell me what he is going to do to fix the economy and gas prices. I heard all of the lines about creating jobs and raising taxes on the rich. Sounds a lot like the same thing I heard two years ago when the Congress and Senate were taken over by the democrats. Since that time all I got was higher unemployment, plummeting home values and higher gas prices because the oil producing countries know the democrats would never let us use our own natural resources. Sorry but I can't afford anymore change Not to sound completely negative I will say at least the democrats were able to find out after spending millions of our dollars that athletes take steroids. I'm just waiting till they come out with the report of why the chicken crossed the road

Isn't her son about to be deployed overseas? I think this is the last weekend she might be able to see him for a long time.

After last week of all the media vilians and their garbage reporting.....I wouldn't go sit down for interviews with those garbage bags either.

You don't suppose she is spending time with her son before his departure for Iraq, do you? I did that two years ago...maybe they went to church together, even. I cannot believe how clueless you people are; yeah, that includes you, Silva.

Gov Palin is the Closer. She will appear on the networks during the last weeks of the campaign. O'Biden has lost the mojo. Go McCain-Palin!

Hatred does terrible things to logic. We all acknowledge that Sen. Obama is not inspiring without a teleprompter. We have not heard that Gov.Palin will have/need 300+ national security advisers. Three of the candidates have personal records and paper trails that have and can be examined. We're still waiting for the last One.

Palin will hit the circuit after she slays Joe Biden in the only debate he'll do.

The Democratic ticket is so shallow, and dare I say inexperienced, that they won't debate issues, the issues they say Republicans don't speak about.

"The Dems are worried, and with good reason, she is a real person."

So let us see her away from her scripts - heck, put her on Fox...

What are YOU afraid of?

If the LIB TRIB were any more transparent, they'd re-name their rag the Obama Times.

This is journalism?

Be patient. Chris Wallace had to wait two years for Obama.

if she went on the shows this weekend y'all would be blasting her on Monday for not spending more time with her son who is shipping out to Iraq next week.
how can she help run the country and take care of her family you ask? pretty darned well.

You libs sound, so desperate, to get Palin into the shark tank, with real "journalists", like Dan Rather, to see her implode like Obie does w/o a teleprompter.

It's not our fault that Obie was NOT vetted...you have your own media and yourselves to thank for the mess you're in now (losing the White House again, even after 8 years of Bush/Cheney, our heros).

McBrilliant & Company (General Patreus) will decide when and where to meet on the battlefield and what armaments to be used to annihilate you....and we will be victorious, like we are in Iraq....while you're still sleeping.

Ah, the smell of gin and regret. Cowboy George ran rings around you and so will McBrilliant and Palin.

Arghhhhh!

Has it ever occurred to any of you that maybe Gov. Palin wants to spend some time with her son before he deploys to Iraq next week?

Sarah Barracuda didn't show up on your precious Sunday news shows, horrors! All you effete moonbat Liberals need to collapse on your fainting couches. God Bless her, her family and the USA!
McCain/Palin '08
Palin/Jindal '12

BAD MOM and Govenor, that would have been the headline had she not opted to go home and state care of state affairs and her family. She does not have to worry about the media, she has the favor of the public without them. Her son is heading to Iraq in less than a week! Her family has just been attacked by the press. She needs to take care of family and set up a way to govern her state while on the road. I am sure she will be on the road again and doing the media she chooses. Good for her.

This speaks volumes about McCain. What is says is that he knows that most Americans don't watch those tired old shows where gotcha questions are asked and a month of snarky "observations" afterwards have become fare for media-besotted liberals. Sarah Palin realizes that she needs to speak to the American people directly and that she doesn't need media elite snobs interpreting her comments for her. Good for her and Senator McCain!! I love to see the oh-so-precious media's noses out of joint!!

Obviously the strategy is to blame the press. They are not kind to their pet pit bull! She might get a knock out punch day one.

The other element is to lower expectations to below zero. That way, when she is just a zero, it will be Republican win.

The final aspect is to make sure not much time is spent actually confirming she is what she appears to be. A right wingers right winger and someone that is not ready to be VP if McCain kicks off or if something else happens.

The probabilities for McCain are much higher than anyone in history. With his age, with how his body has been savaged in the past, and with the high risk environment that exists for an American President which is heightened by America's belligerent shoot first and go it alone conduct.

It is not too much, I would think, for her to come out and talk about her history, her experience, what she does and does not know.

I mean, a quick study is not someone that can quickly study a speech someone else prepared and give it in a rousing way.

What does she know - what does she need to know and when will she know it? What fundamentally are her moral views? Why can she not speak to this? She owes it to the American people to speak out about who she is and what she would do as VP and as President.

palin is an excellent choice and shows how smart mccain is, the proof is in the frantic behavior of all the liberal media and the rest of the democraps, they did not see it coming, their hypocracy is showing and they are loosing. go mccain job well done.

If the media is all so partisan, what is wrong with America today? Clearly the last decade of Republican government has then reduced America's objectivity, openness, intelligence and common sense then.

And, it is ironic that Palin can stand there and attack people personally, snarl and glare and rant against whomever she wishes. Yet, she cannot be asked questions about what and why she is saying these things. About her background and what she really thinks about community action such as what Obama did briefly in his past. About sex education, birth control, about science, about energy, about whatever.

If she wants to hide, it reflects poorly on her, her handlers and micro managers, and on the Republican machine.

Vote democrat.

Obama's plan:
More taxes, and lose more jobs. Drive American companies into the toilet w/union demands that cannot be sustained. Nationalize healtcare so it can be a beacon like Europe's decomposing plan for the last 40 years. Tell us where to smoke and what kind of cars to buy and what kind of oil my french fries are fried in. Throw more money at education so it can be stolen by all the black politicians. Give me a break.

Did I forget to mention, Palin looks a little different from those other men on our currency.....she's way hot!

The Rove trained crew is clearly in charge of the McCain campaign and doing their usual great job. If you leftist losers liked 2000 & 2004 you’re gonna love 2008. Regarding the hew and cry for Sarah to go on Lame Stream Media talk shows. What are you, Nuts? Pistol Packing Palin is the hottest ticket in the country. Why should see go on the Lame Stream media and help the ratings of the misogynist dogs that viciously attacked her for being a capable woman, just like they did Hillary. Even a democrat should be able to figure that out. Well, maybe not.

The question is, how does Caribou Barbie fill in the holes in John Bush's resume? A man who graduated near the bottom of his class (like calling the straight C med student Dr.), crashed 3 jets, shot down once, sang like a sissy as a P.O.W., came home to cheat on and dump his disfigured 1st wife (and kids), marries trust fund beer heiress (a positive), 1st act in Senate was the Keating 5 (back when failed banks only cost hundreds of millions of $ to bail out as opposed to billions now), votes for reform legislation - then renounces it (finance reform, immigration), smeared by Rove team in 2000 then hires them in 2008 (weak sissy), contends with joeL for the most uninspiring speaker contest, votes against veteran benefits/education/GI bill of rights/VA/proper armor, and allows himself to be turned into the straight jacket express.
Caribou Barbie brings John Bush another trophy babe to leer at (seriously, check out his eyes - always scanning the booty), and a fem GWB. Down home charm, oil rich state governor, embroiled in scandal, believes that god has chosen them to lead, no foreign policy experience, governs with budget deficits, and makes all decisions according to God's will (now how full of yourself are you to believe that God answers all of your prayers and dictates all of your actions - think of all of the crazy prayers that Robertson/Dobson/Falwell/Roberts/etc. asked for and were DENIED . . . and they are the professionals!).
Granted CB reads a good teleprompter (6 different enrollments and a TV gig will do that for you), but so does my weatherman - definitely NOT VP material. She has breathed life into the GOP (and judging by most of the convention shots - sorely needed). But besides that - Caribou Barbie is an estrogen GWB . . . is that what John Bush needs?

So this is the "Swamp," is it???

After reading the posts that precede this I get a fair idea of what/who's lurking in the swamp.....

My, my!!! Most are still blinded by the bling that once eclipsed the reality of BHO's true self..... Blinded to the fact that his ego is the only thing "big" about him...... Blinded by his self-anointed messiahnism..... Blinded by the puffery of his two autobiographies, and blind to his TOTAL LACK of any legislative/political accomplishment, other than rising from the outhouse of Chicago/Illinois politics...... Blind to his ties to "God Damn America" psuedo-Christian pastors, Marxists, Islamists, terrorists, convicted felons......

And certainly blind to the emergence of a new and shining star in the political skies of America..... A "she!" A woman! A mother! A hunter, gutter and skinner...... A small-town mayor with big-city, statewide, nationwide, worldwide skills..... A woman/mother/politician of accomplishments beyond voting "present" when confronted with tough issues.....

The "blitz" of BHO is gone ~~ the base-metal of his heart and soul is exposed.....

Bye bye, BHO..... Welcome, Sarah!!!

New Bumper Sticker

POW-WOW'08

prisoner of war - wonder woman

People like Drudge are in a tizzy that Oprah won't put Palin on her show. Yet "tough" Sarah Palin is avoiding the sunday morning talk shows. Maybe Palin should hold out for Ellen or The View.

Isn't she suppose to be a "serious candidate?" Isn't she suppose to be ready to fill in for McCain if "something" happens. She can't handle the press here in the US but she can handle Putin? The McCain campaign says she is fully vetted, yet can't take the vetting by the press.

Gee, tomorrow is Sunday. Maybe Governor Palin is going to church. Maybe she is going to spend time with her son who is deploying to Iraq next week and whom she will not see again for months, if ever. Maybe she needs to spend some time with her family or attend to Alaska State business. Maybe she is getting a classified intelligence briefing from State or the CIA. Maybe she just needs to rest from the over three hours of media interviews she and Senator McCain had on the schedule today. Maybe she will relax by running a half-marathon. Maybe she has a bazillion better things to do than go talk to self-important partisans pretending to be objective commentators but intent on ripping her to shreds while tossing softballs to any Democrats who happen by.

Remember what they say about assumptions....they make an ass of you and umptions and I have a feeling the umptions are being made ass of again.

This is the same sort of pre-judging [read prejudice] that was going on prior to her acceptance speech [remember back when those of this writer's ilk thought she was going to tank and have to be removed from the ticket?]

There are plenty of plausible reasons for her absence. I vote for "personal choice". She just might be choosing to spend this last weekend with her son. I would. I have no way of knowing -- any more than the aforesaid umption had of assuming she was afraid to "meet the press" -- but from what I've seen so far, I think personal choice trumps political fear. The lady, whatever other opinion one might have of her, has proven that she's gutsy.

Excuse me how are voterrs other than the completely uninformed or formed by the last sound bite supposed to know who Sarah Palin is what she stands for. Where will the info about her come from if not the media? and the press. Yes BOTH SIDES the left and the right should allow people to make up their minds, and not base their decision on a series of campaign drivel. Answering the tough questions in front of the PEOPLE, will allow her to dismiss rumors,and lies and let us get to see the real Sara Palin, without a script, just like Barack did. Now the campaign can totally hide who she is and if she's qualified, and after her thourough coaching appear like a vision on Nov. 3rd with a shotgun and a mouse lugging those poor kids around. Every time she appears in person it will be scripted she's like the warm up act for the 5th act of the vaudeville show. So tell me how is an informed decision supposed to be made, since I don't have the time or money to travel to Alaska. I believe the campaign was looking for any excuse NOT to let us know her, and that the curiosity about her will cause the public to ignore the issues, and distract the public with all this hoopla till just before the election. John McCain should be in charge of his campaign not Steve Schmidt and the Rove minions. It is now all based on lies attacks and a vaudeville show.

You liberal Dems sound like a bunch of panicked sheep bleating AND RUNNING SCARED!pALIN DOESN'T HAVE TO APPEAR ON THE MAIN TV PUNDITS TALK SHOW TO BE ELECTED. THOSE VERY SAME PUNDITS WHO HAVE FELL IN WORSHIP AT BO'S FEET AND DONE NOTHING BUT MAKE FUN OF A NORMAL DECENT WOMAN & MOTHER. The Times sent reporters to Alaska with instruction to dig up dirt, true or not just doesn't matter. You think the people of this country are fools and only you elitist have the right to an opinion. Stick it!

Why ......why are the left so darn worried about Sarah, just don't vote for her. She has all the requirements for Vice President. Vote for Biden if that's your choice. Don't WORRY the MSM will find lots of garbage to attack Sarah. So all you lefties just relax.....Vote Biden relax, and remember to vote this Nov 5th.

There's no wonderwoman in Palin. Took her six years at six different colleges to finish a four year degree and that's the only degree she has earned in her life.

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/wire/ats-ap-cvn-palin-educationsep04,0,3284051.story

She is a gimmick not a leader. She has to be hidden or she may be exposed. No excuses for her. SHe should be held to the same standard as the men. she needs to talk to america and not just read speeches written by handlers.

THE DEMOCRAT PARTY'S MANIFESTO
1. You have to believe the AIDS virus is spread by lack of Federal funding.
2. You have to believe that the school system that can't teach a fourth grader how to read is some how the best qualified to teach those same children all about sex.
3. You have to believe that guns, in the hands of law abiding Americans, are more of a threat than U.S. nuclear weapons technology in the hands of Chinese communists.
4. You have to believe there was no art before Federal funding.
5. You have to believe that global temperatures are less affected by cyclical, documented changes in the earth's climate, and more affected by Americans driving SUVs.
6. You have to believe that gender roles are artificial, but being homosexual is natural.
7. You have to be against capital punishment but support abortion on demand.
8. You have to believe that business creates oppression and governments create prosperity.
9. You have to believe that hunters don't care about nature, but loony activists from Seattle do.
10. You have to believe that self-esteem is more important than actually doing something to earn it.
11. You have to believe that the U.S. Military, not evil and tyrannical regimes, start wars.
12. You have to believe the NRA is bad because it supports certain parts of the Constitution, while the ACLU is good because it supports certain parts of the Constitution.
13. You have to believe that taxes are too low, but ATM fees are too high.
14. You have to believe that Margaret Sanger and Gloria Steinem are more important to American history than Thomas Jefferson, General Robert E. Lee, or Thomas Edison.
15. You have to believe that standardized tests are racist, but racial quotas and set-asides are not.
16. You have to believe Hillary Clinton is all about "progress" and not power. She just wants to help us out of the archaic system of governing that we have been subjected to since our founding.
17. You have to believe that the only reason socialism hasn't worked anywhere it's been tried, is because the right people haven't been in charge.(I've got news for you. It has never worked because the RIGHT people have been in charge.)
18. You have to believe Republicans telling the truth belong in jail, but a cheat, liar and sex offender belongs in the White House and you would vote him back in there in a New York Minute (if you could).
19. You have to believe that homosexual parades displaying drag, transvestites, and bestiality should be constitutionally protected, and manger scenes at Christmas should be illegal.
20. You have to believe that illegal Democrat Party funding by the Chinese is somehow in the best interest of the United States.
21. You have to believe that the vociferous minorities who protest against prayer and saluting the flag in school have far more rights than the majority who believe in God and country, and want these values instilled in our young children.
22. You have to believe in MOB RULE and not RULING THE MOB (The Republican way).
23. You must not listen to Rush Limbaugh.
24 Trade Unions and Trial Lawyers are our strength and power.
25 The Main Stream Media and Hollywood are our propagandists.
26 WE HAVE TO CUT & RUN FROM IRAQ BECAUSE IF
THE U.S. HELPS THEM WIN - WE LOSE.
27 LAST BUT NOT LEAST WE ARE THE PARTY FOR THE LOSERS IN
LIFE AND WE CAN ONLY KEEP OUR POWER BY KEEPING THEM
THERE.
27 You have to swear to the : THE DEVIL'S CODE
HIS HEART DOES NOT EXIST
HE SPEAKETH WITH A FORKED TONGUE
HIS STRENGTH UPHOLDS THE WICKED
HIS SWORD SLAYS THE DEFENSELESS
HIS WRATH UNDOES THE INNOCENT
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BUT NOT TO THE: THE KNIGHT'S CODE
HIS HEART KNOWS VIRTUE
HIS TONGUE SPEAKS ONLY TRUTH
HIS STRENGTH UPHOLDS THE WEAK
HIS SWORD DEFENDS THE HELPLESS
HIS WRATH UNDOES THE WICKED
THIS WAS THE OATH OF A FIGHTER PILOT. Keep forwarding and add more
PS-THE COWBOY AND FIGHTER PILOT IS AMERICA'S VERSION OF OLD EUROPE'S CHIVALRY AND KNIGHTHOOD.
MR. BILL

P.S. Send to 1000 friends or 1000 times to an enemy.

Why would anyone want to see Sarah's beautiful face on T.V. when they can see Joe Biden's mug! Joe Biden has never missed a chance to have his face on T.V., with his oversized false teeth and his hair plugs.

Maybe she's not appearing on TV shows because she can't control the questions asked by the liberal media the way Obama and Biden can.

TV appearances by the OB team are not interviews: they're commercials.

The day they start asking tough questions of Obama will be the right time to come back and revisit this article.

So besides criminally abusing the power of her office and being a successionist, she's a coward too? This is the best the Republican party has to offer? No thanks.

why isn't the press demading to interview this woman. what right does the mccain campaign have to keep her out of the line of questions, she is not running for the pta, this is someone who may very well be the next president of the u.s. I want to know who she is, I don't think living in alaska since it is in close proximity to russia means she has foreign relations experience. guys, take the gloves off. this is the fight of our lives, if we are headed down another 4 years of bush, we all lose. I am so saddened by what happened to john mccain. in 2000 he was accused of being he manchurian candidate, and then he hires these same people to run his campaign. what a shame, and shame on us for not realizing this.

I’m surprised Sarah Palin’s detractors would go after women, children, and the unborn. I guess that’s politics. However, common sense dictates that it’s an untenable position, one on which her opposition cannot win. Here’s a clip from Jan & Dean. Bet you can’t watch just once: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eX7X4FovYRA&NR=1 And how ‘bout them Dems, they done yet: http://theseedsof9-11.com

I'LL SAY IT AGAIN...LOUD AND CLEAR....BIDEN HAS YET TO APPEAR ON A SUNDAY SHOW SINCE BEING NAMED OBBIE MATE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
What has he been so afraid of ????
Or has it taken him this long to get ready?

Democrats, Republicans and Independents just take a second to reflect. Obama, McCain and Biden are known worldwide. Palin is not known and will not be unless she gets the media exposure the Republicans don't seem to want her to have. (I wonder why!) If Obama becomes president and something unfortunate happens to him, the USA will still be respected due to Biden. If McCain becomes president and something unfortunate happens to him, the USA will become a joke to other nations. Can you say President Palin without getting a chill? Think about that if you vote for the elderly statesman.

Ya gotta love these hypocritical repubics. They whined for weeks about Obama getting all the press coverage and John Bush getting none. Then as soon as the press wants to cover them, they pull back and say "We'll tell YOU when you can cover our candidates." So who is really setting the agenda for the media? Looks like the repubics are playing the media for the chumps they are.

"Palin, conspicuous by her mere absence: This booking strategy may speak volumes about the McCain campaign's confidence in the governor from Alaska." Oh please. What a bunch of liberal crap trap. If she doesn't spend time with her family she is a bad mom. If she doesn't go on the Sunday talk shows she is a bad candidate. Up is down, etc. Sarah Palin rubs the media raw because they can't put her in a box, label her and ship her off to the public. The McCain campaign wants to control its message and not let the Sunday talk show circuit do it for them. Not to mention did anyone think that if McCain is getting CBS to himself why would they let her first appearance over shadow McCain's appearance. Sliva you need to stop and think objectively for a minute and maybe you wouldn't make such a stupid assumption about the campaign's confidence in her.

"Palin, conspicuous by her mere absence: This booking strategy may speak volumes about the McCain campaign's confidence in the governor from Alaska." Oh please. What a bunch of liberal crap trap. If she doesn't spend time with her family she is a bad mom. If she doesn't go on the Sunday talk shows she is a bad candidate. Up is down, etc. Sarah Palin rubs the media raw because they can't put her in a box, label her and ship her off to the public. The McCain campaign wants to control its message and not let the Sunday talk show circuit do it for them. Not to mention did anyone think that if McCain is getting CBS to himself why would they let her first appearance over shadow McCain's appearance. Silva you need to stop and think objectively for a minute and maybe you wouldn't make such a stupid assumption about the campaign's confidence in her.

NOW you people know how we feel. We have been out here waiting for answers regarding Obama and AYERS, FRANK MARSHAL DAVIS, REV WRIGHT- the part about Obama's BLack Liberation Theology beliefs....to date he has never ever been questioned heavily on that part of the issue. I read a book by Cone regarding this, Obama has got to answer some hard line questions on this.

You guys can fuss all you like, but there's one thing that doesn't add up with your cryin> PALIN IS RUNNING FOR VP, but OBAMA IS RUNNING FOR PRESIDENT. Don't you think we have a right to get answers about our PRESIDENT before the VP?

Fear and ignorance is why she isn't on the shows. Period. I'm going the relish the media exposing her as a fraud. - NM

Palin must be DRILLED AND GRILLED NOW! DRILL HER AND GRILL HER. Get her under the lights and ask her some tough questions. What are the neo-cons hiding. She isn't ready for press?? She doesn't even know what the vice president is supposed to do. DRILL HERE, GRILL NOW! whiteagle38

All women out there who value life and who they are and the power of self choice. If you vote for Palin you are worse than the last 200 years of male rule. SHE professes shes a pro lifer but she HUNTS AND KILLS INNOCENT ANIMALS FOR SPORT!!! ENOUGH SAID. WOULD YOU TAKE A GUN AND SHOOT ANYTHING . IN PARTICULAR FROM A PLANE!! IS THIS WHAT YOU WANT YOUR CHILDREN TO LEARN? THAT KILLING ANIMALS IS FUN AND SPORTING IN THIS DAY OF SO CALLED ENLIGHTENMENT. SHES A NEANTHERDAL AND THE ONLY DIFFERENCE BETWEEN HER AND CHENEY IS LIPSTICK WHICH SHE WOULD MAKE HIM WEAR. WOMEN, WAKE UP. YOUNG WOMEN, WAKE UP. DO YOU LIKE KILLING THINGS OR MEN WHO KILL ANIMALS? WAKE UP AND VOTE AGAINST THIS CRETIN WOMAN

What do you expect from a token/affirmative action pick; just sit at the desk and don't answer the phone,we'll let you know when we have something for you.

George Will, for the Washington Post, put it best. "John McCain's opponent is by far the least experienced person to receive a presidential nomination in the 75 years since the federal government became a comprehensively intrusive regulatory state and modern weaponry annihilated the protection the nation derived from time and distance."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/02/AR2008090202441.html

and we're all worried why a VP hasn't met with the press ? Why did it take Senator Obama 9 months worth of invitations to grant an interview with Bill O'Reilly ? If he cannot stare down Bill O'Reilly he thinks he can stare down Putin ?

Ready from Day One, huh? Ummm......yeah.......just not ready to answer any, um.......questions, you know.

Thank you for the comic relief.

1. She's going to be with her son before he deploys.
2. She will be just fine when she does "the circuit", which few people watch anyhow.
3. She read her speech just like Obama and Biden and McCain read theirs. (but maybe a bit better)
4. She has absolutely rattled the cages of the self-anointed, open-minded, equality-focused press, and all the blindly rage-driven Democrats.

Her absence speaks volumes. The media should remain calm and tell readers and viewers that Sarah was invited, but declined to participate. Voters will get tired of the diva act after a couple of weeks, by then maybe Sarah will find her voice. If McCain's handlers are gambling on her silence to win votes. I'll call that bluff.

Yeah, the liberal media. I get so tired of General Electric/NBC, Disney/ABC and Viacom/CBS pushing their left wing non-capitalist agendas on us. That's how they trick us. By pretending they're all about making money and then... oh, wait... never mind.

I'm glad she ignoring the MediaBlogs. She not running for president anyway. So make the press work for once and if they get it wrong, it won't matter -- the press has already lost it's crediblity.

Yeah, the liberal media. I still remember how the liberal media took such a critical look at the argument for invading Iraq. that damn New York Times. Hiring Judith Miller to serve as a cheerleader for the war to hide their evil leftist agenda. Cheney would plant stuff with her through her boyfriend Scooter Libby and then Cheney would go on the Sunday talk shows saying even the liberal NYT agreed with the Bushies. What a great job they did of hiding their liberalism.

And I'm tired of General Electric/NBC, Disney/ABC and Viacom/CBS pretending they're all about making money when they're real goal is... well, making money. That's how diabolical the liberal media is!

Oh, and Sharon. Obama went on O'Reilly. Think Palin will show up on Keith Olberman? Yeah, I don't think so either.

And if you want to use MSNBC as an example of liberal media to ahead. The bottom line is the bottom line. They tried being more conservative and their ratings sucked. They've moved away from the Bushies - as America has- and low and behold, their ratings are up! Who'd a thunk it?

Senator Obama will need all the stick time he can get on the Sunday shows after the next two sessions with O'Reilly are aired. I wouldn't worry about Sarah. I'd worry about the latent reaction the Dems are already getting for snubbing Hillary Clinton and then dispatching the New York Senator, Senator Barbara Boxer and Kansas Governor Kathleen Sebelius the day after the GOP convention ebded like good little girls to show there's no gender problem within party ranks.

How embarrassing for McCain. How does the campaign expect to have her avoid doing interviews for any period of time. She better be an incredibly quick study which judging by her academic record is really wishful thinking. (BTw, she went to five colleges not six as if that is a difference worth pointing out).

Of course, McCain is no academic either with his proud status at the bottom of his Naval Academy class. Is it too much to ask to have smart people running our country?

In answer to Obama's question "how dumb do they think we are?" I guess the answer is "pretty dumb" since we would need to be dumber than than McCain and Palin.

oh my god, republicans are morons. I have voted for candidates in both parties, but I'm forced now to side with the dems almost exclusively. It's embarrassing to watch the GOP lately. Lord, deliver us from the right wing. They're bitter, dangerous and kind of nuts.

Hey, did anyone see the Palin special on Fox Greta V. show. That was an incredible look inside her life.

I saw this C-Span special the other day and they had this Huffington woman on there saying that there are things she won't report about if they have nothing to back them up with, but then the funny part>she makes sure to mention one of those stories as being the one where someone is saying that the Palin baby isn't really hers (she sure made a point of getting that falsehood out there ha). Huffington's big point on C-span was that there is no way to report balanced because >my gosh, some stories are just ONE WAY and you have to take one side to TELL THE TRUTH ha ha (do the thinking for us she means ha ha). She gives Global WArming alarmist jazz as one example, she says it's true, so she suggest it must be reported from one side ha. I wonder how stupid she feels now that it's finally proven that it is PALIN's Baby tsk tsk. Nasty woman, nasty politics!

R. Juneau - you seem pretty interested in getting Gov. Palin some tough questions. Why did President Obama ignore 9 months of invitations to an interview with Bill O'Reilly until a few days ago ? It literally took negotiations between News Corp., of course the parent of Fox News, and the Obama campaign to make it happen. Odd, he's willing to negotiate with Iran's president with no preconditions, but it took 9 months of negotiations to get President Obama in front of Bill O'Reilly. Odd, don't you think?

After reading most of the comments here I see that the republic propaganda machine is in full swing. Palin is nothing more than an attack dog with absolutely no foreign policy experience, no national experience, and no business expecting anyone to vote for her if she can’t face questions from the public. I keep hearing these false statements about Obama reading from a teleprompter, it’s BS, after seeing his speech last week I didn’t once see him look at any teleprompter or notes, and never stumbled or stammered once. As for McSame, every time there’s even a short clip for one of his town hall meetings he’s constantly looking at a teleprompter for what to say next, or stumbling for his words than pausing with a stupid looking grin on his face. Palin also obviously reads every word she says from a teleprompter or a written speech in front of her, and nothing about important matters of national concern, only about her great accomplishments, with a whopping year and a half experience, as the governor of a state with one of the smallest populations, and her divisive attacks on the democratic nominee. The Rove playbook is working overtime to try and sell this BS once again, but this time it’s not going to work. As for all you republic propaganda plants on this blog, how will your guy’s pay you after their thrown in jail?

Sour Garpes from the left in rare form. Its slipping away again with the pick that puts them in a tough strategic position. $400 Million in Campaign Funds, An Unpopular War, High Oil Prices and Unemployment and a candidate that is in a dead heat. The american people are not buying it. The candidate of compromise has never once voted with the other side, calls out commentators by their first names and has more bagage than Biden's son who is lobbyist can carry

so when ms. Palin (or rather her handlers) decides that she will be able to talk to the press, I suppose WE, the people will be require to wake up and take notes?

Well that additude just made my vote easier, so no matter how many facts they manage to stuff into her pretty little head by Nov with that statement I've heard enough. by the time, she's ready to talk to the press, I hope all the reporters say, Thanks, but no thanks!

The GOP thrives on lowered expectations. They'll keep her hidden for a while, let speculation build that she's a complete fool, and then let on TV. When she doesn't completely melt down and is capable of full sentences, the message will be, gee she's not that bad. Worked many times for W. Unfortunately it will probably work for her too.

Let's all remember that Obama and McCain have already been "chosen" to run. They don't have to answer any questions about experience or suitability for the job. The American public has already vetted them! Joe Biden's record speaks for itself. That leaves the big question mark: Palin. She's AWOL from the talk shows because she's an extremist who relies on snake-charm and scripts to get by. And journalists will expose that within 5 seconds. I'd like to see a woman as VP or even P, but not one that thinks she's dealing with a weak-minded PTA or city council. "Ms. Earmark" is simply not equipped and is no Hillary Clinton and certainly no Joe Biden!

by the time, she's ready to talk to the press, I hope all the reporters say, Thanks, but no thanks!

Posted by: what the heck 7:49 AM

That is commical ha ha ha, SORRY, What the Heck, but they're going to go after an interview with her like ravenous dogs ha.

In fact I heard on a show today that someone is already scheduled to interview her on tv. No, it's not Oprah, she's to busy making sure her schedule is free in case THE ONE calls for more on the stump support.....better get some better eye lash glue ha.

You people act like she's been hiding. I guess I can see why you wouldn't know that she and McCain have been flying to states and out in the open campaigning all while you've been whinning. You may think that's an abomanation because she should be giving interviews instead ha, but it seems to me you WOULD get to hear more about her if any of what they are talking about had been aired for us all to see. We see the plane, lots of people, but wait.....those reporters are busy tied up on the Obama campaign trail right now tsk tsk ha ha.

I, too, find Susan Palin's voice very annoying. Quite frankly, I think she's a one-trick pony and people will get tired of her once the excitement dies down. Of course, if that doesn't happen, we Democrats can always hope for an October surprise. Lord help us if we have to hear that voice for four years.