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Why Hasn't Anyone Been Able/Allowed to Interview Palin?
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| Please, Charlie's going to ask her about Moose and offer her some of his wife's tollhouse cookies. |
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| Okay, so now we have moved from Why Hasn't Anyone Been Able/Allowed to Interview Palin? to Why Hasn't Anyone WE LIKE Been Able/Allowed to Interview Palin? |
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jsteele
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Well, the right wing blogs (as well at Tom Brokaw) are debating why Oprah hasn't interviewed Palin, so we are still somewhat better off. One interesting tidbit I read about the Gibson interview is that it will be recorded over a number of days. That works in Palin's favor because it means that Charlie has to be on best behavior on the first few days or Sarah's schedule will suddenly fill up and she won't be able to do the other days. It also lends itself to an arrangement wherein the economy for instance is discussed one day and foreign policy the next. That gives Palin the chance to cram before the interview. The main issue why can't Palin simply meet with the press like every other candidate does? She is obviously receiving special treatment. Is that because she is a woman, because she is a Republican, or because she doesn't know squat and doesn't want the rest of us to know it? I have no idea, but it certainly suggests she is not prepared. |
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"Okay, so now we have moved from Why Hasn't Anyone Been Able/Allowed to Interview Palin? to Why Hasn't Anyone WE LIKE Been Able/Allowed to Interview Palin? "
McCain picked someone out of left field and its criminal that she is not being vetted. Personally, I don't take much stock in the ability to deliver speeches written by others or rehearse pre-approved questions, with a friendly journalist, and an advantageous setting. In order to do the job she is campaigning on you need to be consistent on your views and able to think intelligently on your feet. There is a huge difference between being available to many journalism outlets or taking unscripted questions in a press conference fashion and doing an interview set up in your favor. Frankly, seeing her do several interviews and deliver canned, scripted material is not going to convince me or many that she could be president. |
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This is Rich, confirmed Obama supporter and devout believer in RvW.
I think all this stuff about getting Palin in front of a firing squad of reporters is premature. Haven't you ever walked out of a test and slapped yourself because you realized after the fact that you messed up some question you knew the answer to? Or realized that you should obviously have studied that topic but forgot? So she blew her Fannie. I lay odds she won't make THAT mistake again. It's a big jump from Alaska to the USA. We already know enough about her positions on several topics and her experience for most of us to have made up our minds. As time passes, we'll learn more. In the debate, for example. Whether it's an oops on Sunnni/Shiite, Fannie & Freddie, "likable enough", or mistaking yourself for Neil Kinnock, all four candidates have made some dumb moves. These may be the reasons some people use to decide their votes, or perhaps it will be RvW, Iraq, or something that comes up in mid-October. But whether Palin is a quick enough study to have learned the difference between Khamenei and Ahmadinejad yet is not the reason I will vote against her and McCain. |
jsteele
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Rich: I don't think the purpose of a press conference should be to get her to make a gaffe. Its to get a better feel for her qualifications and to answer some questions provoked by what we know about her so far. The point has been made many times that she is hoping to be a 72 year old, cancer surviving, heart beat from the presidency. She should be required to expose herself to a few unscripted moments so that we can get a better idea of who she really is and what her qualifications really are. A press conference should not be a test. It should be an attempt to elicit honest responses. If you are going to let her off with the excuse that others have made mistakes or because she will have advisors, then why do we have qualifications at all? |
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Jeff,
I grant I may have gone overboard on the devil's advocate stuff, but I think the fact that we've been all-Sarah-all-the-time for the past week and a half has gotten to me. I remember Spiro Agnew (God, I'm old) and I think she's probably smarter and more honest than he was, and much as I disagree with McCain, I can't help feeling a lot less hostile to him than I did to Nixon. So perhaps it's a subconscious hope that we'll move on that led me to throw in a good word for the Gov. And if you start to see the bumper sticker: Sarah: Better than Spiro! you can give me the credit! Rich |
Anonymous
| Well, after her nomination was announced one of the only positive things the Republican pundits could say about her is she's a "quick study". So I imagine that's exactly what she's doing. I literally do lose sleep about this. I'm so wound up and upset at the possibility of McCain/Palin in the White House. |
Anonymous
McCain should have just selected Jeff Steele for VP, although I am not sure if he'd run on a Republican ticket. |
Anonymous
I made this point yesterday. All this angst over Palin helps the Republicans, and only the Republicans because 1) no positive Obama messages can get out there or gain any traction and 2) many people will gravitate to a likable underdog, and the Dems are serving one up on a silver platter. |
Anonymous
Sarah doesn't know squat. Through a scripted interview with the questions being pre-approved by the Republicans and having Sarah memorize the answers, we won't learn about her "policies" but what she crammed to learn before the interview. It has to be scripted bc she ad-libbed a little during her recent speech and said that, "We've already spent too much taxpayer money on Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac." For those not-in-the-know, Fannie & Freddie were public companies with stocks and money coming from investors until recently. She was asked in March of this year her thoughts on Iraq, and she said she hadn't given it much (any) thought. She has no clue. Oprah will not interview her before the elections. She'll wait until after. |
Anonymous
| Will be interesting to see what happens with the interview. I watched the Alaskan gubernatorial debates both for the Republican primary and the general election. I don't know much about the pipeline issue they were discussing but she came across as well informed. What I noticed is that her main opponents in both were not exactly star debaters. More importantly, no one confronted her on her record as mayor. I wonder how she'll handle that. |
Anonymous
This might be the most frightening comment I've seen. PLEASE read something written by people who understand these issues. |
Anonymous
| For those of you who are gtting your news from Jeff or other postings here, you need to realize that he has been confused on central issues (e.g, Obama's tax plan), is unable to take issue even with Joe Biden's penchant for lying, and is merely reciting tidbits of facts he finds in articles from pro-Obama sources, and yes, the Post and NYT count. The media and bloggers have been far from correct on much of their critique of Palin (gossip would be a better word than critique) but ... in any event, please read -- more than one post - more than one article and substantiate. This article by Kirsten Powers, a Democrat btw, is illustrative of the falsehoods people have been circulating. http://www.nypost.com/seven/09092008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/how_obama_blew_it_128132.htm |