CNN just covered an Obama campaign event followed by a Palin/McCain one. Obama talked about jobs, health insurance, education, and tax cuts. Palin talked about "the surge."

Which do voters care about more at this time?

This person is their selection for the vice presidency of the United States. We don't just have an obligation to hear her out, we have a right to. What they're saying is this: our image is more important to us than our substance.

Then again, when it comes to Republican politics, I guess you couldn't be more precise.

The media will follow her to Alaska.  It'll make the Yukon Gold Rush look small in comparison.

Poor thing. Unless she has a speech writer or an advisor standing by her side she's hopeless. She has to go back to Alaska and get caught up on Iraq policy. After all, she's a Republican, and Republicans are most concerned about Iraq, not America. All they talk about is Iraq and rebuilding it. It's never about rebuilding America.

Speaking of Alaska:
http://www.anchoragepress.com/site/basic article.asp?ID=823

Take that one off the map.

Why on EARTH would the press not got ape over this???  IF, and that's a big IF, they properly vetted her, why should she have to hide?  Only if there was substance to the rumors!  Good grief, the education of Sarah Palin?  This should be embarressing in the extreme for the Republicans!  

This has got to be the most bizzare political campaign ever!  Seriously, I've said it before and I'll say it again, I feel like I'm watching a train wreck, I really want to look away, but I can't.  

*coff* so much for the "transparency in government" part of McCain's speech *coff*

perhaps the Obama campaign should start taunting the Republicans as cowards

Wasn't that a hip hop album once?

Two months before the election and Palin is such a liability that they can't let the press near her?  

The Obama campaign can surely make hay with this.  

Hmmmm.  Sounds Rovian to me.  Report she will be sequestered.  Then break her out in a surprise news conference/interview later via FOXNews or Washington Times print interview blowing away all the expectations that have been lowered by this crass move.  Then she will be perceived as fabulous.  Jeez.  This is so transparent.

Trumandem
Truman's Conscience
"The Buck Stopped Here"

This whole process must be so... embarrassing for the GOP.  A lame speech last night, the Palin "circus show," and now facing an onslaught of Inside Edition, Enquirer, MSM, and Blogger investigations into everything Palin has ever done.  There is NO way America falls for this.

What would happen if she did rallies away from McCain? She would get mobbed and McCain would get ignored. McCain would become a laughingstock.

Come on Dems.  Lets get the education of America out there.  Tell them about the Queen of Pork-more requests than any other Governoe per capita in the whole country.

Dear Mr. Gibson, I noted that Senator McCain failed to wear a flag pin during his acceptance speech. Perhaps you can redeem your credibility and quiz him as to why. Additionally, I've read Sarah Palin has made herself inaccessible to press interviews after the convention. This would be a perfect time for an on-location show from Juneau, AK. Also sent to George S.

So if the phone rings at 3am and Sarah picks it up she'll have to tell them to call back in a couple weeks so she can get up to speed on the situation.

Nice.

Investigation into Palin Now on Fast Track
Sources Tell ABC News that Report Will Be Released Almost Three Weeks Early
By LEN TEPPER
September 5, 2008

ABC News has exclusively learned that Alaska Senator Hollis French will announce today that he is moving up the release date of his investigation into whether Gov. Sarah Palin abused her office to get the Alaska public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, fired. The results of the investigation were originally scheduled for release Oct. 31 but will now come almost three weeks earlier, according to sources.

Alaska state senator Hollis French, who is running an investigation of Gov. Sarah Palin, says the McCain campaign is using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31st.
(The Associated Press)The announcement is set for 9 a.m. AKDT time.

The Alaska state senator running an investigation of Gov. Palin had accused the McCain campaign of using stall tactics to prevent him from releasing his final report by Oct. 31, four days before the November election.

"It's likely to be damaging to the Governor's administration," said Senator Hollis French, a Democrat, appointed the project manager for a bi-partisan State Senate Legislative Counsel Committee investigation.

Palin, who has denied any wrongdoing and has said she has nothing to hide, has hired private lawyers to represent her in the matter.

i think its great that they will stash Palin away (at least for the time being).

we really should focus on how awful mcCain is anyhow.

This all really makes me wonder about the debate. I wonder if her real strategy during that debate will be the same as it was on Wednesday. I wonder if she will just start attacking Joe Biden's personal past and "scandals" and not let up. I think if he does any studying, that's what he needs to study. Her history and answers for his his own. If she comes at him swinging, he needs to be able to bring up the biggest, baddest skeleton she's got and do it in a way that seems matter-of-fact.

He doesn't need to plan to do it, of course. But the more I think about it, the more certain I am that they're going to try to win the debate by making Palin an expert in Joe Biden trivia.

The Rethugs claim that Palin is as competent and experienced as Obama.  If that is the case, she should be scrutinized by the public and press just as he has been.  The press should demand that she be exposed to the kind of coverage all the other candidates have been.  

The problem is that she is just a teleprompter candidate who reads the script like the local news anchor.  The thugs know if she had to speak for herself, we would get the pageant queen response that she prays for whirled peas.

Joe Biden: Ready to campaign on Day One.

Sarah Palin: Not.

The proper way to push this narrative, for the Obama campaign, is to put Biden in front of the press every day, and explicitly offer to answer questions on Palin's behalf until such time as she decides to come out and answer them herself.  Take 2-3 days, research all of her positions (such as they are), and then take questions for both Joe Biden and for Sarah Palin.  Every day.  Counting the days until she does the same.  Something of a media stunt, but it will be impossible for the republicans (or the media) to ignore it.

Ump.

She rather belongs to a tourist place where no journalist asks her critical questions.