Why won't Sarah Palin talk to the press? | csmonitor.com

It's been 25 days since Sarah Palin held a press conference.

When is that last time Obama held... Today.

They're both hiding. I wonder if they're just going to repeat all the lies at the debates? It would be kind of hard for McCain to be learning a new script. He hasn't gotten this one down very well yet and we know he's not very bright.

Campbell Brown on CNN this evening, if you see the video somewhere it has to be posted!
She went on and on with her feelings about 'Free the REAL Sarah Palin'. It was so awesome! I wrote an email to CNN just to congratulate her.

I would say that Campbell has reached her limit as far as the media blackout of Sarah Palin giving interviews.

I saw it when it aired. I was in the other room and heard a somewhat angry Campbell.
Ran to see what the heck was going on. I actually clapped in responds to hearing her go off. Way to go Campbell!

So was I, So was I, I was clapping and shouting YAHOO, you go girl!!! Alright!!!

It was so AWESOME. I can't say it enough.

Even my dog was getting all excited since she doesn't see me do stuff like that.

Arcanebliss

What press conference did Palin have 25 days ago? I don't remember her taking questions from reporters since she was named.

It's been 25 days since Sarah Palin held a press conference.

When is that last time Obama held... Today.

This is not correct. Obama has held a lot of rallies and hand-picked "town halls", but he hasn't had a press conference since his Magical Mystery tour overseas. He hasn't had one in America in over a year.

Nathan, Obama DID have a news conference today. He took questions and answered them.

Palin is such a tragedy.

Who would ever respect America if ever she is elected as VP ??!!

Even Third World country candidates face the press and have postgraduate degrees related to economics, governance, law, or international relations. Or perhaps they face the press precisely because of that.

She is a fool masquerading as a politician. Wait... shes just being natural - political fool.

Sarah Palin was interviewed by Katie Couric.

One TV Station at the time.

Already ABC, Fox and now CBS.

She is ill equiped to be in the position she is in. She may be effective in her native Alaska, but that is not the world and to throw her on the world stage as a gimmic because that is what McCain' campaign did.

I just hope they don't think we are all that incompetent. Wouldn't surprise me if they did seeing that we have good ol' Bush as an example.

Well, America was still great till the GOP took over ! As foreign newspapers say, we are now crumbling. Makes me angry we have reached this level of embarrassment and hardship.

The GOP party of wrong values and deception!

As foreign newspapers say, we are now crumbling

Really? Foreigners with not American citizenship don't vote.

Are they comparing the USA with Bangladesh and Haiti?

Well. if she is REALLY not ready, she should go on SNL and join the not ready for prime time players.

Well. if she is REALLY not ready, she should go on SNL and join the not ready for prime time players.

There's no way she's going to chance being upstaged by Lorraine Newman or Jane Curtain, let alone Gilda Radner.

Rumor has it we will see Sarah's stunt double [Tina] on future episodes of SNL very soon.

Perhaps Tina Fey can do the VP debate so we could get some really answers out of the Republican ticket.

For security reasons--do you mean she's feeling vulnerable and a little insecure?

Actually, I think Sarah is feeling vulnerable that the McCain campaign is shooting itself in the foot and she doesn't want to blow her future chances with what remains of the evangelical movement she has been able to take-over!

A little known story broke last night that completely derail McCain:

Documentation proving McCain's campaign director and trusted very close friend, Rick Davis was as recently as last month receiving a $15,000.00/month consulting fee from Freddy Mac.

Apparently Mr. Davis after loosing his $30,000.00/month salary as head of the Home Owners whatever lobbying firm tied to Fanny Mea and Freddy Mac, went back to Freddy Mac and asked to be a privately paid consultant through his own personal firm, based on his association with John McCain in part.

Conflict of Interest:

This is key as Freddy Mac was taken over by the government and put into receivership back in March, which means since March the American tax-payer has been paying the $15,000.00/month fee to Rick Davis who is running John McCain's campaign.

Publicly Lying about the Conflict:

Everyone from one in the McCain campaign including senator McCain in his recent press conference has been telling the news media that Rick Davis consulting with Fanny Mea and Freddy Mac ended in 2006 when the lobbying firm Home Owners whatever stopped the consulting. When in fact he was consulting for a fee as recently as August.

What Consulting?

Supposedly according to the Freddy Mac documents, Rick Davis hasn't been doing anything to earn that $15,000.00/month fee from Freddy Mac beyond a couple meals and a speech in 2 years. I guess he has been really busy trying to get McCain elected as the next president or something. So actually Rick Davis hasn't been doing anything for the tax-payer, while being paid by the tax-payer which is really going to look bad as well.

The Devil in the Details:

As the FBI investigates Fanny Mea and Freddy Mac, more is going to come out and more witnesses will become informants. At a minimum, Rick Davis is probably looking at jail time and stiff financial penalties.

End of a Maverick?

Even worse the McCain campaign will look very tainted if you consider Phil Gramm deregulated the mortgage market and wrote McCain's economic plan, Rick Davis is running the campaign, plus a host of other financial lobbyist are part of or speaking for the campaign, etc, etc. However, if it is proved that McCain new or was part of this conspiracy his keating 5 days will look like a picnic!

The Election may Already be Over:

Sarah Palin maybe thinking of her own political future at this point. Hoping not to answer question. up to and through the debate, where she can claim ignorance or inexperience!

Then all Sarah Palin has too do is survive trooper-gate! Which she was hoping to quash as vice-president...

Her security is not the reason. Palin is trying to acquire foreign experience in 30 hours !!! How optimistic is that ?!

Palin is trying to acquire foreign experience in 30 hours !!! How optimistic is that ?!

Well, those speed dating companies tout their results all the time, maybe she'll meet "that special foreign leader" in such a brief encounter?

Are you putting the honor of an elected Governor in a shredded machine?

Please provide a link..

Her security is not the reason. Palin is trying to acquire foreign experience in 30 hours !!! How optimistic is that ?!

About as optimistic as a week long trip to the middle east and europe....

Palin is trying to acquire foreign experience in 30 hours

Obviously, any so called experience she attains with such brief exposure will be largely cosmetic.

such brief exposure will be largely cosmetic.

I see what you did there :D

McCain would campaign with a blow-up doll and a tape recorder.

McCain would campaign with a blow-up doll and a tape recorder.

You mean she's not?

This reminds me of the movie airplane!
Those where the days!

She's not even answering questions at "friendly" gatherings.

I would really like to talk to those reporters that are following her around. They can't even ask questions, nor put things on record.

So, what good is it that they are following her?

Well that's why I think CNN was onto something earlier today when they threatened not to cover her at all today if they didn't get some access to the meetings and McCain's boys backed down some. I think if the media goes to the McCain camp and says let us ask some questions or we'll just boycott her photo ops altogether they'd have to cave in.

I think the press owes the American people to turn the cameras off as soon as she steps into a room. This would smoke her out, so to speak, and force he to be accountable to us. She is a public official after all.

Save the electricity: stop covering Sarah Palin altogether.

Kelly McDonnell has been worthless!

i can think of many reasons why the press should turn the cameras off as soon as she steps into a room.

I think anybody from the press who follows Palin´s interviews closely will suffer of severe depression.

Can't they just hand her the miss VP congeniality trophy for her looks?

Palin looks Putin in the eyes, she sees his soul, she takes a breathe, she ......BLINKS.

If it were a judo match, I'd love to see it, but since you're talking about the future of our nation...Palin will be a catastrophe in office. What single thing has she done since being nominated that proves she will be able to lead the USA?

What single thing has she done since being nominated that proves she will be able to lead the USA?

How about not talking to the MSM, and actually talking to real people?

The bused in crowds?...sure if they are taped live...she is just that incompetent!

She only gives speeches, she isn't 'talking'.

Talking requires communication by two parties.

She doesn't take questions, nor gives answers.

And she can only recite...not talk.

She BLINKS when faced with Putin?!? Don't you mean she bats her eyes?

Its a 'play' on the interview question from Charlie about what her reaction was when she was asked to be the VP nominee.

She said she didn't blink.

Putin is credited for the robust Russian economy, had extensive foreign relations experience, and speaks languages.

How about this creature called Palin ?????????????

I rather have Paris Hilton, at least she acknowledges her shortcomings!

How about not talking to the MSM, and actually talking to real people?

She may talk (or recite), but she sure as hell doesn't take questions, even from the friendly crowds she faces. Refusing to talk to the media does not a leader make. If she's the VP, she will not be able to pass her career in cozy gatherings of supporters who won't challenge her. She owes the American people, and she's dropping the ball.

WEll, that does make me wonder if in fact she really does the work as governor. I mean she IS always at home,(based on the per diem that she charges) she gives her husband the states papers to his email. Perhaps she is the token and he is the 'shadow governor'.

Also, due to all the investigations up there in Alaska, the McCain camp has taken over the running of the state to the point that people up there are upset. There is a seed here about that.

Also, as a woman myself, I am upset. She hasn't proven to me that she would be a candidate. How do I know? I don't. I don't see her being interviewed or asked questions by anyone. I don't buy the GOP bullsh$$ about Sarah being attacked by the liberal media. If she wants to be a serious candidate and not a joke, she needs to say her own thing.

Why not Sal? They've done it to MCCain, why not her? He had to learn a whole new script too, you know.

finally someone as said the real thing, thank you
she is window covering and there just for female vote and thinks we are STUPID-lets just show republicans that we can think on our own and we all need to vote for the democrati party-

me too. There is a look in his eyes that bodes no good.

Me too. In the small town bar I hung out there were a few like him. He has the look of someone you could not trust drunk. Like the kind who'd shoot your dog or hit on your wife. Not good.

Maybe you can get Mac to let her come out so we can watch her land on her "experience"?

Qualified or not, at least Obama can answer a question about what he would do and why he wants to be president. Palin, after weeks of "bootcamp" has now been sent on a field trip, and still can't answer a question at all.

Hanna, give it up, you can't talk sense into to a close minded liberal (some of them can think for themselves, but most just follow the flock), it just doesn't compute. They can't get past the fact that other educated, thinking, individuals may arrive at a different educated opinion than they do.

Have you ever seen what happens to Mr. Obama when his teleprompter goes down. I don't have the link handy, but if you look hard enough, you can find it on youtube.

Hanna Girl

Obama has placed himself in front of the American public for the last 19 months and has had numerous press conferences, TV interviews, debates, and public appearances where people were allowed to ask questions. We have gotten to know him and have made adecision on whether he is qualified or not.

Palin was nominated and the only time we have seen her since except for the Gibson interview, which didn't go to well, is at planned campaign appearences. She won't even take questions from the press corp that is traveling with her.

There are numerous questions swirling around and the McCain campaign is hiding her away, until she gets out there and takes questions in a no holds barred press conference, she does not deserve any ones support that doesn't know her personally. Supporting her on what is basically a movie clip is like giving an Oscar based on a trailer.

Experience, Mayor of a town of 6,000, Governor of a state with a population of 670,000. IMO the press and everyone else has forgotten that Alaska is the only state in the union that does not have to worry about income. All of their income comes from the oil companies and earmarks from the federal government, and yes she asked for them from the time she has held public office. She needs to stand up and take the heat for what she has been saying, then us that are not falling all over ourselves can see what she is really made of.

What really concerns me is the cowardice this shows on McCain's part. If he were confident in his pick, he wouldn't be locking her away like this. Clearly, McCain sees that Palin's speaking is a major liability. Obama lets Biden talk, and he's prone to his gaffes. This Republican ticket is not to be trusted.

I believe she has shown she is nothing but moose-chips.

I think he was a state senator too, so give credit where credit is due. Palin ran a town that was about twice the size of my high school, and is the governor of a state (for only two years) with a population smaller than San Francisco and that has no budget deficits due to its oil revenues that pay a dividend to the "tax payers" every year. Is that what you call experience?

You made a good case, Hanna. Obama doesn't have the same amount of experience as McCain. But all McCain's years of experience in office don't seemed to have helped him become a good decision-maker. I'll take Obama's judgment over McCain's (and Palin's lack of) experience.

Hanna-girl do you know Palin girl maybe you could translate for her so she could speak for herself. You know no teleprompters to read off of I mean her own words. Like do you get it Hanna-girl.
As a politician you cannot hide and meet in back rooms, that worked in the wild wild west and yes maybe in Alaska. But no how no can way she do that in Washington DC and she cannot take her husband with her in international meetings with heads of state.

Her college experience and education is all she will have to rely on. You know uno to uno.

Obama has more experience -have you learned anything today-both are daily learning and no one in the history of voting has ran a more productive campaign in all the states -this gives him experience.
Battle with Clintons
CEO/campaign finance used donated money wiselly and productive.
Communications articulate and precise, not just running off at the mouth-
Negotiating with the clintons would make any of us crazy and he pulled this off with greatness-
Management with staff who are willing to share with one another

Above all-American people should be aware that his color will endear him to the other world leaders who understand and willing to accept.this is far greater NEED in this universal world, Americans should have the same tolerance.

HE IS AMERICAN WHO HAPPENS TO HAVE A WHITE MOTHER AND BLACK FATHER-AND THE COLOR OF BLACK WILL ALWAYS BE PROMINENT NO MATTER IF IT IS ON THE SKIN OR ELSEWHERE!!!!STOP THE MADDNESS

Pinocchio got puled by strings. I think she is more like a hand puppet--Lambchop perhaps?

People seem to forget, that Mr. Obama is also white, however, he seems not to cling to that part of his ancestry...is he ashamed? I for one thou, could care less what color he is, what he looks like, who he prays to.

I'm not voting for him, because change for the sake of change is just STUPID. I need to know what he is going to try and change (word for word, out of his mouth). When I hear him tell me what he's going to change, and how he's going to pay for it without raising anyone's taxes. If he raises taxes on oil and big business, then he raises my taxes, because the burden will be passed down to me. So that leaves the poor to pay the bill, and well, that's just not going to work either.

So, the only thing I can see Mr. Obama is going to change is that stuff going jingle jingle in my pockets. I believe if he were to win, I would have less rather than more and with three kids, less isn't going to cut it. It will mean I have to get another job and spend even less time with my family. So, once again, I loose even more.

I could care less if someone calls me a racist because I vote for McCain, I counter and say, if you vote for Mr. Obama based on his skin color, then you are a racist. If you accuse me of being a racist because I pick McCain, based on his qualifications, then you are a racist, and are part of the problem.

Above all, allow your fellow Americans to be Americans, and allow them to have other feelings and beliefs than you, without insulting their intelligence.

HE SHOULD NOT HAVE TO DISCUSS HIS COLOR
YOU HAVE NOT BEEN LISTENING
YOU CAN NOT GET PAST HIS COLOR
WE DO NOT NEED YOUR PREJUDICE VOTE
CHECK YOURSELF, HOW DO YOU JUDGE YOUR NEIGHBORS AND OTHERS.
HOW DO YOU JUDGE YOURSELF.
HE ALLOWS YOU TO HAVE YOUR PREJUDICES, JUST BY ALLOWING YOU TO WRITE THIS COMMENT
OBAMA SAID IF YOU WANT THE USA TO CONTINUE IN THE SAME MANNER FOR THE NEXT 4YRS THEN MCCAIN IS YOUR MAN-SO YOU CHOOSE AND SHOULD NOT BE ABLE TO COMPLAIN!!!!!!!!!!!!!SORRY YOU WILL BE MISSING OUT ON THE NATIONS RISE UP AGAIN AND BE PROUD OF AMERICA.

canthink

You make some valid points. Obama's web site spells out what and how he intends to make changes. The paying for it is also addressed, you can find numerous sites that disagree with both the McCain and Obama plans and what each would cost. One thing that they all seem to agree on is that McCain's plans would cost more in deficit spending.

History has shown that even through the democrats have been painted as tax and spend under republican leadership the government has grown more, spent more, and have not grown the economy as much as the democrats. The only people that do better traditionally with republicans in charge are the top 10 to 15 percent.

Your handle implies that you like to think for yourself which is an adminaral trait, so I would ask that you google Republicans versus democrats effect on the economy, their are numerous studies and articles supporting my statement about the economy.

IMO you stand a better chance to have more jingle in your pocket with Obama than McCain.

Yet, they keep saying she 'looks' the part of confident leader.

Well, looks are one thing. Q & A is another.

I believe it is McCain who didn't vet her and now may wish he hadn't. My money still says he drops her by Halloween.

Why would you vet someone who wasn't even on the radar before her coronation? She wasn't vetted because she was a last minute pick put up be the rabid right wing so that they would keep the money flowing, because they wouldn't backthe ticet without their mouthpiece being part of the plan. Is there any wonder that Lieberman didn't get the call?

You're both totally wrong about this: there are a lot of people who knew about her, because we don't suckle at the MSM teat for all our vittles.

And just because YOU didn't know who she was before she was announced as the VP pick, doesn't mean that the McCain team didn't thoroughly vet her. Like I said, the MSM is mad that they got caught flat-footed on this one.

In picking Palin, McCain doubled down on his energy focus, and we just found out today that Congress is going to let the drilling ban expire. The McCain campaign brilliantly executed the announcement of his VP pick, taking the wind out of Obama's DNC sails, and kept the national focus on the energy crisis, and now it's getting results.

Nathan Johnson

You are right that a lot of people are not going to vote for McCain, the question is why won't Palin take questions from the media. Everyone knows that conventions and scheduled campaign speeches are designed to make the candidates look perfect and do not show the full story.

For the American public the only source we have for information is the news media, and while they have been know to spin on both sides, a live press conference without editing of the candidates answers tells us a lot. Caveat being interviewed by a known left or right leaning one person interviewer doesn't count.

Right now Palin's popularity rating is starting to drop, The bottom line is the public has every right to hear her take questions, and if she doesn't want to take them from the press, take them from the public, democrats and republicans.

This fact is what is starting to piss people off, not just the media, she is a candidate for a job which is a heartbeat away from the presidency we deserve more respect from the McCain campaign. They do not get to decide what we think is important, and I can't understand why the republicans are not getting upset, we and I mean all of us are being treated like idiots. The campaign has basically said we will tell you what we think you need to know, and don't question us about it.

My point is that there's still time to get to know enough about her to make an informed decision, but there's not that much info out there in the MSM because they weren't doing their jobs and didn't see her coming. It is unreasonable to expect unrestricted 24x7 access to her, so she's doing this on her own schedule.

You're right their is enough time but only if she will start making herself available. If she continues to hide we must assume one of two things, the campaign has complete control of her or she is afraid of making an unfrettered appearance.

1. If the campaign has complete control, we definitely don't want her as vice president, or any other position because she is not in charge.

2. Being afraid is what anyone in her position should be, but she must get out and let the American public see what she thinks, not what the campaign thinks.

Biden has disagreements with Obama and as such is much more likely to give advice on problems and not just be a figurehead. If the only talking points Palin has come from the campaign she is not qualified IMO. What are her opinions, she should have some idea of what she thinks is the right path without having to be coached on everything.

Roger,

Although we have differing political views, I do like your style. I must agree with your points about Palin getting out and telling us her opinions and what she's about. I would be much more comfortable seeing how she deals with being in the hot seat with the press.

The fecal matter she takes from the press will be mild compared to what she will have to put up with should she have to become president. I think she can handle herself, but I'd like to have a bit more proof and what better way to practice that spar with the press?

Can think

Enjoyed our exchange, and I realize not everyone can be right like me, but maybe their is hope for you in the future. Have a good day, talk later.

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