More than once over the past two years or so I have been accused of "drinking the Obama Kool-Aid". The implication being that I was partaking of a substance that looked good, but that contained absolutely no real nutritional value. And/or that I was becoming part of a cult and couldn't help myself.
Well aside from the fact that my mother never let us drink Kool-Aid, I wasn't offended...I knew better.
And now a little news flash that may fall under the category of pot calling kettle black: The McCain Campaign has announced that Sarah Palin will be unavailable for news conferences or interviews for what they estimate to be about two weeks.
It seems that she will be held up in Alaska saying good-bye to her son who deploys for Iraq (fair enough) whilst being briefed on Papa John's political record. They would like to prevent, if possible, any needless gaffes that may come from her being uninformed. And uninformed she is.
That means that voters will be making their decision on the McCain-Palin ticket having only known her for about a month. Still many don't seem to care...they just love her!!!!!!
Now who's drinking?
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LJ wrote:
"The McCain Campaign has announced that Sarah Palin will be unavailable for news conferences or interviews for what they estimate to be about two weeks.
It seems that she will be held up in Alaska saying good-bye to her son who deploys for Iraq (fair enough) whilst being briefed on Papa John's political record"
... so, then, will Gov. Palin stop stumping on the campaign trail during this two-week period?
Will she return to Alaska for the goodbye to her son? Or...?
Raymond
Raymond
Hey, that is what they said, no interviews until she is briefed...however I did see that she is out on the campaign trail giving speeches but no interviews or questions. NONE.
Sam Harris in the LA Times:
This is one of the many points at which narcissism becomes indistinguishable from masochism. Let me put it plainly: If you want someone just like you to be president of the United States, or even vice president, you deserve whatever dysfunctional society you get. You deserve to be poor, to see the environment despoiled, to watch your children receive a fourth-rate education and to suffer as this country wages -- and loses -- both necessary and unnecessary wars.
Sorry, Had to get this other comment--not by me, but by a commenter of Marc Ambinder's blog--about how to deal with McCain/Palin. There's something to this: Don't directly call her or McCain out on the obvious weakness manifested in the decision to not trot her out on the national stage now.
Instead, get Biden out for as many grueling interviews as possible. Call attention to her hiding by not hiding yourselves. (It's good, in this context that Obama's on O'Reilly -- in anyu case, both Obama and Biden need to be maximally available to provide the implicit contrast).
Talk about what went into picking Biden. The point is not to tout Biden over Palin. It's to tout Obama's process over McCain's process. Do it briefly and moved on. (1) Wanted someone ready to take over; (2) Wanted an advisor/someone who could challenge and debate; (3) Wanted someone people knew about so they could judge for themselves.
In general, keep Biden as visible as possible. He gave a terrific speech yesterday. Try to get as much ink for him as possible during Palin's downtime.
Try to get at least one visible joint appearance out. Show off the rapport that shown in the 60 minutes interview. It's not been much remarked on, but at her acceptance speech it did not look like there was any love lost between McCain and Palin. I tend to think they've quarreled. Again, just do the contrasts. The buddy-buddy routine O'Bama and O'Biden have going is quite engaging. Get it out there as much as possible.
yes, AND volunteer your tootsies off to get voters registered and the like. We can't sit back and take this...argh
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