Is Palin failin' ? or OMG McCain wins with Palin !! pt. 3

[Tiger Edge]

were there gorillas in Alaska? because if there were, perhaps some of these women may have enjoyed it.

That's hilarious! I wish Obama would have told that joke first!

 

[sharon]

How many foreign heads of state did Lincoln meet with before becoming President?

Yeah, travel was so easy back then. I couldn't resist.

 

[ntalwar]

Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.

Looks like Palin is afraid of getting caught saying something dumb in her first meeting with foreign leaders.

 

[Tiger Edge]

She's in no position to ban anything.

My God, if McCain gets elected I hope he lives to 90.

 

[Irvine511]

Looks like Palin is afraid of getting caught saying something dumb in her first meeting with foreign leaders.

is this what living in Russia is like?

watching Hannity interview her a few nights ago was like watching the North Korean press in action and pressing the (now dead?) Kim Jong Il for answers on real toughie questions.

 

[VintagePunk]

Looks like Palin is afraid of getting caught saying something dumb in her first meeting with foreign leaders.

Has anyone considered that it's maybe things like *this* that explain why the media seems to have it in for her, both liberal and lately some conservative media as well?

As time goes on, I cannot fathom how Republicans can continue to rationalize McCain choosing her. It baffles.

 

[Irvine511]

Has anyone considered that it's maybe things like *this* that explain why the media seems to have it in for her, both liberal and lately some conservative media as well?

As time goes on, I cannot fathom how Republicans can continue to rationalize McCain choosing her. It baffles.

sexism.

 

[Utoo]

Looks like Palin is afraid of getting caught saying something dumb in her first meeting with foreign leaders.

More on this..... CNN apparently told McCain-Palin that if they weren't allowed to have an actual reporter there, they wouldn't broadcast it at all:

McCain camp tries to to keep reporters out of Palin meetings
Posted: 01:45 PM ET

From CNN Political Producer Peter Hamby


The media was allowed to observe Palin and Karzai for less than 30 seconds.
(CNN) — McCain-Palin campaign officials shifted course Tuesday after being informed by television news organizations that they would not broadcast footage of Sarah Palin’s meeting with Afghan leader Hamid Karzai Tuesday in New York — the Republican VP nominee’s first with a foreign leader — if a reporter was not allowed in to observe the pair.

CNN, which was the pool network for the event, informed the campaign of its decision. The network was then told a CNN producer would be allowed in the room to act as a media representative, just minutes before the photo op was scheduled to take place. However, print reporters and wire services were not allowed to observe the meeting, as they have been able to do at similar McCain events in the past.

The press only caught a brief glimpse of the vice presidential nominee. Palin was seated in a large chair a few feet from Karzai, with a table in between them. Seated slightly behind Palin were campaign foreign policy advisers Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann, who are accompanying the governor in her motorcade today.

As the pool entered, the Afghan president appeared to be telling Palin about his young son, who was born in January 2007.

Palin, her legs crossed and at one point patting her heart, was leaning in eagerly and smiling. Karzai, wearing his traditional clothes but without his trademark karakul hat, was also grinning while discussing the child. His remarks were mostly unintelligible as the noise from the clicking cameras drowned them out.

“What is his name?,” Palin asked.

“Mirwais,” Karzai responded. “Mirwais, which means, ‘The Light of the House.’”

“Oh nice,” Palin responded.

“He is the only one we have,” remarked Karzai.

After 29 seconds observing the meeting, CNN and other photographers covering the meeting were escorted out of the room.

Later, McCain-Palin press representatives chalked up the restrictions to a “mix-up, a miscommunication among staff.” The full pool — a print and wires reporter, along with a television producer — was then allowed in to observe Palin’s meeting with Colombian President Alvaro Uribe for 15-20 seconds.

It infuriates me that people think she's being unfairly treated and then shit like this goes on.

 

[Lila64]

More on this..... CNN apparently told McCain-Palin that if they weren't allowed to have an actual reporter there, they wouldn't broadcast it at all:





It infuriates me that people think she's being unfairly treated and then shit like this goes on.

Can't anyone see it's just a photo op? Doesn't anyone see this as unusual/suspicious that media (that were allowed in) are only able to basically come in, take their photo, and leave? And people are ok with this woman being the VP? I JUST DON'T GET IT!!!, and I've spoken to numerous female friends lately, and we all concur.

 

[INDY500]

Looks like Palin is afraid of getting caught saying something dumb in her first meeting with foreign leaders.

Can't imagine that she could ever top this:

CBS Evening News, Sept 22nd

COURIC: On the trail, Biden is unmistakably himself, from occasionally cursing to getting emotional, as he did in Canton, at the Pro Football Hall of Fame. We were with him last Thursday during one of the rockiest weeks in history for the U.S. economy, something that wasn't lost on the six-term Senator.

BIDEN: Part of what a leader does is to instill confidence, is demonstrate that he or she knows what they're talking about and to communicates to people. If you listen to me and follow what I'm suggesting, we can fix this. When the stock market crashed, Franklin Roosevelt got on television and didn't just talk about the, you know, princes of greed. He said, “look, here's what happened.”

 

[Utoo]

Can't imagine that she could ever top this:

If that quote actually has some weight, some meaning, some sort of monumental, international, political, importance to you---man, you must be floored when you see shit like this:

http://forum.interference.com/showpost.php?p=5483439&postcount=142

 

[Irvine511]

Can't imagine that she could ever top this:

you think that him mistaking the teevee for the radio is comparable to an actual gaff like misunderstanding the fundamentals of Fannie Mae or having never heard of the Bush Doctrine?

seems like Biden's mistake is along the lines of McCain flubbing Czheckoslovakia.

 

[Irvine511]

 

[BoMac]

Can't imagine that she could ever top this:

While I freely admit that what Biden said was dumb, at least we get to see him in these situations. I doubt, given current media restrictions, that we'd see Sarah Palin in this light because the Republicans are clearly trying to shield her from making similar embarassing statements.

Hiding her won't do any good. Eventually, she'll gaffe like the rest of them. You might as well get her battle-ready as soon as possible, rather than protecting her from herself.

 

[Irvine511]

the Republicans are clearly trying to shield her from making similar embarassing statements.

and it's obvious to any sentient being that *this* is what's truly sexist.

 

[VintagePunk]

It's hard to make a gaffe when the few media appearances you do make consist of hedging questions by robotically reciting Republican talking points that have little to do with what was specifically asked.

This whole thing is going to blow up for McCain, and I can't wait.

 

[Irvine511]

It's hard to make a gaffe when the few media appearances you do make consist of hedging questions by robotically reciting Republican talking points that have little to do with what was specifically asked.

This whole thing is going to blow up for McCain, and I can't wait.

people simply must watch the Hannity interview.

it just defies description. unless you're the North Korean press.

 

[BoMac]

and it's obvious to any sentient being that *this* is what's truly sexist.

How so? It's fairly obvious to me that if the Democrats had chosen someone as unknown and questionable as Palin, that Republicans and conservatives would have come down equally as hard on this person, male or female.

I understand what Republican organizers are doing, I just think it's the wrong course of action to take and will eventually blow up in their collective faces.

Or maybe I misunderstood your point. It's been hard to understand your posts today that don't have a in them.

 

[Irvine511]

 

[BoMac]

Gotcha.

 

[INDY500]

you think that him mistaking the teevee for the radio is comparable to an actual gaff like misunderstanding the fundamentals of Fannie Mae or having never heard of the Bush Doctrine?

seems like Biden's mistake is along the lines of McCain flubbing Czheckoslovakia.

You can read all about the "Bush Doctrine" here:
Charles Krauthammer :: Townhall.com :: Charlie Gibson's Gaffee

Key points being--

1) There is no single meaning of the Bush doctrine. In fact, there have been four distinct meanings, each one succeeding another over the eight years of this administration -- and the one Charlie Gibson cited is not the one in common usage today.
2) I (Krauthammer) know something about the subject because, as the Wikipedia entry on the Bush doctrine notes, I was the first to use the term.
3) Presidential doctrines are inherently malleable and difficult to define. The only fixed "doctrines" in American history are the Monroe and the Truman doctrines

My only point about the Biden gaffe is... just imagine, just imagine, if Sarah Palin had been the one to say that yesterday. It would be THE lead story today. Instantly, no doubt, becoming THE GAFFE for the mainstream media and the online-left looking and waiting for her "potatoe moment."

 

[Irvine511]

you see? i can post any nonsensical, illogical, borderline trollish shit if i just put the little right there, and then it just looks cute!

 

[Irvine511]

You can read all about the "Bush Doctrine" here:
Charles Krauthammer :: Townhall.com :: Charlie Gibson's Gaffee

yes, we'll take Mr. Krauthammer's word for it.

My only point about the Biden gaffe is... just imagine, just imagine, if Sarah Palin had been the one to say that yesterday. It would be THE lead story today. Instantly, no doubt, becoming THE GAFFE for the mainstream media and the online-left looking and waiting for her "potatoe moment."

considering that Sarah Palin doesn't take questions from the media and has done exactly 1 interview and 1 North Korean talking points session with Sean Hannity, i guess we will have to just imagine, just imagine if she actually said anything at all that wasn't scripted.

and if we can imagine that, i can imagine the chorus of "THAT WAS SO SEXIST" coming from the McCain camp.

 

[Strongbow]

OMG, You're totally right, Sting! The world today (including the political, economic and security landscape) is soooooo much like the world of Lincoln's time! Like how it could take weeks for foreign heads of state to actually make it to America, and then the days of travel it might take for them get to Illinois from the coast.

You showed me!

Again, in what year did it first become relevant that a candidate for Vice President or President had actually met a foreign head of state?

 

[Diemen]

I never made any claim of the relevance of meeting with foreign leaders to vp nominees, Sting. I was just pointing out the flawed logic of your argument.

Sorry I don't fit into your pigeonhole!

 

[Utoo]

My only point about the Biden gaffe is... just imagine, just imagine, if Sarah Palin had been the one to say that yesterday. It would be THE lead story today. Instantly, no doubt, becoming THE GAFFE for the mainstream media and the online-left looking and waiting for her "potatoe moment."

I actually doubt that. It takes too much explanation for not enough payback. You'd have to tell the gaffe, then say, "You see, Roosevelt wasn't the President during the 1929 Stock Market Crash. Herbert Hoover was. And, of course, the television wasn't commercially available until the late 1930s, and the Stock Market Crash was in 1929. See? Palin sucks!"

It's not worth the effort---thus, not worth a headline, no matter who says it.

On the other hand, if a woman who's being billed as an energy expert says that her state makes 20% of the nation's oil, when in reality it produces only a fraction of that----that's worth explaining. If she's being billed as a reformer and the prime example of that is turning down a "Bridge to Nowhere"--when she actually supported it--yeah, that's worth pointing out.

When a guy bases his whole image on being a veteran who's got tons of foreign policy credentials mistakes the Sunnis & Shiites, calls Putin President of Germany, or switches Iraq for Afghanistan---yeah, that's worth putting in the headlines.

Pretty obvious to me.

 

[yolland]

You can read all about the "Bush Doctrine" here:
Charles Krauthammer :: Townhall.com :: Charlie Gibson's Gaffee

Gibson asked the exact same question at the NH primary debates, and none of the candidates had any problems recognizing immediately that he was asking for their views on pre-emptive attacks. Anyhow, it was painfully obvious from his interview with Palin (who blankly guessed "...his...world...view?") that she was unfamiliar with the term, period.

 

[anitram]

Of course she was.

Because she is DIM.

And the fact they are keeping her from the media entirely just tells me she's even more DIM than the rest of us assume.

Which frightens me.

 

[Lila64]

Of course she was.

Because she is DIM.

And the fact they are keeping her from the media entirely just tells me she's even more DIM than the rest of us assume.

Which frightens me.

QFT

 

[Irvine511]

Of course she was.

Because she is DIM.

can you name for me the exact year when it became important an important criteria that our VP candidates weren't DIM?