Media Portrayal of Governor Palin

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it's hilarious how scared the media and the left (two peas in a pod) are of Sarah Palin. Oh, they will lie and claim that they're just treating her the way the right has been treating Obama, conveniently forgetting that Obama is the one running for President.
 
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I don't think that having reservations about someone with her level of experience potentially becoming 2nd in command of our country (and potentially becoming 1st in command) is hilarious at all. And it's not just "the media and the left" - it's anyone who is genuinely concerned about the future of the country.

I say the media should vet the hell out of her. We have the right to have at least some expectation of what she might do should McCain win and die in office.
 
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There have been plenty of VP's with pretty thin resumes. John Edwards comes to mind as the most recent example and his resume is much thinner than Palin's.

I'm all for vetting Palin as well, what I don't like seeing is a media just making things up.
 
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Could they also shine the spotlight on the guy running for POTUS? You know since they are so worried about inexperience.
 
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allvol123 said:
Could they also shine the spotlight on the guy running for POTUS? You know since they are so worried about inexperience.
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why? he went to Harvard and was editor of the Harvard Law Review. That should be all you need to know, now go put on your dunce cap and sit in the corner.
 
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MG1968 said:
There have been plenty of VP's with pretty thin resumes. John Edwards comes to mind as the most recent example and his resume is much thinner than Palin's.

I'm all for vetting Palin as well, what I don't like seeing is a media just making things up.
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As was Dan Quayle's - I agree.

Nor do I like seeing the media making things up (Obama's a Muslim, terrorist fist bump etc.), but point to me where that's happened in regards to Palin. They're simply trying to find out more, and since the McCain campaign won't disclose anything about her or let her conduct any interviews, they have to get their information from the people she worked with, and that's exactly what they're reporting. Like this article today:

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/14/us/politics/14palin.html?_r=1&hp&oref=slogin
 
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TennNC said:
I don't think that having reservations about someone with her level of experience potentially becoming 2nd in command of our country (and potentially becoming 1st in command) is hilarious at all. And it's not just "the media and the left" - it's anyone who is genuinely concerned about the future of the country.

I say the media should vet the hell out of her. We have the right to have at least some expectation of what she might do should McCain win and die in office.
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I'm much more concerned with how on earth she might help if we get someone of Obama inexperience elected. She has to be able to provide some exec level insight for him somehow. Otherwise, he's going to go back to listening to idiots like Wright and Ayers.
 
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allvol123 said:
Could they also shine the spotlight on the guy running for POTUS?
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They have - and Obama has made himself available, from everything from Inside Edition to the New Yorker to freaking Bill O'Reilly. Do Jeremiah Wright, Rezko, flag pins, terrorist fist bumps, Weather Underground ring a bell?

It's time for Palin to face the music before she faces Putin and company.
 
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TennNC said:
They have - and Obama has made himself available, from everything from Inside Edition to the New Yorker to freaking Bill O'Reilly. Do Jeremiah Wright, Rezko, flag pins, terrorist fist bumps, Weather Underground ring a bell?

It's time for Palin to face the music before she faces Putin and company.
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Oohh not the BOR reference? Wow, that is some heavy hitting stuff there.

If she has not faced the music, how do you know all these things you propose to know about her?

Also, Obama failed miserably in O'Reilly's interview in respect to his relationships with those people.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
I'm much more concerned with how on earth she might help if we get someone of Obama inexperience elected. She has to be able to provide some exec level insight for him somehow. Otherwise, he's going to go back to listening to idiots like Wright and Ayers.
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honestly? tell me honestly - do you really think this will happen? How often has he spoken to Wright and Ayers in, say, the past 6 months? They were nothing more -- nothing more -- than stepping stones on his way to something bigger.
 
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TennNC said:
honestly? tell me honestly - do you really think this will happen? How often has he spoken to Wright and Ayers in, say, the past 6 months? They were nothing more -- nothing more -- than stepping stones on his way to something bigger.
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:eek:lol::eek:lol::eek:lol::eek:lol: - Do you know why that is?
 
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TennNC said:
honestly? tell me honestly - do you really think this will happen? How often has he spoken to Wright and Ayers in, say, the past 6 months? They were nothing more -- nothing more -- than stepping stones on his way to something bigger.
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you can't seriously believe that he's totally removed those folks from his circle? Every candidate of every ilk does things at campaign time that are only temporary and politically expedient. Especially shifts toward the center and banishment of radical types.
 
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allvol123 said:
Oohh not the BOR reference? Wow, that is some heavy hitting stuff there.
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Obama going on BOR would be like Palin going on the Ed Schultz show - yep, she probably will do that. Probably has the guts for that type of "interview."
 
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TennNC said:
Obama going on BOR would be like Palin going on the Ed Schultz show - yep, she probably will do that. Probably has the guts for that type of "interview."
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How about Obama granting Hannity an interview? After all, Obama has called him out numerous times, one time claiming that Hannity doesn't have the guts to confront him face to face. I guess when you're all talk and no substance like Obama is, you can get away with things like that.
 
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MG1968 said:
I'm not going to take anything the NYT prints seriously, especially anything by Maureen Dowd and Frank Rich.

as far as making things up, here you go.

CNN Conjures Up Palin Travel 'Scandal' That Never Was | NewsBusters.org
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I don't give a $hit about travel expenses. I do care if she has one lick of foreign policy experience.

Did you even click on the link to the NYT story? It was written by By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL. But it's intellectually easier to simply dismiss something as "liberal bias" and not read something that might disrupt your glowing thoughts of our veep to be.
 
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TennNC said:
Obama going on BOR would be like Palin going on the Ed Schultz show - yep, she probably will do that. Probably has the guts for that type of "interview."
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BOR is no further right than Gibson is left. So she has done at least what Obama has.
 
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BigPapaVol said:
you can't seriously believe that he's totally removed those folks from his circle? Every candidate of every ilk does things at campaign time that are only temporary and politically expedient. Especially shifts toward the center and banishment of radical types.
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I believe he's as close to them as I am with my 3rd grade classmates.

William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright will have zero influence on an Obama White House.
 
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TennNC said:
I don't give a $hit about travel expenses. I do care if she has one lick of foreign policy experience.

Did you even click on the link to the NYT story? It was written by By JO BECKER, PETER S. GOODMAN and MICHAEL POWELL. But it's intellectually easier to simply dismiss something as "liberal bias" and not read something that might disrupt your glowing thoughts of our veep to be.
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yeah, I clicked on it. Seems to be a 6 page hit piece without any regard for finding out the other side of the story.

You do realize that Obama has zero foreign policy experience as well, don't you? His Euro Tour '08 was nothing but a photo op. He never convened a meeting of his senate subcommittee and during the 143 days he's actually spent in the Senate he hasn't proposed one piece of foreign policy legislation.
 
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allvol123 said:
BOR is no further right than Gibson is left. So she has done at least what Obama has.
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that's an absolute joke. It's an insult to your intelligence.

How many interviews has Palin given? Obama?

come on, man - give yourself more respect than that inanity.
 
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Don't forget the "Palin would attack Russia" headlines. Forget she was just explaining to Gibson and Obama how NATO works.
 
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TennNC said:
I believe he's as close to them as I am with my 3rd grade classmates.

William Ayers and Jeremiah Wright will have zero influence on an Obama White House.
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that's absurd. at the very minimum, their past influence will impact many of his decisions, assuming he can make one (he never has you know).
 
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TennNC said:
that's an absolute joke. It's an insult to your intelligence.

How many interviews has Palin given? Obama?

come on, man - give yourself more respect than that inanity.
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Number does not matter as much as who they were given to.
 
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MG1968 said:
yeah, I clicked on it. Seems to be a 6 page hit piece without any regard for finding out the other side of the story.
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are we really doing this?

"Ms. Palin declined to grant an interview for this article. The McCain-Palin campaign responded to some questions on her behalf and that of her husband, while referring others to the governor’s spokespeople, who did not respond."

why protect her? if she's gonna be VP, she easily could be Pres. What can you tell me about her to make me feel better about that possibility?
 
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