The campaign organization has definitely limited her contact with the media. I can't say I blame them considering how the media has gone after her. But she has had more than one interview and will have more, in addition to the debate.
You are probably right as I disagree with him on some fundamental issues. But I don't feel like what they are doing with Palin is helping voters make an informed decision, rather they are trying to control the opinion of voters in regard to Palin. In a free country that puts a high value on honesty and integrity, I call that BS and furthering the propaganda style of Bush and Fox News. How is this is different from the common theme of your arguments? My candidate is Paul, who has already lost the race. I can't defend everything about Obama, but I agree with him in some key ways and I disagree with McCain's campaign in a growing number of ways rather than a shrinking number of ways. I'd like to see a mixture of discussions with the candidates. Debates aren't always the best way to get a point across, but they give you a different type of information... how quick on their feet the candidate is, how clear their worldview is, how they handle confrontation. I'm disappointed to not have the opportunity to see Palin in this capacity. I'm still interested to see the VP "forum". Fixed that for ya. The question I'm raising is how does what the McCain campaign is doing = helping voters make the most informed decision possible? On the contrary, I feel like the McCain campaign is trying to manipulate voters. This is particularly the case with Palin, who the nation has had little exposure to. We've seen Obama, McCain, and Biden. He has quite a few years for the public to form decisions on. Palin is a big question mark, and it seems McCain (and the Republican party) wants to keep it that way.
Well I guess it will be just you and me:hihi: Seriously who pissed in your cereal? Never seen you like this. Amusing and concerning at the same time.
I'm just sick of this whole election. It's time to get it over with. If not for your avatar I'd tell you to F off too. :wink:
Interesting that we have all of this outrage over the VICE Presidential candidate's silence. Lest we forget, on the day he clinched the delegate count to win the GOP nomination, McCain proposed a serious of town hall meetings, in which he and Obama would appear together, even suggesting they travel from meeting to meeting together. Obama said "no." McCain suggested they visit Iraq together. Obama said "no." Now McCain wants to put aside the campaign for a few days, because he feels an obligation to perform his duties as Senator and try to fix the mortgage problem. Obama, having started running for President 15 minutes after entering the Senate, apparently doesn't feel this same obligation, and is trying to portray McCain's call to duty as a "photo op." The mainstream media, which hasn't stood up since Obama bent them over 2 years ago, is naturally falling into line. This campaign is going to be the ugliest in American history, with the media overtly doing everything in its power to ensure an Obama victory. I have no problem with Palin's silence; everything she says will be twisted, spun, folded, spindled and mutilated by the Dem Party Pep Squad, once known as the national media.
Its a political move, McCain isnt on any significant banking or economic committees. 75% of Americans want the debate to move on. Its a clear picture people want to here these guys. This has nothing to do with rushing back to work on anything. Only thing he can do is vote on the bail out and spit his rhetoric same as Obama. Samething the right has done with the words that come out of Obamas mouth, spin, spin, spin.
Bimbo?...damn Red, that's low (even for you :hihi I guess we'll have to start referring to your girl from New York as the Power Hungry Whore! :911:...unless you're a bleeding heart liberal who prefers smoking dope while praising muslims.
Life's a bitch ain't it! :grin: Your party has held all three branches of government for most of a decade, also increased non-military government spending, surrendered our borders to Mexico, shipped our jobs overseas, mortgaged our economy to China, and has brought us a Trillion dollar endless war and a Trillion dollar impending depression. Of course he has managed to lower taxes for milionaires and now wants to protect the billionaires on Wall Street from their own dismal failures. There is a crisis in national management here and The People of the United States of America need to hear from the men who may be President in a couple of months and responsible for all of this. "Doing his Duty" to go to Congress is fine, but it's no excuse for McCain bailing out on a Presidential debate, perhaps because he fears that he knows too little about economics to withstand the questions. McCain is not the leader of the Republican party, that fellow spoke last night. McCain is not a Congressional leader regarding finance either. Even the House and Senate leaders are deferring this Socialist Bail-Out to the Finance Committee experts. McCain only needs to pay attention and vote like the other 99 senators, including Obama. In this age of overnight letters, email, cell phones, and private jets, there is no reason at all that both of these senators can't do their jobs (just like they have during the whole campaign) and still attend the long-scheduled and very important debate. This evasiveness, coupled with the dodging of Sarah Palin, gives serious doubt about the honesty and transparency of this new set of Republicans. They don't want to be asked any questions! Why is that, do you think? This very old, very lame excuse for an inability to accept bad news is not worthy of debate. It has long been discredited, here and elsewhere. FoxNews is a major right-wing TV media outlet. Ann Coulter dominates political book media and Limbaugh owns the talk radio media.
Do you mean to say that in a presidential campaign one of the candidates had the nerve to make a political decision. WOW! STOP THE PRESSES! For your information, most of the decisions made in a campaign are political. Obama's decisons not to attend town hall meetings and not to disrupt his campaign to actually function as a senator and do his job were no less political. McCain was right. The economic crisis is more important than his political ambitions. When Obama put his political ambitions ahead of the interest of the nation and refused to postpone the debate, McCain spoke with President Bush and recommended Bush invite both Obama and McCain to a meeting with top congressional leaders to see if the legislation can be quickly passed. As a result both Obama and McCain will attend the meeting today in hopes that any problems can be resolved and the legislation passed today or tomorrow. If that happens the debate should go on as planned tomorrow. A very wise move by McCain.
