Him: Sarah Palin should be put in front of the media and the public should be allowed to ask her direct questions.
Me: If I were Sarah Palin - asked to join a political campaign 18 months into it and without much political experience (which is different than legislative experience) - I would want some protection from the public while I got my feet under me.
Him: But if she's willing to accept the VP nomination, she should know there's great public scrutiny that comes with it.
Me: I agree. I hope in the homestretch - the final month of the campaign - she'll open things up. And I really look forward to that. I think the campaign is being really too careful with her right now and she'll surprise them when she's allowed to start speaking off-script.
One only hopes. I would hate for her to positioned as a joke - which is beginning to happen. Check out this article from CNN's Campbell Brown: http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/24/campbell.brown.palin/?iref=hpmostpop. Go, Sarah!
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Hello Cassandra - great blog. I was referred here from Politico.com's Ben Smith. Another great political news source - although it does lean left. Speaking of sources, I love that you list The Daily Show as a source!
Anyway, I am an Obama supporter and am happy to see you are considering his candidacy =)
Good luck in making your decisions!
And, if you get bombarded by knuckle heads who get intense about their candidate - either way - remember they are the outliers and most Americans know what a serious personal decision it is to select our next President and most Americans respect others, even when they disagree.
Nice post. Did you see her interview with Charlie Gibson and Katie Couric? If so, I think you'll understand why Palin is being kept under wraps by the McCain campaign.
Hey Cassandra, I found your blog through Politico as well. I think you'll probably get a few viewers from there!
I am so very glad that you are taking the time to get informed instead of listening to (and repeating) the rhetoric on either side. I find that once people really start to look at the facts, issues and real concerns surrounding each candidate and campaign, it really becomes a pretty easy choice. I leave it to you to figure out for which side!
Good luck to you in your decision-making process and don't let anyone try to bully you in any direction!
With the constant stunts that McCain is pulling, I would hope that you wouldn't want the PRESIDENT of the United States to have this kind of disposition.
With all due respect, but I cannot figure out why anyone is undecided at this point in time.
Undecided? Really? Have you just started paying attention?
How about the Supreme Court? That is the main reason to vote for Obama. McCain would nominate judges like Alito, Roberts, Thomas and Scalia. Do you know who they are? Do you like their opinions and stances on the law? Do you know that the next POTUS will get at least 2 nominations to the court? Supreme Court nominations are the most lasting and most impactful decisions a president makes. Does that make you any closer to a decision?
Beginning to happen?
It's been happening for a long time. Did you see the latest interview with Couric? Palin is looking down to read notes, and she still makes no sense at all.
Aw, c'mon guys! She knows where Russia is located! She said it...repeatedly...during her interview with Katie Couric. That, and something about Putin's head inside Alaska.
It's interesting that the McCain campaign's shielding of Sarah Palin has actually made the gaffes worse. With few interviews and no media access, the press only has so much to judge her on. I'm worried that if she starts crying "foul," she will do more to damage the advancement of women in both politics and the workplace, and the 18 million cracks in the glass ceiling will be all for naught.
I did a terrible thing, sort of. I embellished an unverified item to see where it would go---if you read it carefully I do say the item is not fully verified--and my embellishment was preceded by the phrase---"I would assume"---but---I want your gut reaction---do you think there is a good possibility that McCain has an unhealthy fetish about wanting women to be thin?
Post subject: McCain warns Palin--lose a few pounds before the tv debate
Posted: 23 Sep 2008 18:03 pm
The slender weight of the women in his life has always been important to McCain. He married a model in 1964---but she had a car wreck which left her shorter and heavier, and it was a no brainer to trade her in for a wealthy, streamlined Cindy. According to a report by dr. ANASUYA DUBEY still being verified on the internet, Cindy was not quite trim enough in December of 1998. (only picture I could find was from 2001 in wikipedia, judge for yourself whether she is now several pounds thinner, again.)
The last entry on the verification page, says dubey is about to sell her story of a fiji vacation ten years ago to a media outlet---
http://www.tellingthoughts.com/us-politics/my-holiday-with-mccain
He waxed on during one meal about how Indo-Chine women had the best figures and that our American corn-fed women just couldn’t meet up to this standard. He also made it a point that all of us should stop Cindy from having dessert as her weight was too high and made a few comments to Amy, the 25 year old wife of the honeymooning couple from Nebraska that she should eat less as she needed to lose weight. McCain’s appreciation of the beauty of Asian women was so great that David the American economist had to move his Thai wife to the other side of the table from McCain as McCain kept aggressively flirting with and touching her.
Amy was happily eating pancakes when McCain arrived and told Amy that she shouldn’t be having pancakes because she needed to lose weight. Amy burst into tears at this abusive comment.
So now---with Palin on the campaign trail being served all sorts of chocolate and fried chicken and barbecue every day----mindful that Hillary's pantsuit look was not the best to battle Obama with---I would assume John is telling her to "watch it"---even though Cindy might be telling her---"Oh, go ahead---you can have my dessert, too."
Wow! I'm an Obama person myself, but some of these other pro-Obama posters are really snarky. Give it a rest, people. There's enough to talk seriously about here without having to resort to saying that Cassandra's not paying attention or posts about John McCain's supposed preference for skinny women...
Anyway, I found you through Politico and I just wanted to say thanks for sharing your thought process with all of us. I'm a strong anti-Hillary person myself, and had she managed to take the nomination with superdelegates, would have flirted pretty seriously with voting for someone else, including McCain, who I've always liked (in no small part, I'm sure, due to his frequent Daily Show visits). But you're right, the 2008 McCain is not the honorable man who got smeared in 2000. I'm hoping that if Obama wins and McCain goes back to the Senate, he'll revert to being the man I respected so much before.
What I like about Obama, aside from the inspirational stuff (which gets to me, I admit it!) is that he has some fairly liberal views (which match up pretty well with mine for the most part) but a pretty conservative temperament. For me, that's a good match.
I really look forward to following your blog. Again, thanks for giving us this window into your decision, and best of luck to you!
Very Nice Blog. I am a History/Politics Teacher from PA and have become an Obama Supporter. For me, the choice came down to 1) Who accepts Lobbyist $ and continues to court their opinions (McCain) and 2) The fact that I believe how a campaign is run is a direct reflection of how they run a country. Obama has been disciplined, well thought out and consistent. McCain (who dissapoints me) seems contradictory and moves with the polls. Anyways, congrats on the blog and keep up the dialogue.
Hey - I just found your blog from Politico. It is really cool. I am a big Obama supporter, but I always wonder what undecided voters think. I understand your affection for McCain. I used to like him also, even though I have always been a Democrat. I think the main reason that I have lost respect for him is that he hired the people who trashed him, his wife, and his adopted daughter in South Carolina 2000 to run his campaign. I hope you will stay tuned to what is going on. I have a few suggested Websites for you...
www.marcambinder.theatlantic.com/ (a really good blogger who seems to be pretty fair and non-partisan who just calls it like he sees it)
and
www.andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/ (a former staunch conservative who supports Obama, because he no longer respects McCain
Good Luck
Nice blog. I'd be interested to hear your opinion of Palin's interview tonight with Katie Couric. I know I'm biased, for Obama, and live in Illinois. I often wonder how she's viewed through the prism of someone who hasn't yet formed their opinion.
You and I disagree about Sarah Palin. I'll concede that she hit a home run at the convention, but every time she's opened her mouth on the fly it's been a disaster.
I find her to be fundamentally unqualified to serve as mayor or governor, and much less VP. I was utterly disappointed when John McCain selected her. There were so many better choices. This one was clearly designed to unite the conservative base (got it) and pander to the women that McCain felt Obama shunned by not taking Hitlery...err Hillary (failed). I think he probably wanted the super-qualifed female republican governor of Connecticut, but she recently voted in favor of gay marriage, which sorta crosses her off the list. Sometimes I really hate politics.
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