Desperately Seeking Sarah: The ad Obama should run

[cali]

John McCain says she's ready to be President. Governor Palin says she has the experience needed. So why won't she answer questions from the press? John McCain says the American people don't have the right to hear from Sarah Palin; no interviews, no press conference, no answers. It's unheard of for a VP nominee to stonewall on answering questions. Why won't she?

[firedupdem]

1. unless they allow her to read she has nothing to say......

I don't understand why the media is allowing this no interview issue to fly. This man is 72 years old and even if he was 37 if something happens she is next in line to lead the country. I understand powerful people own the media but this is downright unbelievable.

[cali]

2. which is why the Obama campaign should be drawing attention to this

[firedupdem]

4. agree, agree, agree! n/t

[lonestarnot]

3. Well thus far, all she has demonstrated is that she can read.

[robcon]

5. Stupid, stupid strategy.

Obama should target McCain... and easily win.

Targeting Palin is a stupid tactic.

[cali]

6. So make the ad more about McCain's machinations to keep her

away from the press than about Palin. And giving Palin a free pass is fucking moronic. Repukes aren't giving Biden one.

[robcon]

8. Repukes are definitely giving Biden a free pass.

I think that's the best strategy for the Repugs: McCain/Palin vs. Obama, and ignore Biden for the most part.

The loser strategy is Obama/Biden vs. Palin, and that seems to be the preferred strategy by a large number of Democrats - though we'll soon see if that loser idea is Obama's strategy. I don't think he'll frame his campaign that way, at least as much as his supporters have done lately.

Obama/Biden vs. McCain: a sure winner. Obama/Biden vs. Palin: a sure loser.

[ProgressiveFool]

7. yep, so much for that "open and honest" administration McCain was lying about /nt

[robcon]

9. I think the Obama campaign has gotten its priorities straight.

Clinton set to strike McCain, not Palin
By GLENN THRUSH | 9/5/08 3:39 PM EST

Hillary Rodham Clinton has no intention of becoming a Sarah Palin attack dog — but has no qualms about going after John McCain, people close to the former first lady say.

“She’s not the answer when it comes to winning conservative women — she never was — and we’re not going to be anybody’s attack dog against Sarah Palin,” said a Clinton insider. “To be fair to Obama’s people, they haven’t asked us to do that.”

Slamming Palin to win back women already hostile to Obama is pointless, the insider said, because Clinton’s most loyal base is working-class voters, not women in particular. “Attacking Palin is checkers, attacking McCain on the economy is chess.”

Clinton will continue to yoke McCain and Palin to President Bush on pocketbook issues. But sources say that Clinton, who supports abortion rights, isn’t likely to criticize the Alaska governor for her anti-abortion stance. She may, however, question Palin’s record on equal-pay issues.

The Obama campaign, alarmed by Palin’s instant popularity, has given Clinton’s staff a proposed fall campaign schedule in economically distressed battleground states — including Ohio and Pennsylvania — where she did well during the primaries, according to people familiar with the situation."

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0908/13193.html

[City Lights]

10. One thing to add...John McCain promises to bring transparency to government,

yet he won't even bring transparency to his campaign.