McCain campaign: Real journalists will not have access to Sarah Palin

Real journalists will not have access to Palin.  That's the clear message by Nicole Wallace of the McCain campaign. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LhgUvX_8Joo&eurl=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/05/no-questions-palin-wont-t_n_124256.html[/youtube] Andrew Sullivan writes: "I'm simply staggered that someone who could be president in an instant next January has been in her position for a week and cannot be asked questions…

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St. Louis Post-Dispatch: Sarah Palin walks on water

It's amazing to see the horrifically slanted local coverage of Sarah Palin by the St. Louis Post-Dispatch .  The only daily newspaper in St. Louis has now unveiled Palin as a party savior, refusing to engage with the ongoing torrent of information revealing Sarah Palin to be an inexperienced, dishonest…

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John and Sarah

I found this at Daily Kos: [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d-QevraCQUc[/youtube] I do have one minor issue with the video.  It shows McCain using a Blackberry, which is WAY too high tech for a guy who doesn't know how to use a computer.

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Andrew Sullivan sums up Palin – it’s really about McCain

Andrew Sullivan concludes that the choice of Palin should focus us sharply on McCain's poor judgment: To my mind, this pick is not about Palin's unreadiness to be president. It's about McCain's unreadiness to be president. This act of judgment - a blend of ignorance, gut, cynicism, and pure egotism…

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What’s the deal with Sarah Palin?

There is a feeding frenzy regarding Sarah Palin out there.  It's intense and disorienting.  It's also disquieting. Palin seems like a pleasant woman who would make a nice neighbor.   But since when are people qualified to be Vice-President just because they are "nice"? Tonight I started seeing many comments that…

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