In Hiding for Two Weeks?!

Sullivan

This is incredible, totally incredible. A vice presidential candidate isn't going to be available to the press for two weeks? Two weeks? In September. We have this total unknown who could be president of the United States next January. And she's in hiding for two weeks. Chris Matthews on this clip says that this is fine. Has he lost his mind? She needs to be in front of the press now. The United States and the world cannot have this total unknown foisted on the presidency without any serious vetting and without any press interaction. This is absolutely third world. Since when is the governor of a state given two weeks in hiding?

The sexism that implies that someone cannot stand up to reporters because she is a woman is appalling. This entire pick, of course, is incredibly sexist, and the handling of her in the last week the most sexist double standard I have ever seen in American politics. Can you imagine Hillary Clinton saying she wasn't going to answer questions for two weeks? Or Margaret Thatcher? Or Kay Bailey Hutchison? Or Elizabeth Dole? And none of these women were ever as close to global power as Sarah Palin now is. This is getting to Manchurian Candidate levels of creepiness. It's deeply sinister and slightly terrifying.


(The link includes a YouTube clip of MSNBC.)

In ordinary times, this level of hubris or incompetence or both from a national campaign would be dumbfounding.

At a time when Republicans simply decide to ignore congressional subpoenas and nothing happens, a Republican vice-presidential candidate hiding from the press is business as usual.

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I get angry who in the hell is she suppose to be after all of the vetting and interviews they put Obama through and they continued to say it wasn't enough and now this BITCH is suppose to be something special who doesn't have to answer questions until she is ready.

I say bullshit. There is no damn media, these assholes are afraid of the republiCONS and they have for years, been letting them get away with this shit I have never heard of anything like it. If you watch Anderson cooper and wolf blitzer you can see the fear especially anderson when he asks the questions.

I am really surprised that the one person who I would have thought wouldn't ask anything is doing the most questioning and that is Campbell Brown,but I am not going to give her too much credit yet I know her background and I have been watching these people for years now...