Letting Sarah Palin Answer Questions Is Very, Very Dangerous
By Greg Sargent
The lengths the McCain campaign is going to in order to shield Sarah Palin from questioning are reaching truly comic dimensions. Check out this nugget from the pool report, via Jonathan Martin, on John McCain and Palin's meeting with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko:"McCain then looked around the room and gestured as if to welcome questions. The AP reporter shouted a question at Gov. Palin ('Governor, what have you learned from your meetings?') but McCain aide Brooke Buchanan intervened and shepherded everybody out of the room. Palin looked surprised, leaned over to McCain and asked him a question, to which your pooler thinks he shook his head as if to say 'No.'"
Palin can't even be allowed to answer a question as basic as this? What's really sobering is that the McCain campaign continues to block Palin from answering questions even though it's now resulting in reams and reams of bad press for the McCain-Palin ticket. That suggests McCain advisers know that letting her answer even the most elementary questions in an uncontrolled environment is so dangerous that it's worth weathering the current media drubbing they're taking in order to prevent it from happening at all costs. Has anyone pointed out that McCain has placed Palin a heartbeat away from the presidency?
This relates to a special commentary that CNN Anchor Campbell Brown gave last night where she said it was time for the McCain campaign to "Free Sarah!"
Nice.
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