What's up with Sarah Palin's cone of silence?
Republican VP candidate Sarah Palin met her very first world leaders Tuesday, embarking on a crash course on foreign policy.
ABC News reports that she met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and that she sat down with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights on Georgia, Russia, China and Iran.
No doubt there will be a pop quiz if John McCain wins and she becomes vice president.
McCain's camp has put a force field around the Alaska governor in recent weeks, and some in the media speculate that this is to keep her from dealing with unscripted questions from voters and reporters.
And it was even worse during these diplomacy sessions. Reporters were actually banned from the start of the meetings to stop them from asking questions of Palin.
Before Palin's first meeting with Karzai, campaign aides told the pool reporters that followed her they could not go into meetings but that photographers and a video camera crew would be let in for pictures.
President Bush and members of Congress routinely allow reporters to attend photo ops, and the reporters often ask questions at the beginning of private meetings before they're ushered out.
Not this time. Two or more news organizations, including the Associated Press, objected to their reporters' exclusion and were told that the decision was not subject to discussion. When aides backed down, campaign spokeswoman Tracey Schmitt said the reporter ban was a "miscommunication."
Finally, one reporter was let in.
Why so secret? Are you suspicious? Is the media just being nosy? Wouldn't you like to know what Sarah Palin says to foreign leaders?
The closest we may come to knowing what their conversations were like is in another "Saturday Night Live" skit.
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I want to hear her answer hard, complex questions, real time.
Well,heck,kinda like the bail out and the Iraq war,how dare you ask questions...just do as we say,...no thanks,we have been down this road...
It is an insult to the American public that the McCain campaign can nominate someone with scant experience for the second most powerful job in the US government and not allow the press to scrutinize her qualifications. This can only allow us -- the public -- to conclude that she is infact unqualified for the job. As with any scandal, it is not the crime that does in the politician but the cover-up.
There we go again.
I thought Rice was a weak choice in her job. but this Eliza Doolittle shows just how stupid the GOP thinks the American voter is.
Of course not. Would we want to see her talk about " no clue discussions " ?
Repu blicans are keeping her under tight wraps. God forbid we find out who she really is and stands for.
Maybe she thinks that some dimwitted Hollywood type will feel compelled to comment...
Why didn't the press cry and stomp their feet when Obama was overseas having closed door meetings with heads of states?
So we have a VP candidate that needs to chaperoned. What does that say about how the country would fare if she were to suddenly become president, Compared to Palin - with apologies to the late Sen. Lloyd Bentsen -- Dan Quayle looks like JFK.
What are we supposed to think but they are afraid of what she might say? The press should continue to object, vociferously. She's held incommunicado - what VP nominee has been so protected after having been so new to politics? This is absurd. If she can't be trusted to talk with the press, she can't be trusted to be VP, or, God forbid, president.