The bad joke continues
After four weeks on the ticket, Republican John McCain's running mate Sarah Palin still isn't deemed ready to meet the press. The McCain campaign tried to exclude all reporters from a "meeting" Palin had with Afghan president Hamid Karzai. They only intended to let in cameras, and only for half a minute, but CNN then announced it was pulling out its cameras and Palin's handlers relented. Sort of.
You have to understand that most polticians allow reporters to attend and ask questions at photo ops. Gov. Ed Rendell of Pennsylvania is famous for it. But Palin is obviously deemed by her handlers to be so vulnerable to saying something stupid about a whole range of things that they can't risk letting her "inform" the public except through carefully scripted statements she reads off a teleprompter.
This is no laughing matter. What if McCain drops dead or is incapacitated in his first month in office? Do you want Palin running the country and controlling our destinies? In truth, she would be a figurehead president controlled by lobbyists. Much like McCain already is.
But it's looking better for Obama. He's doing well in key polls.