Throughout the month of September — and even into October — critics of Sarah Palin have faulted the McCain campaign for sequestering the vice presidential nominee from the meida. They stuck to their talking point even as facts on the ground changed; the Alaska Governor has become increasingly accessible to the media, more readily taking questions and offering interviews than her opponent for the Vice Presidency.
In his Corner post this morning, Victor Davis Hanson reminds us that, in recent days, it’s not just Joe Biden who’s been sequestered:
I don’t think in my lifetime I have ever witnessed quite a campaign in which the wife of the Presidential candidate has been sequestered lest she voice yet another sweeping generalization that can be rightfully interpreted as denigrating both the American system at large or the values of other Americans; or in which the Vice Presidential candidate has been sequestered from press questioning lest he once again in an interview or an impromptu says something that either is so bizarre that it makes no sense at all or serves as a good argument not to vote for his running mate
So now that the Democrat has been sequestered, where’s the media outrage? Why aren’t those very same critics who faulted the McCain campaign for hiding the Alaska Governor decrying Obama’s campaign for hidin’ Biden?
Read the rest of Hanson’s post and consider his notion of the “faux-wizardly” of the Democrat’s campaign.
Jeez, isn’t this kind of whining? Michelle Obama was just on Leno this week. Hasn’t she been on the campaign trail as much as Cindy McCain? Frankly, I don’t care that much about either wife’s positions at this point.
Meh. Biden is a known quantity. He’s been around for 26 years. It’s the closing days of the campaign, everyone knows Biden can be a gaffe machine. So, why would they put him out there more than necessary?
Again, this sounds like crybaby whining at this point 3 days before the election.
There is an irony here. For 8 years, most conservatives had their lips pressed firmly to both Bush’s and Chaney’s asses and defended their secrecy and constitutional abuses. It will be interesting to see under a likely Obama administration how many conservatives are likely to agree with an “imperial presidency.”
I’ve commented before about the use of “thugocracy” by this blog. What I find interesting has been the willingness to ignore the fears and actual abusive of governmental powers by the Bush administration.
Now, a vice-presidential candidate isn’t out there and that is disturbing but a vice-president who held secret meeting with the energy industry was A.O.K? A V.P. who refused to respond to congressional subpoenas under the guise that he had executive privilege one day but legislative privilege on another day was not upsetting?
Please, so that I’m not generalizing, could you tell me whether you disagreed with Cheney’s actions? That would help me have a conversation with you about vice presidents and their responsibility to communicate openly with the American people.
Um, Blake, how could this be whining? I’m just asking the simple question why those so outraged by Palin’s limited media access in September are not by Biden’s in October?
And you don’t even address the question, but go off on a tear against conservatives. Once again, you demonstrate your ignorance about us. Go check the conservative blogs and editorial pages for the past eight years and you’ll see a wealth of criticism of the Administration.
Interesting how you respond to my posts, instead of addressing the point, you repeat discredited left-wing talking points attacking Republicans and conservatives.
Please tell me how this post is whining?
And why should they put Biden out there more than is necessary, as you put it? Um, blake, should he win, he’d be a heartbeat away from the presidency. Shouldn’t we factor his gaffes into our evaluation of his quality to serve?
The issue here is the sequestering of Biden. And the left’s silence. I guess you’d rather attack conservatives than defend your own.
#1: Secret meetings with the energy industry?! Are we going back to that? Again? Do you guys like have a list you carry around or something?
As for Joe – there’s the old cliche that a gaffe occurs when a politician accidently tells the truth. With a couple of days left until the election, an accidental truth eruption is the last thing in the universe Obama needs.
I have come to fear more if Biden somehow becomes president.
Oh, and when was the last time that Obama held a press conference? The only hard question that he has had to answer is from Joe the Plumber. Or, should I say the only question that he honestly answered.
I guess you’d rather attack conservatives than defend your own.
Maybe Blakes is tacitly admitting that he cannot defend his team.
Especially since we just learned that Barack Obama’s illegal immigrant aunt is not only in the country in defiance of a deportation order, but is receiving public housing welfare benefits, which is illegal, is (she claims) employed by the Boston Housing Authority, which is also illegal, and is making campaign contributions to Obama, which is patently illegal — all of which has been facilitated by Obama and his fellow Democrats.
Add to that the examples of voter fraud found in Ohio by Obama campaign workers in cahoots with Obama-supporting Ohio poll judges, and it becomes pretty obvious that blakes NEEDS to tear down conservatives; his own side is showing their addiction to lawbreaking and criminal activity.
Filter, GPW