The press should interview Palin thru McCain

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Friday October 17, 2008 · 12:46 PM PDT

2008/10/17 · 12:46

Gotta keep this short, but I had to share this revelation I had after her "pro-American parts of the country" comment.

We've got to be able to ask her what the hell she meant by that. But she won't talk to the press.

Therefore, since Palin won't give real interviews or press conferences, I think everyone who has an opportunity to ask questions of McCain should make him speak for her.

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Wednesday October 15, 2008 · 9:39 PM PDT

2008/10/15 · 21:39

It made my skin crawl when he said it, but I wasn't paying full attention. Now that I've heard it several times, though, I suspect that McCain's disparagement of the "health" of the mother, complete with air quotes and claims of extremism, will turn out to be THE decisive comment of the night.

Except for the most extreme antichoicers out there, that's it, he lost the women of America.

ebs42

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Wednesday October 08, 2008 · 9:46 AM PDT

2008/10/08 · 09:46

I confess that I actually found yesterday's debate extremely boring (after looking forward to it all day, I actually wound up dozing off toward the end). I was watching MSNBC, so no undecided voter monitor (next time I'll watch CNN, that sounds cool!), and was offline, so no instapunditry from the blogs.

The moment where it became clear to me that Obama had to be winning, very soundly because McCain was so completely tone deaf to where the questions were coming from, is a moment that I've seen no reporting on today.

I'm referring to the question posed by "a child of the Depression, 78-year-old Fiorra from Chicago." She asked:

Since World War II, we have never been asked to sacrifice anything to help our country, except the blood of our heroic men and women. As president, what sacrifices -- sacrifices will you ask every American to make to help restore the American dream and to get out of the economic morass that we're now in?

ebs42

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Thursday October 02, 2008 · 9:24 AM PDT

2008/10/02 · 09:24

I am among those who was not so impressed by Obama's performance in last week's debate. I thought he was right on the issues but not forceful enough, quietly saying "that's not true" when he could have looked right at McCain and said "John, stop lying to the American people!".

And of course, I was wrong wrong wrong. It seems that Obama hit all the right notes (and McCain all the wrong ones) for undecided voters who were actually in a position to have their minds changed by the debate.

I'm trying to understand how I (and I gather a fair number of pundits) got it so wrong, and whether there are any lessons that will be useful tonight.

ebs42

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Thursday September 25, 2008 · 10:38 AM PDT

2008/09/25 · 10:38

Or, rather, one of the candidates didn't come?

This latest business with the debates doesn't just smell to heaven. It is plain frightening.

ebs42

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Wednesday September 10, 2008 · 7:51 PM PDT

2008/09/10 · 19:51

Frustrated with all the lies coming out the McCain camp? It feels good to do something about it. Well, here's something you can do:

Pledge to my husband's Smear-a-Thon!

ebs42

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 11:44 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 11:44

Here's a bit of background on me, given in the interest of fairness. I am a mother of 3 with a super-full-time job (as a lawyer) that leaves me with scanty time for volunteerism. So I have not been phone-banking or knocking on doors. I try to make up for this failing by making significant financial contributions, and I have volunteered to contribute lawyering skills on and around Election Day. But I have not been out there pounding the pavement, etc.

I'm a Jewish professional living in Harlem. I don't often find myself in conversations with low-information voters, at least not conservatives or potential conservatives, about politics. There are a few Republicans in my family, and it is pointless to argue with them -- I'm not sure how our principles can be so completely at odds, but lack of information is not their problem (one branch of my family is rather hard-core Republican politicos -- I have an uncle who works at a thinktank and actually shows up once in awhile as a conservative commentator on NPR or in the Times).

But this morning I arrived at work genuinely depressed about Sarah Palin and wound up having a conversation with a low-information voter.

ebs42

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Monday July 14, 2008 · 10:56 AM PDT

2008/07/14 · 10:56

I just got done lunching with my mom and am embarrassed that she (a more recent convert away from all things Republican) is motivated enough to cancel her subscription over that cover and I am not, at least not yet.

ebs42

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Thursday June 05, 2008 · 7:02 AM PDT

2008/06/05 · 07:02

In her speech of Tuesday night, Hillary Clinton said that everyone wants to know "What does Hillary want?"

Personally, I couldn't care less.

ebs42

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Wednesday June 04, 2008 · 2:01 PM PDT

2008/06/04 · 14:01

To the best of my knowledge, he has still not changed his own endorsement from Clinton to Obama, but...

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Tuesday June 03, 2008 · 11:07 AM PDT

2008/06/03 · 11:07

Today, Hillary finally loses the battle for delegates and, if the nomination follows the delegate count, she will have lost the delegate count.

We're all seeing a lot of anguish from Hillary supporters who are so disappointed that the next president won't be her that they're threatening to vote for McCain out of pure spite.

ebs42

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Tuesday April 15, 2008 · 2:41 PM PDT

2008/04/15 · 14:41

I wish I could find some link between this and today's news, or last week's news. But I can't. Because the subject of this diary concerns the total absence of news.

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