09-30-2008, 10:38 AM
I'm not saying Obama doesn't have to answer those questions, he obviously does. But anyone with the internet can pull up quotes and stances on Georgia/Russia, NATO, Al Qaeda, Pakistan, etc. for Obama, McCain, and Biden within a couple minutes. Nobody knows anything about Palin though, she's an unknown.
These interviews are all about ratings and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Palin had the opportunity to come out and be confident and knowledgeable in interviews and put to rest a lot of the knocks on her ability, but it just hasn't gone well. If she aced the interviews, McCain would have looked like a genius and the tough questions wouldn't be coming so frequently. But now, everyone wants to see Palin get asked tough questions because they don't think she can handle it and it gets ratings.
Also, using one interview to compare the kinds of questions that are asked doesn't mean anything. A large percentage of the country though Barack Obama was a Muslim when that interview happened and it was meant to be a personal interview, not one to determine ability to lead. He agreed to do interviews with Bill O'Reily, who has certainly shown a bias or two in his day, and he looked a hell of a lot better than Palin did with Katie Couric. Just because you ignore his answer to the questions doesn't mean he didn't answer them.
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These interviews are all about ratings and you're kidding yourself if you think otherwise. Palin had the opportunity to come out and be confident and knowledgeable in interviews and put to rest a lot of the knocks on her ability, but it just hasn't gone well. If she aced the interviews, McCain would have looked like a genius and the tough questions wouldn't be coming so frequently. But now, everyone wants to see Palin get asked tough questions because they don't think she can handle it and it gets ratings.
Also, using one interview to compare the kinds of questions that are asked doesn't mean anything. A large percentage of the country though Barack Obama was a Muslim when that interview happened and it was meant to be a personal interview, not one to determine ability to lead. He agreed to do interviews with Bill O'Reily, who has certainly shown a bias or two in his day, and he looked a hell of a lot better than Palin did with Katie Couric. Just because you ignore his answer to the questions doesn't mean he didn't answer them.
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