NY Times: Pact on Debates Will Let McCain and Obama Spar

[cinyc]

I think McCain's camp is getting worried about Palin, just a bit.  The lack of press access is amazing and you can see her fumble around with more questions per capita than anyone else on the trail.  She did well in her debate with Knowles, but that was in areas she has had experience with her whole life (like Alaskan values and energy issues) and less on whether Joe Biden's plan to partisan Iraq would be effective.

Maybe that's just my partisan goggles.

What lack of press access?  Palin sat down for 2 days for an interview with Charles Gibson where no issue was off the table, then sat down with Sean Hannity and is going to sit down with Katie Couric soon.

Obama in the past has gone weeks if not months without holding press conferences himself.

But please, keep playing the poor Sarah Palin is going to suck at the debate card.  Lowering expectations for the Republican candidate is fine with me.

Now, why do you suppose the Republicans would want the Veep debate to have short answers?  Hint: It's not because of Governor Palin.

[cinyc]

The press has been howling, there's been stories in almost every major outlet about how they can't get a word in to Palin.  It's actually been pretty unprecedented, I'm too uncaring about this to dig up story after story about her limited access to reporters.  I'm not trying to be antagonistic here, notice words in my last post "just a bit." 

The press has been howling because they are a bunch of pampered elites who think the world revolves around them.  If THEY don't get an interview, then they whine and complain and complain and whine about it.

What the American public sees is that Palin gave an interview to Charles Gibson and will see an interview with Katie Couric soon.  And then they'll see her debate Biden next month.

Again, Barack Obama went weeks if not months without giving a press conference.  The media didn't whine as loudly about it since he is their man.