We all should check this site to find out the real truth on Sarah. They do a exemplary job on all the candidates. Much has been written and much has been false on Palin. Waiting to exhale. The bounce is shocking but this is only week one…she has yet to face a real news person and answer the tough questions. Til she meets with Charlie I am not getting myself all worked up. I just wish Barack would ignore her and let the race be between he and Mac. Any comments on her play up the euphoria among her followers and when proven as lies she looks like a victim. I could not believe he told Geo. Stephanopolis he would like to play horse with her…a basketball game. C’mon Barack …get back to the issues. http://www.factcheck.org/elections-2008/sliming_palin.html As for the bridge to nowhere there were extenuating circumstances on this remark that when she realized how the spending would proceed she make her change of heart. We must make sure not to make her a martyr…Hillary was maligned and now her…so much for 2008 and how women are treated.

McCain plans new Palin rollout By MIKE ALLEN | 9/8/08 7:15 PM EST Palin’s handlers initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several. Photo: AP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at her son’s Army deployment ceremony on 9/11 and spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader. Campaign and network officials had said on Sunday that her first television interview would be a sit-down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News.” But it turns out that she is spending much of Thursday and Friday with Gibson — at the ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, and at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. Campaign aides said the anchorman will get extensive, repeated access to Palin throughout her first trip home since becoming the nominee. “ABC News will have plenty of time to question her and examine her and spend time with her,” a campaign official said. “They’ll do multiple interviews over two days. No topics are off-limits – there are no ground rules. There’s tons of time to talk to her about every topic.” The remarkable rollout reflects new confidence in Palin by her handlers, who initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several. Until now, Palin has been “sequestered,” as Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), her Democratic counterpart, put it on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — delivering rousing speeches, but not giving interviews or holding news conferences or answering questions on the fly. She was the only one of the four national candidates not to appear on a Sunday show this weekend. “Once you start, you don’t stop,” a Republican official said with a chuckle. “That doesn’t mean you run the faucet on high. But once you turn it on, you don’t really ever turn it off.” See Also 7 things to watch as the fall race kicks off Obama revives anti-Kerry line Obama: Palin ‘can’t just reinvent’ self McCain surges off convention bounce The strategy carries risk. ABC is war-gaming tough questions – not gotchas, but some requiring policy knowledge — with the thoroughness that a network prepares for a debate. The remarkable offer to ABC, made last Friday, is part of an ambitious project to sell Palin well beyond the right — to a broad swath of women and independent voters, including former supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). “I see women right at the forefront of that, but not exclusively,” a campaign adviser said. The official said Gibson will have the chance to “speak to her on 9/11 about her ideas for keeping America safe in the future; to speak to her as she goes back to Wasilla, where she grew up, about her life and her views and her vision for the country.” Two interviews with Gibson are planned for Thursday, including a conversation about her support for a natural-gas pipeline – a key applause line in her convention speech. Then on Friday, Palin will spend “as much time as both parties need” in Wasilla and Anchorage, the official said. She will fly into Anchorage and then drive to Wasilla. Palin riveted last week’s Republican National Convention with a witty, rousing speech, and has injected huge excitement into the party’s ticket in the 10 days since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) named her as his surprise pick for running mate. “People don’t understand how to cover women politicians in a way that is completely fair and enlightened yet,” the official said. “And somehow, she has managed to transcend that.” Christian conservatives were immediately thrilled by McCain’s choice, and his events took on new electricity. Asked to describe her appeal, one official said: “I think she is accessible. I think she is honest. I think she is real, and I think she is fearless. In Alaska, she has been such a target because she has always fought for the interests of her constituents, because they’re her neighbors.” The campaign adviser said: “She’s just this real, identifiable, approachable, funny, smart woman.” Officials wouldn’t say how the ABC anchor was chosen. “There were lots of tremendous and credible and fair journalists to choose from,” an aide said. “Somebody had to go first.”

McCain plans new Palin rollout By MIKE ALLEN | 9/8/08 7:15 PM EST Palin’s handlers initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several. Photo: AP Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will speak at her son’s Army deployment ceremony on 9/11 and spend two days with ABC News crews later this week as part of a McCain campaign plan to increase Americans’ comfort with her as a leader. Campaign and network officials had said on Sunday that her first television interview would be a sit-down with Charles Gibson of ABC’s “World News.” But it turns out that she is spending much of Thursday and Friday with Gibson — at the ceremony in Fairbanks, Alaska, and at her home in Wasilla, Alaska. Campaign aides said the anchorman will get extensive, repeated access to Palin throughout her first trip home since becoming the nominee. “ABC News will have plenty of time to question her and examine her and spend time with her,” a campaign official said. “They’ll do multiple interviews over two days. No topics are off-limits – there are no ground rules. There’s tons of time to talk to her about every topic.” The remarkable rollout reflects new confidence in Palin by her handlers, who initially had suggested it would be a while before she did interviews. Now, there will be several. Until now, Palin has been “sequestered,” as Sen. Joseph Biden (Del.), her Democratic counterpart, put it on NBC’s “Meet the Press” — delivering rousing speeches, but not giving interviews or holding news conferences or answering questions on the fly. She was the only one of the four national candidates not to appear on a Sunday show this weekend. “Once you start, you don’t stop,” a Republican official said with a chuckle. “That doesn’t mean you run the faucet on high. But once you turn it on, you don’t really ever turn it off.” See Also 7 things to watch as the fall race kicks off Obama revives anti-Kerry line Obama: Palin ‘can’t just reinvent’ self McCain surges off convention bounce The strategy carries risk. ABC is war-gaming tough questions – not gotchas, but some requiring policy knowledge — with the thoroughness that a network prepares for a debate. The remarkable offer to ABC, made last Friday, is part of an ambitious project to sell Palin well beyond the right — to a broad swath of women and independent voters, including former supporters of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.). “I see women right at the forefront of that, but not exclusively,” a campaign adviser said. The official said Gibson will have the chance to “speak to her on 9/11 about her ideas for keeping America safe in the future; to speak to her as she goes back to Wasilla, where she grew up, about her life and her views and her vision for the country.” Two interviews with Gibson are planned for Thursday, including a conversation about her support for a natural-gas pipeline – a key applause line in her convention speech. Then on Friday, Palin will spend “as much time as both parties need” in Wasilla and Anchorage, the official said. She will fly into Anchorage and then drive to Wasilla. Palin riveted last week’s Republican National Convention with a witty, rousing speech, and has injected huge excitement into the party’s ticket in the 10 days since Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) named her as his surprise pick for running mate. “People don’t understand how to cover women politicians in a way that is completely fair and enlightened yet,” the official said. “And somehow, she has managed to transcend that.” Christian conservatives were immediately thrilled by McCain’s choice, and his events took on new electricity. Asked to describe her appeal, one official said: “I think she is accessible. I think she is honest. I think she is real, and I think she is fearless. In Alaska, she has been such a target because she has always fought for the interests of her constituents, because they’re her neighbors.” The campaign adviser said: “She’s just this real, identifiable, approachable, funny, smart woman.” Officials wouldn’t say how the ABC anchor was chosen. “There were lots of tremendous and credible and fair journalists to choose from,” an aide said. “Somebody had to go first.”

I see what you mean, but then again it’s easy to tell others (who would be MORE affected by conservative fundamentalism in the White House than, perhaps, you) to “calm down”…when in fact to those of us with different ideals and strong bullsh!t detectors are merely PASSIONATE in our disappointment as we watch history repeat itself (i.e. the country may very well be continuing to change before our very eyes, for the worse)… It’s frustrating when you are screaming for justice and what you KNOW to be right, and no one can hear you through their blissful walls of ignorance.

Barack on Bill O’ tonite. ( 9 EST) repeat of alst week on now.

Liz, thank you for being a voice of reason in all of this. I wholeheartedly agree that we should give Palin and the campaigns some time to calm down a bit while the information filters down about her. The Gibson interview will be very enlightening. I do hope that Whoopi will give us the heads-up when Palin hits The View. Now that will be an episode to see!!!