{"id":422,"date":"2008-09-30T11:44:08","date_gmt":"2008-09-30T09:44:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ofcourseimright.com\/?p=422"},"modified":"2008-09-30T11:44:08","modified_gmt":"2008-09-30T09:44:08","slug":"sarah-palin-is-not-showing-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/?p=422","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Palin is NOT showing up"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"NPR’s Morning Edition today had a report on Governor Sarah Palin.\u00a0 Apparently she is taking a page from President Bush and carefully controlling media access.\u00a0 In other words: limited interviews, and no press access.\u00a0 What little press she has had has been bad.\u00a0 Between the ongoing investigation and her refusal to release her income tax records,\u00a0 one has to wonder if she really is ready for her current position of governor, much less that of vice president.\u00a0 One also has to wonder why the people of Alaska put up with this sort of behavior.<\/p>\n

Say what you will about Senator Biden, either through intent or incompetence, he has a long history from which we can judge (and have).\u00a0 This leads to the first rule of governing: you have to show up, and Sarah Palin is not.<\/p>\n

Worse, even when she makes statements they are plattitudes.\u00a0 Telling Americans not to question Israel is as destructive to the democratic process here at home as it is to Israel and her neighbors.\u00a0 We cannnot be an honest broker if we do not question all parties, and that is what the region needs most of all.\u00a0 Even the current administration recognizes the mistakes it has made.\u00a0 These were lessons that ought not to have been learned in office, and we certainly cannot afford for another administration to learn them again.<\/p>\n

We need better.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

NPR’s Morning Edition today had a report on Governor Sarah Palin.\u00a0 Apparently she is taking a page from President Bush and carefully controlling media access.\u00a0 In other words: limited interviews, and no press access.\u00a0 What little press she has had has been bad.\u00a0 Between the ongoing investigation and her refusal to release her income tax … Continue reading “Sarah Palin is NOT showing up”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[145,132,185,493],"class_list":["post-422","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","tag-biden","tag-election","tag-palin","tag-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=422"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":424,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/422\/revisions\/424"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=422"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=422"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ofcourseimright.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=422"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}