Look, ... but don't ask any questions!

So, what do you do if your candidate can't answer even the most basic of questions related to the office they have been nominated for? You hide them away.

Palin has given only two "one on one" interviews since becoming the Republican choice for V.P.
One in which she was shown to have only vague notions about the job and one (with Faux News) which featured such hard hitting questions as "So do you think the rich AND the middle class would be better off if they didn't have to pay taxes?"
Oh, please. Why not just ask her if people feel better when you don't hit them in the head with a hammer.

So now the Republican campaign has lined up a series of "visits" with foreign dignitaries hoping that Palin, getting her picture taken ONCE with these folks, will suddenly qualify in the voter's minds as having "Foreign Affairs Experience". Never mind the fact that the first time in her life she even traveled outside the U.S. was just last year.

Just one hitch, her handlers are forbidding any reporters (only photographers) to be present when this takes place. Having those who could tell us about these photo ops would apparently run the risk of proving just how "out of her element" she will be.

Simply incredible.
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Palin bans reporters from meetings with leaders

NEW YORK - Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin, who has not held a press conference in nearly four weeks of campaigning, on Tuesday banned reporters from her first meetings with world leaders, allowing access only to photographers and a television crew.

The meetings scheduled for Wednesday are part of the Republican campaign's effort to give Palin the apperance of experience in foreign affairs. She has never met a foreign head of state and first traveled outside North America just last year.

The full article is found HERE -
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080923/ap_on_el_pr/palin_leaders;_ylt=AnPbBNDUL_3MnrWuDq_xZTes0NUE