Poor widdle baby sarah - she can't answer long questions in a debate because she isn't very smart and that mean old joey biden might beat her up or something and besides no one wants the debate to go on past her bedtime.
I think the media should have done two things. When the McCain campaign said she wasn't giving interviews they should have stopped covering her - period. No campaign appearances covered, no travel, no nothing except National Enquirer type scandal fodder. And when the campaign said she couldn't play in the big leagues and debate like a big girl, they should have said tough, the rules are the rules. Why is everyone giving in to this joke of a candidate, whose maturity level is that of a bratty but popular junior high school girl, and her IQ doesn't even get to triple digits?
Read the last sentence of the report below. They were afraid she would be at a disadvantage and on the defensive. No, they want her prepared with memorized sound bites and this allows her to be a cyborg debator. Or maybe she'll hide an earpiece behind her hair and she'll be hooked up to someone who will feed her the answers - like Bush was four years ago.
The Obama and McCain campaigns have agreed to an unusual free-flowing format for the three televised presidential debates, which begin on Friday, but the McCain camp fought for and won a much more structured approach for the questioning at the vice-presidential debate, advisers to both campaigns said Saturday.
At the insistence of the McCain campaign, the Oct. 2 debate between the Republican
nominee for vice president, Gov. Sarah Palin, and her Democratic rival, Senator
Joseph R. Biden Jr., will have shorter question-and-answer segments than those for the presidential nominees, the advisers said. There will also be much less opportunity for free-wheeling, direct exchanges between the running mates.McCain advisers said they had been concerned that a loose format could leave Ms. Palin, a relatively inexperienced debater, at a disadvantage and largely on the defensive.
