ROFL! MSNBC Story, "Palin, in a bubble, meets her first world leaders"

[Median Democrat]

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/26853766/

Palin, in a bubble, meets her first world leaders

<>

/snip

NEW YORK - Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday.

It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once.

Palin sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The conversation was private, the pictures public, meant to pad her resume for voters concerned about her lack of experience in world affairs.

The self-described "hockey mom" also asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights on Georgia, and she'll see more leaders Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings.

It was shuttle diplomacy, New York-style. At several points, Palin's motorcade got stuck in traffic and New Yorkers, unimpressed with the flashing lights, sirens and police officers in her group, simply walked between the vehicles to get across the street. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, three hours behind Palin in seeing Karzai, found herself overshadowed for a day as she made her own rounds.

John McCain's presidential campaign has shielded the first-term Alaska governor for weeks from spontaneous questions from voters and reporters, and went to striking lengths Tuesday to maintain that distance as Palin made her diplomatic debut.

The GOP campaign, applying more restrictive rules on access than even President Bush uses in the White House, banned reporters from the start of the meetings, so as not to risk a question being asked of Palin.

McCain aides relented after news organizations objected and CNN, which was supplying TV footage to a variety of networks, decided to pull its TV crew from Palin's meeting with Karzai.

Overheard: small talk.

/snip

[Kerrytravelers]

1. Well, sitting down for a photo shoot and being able to see "Russia from my house" makes her ready!

Ready on Day One!!!



:eyes:

[complain jane]

2. Aw, it was like a political play-date.

Love the pic.

[Median Democrat]

5. Sadly, It Is Very Similar To This Newsweek Article

Deja vu?

<>

[Miss Chybil]

9. Or, Five Minute Dating nt

[Median Democrat]

11. LOL! International Speed Dating

<>

[1corona4u]

3. Ohh...you just made me think of something...

LOL....Sarah to a T.

[CoffeeCat]

4. I'm laughing at these bozos...

...for thinking that they can get away with this circus.

It's such an insult to the American people.

Fine, you have a fundie candidate who excites your base. No problem with that. That's
politics. However, hiding her--and treating her like she's an incompetent freak who
can't withstand a few questions from reporters--is so over the top loony.

The Republicans look like clowns.

[Median Democrat]

8. Hey, Bush Got Away With It For Eight Years, Any Reason To Change

Perhaps the GOP thinks they have caught lightning in a bubble.

<>P

[Rosa Luxemburg]

6. Palin is laughing stock

[Miss Chybil]

7. If all the media starts ignoring her, the McCain camp will be begging them for attention.

As it should be.

[Clio the Leo]

10. Do they realize that a McCain campaign adviser can't follow her to Capitol Hill....

..... or maybe they can.

[pnwmom]

12. I don't get it. If the McCain campaign "relented" -- what does that mean?

Were the reporters allowed to listen? No. Were they allowed to answer questions? No.

So in what way did the McCain campaign relent?

[Median Democrat]

13. They Allowed A Reporter For All Of The 30 Second Photo-Op...

With each leader. Sad that the McCain campaign thought that 30 seconds was so risky that they even told the reporter NOT to ask questions.

[npincus]

14. Baby learns to walk!