It takes a village . . .

[bigtree]

. . . to prepare Palin for the press.



Squad of G.O.P. Aides Prepares Palin for Interviews

September 10, 2008 -- With new reports coming out daily about Ms. Palin’s record in Alaska, and a steady uptick in attacks from Senator Barack Obama’s campaign, Mr. McCain’s team has issued a partywide, all-hands-on-deck.

It has hired several veterans from President Bush’s campaigns, making them part of a team dedicated to defending Ms. Palin . . .

Tucker Eskew, a veteran of Mr. Bush’s primary season campaign against Mr. McCain, has been advising Ms. Palin this week, as she has hopped between S.U.V.s and planes, all the while reading briefing materials or receiving tutorials from policy advisers who have dipped on and off the campaign trail to visit with her.

On Wednesday night, three of them were on the plane to Alaska with Ms. Palin: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, Mr. McCain’s economic adviser; Steve Biegun, a former staff member of Mr. Bush’s National Security Council who has taken leave from Ford Motors job to advise Ms. Palin; and Randy Scheunemann, Mr. McCain’s senior foreign policy adviser.

Also accompanying Ms. Palin to Alaska as she prepared for her interview was Nicolle Wallace, a communications director for Mr. Bush’s 2004 campaign and, later, his White House. Ms. Wallace’s husband, Mark Wallace, Mr. Bush’s deputy campaign manager in 2004, is helping prepare Ms. Palin for the debates.

For now, the preparation for the debate and the preparation for the sessions with Mr. Gibson are one and the same. Aides have developed a set of presumed questions and answers that they are walking Ms. Palin through . . .


more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/11/us/politics/11palin.html?_r=1&oref=slogin&ref=politics&pagewanted=print

[babylonsister]

1. Wow. So isn't it lovely she went home to bid her Iraq-bound son goodbye?

:eyes: This will be * redux, just as her speech was. We see it, will her fans?

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2. I wonder at what point

she realizes this is ridiculous,all this training. When does she realized she is completely underqualified?

And why isn't this proof to the MSM that she isn't qualified? A qualified person, like Biden, would not need to be crash-coursed through September while the campaign lit fires all over to buy time.

[Tangerine LaBamba]

3. When she faces Biden and

he hands her head to her on a silver platter while she's still trying to get through her opening statement.

Welcome to DU, by the way!

And isn't it offensive and incredibly condescending and demeaning on the part of these Republicans who think they can tutor some uninformed idiot enough in just a few weeks to render that uninformed idiot competent to assume the office of Vice President Of The United States?

Shows you, I believe, exactly how contemptuous they are of our beloved country.

[fulllib]

4. Thanks for the welcome!

I've gotten a few, I'm glad to be here!

It is incredible they think they can teach her the VP. Their entire convention was a lesson in contempt for our country- claiming the liberals are to blame for corrupt Washington, the slaming of community organizers, "Drill, baby, Drill," (which is so ignorant I can't begin to explain); all of that, designed for the 'real American' demographic; it is the lamest worst marketing ever. It worked for the time being, but it will wear off.