Palin understands media and its power, we simple don't. The bottom line is we (collective us)

[CK_John]

need to learn how to make the news. Obama should be sending out a piece of news everyday. It is much easier to be a negative force than a force for change.

If Obama's team doesn't get on top of this media assault he will be swift boated by Jan 20th and will spend next yr explaining every down turn in the economy, etc. He needs to start bashing the failed policies of Bush and let everyone know it will be a tough couple of yrs, or else he will own the problems.

Palin is the new Rush.

[Trajan]

1. Palin understands very little of anything

And that is apparent every time she opens her mouth ...

I am hoping, a fading hope it seems, that DU doesn't become a den of apology for the likes of Sarah Palin ...

She is an ass ... a foolish, ignorant ass ....

We will be hard pressed to lighten up on those who would lift her beyond her natural station ...

[LiberalFighter]

14. If she understood the media she would know that it is best to avoid the media

until she has something important to say.

Not whenever she has time to blabber about nothing.

[phantom power]

2. Obama is doing that, with the cabinet choice speculation.

[ProSense]

3. Obama doesn't understand the media, but Palin does? What nonsense.

The media assholes are choosing to give her a platform. There is enough other news to cover.

[iceman66]

11. Yes.

The election is over. Palin is not going to be the VP. She is only "news" because the MSM decides she is.

[uponit7771]

4. It's better if Obama isn't in the news right now, Bush can't put his problems off on Obama

[CK_John]

8. Don't count on it. They are masters at shifting blame. n/t

[Pirate Smile]

5. McCain ran his campaign fighting for every news cycle. Obama didn't and doesn't.

He has a long term strategy and isn't focused on the daily noise.

McCain's formula was a loser and Obama's was a winner.

I'd give him a little credit for knowing what he is doing.

Right now, he is focused on forming an effective and intelligent government. I think that is much more important then surrendering a news cycle to Sarah Palin's ridiculous ramblings. She was on Cable TV CONSTANTLY during the campaign and her numbers plummeted.

Obama is doing just fine. The success of his Presidency will be in large part determined by the important decisions he and his people are making in private right now.

[onenote]

6. I disagree.

Obama is doing the right thing by keeping a clamp on his team and by limiting the news that comes out. The more he puts out there, the more there is the for the press and the repubs to pick apart. And then he ends up being forced to defend his decisions even before he's sworn in. He should take it slow and, frankly, limit most of his "news" to the announcement of personnel. And those announcement shouldn't be made until the selected individuals are fully vetted and the team as a whole largely selected.

Laying low is the smartest thing for Obama and his team right now. Palin's media-fest really is not accomplishing that much. The folks that like her still like her and those who don't, still don't. A lot of others are beginning to tune it out and as the holidays approach, she'll be gone from the news and folks won't remember much of this at all. And then, in mid January, Obama will stand in front of the capitol, before the largest audience to ever witness (in person or on tv) an inauguration, and he will give a speech that will remind everyone what it means to be presidential and the media will be put back on their heels in terms of trying to tear him down for the first few months of his presidency.

[ipfilter]

7. meh, let her have all the camera time she wants.

She is currently sowing the seeds of her own destruction.

[tyne]

9. I agree...

and was thinking the same thing.

I do disagree with your characterization of Palin as Rush. Actually, she's Ann Coulter. You can bet your bottom dollar that she's full of the same vitriol as Ann...boiling just below the surface. Our job is to release it and let the country see it in all it's splendid goriness.

She's got the zingers...she's got the hate....and most women are not fooled by her Shirley Temple act.

[CK_John]

12. That was Kerry's solution. Ignore it and it will go away. Bad idea. n/t

[ProSense]

21. Nonsense. She got all the exposure they gave her during the campaign

She looked like a fool, facilitated McCain's slide into the depths of the gutter, and they both lost.

She looked like a fool then, and she still does.

[dkf]

10. Palin is a bubble brain. Every time she goes on TV she

embarrasses all women who want to be taken seriously in life.

While the Palin car wreck goes on, Obama is being respectful and serious.

I think the contrast is striking indeed and I don't think Obama needs to or should try to compete with media coverage of this sad woman.

[CK_John]

15. Obama needs someone from his team to do the daily news blitz. n/t

[bdamomma]

16. give sarah enough rope and she will hang herself.

she's doing a pretty good job now. The media needs to grow up.

[GarbagemanLB]

13. Weren't you the same person who was saying McCain was going to be replaced as the GOP nominee?

[CK_John]

17. He was by Palin (somewhat but not completely). I never thought they would let him go the distance.

[Bluenorthwest]

18. Palin thinks she understand the media

as do many people who don't. Obama's people certainly do.
Palin is one of those media idiots who thinks 'there's no such thing as bad publicity' and that sort of rot.

[CK_John]

19. Behind the scene she is supported by powerful RW hate groups. n/t

[Bleacher Creature]

20. Um, you do know that Obama won - right?

I'll give him and his media operations the benefit of the doubt.

And Palin in not the new Rush. There's a reason why the Republicans maintained a modicum of separation between their party leaders and Limbaugh, Hannity and the other crazy relatives in their closet. It was only when those lines were blurred that the party started unraveling. If Palin wants to run around bringing hard-core right wing tendencies to the forefront of the GOP's image, I won;t complain.

[CK_John]

22. Not until the electoral college meets on Dec 15th, will I relax. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

23. Yes, if the last year shows us anything, it's that Obama doesn't understand politics.

Clearly he should be more like that beacon of success, Sarah Palin. After all, some anonymous schlub on the Internet said so.

:rofl:

[WI_DEM]

26. Exactly we are still getting a few die-hards trying to marginalize Obama.

[Ozma]

28. I love it! Obama, instead of working on worldwide economic crises..

is probably hold up somewhere, secretly watching every possible moment of TV time with Sarah Palin, trying to learn some OF HER techniques, just so that he can do better in his next run for the Presidency!!!!!!!!!!!!!


:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

[Puzzler]

24. I think the 24 hr Palin coverage is due...

... more to the relative dearth of serious political news since the election. Things will change soon.

[WI_DEM]

25. How stupid. Obama is the president-elect and will make news when he's ready to make news

and there will be plenty of news ahead about cabinet picks. Palin is not talking policy and most people think she is a drip. In a week or so she will be out of the limelight. Obama is not in a race he is handling this the way he handled his campaign and I know there were people panicking then too. Obama is cool as a cucumber and knows what he's doing.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. If it's easier to be a negative force, why did McCain/Palin lose?

:eyes:

[Occam Bandage]

30. Every once in a while, you'll still see a member of the Doom and Gloom Patrol saying

"guys guys guys the Republicans know what they're doing this is all a trap we need to drop everything and be exactly like them!" This is strange after an election in which the Democrats gained Governors, Senators, Representatives, and the White House. This is especially bizarre when the poster is suggesting that the Democratic President-elect is a fool who needs to act more like the person he resoundingly defeated just over a week ago.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

31. He always has the most hilarious conspiracies.

[CK_John]

32. I said no such thing, your misinformation is transparent. n/t

[Occam Bandage]

34. Nice try. We can all read your hilarious embarrassment of an OP, jack.

[Uzybone]

29. Even after the election, more concern

This idea of the permanent campaign is not what Obama is about. Let Palin continue to make a fool of herself. The more we see, the less we like.

[DU GrovelBot]

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