Sometimes "No Comment" Says It All!

You're right, it's all pure speculation but let's face it, if she'd had only the best opinion about Palin she'd have said so , wouldn't she? I mean, something like, "She's great, of course it wasn't a mistake," would have been about as straightforward as it gets so the fact she didn't say something like that leads me to believe that isn't how she feels. Call it speculation, call it a guess, but I'd say it's a pretty educated guess! Annie

"Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won't comment on publicly." I guess that's a bit more than just "No comment". Annie

But what if she's thinking, Why are you asking me about her? What difference does it make what I think of her? No matter how I answer, it will come back to bite me. Sometimes no comment, though it produces speculations, is the safest answer.

How right you are! Like John Ziegler who's making a documentary mostly in praise of Palin yet she said the clips he released from his interview with her "took her out of context". Do you think it's not what people say but rather her inability to interpret them correctly that's the problem here? Annie

I don't understand how or why he could have said that. MSNBC didn't choose what clips were played, Ziegler did. How could they have taken them out of context, all they did was the same as every other network did and that's play what had been made available to them which was what Ziegler had put out there. When I heard Ziegler interviewed he sounded rather shocked that his girl Sarah would say that about him. Annie

John Ziegler said himself that MSNBC had taken clips out of context.

Aw Annie, I always think of you as what I call a like minded peep! :)

So you don't think I'm evil for posting this...lol? Annie

I'm older so I should probably be Barbara but I wanna be Whoopi so that settles it, you can be Babawawa. lol

Baba Wawa gets more days off than the rest of them too...ha ha...lol! Annie

I guess myLot is a bit like The View in a way. I'm old so I guess I can be Barbara! Annie

That's what I'd LOVE to know - WHY? Of course, I know you know as well as I do how some people here consider her the best thing since ice cream and think she can do no wrong. I guess she's extremely popular among ultra-conservatives which, thankfully, are a relatively tiny portion of the population. Annie

She's still popular because some people actually looked at her record as a governor instead of judging her based solely on snippets from the Couric interview. This is a woman who reduced spending and earmarks in Alaska, while creating a budget surplus and actually giving money back to the people of Alaska. Fortunately not everyone forms all their opinions based on the biased garbage the media feeds them.

"She's still popular because some people actually looked at her record as a governor instead of judging her based solely on snippets from the Couric interview. This is a woman who reduced spending and earmarks in Alaska, while creating a budget surplus and actually giving money back to the people of Alaska. Fortunately not everyone forms all their opinions based on the biased garbage the media feeds them." She's asked for more earmarks per person than any other governor and the budget surplus was pure luck due to the price of oil. I doubt there is anyone who has judged her based SOLELY on the Couric interview and I know I didn't form my opinion one bit based on anything the media "fed" me. Annie

Palin didn't twist this into a personal attack. Annie did.

What did I twist? I simply started a discussion about the fact she wouldn't comment about Palin. Gee, if I were like Sarah I'd be whining about my words being twisted all the time...lol! Annie

Did you scan through the post ignoring all of it until you came across the name Sarah Palin?

He11, enough people are offended that I brought up the fact that she wouldn't talk about her! Annie

Maybe, but as another poster pointed out it's possible anything she'd have said would have been taken wrong by Palin. Annie

Rose, I must say you're sure all over the place in this discussion, both literally and figuratively! First, you were positive Meghan absolutely adored Palin and her entire family; NOW it's "maybe she hates Gov Sarah Plain,maybe she just can not stand Gov Sarah Palin,maybe she is jealous of Gov Sarah Palin,maybe she just is a brat,who knows why people say's thing's or don't say thing's,we can't read other peoples minds." I'll agree with you on ONE thing and that's we can't read other people's minds! You should keep that fact in mind when you're posting on what Obama REALLY plans...lol! Why shouldn't it be any of anyone's business how many houses McCain or any other candidate owns? If Obama's cousin in Kenya or wherever whom he may or may not have ever even met is relevant why wouldn't McCain's real estate holdings be? It's not the matter of "whose name they're in" as you've mentioned before. Now you say McCain's homes are all more modest than Obama's ONE house; how do you know that? And ONE mansion is worse than seven or nine or however many there are "modest" homes? "What ever the reason Megan McCain did not say anything good or bad about Gov Palin that is her problem she has to deal with it." I don't know that it IS a problem for Meghan! It was just a discussion which apparently really struck a nerve with you. Annie

Hmmm...maybe... Annie

You're right, it could be any one of the above or all of the above. Annie

Or maybe she was afraid anything she said would be misrepresented as an attack on Sarah Palin. The media clearly proved her right by making saying nothing an attack as well.

Sarah has provided lots of great comic relief, hasn't she, both directly and indirectly? Annie

Word has it McCain wanted Joe Lieberman but his advisers told him no. They had a few requirements for his running mate - that it was a woman, that she was very conservative and that she was a lot younger than him. Annie

You're right. I think it's the ones who love Sarah that get all worked up! I mean, I don't like her but if Meghan McCain said something nice about her I sure wouldn't hold it against Meghan; she was her dad's running mate. I think Cindy taught Meghan that if you didn't have anything nice to say about something say nothing at all...lol! Annie

I guess she figured if she did mention Palin there would be innuendos and if she did not mention Palin, well there was innuendos. But I guess if you really do not like Palin in the first place and want to hear as much nasty things about her, you will assume the worse whether she talked about her or not. If she said that Sarah Palin was a nice lady and did a good job as governor of Alaska, you would assume she is lying. If she kept silent, you think there are some nasty things she does not want to say, so no matter if she opened her mouth or not about Mrs. Palin, your mind is already made up.

No, she didn't "keep quiet"; she said, "Sarah Palin is the only part of the campaign that I won't comment on publicly." She specifically said Palin is the ONLY part of the campaign she won't comment on publicly. I also think it's simple - those words definitely did bring on innuendos. Annie

It's clear Palin has waged her own war against the media! She's even making the false claim that the MSM were the ones who spread the stories of her pregnancy being fake and her baby really being Bristol's. She even attacked her own Anchorage Daily News and accused them of reporting on it when they didn't. Tell me, if someone from the Obama campaign had said something cryptic like that about Obama or Biden and someone had started a discussion about it would you have trashed them for doing it and told them they "need help"? Taskr, you're taking any criticism or even perceived criticism against Sarah much too personally! I think you've really got it bad...lol! Annie