Are Obama And Biden Hiding?
Are they protecting their lead? Hoping to make it to election day without saying anything stupid in front of reporters?
In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop.
By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September.
Now Obama has canceled all his events to visit a sick relative (I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt on that), and Biden doesn’t have any events scheduled.
When Palin put the media off a week or two right after she was picked by McCain to be his running mate she was slammed by the media for “hiding.” She eventually got tagged as not being bright enough to lead this country because of extrapolations and assumptions based on that delay.
But Joe Biden and Barack Obama, who have together spent significant stretches of this election season with their foots planted firmly in their mouths, hide from the media…and it’s not a story.
