If You Can’t Take The Heat…

Just a reminder that this commentary is offered (as is everything in this blog) as material for potential talking points for your conversations with undecided voters. So…that said, anyone seeing a pattern here?
** First there was McCain’s cancellation of his planned hour-long appearance with Larry King during the week of the Republican Convention (during the height of the initial flap over the Palin nomination). He claimed that the move was to protest CNN correspondent Campbell Brown’s having “crossed a line” in her interview with McCain Campaign spokesman Tucker Bounds. HUH??? See the interview here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYYiw_y2qDI
** Then there are the ongoing efforts to build a “cocoon” around Sarah Palin to protect her from the press, allowing interviews only with anchors they assume will play “softball” with her. (To their credit, both Charles Gibson and Katie Couric stepped up.) See Campbell Brown weigh in on this: http://www.politico.com/blogs/michaelcalderone/0908/Campbell_Brown_Free_Sarah_Palin.html
** And then today there was the “duck & cover” response to the Wall Street meltdown… Rather than face the American people on Friday night in a head-to-head debate with his opponent, McCain decided to “suspend his campaign” and return to Washington to “roll up his sleeves” and work on the crisis. Ahem, that’s what leaders of both parties have been doing for the last week, around the clock… And now he’s even suggesting that next week’s scheduled Vice Presidential debate should also be postponed. (Could that be because Sarah Palin bumbled & stumbled through her interview with Katie tonight?)
** Meanwhile, Barack Obama is reminding us that:
>> Presidents need to be able to do more than one thing at a time.
>> Now, more than at any time during this campaign, the American people deserve to hear, in detail, how the candidates propose to address the critical issues we are facing.