Another Democrat Double Standard- a Trap in the Making?

There’s a lot of Leftie blogs complaining that Sarah Palin has yet to meet with the press.  Josh Marshall, by way of Memorandum, as an example:

There’s a lot of complaining that the McCain campaign won’t allow anyone to interview Sarah Palin. And for the major news outlets that would be in line for such an interview there’s a logic to keeping up the drumbeat. But McCain campaign manager Rick Davis is right: It’s their campaign to run. They can do it how they want. Everyone else should just shut up, stop complaining and call the reality for what it is.

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Davis says Palin won’t give any interviews until she feels “comfortable” giving one. And this morning he added that she wouldn’t give any “until the point in time when she’ll be treated with respect and deference.”

Sarah Palin could be the President of the United States in four and a half months. We tend to think of this as an abstraction; but it’s true. And yet today she’s so unprepared and knows so little about the challenges and tasks facing the country that she can’t even give a softball interview.

Given the glass houses meme, this seems a rather strange complaint for the Democrats to make, while the top of their own ticket is intentionally stonewalling reporters as regards his relationship with confessed and unrepentant terrorist William Ayers. And we should, I think be asking Stan Kurtz about that.

The Special Collections section of the Richard J. Daley Library agreed to let me read them, but just before I boarded my flight to Chicago, the top library officials mysteriously intervened to bar access. Circumstances strongly suggest the likelihood that Bill Ayers himself may have played a pivotal role in this denial. Ayers has long taught at UIC, where the Chicago Annenberg Challenge offices were housed, rent-free. Ayers likely arranged for the files of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge to be housed in the UIC library, and may well have been consulted during my unsuccessful struggle to gain access to the documents.

The reason for the stonewall of course is that it would make Obama out the liar I’ve always seen him as.  Particularly, it would expose the long and warm relationship between Obama and the radical left terrorist.

Although the press has been notably lax about pursuing the matter, the full story of the Obama-Ayers relationship calls the truth of Obama’s account seriously into question. When Obama made his first run for political office, articles in both the Chicago Defender and the Hyde Park Herald featured among his qualifications his position as chairman of the board of the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, a foundation where Ayers was a founder and guiding force. Obama assumed the Annenberg board chairmanship only months before his first run for office, and almost certainly received the job at the behest of Bill Ayers. During Obama’s time as Annenberg board chairman, Ayers’s own education projects received substantial funding. Indeed, during its first year, the Chicago Annenberg Challenge struggled with significant concerns about possible conflicts of interest. With a writ to aid Chicago’s public schools, the Annenberg challenge played a deeply political role in Chicago’s education wars, and as Annenberg board chairman, Obama clearly aligned himself with Ayers’s radical views on education issues. With Obama heading up the board and Ayers heading up the other key operating body of the Annenberg Challenge, the two would necessarily have had a close working relationship for years (therefore “exchanging ideas on a regular basis”). So when Ayers and Dorhn hosted that kickoff for the first Obama campaign, it was not a random happenstance, but merely further evidence of a close and ongoing political partnership. Of course, all of this clearly contradicts Obama’s dismissal of the significance of his relationship with Ayers.

BBCT: Rick Moran who says in part:

The extent to which Obama and his allies will go to cover up his radical associations is amazing

And these are the people raising so much hell over Palin being mike shy?  I think what’s going on here is pretty obvious.

I’m going to be posting, Monday night, a list of scandals the left has tried against Palin, all of which have blown up in their faces.  I allowed the other night as how what got the Democrats got themselves into trouble with Palin is their bloody-minded enthusiasm in attacking Palin, with all the stuff on that list, and more…… while she retreated until her RNC speech, where she sprung the trap.  My guess is she’s doing it to them again… and the results of that will be just as good polling wise for McCain- Palin as it was last time.