A real contrast
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Poor Joe Biden. He achieves his lifetime goal of being on a national ticket, albeit as the number two guy. But now, when he has a national platform on which to stand (unlike the imaginary platform he said his ancestors stood on when he was plagiarizing Neil Kinnoch.) But people just don't seem interested.
......... Since the Delaware senator left Obama's side and ventured out on his own on Labor Day, he has hardly garnered any national media interest at all.
His plane, a blue chartered 737, now crosses the country with about three-quarters of its seats empty, rows and rows with nary a warm body to be found................
The fickle press just isn't that interested in listening to ol' Joe whom they have been listening to since Nixon was president. You'd think they would want to travel along just to see if he makes a gaffe.
And Sarah Palin's plane can't get off the ground because there are so many media folk who want to clamber aboard.
..........Gov. Palin's first solo campaign swing, which began in Alaska and continues in Denver on Monday, initially seemed like it might not happen at all, after the plane booked for the Alaska trip proved too small to accommodate the growing staff and reporter entourage.
The plane sat for an hour on a Washington airport tarmac, too overloaded to take off with its cargo of journalists from such media outlets as Entertainment Tonight and GQ magazine, a dozen staffers and full policy-briefing team, and tools to fix the plane should it break down in remote territory. It took off only after the campaign jettisoned 400 pounds of reporters' equipment. Prior to that, the location for a Palin rally in Fairfax, Va., had to be changed at the 11th hour to a park from a local high school after school-board officials objected to holding a political event during school hours.......
The rest of that WSJ article details how the McCain campaign is scrambling to add more offices and workers to deal with his improved prospects. They were totally unprepared for this post-convention surge. It is a sign of how rather bleak his prospects were before that they are now rushing to fill the gap. They are faced with the pleasant prospect of having to move rallies to new venues to accommodate the larger crowds that are coming out to see Palin. It's a topsy-turvy political world when the top of the ticket is drawing smaller crowds than the veep candidate. The whole Palin phenomenon mirrors the excitement over Obama in his earlier days. Some women sound as excited and revved up as some of the young Obama fans sounded when they thought he was an icon of a new day in politics. He wasn't and she isn't either. But it seems that conservatives and women were waiting to have thrills run up their legs also.
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