The GOP is fond of clocks.  Earlier this year there was a clock on FOX News that calculated the days, hours and minutes that Barack Obama had not come to FOX to be interviewed.  Currently on the RNC website, there is a clock ticking as they count the hours "Since Biden's Last Gaffe".  

Perhaps we should give them a good dose of their own medicine and start counting the minutes since Sarah Palin last granted an interview.  We can start asking the question, what is Sarah Palin hiding?  Why wont Palin answer the questions that the American people deserve?  Why is McCain hiding his VP pick?

I was watching as Barack Obama was addressing the media about the hurricane, and then he opened up for questions. The first question asked was about Palin's daughter. Obama was crystal clear in his answer, repeating that familes are off limits, and he showed empathy for the Palin family as well. And when he said that if anyone in his campaign were ever involved in something like this they would be fired, it not only revealed a very serious side of Obama, but it showed how serious he was about this issue.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_LZsj6eD4Es

I was then reminded of this:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WkO_8btMs_o

It is a promise we make to our children...
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The only time I ever saw my mother really angry was when she saw cruelty, when she saw somebody being bullied or somebody being treated differently because of who they were. And if she saw me doing that, she would be furious. And she would say to me, imagine standing in that person's shoes. How would that make you feel?

That simple idea I'm not sure I always understood when I was a kid, but it stayed with me.
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There have been times during the long campaign when I have felt sad that Barack can't share all of this with his mother, and that she cannot be here to share it with him. How proud she would be. Although she is no longer with us, I have no doubt that she lives on in her son.