A reader writes:
Barack needs to jump in and define this as McCain is reckless, rash and risky. The press will define this in terms of Palin, and some percentage of people will feel for her and like her. But if Barack were to step up and say it's reckless to choose a VP - no matter how compelling - after one meeting and a fifteen minute phone call, I don't think anyone could disagree.
Barack needs to go out in public and say, "Each of us have made our first presidential decision. I chose someone who, God forbid, could be a strong and successful president from day one. I based that decision on thousands of hours I have spent with Joe Biden in the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, on the Senate floor, on international trips and traveling the country debating him in the primaries. John McCain has made his choice - and he based it on one meeting two years ago and a fifteen minute phone call. That's the kind of rash, reckless and risky decision-making that has typified the last eight years under George W. Bush. If that's how little thought John McCain gives to picking a running mate, how much thought will he give to other decisions of life and death? We cannot afford four more years of impetuous, impulsive, shoot-from-the-hip presidential decisions; it's time for a change."
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