Date published: 2008/09/03
The BBC says:
John McCain's US presidential campaign has angrily condemned the media for questioning the way his running mate Sarah Palin's candidacy was vetted.
Mrs Palin is preparing a key address to the Republican National Convention - days after she revealed that her unmarried daughter, 17, was pregnant.
Mr McCain's team denied claims it had not checked her background thoroughly.
Mr McCain is due to be nominated on Wednesday as the party's presidential candidate for the 4 November election.
Mrs Palin will make her key speech at the convention in St Paul, Minnesota, on Wednesday.
Ahead of the address, a written statement from senior campaign adviser Steve Schmidt said the "nonsense" over the vetting process for Mrs Palin should end.
"This vetting controversy is a faux media scandal designed to destroy the first female Republican nominee for vice president of the United States who has never been a part of the old boys' network that has come to dominate the news establishment of this country," the statement said.
Poor old John McCain. He chooses one of the least qualified people he could have chosen to be his vice president, and is then surprised that everyone is taking the piss out of him. By all accounts he just made the choice up at the last minute. As for Palin herself, the pregnancy story is irrelevant (even if it shows she has not been very good at communicating with her daughter). What is relevant is that she is one of the most extreme right-wing religious nutters you can imagine, and fairly clearly well versed in abusing her political office to boot (so very old boys' network). Hopefully the (not very bright) US electorate will for once choose wisely.
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