Sarah Palin Interview
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| Fri, 09-12-2008 - 12:02am |
She was awful. But I suppose her fans will makes more excuses and blame Charlie Gibson.
Gibson asked the questions she should already know the answers to, viewpoints that she should have already had long before being groomed by the McCain team. To suggest that Gibson was purposefully rude or condescending is absurd – he was easy on her. He asked questions that Americans want and need to know their public officials- especially the second in command- know before taking oath. Any frustration he might have experienced during this interview was because of her clear lack of familiarity with really important issues. She tried to evade the questions, which will unavoidably lead a journalist to keep trying to get an answer. that's what they do! She got defensive when he asked her if she had ever met a Head of State.
Was he supposed to ask her where she bought her shoes? Or “what’s it like to be a pistol-packin hockey mom?â€
Sarah Palin needs to learn the pronunciation of “nuclearâ€. I believe we have just witnessed "Apocalipstick Now". Sarah Palin came across as both clueless and arrogant. The party is over, the confetti is gone. Since she’s so adamant about being “ready†to help lead the country she needs to get real.

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She may have mispronounced some words and was a little flustered on some things because she is a "small town" leader, but the fact is she is running for the number "2" position, not number"1".
What does he think she was misinformed about?
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
I agree! She is Bush in lipstick! She even pronounced nuclear the same way...you're right. Her answers were forced, sounded rehearsed especially when she was asked to name the foreign dignitaries.....
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You would? I'm not so sure, myself. Palin went on to say, in the Gibson interview, that she had been paraphrasing Lincoln's inaugural address, in which he said that the question should be whether we are on the side of God, not the reverse. And I agree. But, as Gibson followed up, Palin claimed that there was a plan and that it was God's plan. That sounds far more like "God on our side" than "Us on God's side." It's quite easy for various frauds, despots and dictators to claim that God is on their side. In fact, I'd almost say that claiming such a thing - or fervently, publicly hoping for such a thing - might even be so ubiquitous to wrongheaded tyrants' claims that it could potentially serve as a barometer of whether a leader's (or candidate's) intentions were honorable. Here's one of the more notorious examples of the "God's on our side" statement (literally: God With Us):
This was the standard-issue belt-buckle of the Waffen SS
Lastly, though I can't speak for "people," I certainly believe that Obama's beliefs are different than those of Jeremiah Wright. Are your beliefs identical to those of your pastor?
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
I was trying to be kind (at least she knew what NATO's misson was ;o). I suppose I'm just a victim of the bar having been set so low (what with the past 8 years of GWB and the fact that Palin hasn't been on the national scene). I AM however, a little concerned with McCain's (and perhaps Palin's ideological stance) extremely close relationship with Georgia and tendency to do a lot of sabre rattling with Russia.
As a Nato member being dragged into this,
UPI is owned by the Reverend Moon (Moonies), a reliable - even notorious - Republican financier. That doesn't mean that everything it prints is false, by any means, but it sure does mean they're far from an "objective" or "unbiased" source when it comes to things like stories about Democratic Presidential candidates.
And, in this case, it's just ludicrous, for two reasons. First, it's not as if Obama hasn't been through the wringer with regard to the press: there have been the Reverend Wright comments, which got looped endlessly for two weeks at least, the Presidential debates during the primaries (all seventy thousand of them, or whatever, LOL), the "Madrassa" story that went 'round the world (and was false), and various other instances. The second is that, over the past eighteen months, the voters have gotten to know Obama - at least in part through the actions of the media. You may not think much of their choice, but enough Democrats had a close look at their choices and said "yeah, THIS guy," that he became the nominee. Sarah Palin was selected by ONE man, John McCain.
That's an awfully important vote, considering that there is a one-in-three statistical chance that John McCain will not live out his first term in office. He doesn't seem sick or frail, but those are the actuarial facts of the matter. Three weeks ago, Sarah Palin's name recognition outside of Alaska and Washington DC was effectively zero. Today, over 90% of the public knows her name. Such is the power of the Presidency (and even of Presidential candidates). But we still know very little about her actual record, we don't have a "feel" for her (and no, that is not a sexist joke about "feeling up" the candidate, LOL). Joe Biden was selected by Barack Obama alone, too....but Biden's been a familiar face on the political scene for decades - longer than John McCain, in fact - so people feel they have a decent impression of him, as well -- or at least they feel as if they've had the CHANCE to form a decent impression of him, if they'd wanted to. Not true of Palin. All of the other three people running right now have been thoroughly examined by the media and by the public. Two (Biden and McCain) have been around for decades. The other has been constantly tested and vetted and in the limelight for eighteen months, and was identified as a rising star as far back as 2004. They're known quantities. Palin is not. So of course, reporters are flocking to the small town she was mayor of, to comb over the records there and check her stories out. And of course news reporters are asking all sorts of questions right now of Palin that aren't getting asked of the other candidates....but that's because most of those questions already HAVE BEEN ASKED of the other three, at some point in their career, or along their already-quite-lengthy road to the White House.
It's simple horse-hockey to suggest, as Moon's minion does here - that Palin has an unfair disadvantage, or is being asked things which are not and would never be asked of the other candidates. If anything - and this may have been part of the reason McCain ultimately selected Palin over far more qualified/experienced candidates, both male and female - Palin has an ADVANTAGE over the others, the media, and (sadly) the public by virtue of her relative unknown status. The public has less than two months to form an opinion of her which people normally only feel comfortable taking much longer to form. Cripes, you STILL hear conservatives whining that we don't know enough about Barack Obama yet....and he's been on the radar screen since 2004, and every single day for the last eighteen months. Yet we're expected not to besiege Palin with questions because it might give the impression of a "double-standard?"
Pshaw. If anything, the press is finally starting to do its job on this one, and not let a complete Tabula Rasa get to election day as a Veep nominee, a 72-year-old heartbeat away from the Presidency. Hell, when even Matt Damon gets it, I have to wonder whether conservatives who claim they DON'T get the intense scrutiny of Palin are just PRETENDING they don't get it, so they can ring the fake-sexism bell.
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging
I personally thought she was great. Natural! Her answers for the most part were intelligent. She is "real" and I think that for the most part is what people enjoy about her! She is a HOCKEY MOM!
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