Sarah Makes Katie Nervous

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sarah Makes Katie Nervous
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Thu, 09-25-2008 - 12:31am

In all the excitement of today's news I wonder how many saw the interview with Katie Couric today. Sarah did great. Katie had the nervous blinking syndrome. It was so interesting to watch Katie's reactions to Sarah - between all the blinks - I could sense some real hatred. I enjoyed watching it.

Here it is :

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml

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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:45pm

>You can try and spin it however you like, but the FACT is that only McCain had the foresight to see these problems and took action. That’s 100% more than either Obama or Biden who naturally did nothing. It was the Dems who rallied to kill the bill to keep Fannie and Freddie unregulated.<


McCain wasn't concerned about a financial crisis--he was concerned that Fannie Mae & Freddie Mac had pulled a few shady accounting tricks to make themselves appear more attractive. It had nothing to do with the current crisis.


>The bad mortgages are at the heart of the current “crisis.”<


OK. Let me explain this to you: Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac don't make loans to people. They BUY loans from banks, just like Wells Fargo bought my

Sandy
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Registered: 01-18-2006
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 8:57pm

Fannie and Freddie became a key enabler of the mortgage crisis. They fueled Wall Street's efforts to securitize subprime loans by becoming the primary customer of all AAA-rated subprime-mortgage pools. In addition, they held

 

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:11pm

Continual blinking like that is a sign of nervousness. Couric clearly hates Palin and is doing everything she can to try to discredit her, but it does not work.



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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:11pm
Palin should have just b****-slapped Couric and called her on her incredibly inane question. He approvals would have shot through the roof.


You mean as opposed to what they're doing, say.....now?

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Registered: 09-08-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:15pm

I think she already knew, too.


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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:16pm

>Take away Fannie and Freddie, or regulate them more wisely, and it's hard to imagine how these highly liquid markets would ever have emerged. This whole mess would never have happened. <


Considering the tax credits that were given for taking on some of those risky loans, I don't think Wall Street would have waited very long. Yes, Fannie & Freddie are a part of the problem, but they ain't the only problem. The regulation/oversight suggested by that legislation was not designed to make sure they were buying only good loans but rather to ensure they were reporting their assets properly, as they were not doing a few years back. And Fannie & Freddie weren't the only organizations doing it.


Sandy
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Registered: 03-26-2003
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:18pm
Agreed. I normally don't get into this sort of discussion, but Sara Palin really is making Dan Quayle look like a seasoned politician.

The 3 Day

Sandy
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:22pm
Sure, is easy to be a critic of a new face and challenge to the Democrats.


No....it is easy to be a critic of Sarah Palin, specifically.

Why? Not because she eats mooseburgers or because her entire resume is eighteen months as the governor of a state smaller than most major American cities and before that, a mayor of a town smaller than most mid-sized COLLEGES. No, it's easy to make fun of Sarah Palin for the very reason that the McCain campaign has wisely sequestered her away from the press at every opportunity; because when she has to answer, she comes out with stuff like this (video link; transcript below):

COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries? ... Instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

PALIN: Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health care reform that is needed to help shore up the economy– Oh, it’s got to be about job creation too. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions.


Honest to Pete, can ANYONE tell me what any of that meant? I especially liked the last sentence, where Palin says - apparently without irony - "So....reducing taxes...has got to accompany tax reductions."

Gee, ya think?

Statements like those, marla, are the reason it's easy to be a critic of Palin specifically, not just "a new face" who's "challenging Democrats."

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Registered: 04-02-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:36pm
Maybe she had too much allergy medicine and needed to blink?
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Thu, 09-25-2008 - 9:38pm
Well, now, to be fair....maybe she's onto something:

For President Under Duress, Body Language Speaks Volumes

By Dana Milbank
Wednesday, October 12, 2005; A07

It's only 6:17 a.m. Central time, and President Bush is already facing his second question of the day about Karl Rove's legal troubles.

"Does it worry you," NBC's Matt Lauer is asking him at a construction-site interview in Louisiana, that prosecutors "seem to have such an interest in Mr. Rove?"

Bush blinks twice. He touches his tongue to his lips. He blinks twice more. He starts to answer, but he stops himself.

"I'm not going to talk about the case," Bush finally says after a three-second pause that, in television time, feels like a commercial break.

Only the president's closest friends and family know (if anybody does) what he's really thinking these days, during Katrina woes, Iraq violence, conservative anger over Harriet Miers, and legal trouble for Bush's top political aide and two congressional GOP leaders. Bush has not been viewed up close; as he took his eighth post-Katrina trip to the Gulf Coast yesterday, the press corps has accompanied him only once, because the White House says logistics won't permit it. Even the interview on the "Today" show was labeled "closed press."

But this much could be seen watching the tape of NBC's broadcast during Bush's 14-minute pre-sunrise interview, in which he stood unprotected by the usual lectern. The president was a blur of blinks, taps, jiggles, pivots and shifts. Bush has always been an active man, but standing with Lauer and the serene, steady first lady, he had the body language of a man wishing urgently to be elsewhere.

The fidgeting clearly corresponded to the questioning. When Lauer asked if Bush, after a slow response to Katrina, was "trying to get a second chance to make a good first impression," Bush blinked 24 times in his answer. When asked why Gulf Coast residents would have to pay back funds but Iraqis would not, Bush blinked 23 times and hitched his trousers up by the belt.

When the questioning turned to Miers, Bush blinked 37 times in a single answer
-- along with a lick of the lips, three weight shifts and some serious foot jiggling. Laura Bush, by contrast, delivered only three blinks and stood still through her entire answer about encouraging volunteerism.....
(more at link)....

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