did you watch the Palin interview?

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did you watch the Palin interview?
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Sat, 09-13-2008 - 6:03am

I taped it and will finish it this morning. i know it was released in segments, but i wanted to see the whole thing with the introductions to get the context. i also wanted to see it without commentary from pundits.

of course i expect this community to view it through their own biases. but did you watch and how did you watch? in segments or the whole thing? with or without commentary?

and if you watched without commentary, what was your own opinion?

Bea

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:46pm

the fact it was in the LA Times is not important. the fact that is was written as op ed by Charles Krauthammer, the conservative columnist, is important. it is his opinion that she did know and Gibson asked the wrong question. and if she did know as much as Krauthammer points out, then why did she not say that?

i didn't know what Gibson meant, but if i thought his question was obtuse and i was on the national stage for the 2nd in command, i would have said so.

Bea




Edited 9/16/2008 6:47 pm ET by queenbea4
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:53pm

I still say her biggest failure was not playing up her relationship with Canada when asked about foreign policy experience.

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 6:56pm

Maybe she didn't know that Canada was a foreign country?


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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 11:01pm
Canada is a foreign country? Gee, with all their citizens sticking their noses in our election, I never would have known!! ;)
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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 11:39pm

It was the LA Times, NOT an editorial. The LA Times report was an article actually recognizing the accuracy of Krauthammer's assertions that it was, in fact, Gibson's flub.

And she DID point out that the question was vague. She asked for clarification, and he moved on and never gave her the chance to address it again.

If she were pushy and rude and insisted he was an idiot (and the anti-Palin crowd would see it that way in spite of any amount of dignity and dipolimacy), she'd have lost anyway.

Palin can't win with a certain observer. She won with me, though.

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Tue, 09-16-2008 - 11:40pm
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Wed, 09-17-2008 - 12:09am

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html

It was the LA Times reporting on this editorial. if I pull up an op ed from the Bull Moose News and comment on it in Jurassic Journal it still does not make it a factual piece of journalism, other than the fact it was someone's editorial opinion. which is says clearly under his name in the Washington Post. The writer in the LA Times does nothing more than report on the existence and the content of the op ed. "Krauthammer writes ..." "Krauthammer notes ..." "Krauthammer concludes .... This would never pass for a first person analysis in a high school class. It is not even possible to tell if the writer agrees with Krauthammer.

She did not have to be pushy (although i hope that if she wants to be VP, a little social discomfort would not stand in her way). She merely had to correct Gibson's interpretation by saying "oh it wasn't clear if you meant the first or second or third doctrine." Or even "that's not standard terminology."

Bea




Edited 9/17/2008 12:10 am ET by queenbea4
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Wed, 09-17-2008 - 8:13am

And if that one question was the only one she messed up, that would be one thing, I could cut her some slack on that

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Wed, 09-17-2008 - 6:13pm

What did Bill Clinton have as far as foreign affairs experience? How about Ronald Reagan? Jimmy Carter?

And Barack Obama--he's been around others with foreign affairs experience, I guess.

Why on earth do you think the president appoints a cabinet? These are the experts in every area of expertise that one person cannot POSSIBLY bring to a presidency (without being an incumbent president).

Just seeing McCain's VP pick alone, I'm confident he can pick winners, and that his cabinet will be impressive. That's just me. Don't put too much stock in the president and VPs personal experience--they are relying on others' expertise, opinions and experience WAAAAY more than their own.

And just for fun, these are cabinet members and titles of cabinet-level officials. Tell me a single person on EARTH who has experience in EVERY SINGLE one of these areas. If one person could properly execute the office without these sorts of advisors, they wouldn't exist. The cabinet is designed to provide that expertise that is necessary. The president, and certainly the vice president, isn't required (or probably even able) to come prepared with all of it. And George H.W. is the only one I can think of who comes close in my opinion to having come into office with most of them.

Secretary of State, Secretary of the Treasury, Secretary of Defense, Attorney General, Secretary of the Interior, Secretary of Agriculture, Secretary of Commerce, Secretary of Labor, Secretary of Health and Human Services, Secretary of Housing and Urban Development Secretary of Transportation, Secretary of Energy, Secretary of Education, Secretary of Veterans Affairs, Secretary of Homeland Security

Cabinet-level administration offices

Vice President, White House Chief of Staff, Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency, Director of the Office of Management and Budget, Director of the National Drug Control Policy, United States Trade Representative

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Wed, 09-17-2008 - 6:18pm

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Funny how the same action can be interpretted soo differently by different people.

 


 


I disagree with you, but I'm pretty sure

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