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The education of Sarah Palin on the Bush doctrine...by John McCain

by: Pam Spaulding

Fri Sep 12, 2008 at 00:00:00 AM EDT


Look at this scorching lede:
John McCain running mate Sarah Palin sought Thursday to defend her qualifications but struggled with foreign policy, unable to describe President Bush's doctrine of pre-emptive strikes against threatening nations and acknowledging she's never met a foreign head of state.
And here's a bit of brilliance, from The Jed Report. Jeebus H. Christ; her performance is beyond incompetent. She completely blows this beyond all recognition.

Asked whether she agreed with [The Bush Doctrine], Palin said: "In what respect, Charlie?" Gibson pressed her for an interpretation of it. She said: "His world view." That prompted Gibson to say "no, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war" and describe it to her.

"I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation," Palin said, though added "there have been mistakes made."

The average Jane or Joe isn't expected to know about the Bush doctrine, but certainly someone a heartbeat away from the presidency should have a clue about a philosophy that our country will be paying for in blood and reputation for who knows how long. In any case, this is the document that Gibson attempted to reference as the Bush doctrine.
We must adapt the concept of imminent threat to the capabilities and objectives of today's adversaries. Rogue states and terrorists do not seek to attack us using conventional means. They know such attacks would fail. Instead, they rely on acts of terror and, potentially, the use of weapons of mass destruction -- weapons that can be easily concealed, delivered covertly, and used without warning.

...The United States has long maintained the option of preemptive actions to counter a sufficient threat to our national security. The greater the threat, the greater is the risk of inaction and the more compelling the case for taking anticipatory action to defend ourselves, even if uncertainty remains as to the time and place of the enemy's attack. To forestall or prevent such hostile acts by our adversaries, the United States will, if necessary, act preemptively.

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A person doesn't learn Algebra in a week....
  even though the person knows her multiplication tables.

Did anyone expect anything but the truth to come out she has no clue to foreign policy experience?

She started the same answer McCain had in the this interview of McSame posted by Louise.

Energy policy is part of foreign policy.  

If I make sense? it was quite by accident.


The average Jane or Joe isn't expected to know about the Bush doctrine,
and that's a sad thing.

Should Americans know that their president, the Commander in Chief of the armed forces, has a policy of first strikes against countries he perceives as threats? I should think so!

Let alone the chief executive of the state closest to Russia...




Claim to fame: Posted first PHB diary to be demoted


Too be fair to the average American...
... the Administration stopped mentioning the Bush Doctrine after it became clear that the Iraq invasion/occupation was turning into a disaster.  So its shelf life was only about a year or so.

But, yes, any national politician should know about the Bush Doctrine.  Palin's ignorance of it and its consequences, are mind-boggling.

If you want allies, you have to be an ally.


[ Parent ]
Palin is an idiot
I was left dumbfounded at how idiotic she sounded talking about foreign policy.  In addition to that I wanted to reach my hand through the TV and choke her when I heard her promote going to war with Russia over the Russia/Georgia conflict.  I guess WWIII would be OK under a McCain/Palin administration.  We are not the world's police, and it defeats the purpose of the UN.  Those two idiots on the Republican ticket are some of the biggest warmongering assholes ever.  What is with them and war?    

She sounded like the like an answering machine greeting
I. am. Sarah. Palin. I. am. ready. to. lead. the. country. in. a. heartbeat. Please. leave. a. message.

You can lead a fool to knowledge, but you can't make him think.  

[ Parent ]
Keep em fighting
As long as they keep pointing at the enemies they want to war against we won't see them reahing in our back pockets.

watashi no yomeiri wa doko desu ka

[ Parent ]
Her ideas are far different
than so very many others going back through history.

"I am an officer with all my body and soul, but I do not see how anyone who sees his dearest relations leaving for the front can love war." Emperor Karl I, Austria-Hungary

"I hate war as only a soldier who has lived it can, only as one who has seen its brutality, its futility, its stupidity." President Dwight Eisenhower (who also said that no man over 70 should be President)

"Anyone who thinks must think of the next war as they would of suicide." Eleanor Roosevelt

"Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. We know more about war that we know about peace, more about killing that we know about living." Gen. Omar N. Bradley

"It is part of the general pattern of misguided policy that our country is now geared to an arms economy which was bred in an artificially induced psychosis of war hysteria and nurtured upon an incessant propaganda of fear." Gen. Douglas MacArthur



I tell you Chica that no greater abomination exists than women denying their spirit of sisterhood and instead becoming the oppressor. -Rebeca, Universidad Complutense de Madrid


[ Parent ]
"Ann Coulter of the KLONDIKE"
Sarah-Stupified  

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


maybe we can coin a saying for lying while clueless as "a SARAH"
or

that's SO Sarah

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


a total load of Sarah


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
what a load of MOOSE SH*T


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Nah
make it a "Palin" instead. Too many good women named Sarah out there.

She scares the living hell out of me in so many ways. This interview just gives clearer proof of what she is, what she believes and what she stands for.

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[ Parent ]
sarah PAL-IN under media scrutiny


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
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Change
I would have liked Gibson to have had the testicular fortitude to follow up her response to that line of questioning, when she ended by basically affirming that she's willing to attack preemptively based on intelligence.  The missing question? "So if you agree with the Bush Doctrine, how can you say that you represent change?"

EXCELLENT and frightening op ed
Blizzard of Lies  
By PAUL KRUGMAN
Published: September 11, 2008

The Bush campaign's lies in 2000 were artful - you needed some grasp of arithmetic to realize that you were being conned. This year, however, the McCain campaign keeps making assertions that anyone with an Internet connection can disprove in a minute, and repeating these assertions over and over again.
.....................

I'm talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

What it says, I'd argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.

   http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09...


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Sarah Palin may be hurting McCain among Jewish voters
""Sarah Palin is helping a lot. Sarah Palin in seen as a right-wing evangelical [pick]," he said. He added that while that perception helps the McCain campaign with many Christian voters energized by a so-called hockey mom who hunts and fishes in her spare time, "Most of our South Florida condo people are appalled at seeing her standing over a moose."

Her views on social issues - pro-life, anti-gun control and the like - definitely helped discourage Seymour Ross of Delray Beach from voting for the Republican ticket. While he has been wavering between the two candidates because he thinks Obama would "make nice" with Iran, Palin's "extreme conservative views" have tilted him more toward the freshman Illinois senator. "

"Palin is totally out of step with public opinion in the Jewish community" on domestic issues and has "zero foreign policy experience," the organization wrote in a fund-raising letter sent out last week. It also started an on-line petition asking: "McCain: What were you thinking when you selected Palin?"

"In general, he has more work to do, but it's no longer walking into a hostile crowd. You sill have some people who are hostile [toward Obama], but today most are friendly," he said. "Does he still have work to do? Absolutely. Has he fixed most of it? Yes. But it's still hard."
  http://www.jpost.com/servlet/S...



"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Just a guess but I'd be suprised at McCain/Palins horrible educations may reflect badly with asian voters
McCain being 884th out of a class of 890, and Palin needing 5 colleges in 6 years, ain't gonna impress Asian parents who push their kids to achieve academicly. Latino/a communities are also rank education as their top issue.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
omit "are" in sentence above...ooops


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Don't Neglect Asian-American Voters: They Can Tip the Vote to Obama in Virginia
The Obama mission is strong on issues important to Asian Americans. These include immigration reform, support for small businesses, and education programs for students who use English as a second language. Given proper attention Virginia's 13 electoral votes could be won by Obama with Asian-American voters providing him with the margin of victory

  http://www.obamaelectionwatch....

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
HILLARIOUS VIDEO from Rachel's show
of Miss Alaska 1984 who beat Sarah Palin
  http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Lack of judgment
It struck me that, in answering the Are you experienced and ready question, Palin didn't have a substantive answer.

So, in addition to McCain's bad judgment in choosing an inexperienced running mate, it turns out the running mate didn't have the good judgment to say NO. Competent managers, including executives, need to have enough self-awareness to know their limitations.

Palin could only say she "didn't blink," completely trusting McCain's judgment in selecting her.

Ugh.


The Nitwit Speaks
She's an opportunist and a tyrant, a bully and a know-nothing (and proud of it).  She is continuing the wonderful tradition of George Bush: don't sound presidential, sound juvenile:

"We've got to remember what the desire is in this nation at this time. It is for no more politics as usual and somebody's big fat résumé that maybe shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment, where, yes, they've had opportunities to meet heads of state."

One: "big, fat resumé"?  Next, she'll call Biden "a stupid idiot."

Two: How does her slam of Biden not equally slam McCain?

"In order to maintain an untenable position, you have to be actively ignorant."  The Colbert Report


Can we be honest here?
Okay, instead of high-fiving ourselves on the fact that the ABC interview shows how little Gov Palin knows of foreign policy, let's take a step back and think:
do the voting population in the battleground states really care? Or are they more interested in whether or not she knows her Bible, wears a flag pin, and utters "God's will" every second sentence.
When are the democrats and progressives going to learn that the people who decide elections here don't think like we do?
Or rather, they don't really think at all.

What are you implying?
I totally agree with you and I've been saying the same thing to people for days.

This isn't a new phenomenon is it?  Didn't we have similar conversations/observations 4 years ago when it seemed inconceivable that ANYONE would vote for Bush again?  

Again!?!!  Who would be that stupid?  How could anyone??  He couldn't possibly be re-elected after everything we learned about the Iraq rationale and the mounting death toll at the time.  

Well, four years later no one gives a crap about Iraq, but some scary goddamned things are going on with our economy that feel and sound like carnage that is beyond our grasp and yet....we are asking the same question:

Who in their right mind would vote for Palin - some unknown politician from nowhere?  We've spent the last 18 months listening to 20 politicians nitpick each other and they have been whittled down to the final two (a long final episode of American Idol) and now some amateur pops up and it's all...Suddenly SARAH!

(If I were a Broadway type, I'd write a song)

Obama has to get over her and start firing up his oratory into Tanya Harding territory.  He needs to prove - for the 85th time - that he will do what it takes to win.  Just like Suddenly Sarah says in her Gibson spotlight, there is no time to hesitate.  

Lump her insanity with McCain's feebleness and start telling the left to get pissed.  Do we want our government to ban books?  Do we want to be lied to for 8 more years - being told one thing while the opposite was true?  Do we want to continue the Bush war to conquer the world - seize the oil, put our soldiers in harm's way while leaving us vulnerable, and making defense contractors / oil execs wealthy while the rest of us get closer to ruin?

The Republicans aren't afraid to scare the shit out of the Christian idiots - it's time for the Democrats to scare the shit out of the sedate secularists.  

Point the finger at the enemy.  There is no time left to be gracious.    


[ Parent ]
Exactly
Remember that during his 1980 campaign, Reagan was asked what world leaders he knew.  His response?  "I've met the king of Thailand."  Gosh, being almost totally ignorant of foreign affairs sure stopped him from being elected, didn't it?

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


[ Parent ]
It's the undecideds
The 28% who still think Bush is doing a good job are already lost. But at least a few of those who haven't made up their minds will look at Palin staring blankly as she breaks one of the cardinal job interview rules and tries to bullshit her way through, and think, "You know, McCain's old, and this woman doesn't look like she has a clue."

[ Parent ]
LEGALLY BRUNETTE
The reality show. And it's NOT  a comedy.

Going to War with Russia over Russian/Georgian conflict?
Didn't we learn our lesson in Afghanistan?

No, of course we didn't
The simplest, best, most practical reason why America should stop launching these various military adventures is that we're not very good at it.  Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, Afghanistan...  Questions of morality and international law completely aside, we've botched them all yet learned nothing.

Cynic, n.  A blackguard whose faulty vision sees things as they are, not as they ought to be.  
-Bierce, The Devil's Dictionary


[ Parent ]
Sarah's Studied Political Theory With Experts
"This means WAR"
Thanks...this was great!

[ Parent ]
The problem McCain has with Palin is she's an absolute BLANK SLATE
The fans of her's PROJECTED everything on her they wanted her to be. Once they get a closer examination of what she actually is....they will toss her like a used kleenex.

The voters of America aren't fooled too often, and when things are tough financially, they want answers, not flattery, or slogans.

In the end, I'd wager it'll be working Moms who finally leave Palin in droves, she just doesn't have answers, and the answers she gives and videos of her past, have some VERY SCAREY out of the mainstream concepts.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


REVIEWS of palin almost universally UNIMPRESSIVE
dazed and Confused would be my review

"Howard Wolfson adds his two cents. "Up until last night's interview with ABC's Charlie Gibson, the McCain campaign had shielded Governor Palin from the media. And based on her performance yesterday they were right to do so... Her answers to a fairly basic set of foreign policy questions were formulaic and unimpressive. She didn't say anything disqualifying, but it is unlikely that anyone watching would have come away sanguine about her ability to step in as President on Day One if necessary."

"At times, her eyes looked uncertain and her voice hesitated, and she looked like a student trying to bend prepared answers to fit unexpected questions."  
The Times' Alessandra Stanley:

many more
  http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


OUCH...from James Fallows
"What Sarah Palin revealed is that she has not been interested enough in world affairs to become minimally conversant with the issues. Many people in our great land might have difficulty defining the "Bush Doctrine" exactly. But not to recognize the name, as obviously was the case for Palin, indicates not a failure of last-minute cramming but a lack of attention to any foreign-policy discussion whatsoever in the last seven years."

"How could she not know this? For the same reason I don't know anything about European football/soccer standings, player trades, or intrigue. I am not interested enough. And she evidently has not been interested enough even to follow the news of foreign affairs during the Bush era.

A further point. The truly toxic combination of traits GW Bush brought to decision making was:

1) Ignorance
2) Lack of curiosity
3) "Decisiveness"

That is, he was not broadly informed to begin with (point 1). He did not seek out new information (#2); but he nonetheless prided himself (#3) on making broad, bold decisions quickly, and then sticking to them to show resoluteness.

We don't know for sure about #2 for Palin yet -- she could be a sponge-like absorber of information. But we know about #1 and we can guess, from her demeanor about #3.   Most of all we know something about the person who put her in this untenable role.
  http://jamesfallows.theatlanti...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
OUCH OUCH
 Palin and the Bush Doctrine posted by Richard Kim

"In tonight's interview with Charlie Gibson on ABC, Sarah Palin seemed alarmingly ignorant of what the Bush doctrine is, much less capable of defending it. Gibson asks her: "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"

After an uncomfortably long moment of silence, which should have viewers conjuring Dan Quayle's potatoe, Palin asks, "In what respect Charlie?"

Gibson responds, "The Bush--well, what do you interpret it to be?"

Palin answers, "His world view."

Gibson presses the point, "No, the Bush Doctrine, enunciated in September 2002, before the Iraq war," after which Palin talks about Bush's quest to rid the world of Islamic extremism before pivoting to the virtues of democracy and the need for change."
 http://www.thenation.com/blogs...

I smell an Obama ad, just with journalists quotes of her lack of knowledge.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
skewered with wit here
A whiter shade of Palin

We've all been in that situation. You cram hard for an exam, trying to anticipate every possible question. And when the professor asks something you aren't prepared to answer, your stomach drops, the blood rushes from your face, your mind starts racing, and you try not to panic.

That must have been what was going through Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's brain when ABC News anchor Charlie Gibson, with his benign, professorial air, asked her, "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?"

Blink, blink. "In what respect, Charlie?" Palin replied, looking as if she'd never heard the term.
......................
"It's hard to get a sense from the text alone of just how lost Palin looked tonight. Watch the video here to get the full effect. Time to hit the books some more, Sarah"

   http://blog.foreignpolicy.com/...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
thanks
goodness-thanks for this video.  The look on her face makes it seem as though she's never heard the phrase at all ...  

Palin interview = moose in the headlights
   http://farm2.static.flickr.com...

Who the hell were Palin's study partners?

  http://www.foxnews.com/video2/...
  http://i271.photobucket.com/al...

It's funny the McCain/Rove folks compared Obama to Paris and Britney....Paris could do a better interview than Palin, and proved it.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Sarah Palin Naked
Michael Seitzman

"Now, I want to be clear and speak directly to those of you who LOVED that Palin interview. You're an idiot. I mean that. This is not one of those cases where we're going to agree to disagree. This isn't one of those situations where we debate it passionately and then walk away thinking that the other guy is wrong but argued well. I'm not going to think of you as a thoughtful but misguided person with different ideas who still really cares about the country and the world. No, sorry, not this time. This time, if you watched those interview excerpts and weren't scared out of your freakin' mind, then you're mentally ill, mentally disabled, or mentally disturbed. What you are NOT is responsible, informed, curious, thoughtful, mature, educated, empathetic, or remotely serious. I mean it. "
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Palin Uses Magic 8-Ball in ABC Interview
Andy Borowitz

"GOP vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin said today that she was "delighted" with her performance in a much-publicized ABC News interview with Charlie Gibson and gave credit to her "trusty Magic 8-Ball" for helping her come up with answers to "some darn tricky questions."

"Charlie brought his A-game, that's for darn sure," Gov. Palin said after her interview. "That's why it's a good thing I had my Magic 8-Ball with me."
................
"When asked by reporters where she got her answer to the Russia question, Gov. Palin replied, "My Magic 8-Ball got stuck on that one, so I asked God."

On the campaign trail, GOP presidential nominee John McCain said he was "thrilled" with Gov, Palin's performance, adding that she would be shipped to Alaska and frozen in a block of ice for the remainder of the campaign."
  http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


It's days like this I MISS Ann Richards and Molly Ivins
They have got to be laughing their asses off somewhere in the great beyond.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
Sarah Palin Displays a World-Class Ignorance of Foreign Affairs, but Her Supporters Won't Care
 Bonnie Erbe

The other low point of the session was her obvious lack of knowledge about the Bush Doctrine. Gibson had to explain to her that it was President Bush's 2002 declaration that the U.S. has a right to a pre-emptive strike against another country.

As the American Enterprise Institute has noted:

If nothing else, the Bush Doctrine, articulated by the president over the past eighteen months in a series of speeches and encapsulated in the new National Security Strategy paper released in September (2003), represents a reversal of course from Clinton-era policies in regard to the uses of U.S. power and, especially, military force."

Again, will it reduce the GOP base's enthusiasm for her? Not a mite. It will make them feel she's "more like them." And American presidential races are becoming more and more like high school popularity contests every four years.
   http://www.usnews.com/blogs/er...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Palin's Dan Quayle Moment
"She wouldn't admit she didn't know what Gibson meant and couldn't discuss the concepts of preventive, preemptive and defensive wars. But give her a B for Bluffing.

The exchange reminded me of a response by Dan Quayle, who said about his first act, should he have to assume the presidency: "First, I'd say a prayer for myself and for the country that I'm about to lead. And then I would assemble his people and talk."

In other words, he hadn't thought about it much.

These are tough moments for people trying to assume high office. But they're also revealing moments. Many people thought Quayle's answer was wonderful. Many will defend Governor Palin's response."

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


forgot the link above ooops
   http://voices.kansascity.com/n...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


[ Parent ]
how did Palin do? TIME ....By JAMES PONIEWOZIK
On the screen, it was much different; the real information, it seemed was in the tone and manner of the exchange. (On the transcript, Palin's attempt at defining the Doctrine was "His worldview." On the screen, it was, "His worldview?" - with a hint of a challenge in it.) She injected "Charlie" into her answers constantly, as if trying to draw him in; he kept a distanced and almost curt manner, following up briskly and often. After a few followups to his question on whether the U.S. had the right to invade Pakistan to pursue terrorist leaders, he asked bluntly, "I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes?"
...........
I don't pretend to know whether more people will see her as nervous and unready or refreshing and outsiderish (or see him as firm or contemptuous). But either way, it was definitely a different interview tonally than you would have gotten from, as she said, someone with a "big, fat resume."
  http://www.time.com/time/natio...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Sarah Palin: 'Bush Doctrine?'
by Mark Silva

For critics, the gotcha moment in ABC's interview with Palin is a clear lesson in how little attention the first-term governor of Alaska has paid to affairs which, as vice president and potentially president, she would quickly be expected to comprehend.

For critics as well, Palin's clear alliegance to the underlying principal of the doctrine, despite her failure to recognize the name on the political media equivalent of a Jeopardy board - "Charlie, I'll take foreign policy for $1,000'' - will also serve as fodder for the Obama campaign argument that McCain and Palin represent "more of the same.''
  http://www.swamppolitics.com/n...


"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


George W Palin ...from Slate....ouch ouch ouch
they won't allow copying text

   http://www.slate.com/id/2199927/

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Clueless Palin Peddles Cliches Under Gibson's Glare: Commentary
Bloomberg

"Palin may not have blinked when John McCain asked her to be his running mate. Last night, however, found her frozen in the Klieg lights as the dogged interlocutor set his sights on his visitor."
...When the interview turned to Iraq and Iran, Palin's innocence of diplomatic nuance, not to mention global politics, was something she couldn't dance around. We're America, she said, we don't have to put up with those uppity Eye-ranians.

"Does she believe we are doing God's will in Iraq? ``I wouldn't presume to know God's will, Charlie,'' she answered gamely. Gibson was ready with a clip of her sermonizing not long ago in church and she danced around that one, too.

Gibson didn't ask the candidate if she has any clue about the principle of separation of church and state on which her beloved United States was founded. I wish he had."

(Jeremy Gerard is an editor for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.)
   http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/...

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


quoted on Daily Dish by andrew sullivan
The Palin Farce
12 Sep 2008 11:01 am

A reader writes:

After watching that interview, can anyone honestly say that they think that Sarah Palin, the person who would take over the country in the event something happens to McCain, has more knowledge of policy than Charlie Gibson, the person giving the interview?

And isn't it supposed to be the other way around?

...Okay, isn't it at least supposed to be close??

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


Don't expect to see her do many more
"Don't expect to see her do many more ... the McCain campaign knows they will pay a price for keeping Gov. Palin from the national press -- but they also know that price is worth paying if it buys them insurance against her giving a disqualifying answer to a legitimate question."

  http://abcnews.go.com/Politics...
Palin liked to compare herself to Hillary...pffft
Sarah isn't fit to shine Hillary's pumps let alone fill them.
No one had to sequester Hillary from the press on ANY SUBJECT.
Hillary could masterfully do FIVE morning TV shows in one day....when you can handle THAT scrutiny, call us Sarah,

you just can't cut it in the MAJOR LEAGUES.

"race, taste. and History finally overcome....and you ain't there"
by Tony Kushner


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