huh? Which post am I missing in this thread? I'm not trying to be snotty, but I haven't seen the news and I want to know what he did!
Basically the Republican camp asked the format to be more Q&A instead of verbal exchange. Democrats were just like yeah sure, why not. At this point, the bar is set so low for Palin that she is just bound to trip over it. Picking Palin does not diminishes Obama; it diminishes McCain.
More on the right admit there is a problem... From the National Review. link Palin Problem She’s out of her league. By Kathleen Parker If at one time women were considered heretical for swimming upstream against feminist orthodoxy, they now face condemnation for swimming downstream — away from Sarah Palin. To express reservations about her qualifications to be vice president — and possibly president — is to risk being labeled anti-woman. Or, as I am guilty of charging her early critics, supporting only a certain kind of woman. Some of the passionately feminist critics of Palin who attacked her personally deserved some of the backlash they received. But circumstances have changed since Palin was introduced as just a hockey mom with lipstick — what a difference a financial crisis makes — and a more complicated picture has emerged. As we’ve seen and heard more from John McCain’s running mate, it is increasingly clear that Palin is a problem. Quick study or not, she doesn’t know enough about economics and foreign policy to make Americans comfortable with a President Palin should conditions warrant her promotion. Yes, she recently met and turned several heads of state as the United Nations General Assembly convened in New York. She was gracious, charming and disarming. Men swooned. Pakistan’s president wanted to hug her. (Perhaps Osama bin Laden is dying to meet her?) And, yes, she has common sense, something we value. And she’s had executive experience as a mayor and a governor, though of relatively small constituencies (about 6,000 and 680,000, respectively). Finally, Palin’s narrative is fun, inspiring and all-American in that frontier way we seem to admire. When Palin first emerged as John McCain’s running mate, I confess I was delighted. She was the antithesis and nemesis of the hirsute, Birkenstock-wearing sisterhood — a refreshing feminist of a different order who personified the modern successful working mother. Palin didn’t make a mess cracking the glass ceiling. She simply glided through it. It was fun while it lasted. Palin’s recent interviews with Charles Gibson, Sean Hannity, and now Katie Couric have all revealed an attractive, earnest, confident candidate. Who Is Clearly Out Of Her League. No one hates saying that more than I do. Like so many women, I’ve been pulling for Palin, wishing her the best, hoping she will perform brilliantly. I’ve also noticed that I watch her interviews with the held breath of an anxious parent, my finger poised over the mute button in case it gets too painful. Unfortunately, it often does. My cringe reflex is exhausted. Palin filibusters. She repeats words, filling space with deadwood. Cut the verbiage and there’s not much content there. Here’s but one example of many from her interview with Hannity: “Well, there is a danger in allowing some obsessive partisanship to get into the issue that we’re talking about today. And that’s something that John McCain, too, his track record, proving that he can work both sides of the aisle, he can surpass the partisanship that must be surpassed to deal with an issue like this.” When Couric pointed to polls showing that the financial crisis had boosted Obama’s numbers, Palin blustered wordily: “I’m not looking at poll numbers. What I think Americans at the end of the day are going to be able to go back and look at track records and see who’s more apt to be talking about solutions and wishing for and hoping for solutions for some opportunity to change, and who’s actually done it?” If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. If Palin were a man, we’d all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she’s a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true. What to do? McCain can’t repudiate his choice for running mate. He not only risks the wrath of the GOP’s unforgiving base, but he invites others to second-guess his executive decision-making ability. Barack Obama faces the same problem with Biden. Only Palin can save McCain, her party, and the country she loves. She can bow out for personal reasons, perhaps because she wants to spend more time with her newborn. No one would criticize a mother who puts her family first. Do it for your country. — Kathleen Parker is a nationally syndicated columnist. © 2008, Washington Post Writers Group
That's exactly how I feel. I don't like Palin at all, but I really feel sorry for her when I watch her interviews. She's just drowning out there.
clearly in over her head. those questions were not hard ball, why did you say alaska being near russia gives you foreign? hey, you said it. even if you didn't have an answer then its been a month, come up with an answer. you know its coming
They should have announced her as the VP candidate in late October or something. A serious candidate, if ignorant of issues, should at the very least be able to BS enough to sound credible.
Here's what gets me about the whole Palin/Russia is my neighbor/foreign policy fiasco. As I recall (and if I'm wrong on this then please forgive the rest of my post), the first person who suggested that Palin had foreign policy experience because Alaska was geographically close to Russia was some Fox News talking head. Everybody laughed at the guy. They showed the clip on the Daily Show. Everybody made their joke about that comment. Then during the convention Cindy McCain said the same thing in an interview. I couldn't believe she was echoing a comment that everyone thought was ridiculous and had made fun of. Soon enough, the campaign started using it as one of Palin's credentials. Why? Why did they pick that ball up and run with it? It was already a public joke when they adopted it. I can't believe they weren't aware of the criticism that initial comment drew. Why would you embrace that statement when you knew what people thought of it? It just boggles my mind. They could have let the comment die and simply left it attached to this guy on Fox News but instead they decided to keep it and embrace it a one of Palin's credentials. I just don't understand why they did that. It's not like it's some BS they came up with that backfired. It had already backfired before they adopted it.
Not that this is even related, but does anyone think Palin could even handle being mayor of NYC right now?
I feel more sorry for our country that she is running for VP with a reasonable chance of winning. It really is a shame that we could have someone like this running for VP. I think you would have to go pretty far down into the list of countries before you could find someone like this as a possible president.
TJ? *chirp* *chirp* I really want to know what TJ and Texx think about this interview. Just for entertainment purposes.
I always assumed she could bs her way through the debate without too much damage. Now I have high hopes that she will implode. I think that the media will try to be tough on her, because no matter what corporation owns the media company the questioners come from, they, too, will be a bit afraid to have her possibly in the presidency. In addition each question has the distinct chance of being a famous "gotcha" question that turns the election given the possiblility of a monumental flub.
Bingo. I consider myself a fairly compassionate person, but my worry for the nation's future is far more significant than my concern for poor Sarah trying to bluster and BS her way past questions that most educated adults can answer comfortably.
Lol, it is pretty funny not to see basso, tj, and texx in this thread. Maybe it's a audio-visual deal, because before I read the transcripts of the interview... it seemed like she was reasonably confident. After reading a transcript of the interview, I mostly feel sorry for Palin. She just seems to repeat the questions like a parrot and then throws John McCain's name in every few sentences to lend her credibility.
This is totally my opinion (and The Cat can correct me if I'm wrong), but I think every reporter dreams of being the next Woodward and Bernstein and making it big, or at least making a lasting impact in their chosen profession. Which reporter/talking head wouldn't want to be known as The One Who Changed The Course Of The Election? It's totally an ego validation thing. And the sharks are circling Palin, because she's the best and easiest path to achieving that goal (note: because of her incompetence, not because of her sex). DUM dum. DUM dum. DUM dum DUM dum DUM dum DUM dum DUM dum... (They're coming for you, Sarah! Get out of the water!)
You know, if Palin keeps delivering piss poor interviews like this, I may just have to stop pleasuring myself to her pictures out of embarrassment.
Oh Good god, I just watched that interview. I was cringing half the time in anticipation of the semi-coherent sentences that were to come. I knew she was bad but that sounded absolutely horrific.
I believe that "US Americans........ROFLMAO.....finally a news reporter just flat out comes out and says what he feels. Jack Cafferty NAILS it on Palin. <object width="425" height="344"><param name="movie" value="http://www.youtube.com/v/L8__aXxXPVc&hl=en&fs=1"></param><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true"></param><embed src="http://www.youtube.com/v/L8__aXxXPVc&hl=en&fs=1" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" allowfullscreen="true" width="425" height="344"></embed></object> DD
OUCH! Cafferty should tell us how he really feels. The look on Couric's face during that part of the interview was priceless.
