"At those times on the campaign trail when sometimes it's easy to get a little bit discouraged, when, you know, when you happen to turn on the news when your campaign staffers will let you turn on the news," she said, prompting laughter from the group. "Usually they're like 'Oh my gosh, don't watch. You're going to, you know, you're going to get depressed.'"So her two months of campaigning have got her depressed, she is SO ready to take over when McCain takes the big trip West.
"Because the cable and network television stations did not show a split screen of the debate, most viewers could not see that, during Joe Biden’s answers, Sarah "Bible Spice" Palin spent almost all her time looking down and studiously reading her notes. But viewers did see that when Palin delivered her answers, she would repeatedly glance down to check her talking points."Watch this video and see the gimmickry:
“on at least ten occasions, Palin gave answers that were nonspecific, completely generic, pivoted away from the question at hand, or simply ignored it: on global warming, an Iraq exit strategy, Iran and Pakistan, Iranian diplomacy, Israel-Palestine (and a follow-up), the nuclear trigger, interventionism, Cheney’s vice presidency and her own greatest weakness.”Remember what happened when Couric asked follow up questions? Her head almost exploded.
COURIC: I know you're heading to Sedona to work on your debate. What is your coach advising you?"More of the same" is Obama? Lest we remind you who's balls you and John suck, Sarah.
PALIN: I don't have a debate coach.
COURIC: Well, what are your coaches?
PALIN: I have quite a few people who are giving us information about the record of Obama and Biden, and at the end of the day, though, it is -- it's so clear, again, what those choices are. Either new ideas, new energy and reform of Washington, DC, or "more of the same".
"McCain/Palin agrees with Bush/Cheney on foreign policy, national security, economic policy, taxes, healthcare, energy, education, the environment, the federal judiciary, immigration, and the culture-war issues. Indeed, McCain has personally boasted about voting with Bush 90% of the time, and has insisted, "[O]n the transcendent issues, the most important issues of our day, I've been totally in agreement and support of President Bush."It's bad enough they stole "change" from Obama's campaign, now they use it to describe themselves. Next Palin will be saying she's a black Senator from Chicago.
WASHINGTON - When Russian bombers approach American airspace and U.S. Air Force fighters are scrambled, Sarah Palin's phone doesn't ring. The Alaska governor has no command authority over the guardians of U.S. airspace despite her recent suggestion otherwise. "She doesn't have any role in that process," Air Force Maj. Allen Herritage, spokesman for the Alaska North American Aerospace Defense Command, told the Daily News.
"I've never met him before," Palin said. "But I've been hearing about his senate speeches since I was in like 2nd grade."The Republican crowd seemed to think this was hilarious.
Couric: You made a funny comment, you've said you have been listening to Joe Biden's speeches since you were in second grade.Is she saying a "new face" with no clue has value just because it is new? What are her new ideas, again? Drill for oil. Creationism. And my choice, according to you, is between those "new ideas" and Joe Biden, a guy with years and years of experience. Experience that even your running mate has made the central theme of his campaign. You are a walking punchline.
Palin: It's been since like '72, yah.
Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate, is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden's been around awhile?
Palin: Oh no, it's nothing negative at all. He's got a lot of experience and just stating the fact there, that we've been hearing his speeches for all these years. So he's got a tremendous amount of experience and, you know, I'm the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he's got the experience based on many many years in the Senate and voters are gonna have a choice there of what it is that they want in these next four years.
All it took was to ask VPIFL Sarah Palin to name another Supreme Court ruling, other than Roe v Wade, and the precocious political neophyte drew a blank. Her vast knowledge of things outside of Alaska, outside of the teleprompter, amounted to jack squat. She had no answer. She was silent, which may be better than her incoherent ramblings. "There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence."It happened during her interview with Katie Couric the other day and CBS decided not to air it. But news of the gaffe leaked and McPalin are pissed. How dare the news report the news!
Q: How will you fix the economy?Sadly, Palin is the punchline.
The economy and putting it back on the side of the leadership there. I do agree with taking the fight to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this state that I worked on as chairman of the construction bonds and the insurance carrier duties of AIG. But first and shoring up our economy. It is, somebody was saying this morning, a toxic waste there on Wall Street. Well, it certainly does because our our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the war. You can't blink. You have to second-guess what their efforts would be if they believe that what you are seeking, also? That strategy that has much to do things better.
My boy Fareed Zakaria at Newsweek roasts the vapid Sarah Palin, and for picking her for such an important position, John McCain."Can we now admit the obvious? Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president.To the conservative deniers, I really feel for you. You probably think Newsweek is a leftwing rag that trumpets the Democratic platform. For you, the truth is actually a Democratic value, thanks for the compliment. You must fight the Democrats and fight the truth!
Obviously these are very serious challenges and constraints. In these times, for John McCain to have chosen this person to be his running mate is fundamentally irresponsible. McCain says that he always puts country first. In this important case, it is simply not true."
Capitol Hill sources are telling me that senior McCain people are more than concerned about Palin.That half day vetting process is paying off.
The campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference; both are being described as "disastrous." One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, "What are we going to do?" The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. People on the inside are saying the Alaska Governor is "clueless."
PALIN: We’ve gotta keep an eye on Russia. … You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.Translation: It means jack shit. It's like saying you live next to a gas station so, by proximity alone, you have the experience to deal with OPEC.
GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing inside Georgia?
PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Russia.
