Posted on 09/26/2008 2:52:04 AM PDT by americanophile
A global financial crisis and a not-quite-suspended presidential campaign dominated newspaper front pages and television reports over the last couple of days. Bad news for America. But good news for Sarah Palin. The economic crisis and John McCain's surprising response have drawn attention away from the Republican vice presidential nominee just as she has started to answer more pointed questions from the media. Her third nationally televised interview, with CBS anchor Katie Couric, found Palin rambling, marginally responsive and even more adrift than during her network debut with ABC’s Charles Gibson. In a 40-minute session with Couric that aired Wednesday and Thursday nights, the Alaska governor defended her puzzling claim that geographic proximity makes her some sort of expert on Russia; went nearly blank when queried about McCain's achievements as a big-business regulator; agreed America "may find itself" on the road to another Great Depression; and, promoting a troop surge in Afghanistan, casually suggested that it "will lead us to victory there, as it has proven to have done in Iraq." The last statement couldn't help but conjure an image from 2003 -- President Bush beaming in that green flight suit before the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner. Palin's unblinking certitude gave way at other times in the interview to a striking imprecision, as when she struggled to respond to Couric's suggestion that the $700-billion bailout might be better funneled through middle-class families instead of Wall Street firms. "That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in . . ." Palin began, before meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence.
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Actually, you have missed it dumbass.
Actually, you have missed it, dumbass.
Actually, you have missed it, dumbass.
Actually, you have missed it, dumbass.
to the author, if its not in the news, it never happened
LA Times is the affirmative action party’s mouth piece here in so cal.
Starting Monday you see headlines such as :
“Wealthy GOP kill Dreams of Home Ownership For Millions by Blocking Bailout”
CBS early am news in Boston headlined it as: Palin on the defensive! I had the sound off, but the Couric looked as if she was trying to resurrect her career on slamming Gov. Palin. The Governor looked as if she were answering sensibly, from the heart.
i watched a little of katie, and she sure looked like she thought that she was going to be the queen bee of putting sarah palin in her place. looked like katie was smirking the usual liberal-elitist smirk.
Couric used this interview to make herself look better at Sarah’s expense.
Sarah needs to just keep being herself and remember the scene in Mr. Smith Goes To Washington (the movie she loves so much she has a poster of it in her office) when Jimmy Stewart hits Washington, the first thing that happens is the press makes him look stupid.
Sarah, don’t forget who wins in the end!
I don’t know that she has ever claimed to be an expert on Russia, but, she comes closer than this klutz.
On McCain’s regulating attempts, Sarah brought up a couple things before any specific question was asked and then got the “besides those” question which is BS.
The guy I’m sure this ass supports is also for an Afghan surge. And, this is now not 2003 and victory IS in sight in Iraq.
She just doesn’t give the answers liberals want to hear, not even attempting to coddle these idiots the way some conservatives do-and they can’t stand it.
The leftist media cannot or will not ask intelligent, perceptive questions. Instead they dwell on minutia to trip up their prey. Then they broadcast the imperfection for days and days. The leftist media is tedious and repetitious. Couric has not the intelligence to mask her hate for Palin.
Also, making fun of Palin vis a vis editing as both Gibson and now Couric have employed — is only going to backfire.
Voters want honesty and integrity.
Obama probably can’t balance his own household checkbook as it seems his schooling and career was paid for by the commies.
It all makes me wonder if all the “present” votes were to make him seem like a blank slate, not giving his future enemies anything against him.
I’d really like to know about his tax returns for the last twenty years, too.
Would be mighty interestin’ reading.
Palin is a classic mis=direction. McCain picked her so you will look at the pretty girl rather than watch him.
Katy Couric should consider a different line of work.
Change is coming.
And I personally think Sarah should take a break for a week or two.
“where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh — it’s got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.”
This is supposed to be her big stumble, but IMO she is mostly correct, she answered in a broader policy sense then just a simple “Gee...Katie, what a great idea it is! Yay!”
If the dollar tanks, which it will if we add 700 billion to the Debt the dollar will collapse.
Yes..It is a “gotcha” game and I hope McCain/Palin will be very careful about helping these leftists sharpen their claws on Sarah. No other Vice Presidential candidate in my memory has had to answer such questions about the interworkings of someone’s else’s files on an issue few could explain in depth without being directly involved. As I watch all of this, I thing of the television series, “Sopranos.”
As I watch all of this, I thing of the television series, “Sopranos.”
If you are saying it’s time for some in the media to get whacked, I’m there!
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