Today I announced I wasn't going to write about my wife. My wife and I just watched ABC News with Charlie Gibson teasing his interview with Sarah Palin. My wife's smart about people. She said, "Slam dunk." She said Palin was tough, and seems smart and practical, and Gibson couldn't move her. "It's Mrs. Smith goes to Washington. It's really appealing to people. A practical person goes down there and fixes everything that's wrong." Somebody shoot Frank Capra, quick.
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After hearing about this interview, my father and I pulled it up on the computer.
Palin made it painfully clear that she had no idea what the Bush Doctrine was. My heart sank. Then she started on some memorized nonsense that sounded like a recording. It was horrible. My father shut it off.
I am conservative, nationalist, an NRA member and certified firearms instructor. I thought *The Passion of the Christ* was one of the best movies of the decade.
It is possible to be a conservative and love middle America without being a vacuous fool.
The masses that get into that net, don't need to be vacuous, they just need to be badly informed. Hardy watch the news, god forbid, read!
If the interviewer insists, repeats his question, when he feel she didn't answer it, and she simply keeps repeating the same sound bites–I haven't watched it/but I know the game–these not informed people will think:
"What a nasty guy. She answered him already."
What percentage votes in the States and how informed are they?
I can't understand that you have to register to vote. Sounds peculiar to me.
Why didn't you sent the link?
LeaNder,
The fact that people have to register to vote in America is probably the least peculiar of the many oddities of the electoral process, all by careful design, of course, in order to maintain the status quo.
Gibson interview with Palin, in two parts:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3ALsjhDDdaA
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LAlxUChYpj4&feature=related
She's a good junior-college student.
Thats it.
I wouldn't trust her to do brain surgery. I wouldn't trust to recommend the doctors to do the brain surgery. I wouldn't trust her to review the doctors' work.
The most frightening comment she made during the interview was that we might have to go to war with Russia.
To follow Richard's analogy, that's like doing the craniotomy properly, spending 3 hours of careful dissection down to the aneurysm neck, and then taking the clip holder and plunging it into the patient's brain.
Not good.
It's true that Sarah Plain didn't know what the Bush doctrine was but neither did Charlie Gibson. He claimed it had to do with pre-emptive strikes but Charles Krauthammer, who claims to be the first one ever to use the phrase, said it originally had to do with backing out of the ABM treaty. After that, says Krauthammer, the phrase referred to three or four different things and now is most commonly used to mean the Bush policy of encouraging democracies. When Palin defined the Bush Doctrine as Bush's "general worldview" she was more right than Gibson was.
"I wouldn't trust her to do brain surgery. I wouldn't trust to recommend the doctors to do the brain surgery. I wouldn't trust her to review the doctors' work."
I wouldn't trust Joe Biden not to plagiarize. I wouldn't trust Michelle Obama not to perpetually pout her lower lip in unending petulance. I wouldn't trust Barack Obama not to throw his grandmother under the bus to defend the racism of Jeremiah Wright.
The point of the "brain surgery" comment, is that she is plainly not qualified to be president. and as John McCain isn't either, that amounts to a very bad combination.
She is not qualified to be president hands-on, nor qualified to be president by delegating and oversight.
Obama is. Biden is.
I don't know what Obama has done to make him qualified to be president other than spend two years running for the office. As Hlllary said a few months ago of the requirements of the presidency, she has a lifetime of experience, McCain has a "lifetime of experience." And what does Obama have? "A speech he gave in 2002."