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flash · 26-09-2008, 06:05 PM

YouTube - Sarah Palin Interview with CBS News' Katie Couric- Day 1

YouTube - Sarah Palin Interview with CBS News' Katie Couric- Day 2

flash · 26-09-2008, 06:15 PM

Any Americans worried at all if McCain gets elected and dies in office that this woman would be the leader of your country?

machangezi · 26-09-2008, 06:38 PM

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Gushing compliments make Palin blush

NEW YORK, Sept 25: President Asif Ali Zardari’s enthusiastic and lavish praise for US vice-presidential candidate (Republican) Sarah Palin’s looks in front of television cameras has raised eyebrows here.

According to one report, on entering a room filled with several Pakistani officials on Wednesday afternoon, Ms Palin was immediately greeted by Information Minister Sherry Rehman.

“And how does one keep looking that good when one is that busy?,” Ms Rehman asked, drawing friendly laughter from the room when she complimented her. “Oh, thank you,” Ms Palin said.

When President Zardari entered the room seconds later, Ms Palin rose to shake hands, saying she was “honoured” to meet him.

Mr Zardari then called her “gorgeous” and said: “Now I know why the whole of America is crazy about you.”

“You are so nice,” Ms Palin said, smiling. “Thank you.”

A handler from Mr Zardari’s entourage then told the two politicians to keep shaking hands for the cameras. “If he’s insisting, I might hug,” said the president. Palin smiled politely.

Ms Palin, who is credited with igniting the lacklustre Republican presidential campaign after being picked by Senator John McCain as his running mate, did not answer questions from reporters at her first two appearances on Wednesday.

She joined Mr McCain in meetings with Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, and then travelled downtown to meet Iraqi President Jalal Talabani.

When a reporter at the Zardari meeting asked her about her day, she said: “It’s going great. These meetings are very informative and helpful, and a lot of good people sharing appreciation for America.”

Link:Gushing compliments make Palin blush -DAWN - Top Stories; September 26, 2008

I guess she likes Zardari hitting on her. I hope she was just being nice when she said to Mr. Ten Percent that he is nice.

AntRobertson · 26-09-2008, 06:55 PM

The self-professed 'pitbull' comes across more poodle-terrier-whippet cross.

A toothless one at that.

spiff · 26-09-2008, 08:02 PM

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Originally Posted by AntRobertson

The self-professed 'pitbull' comes across more poodle-terrier-whippet cross.

A toothless one at that.

But plenty of lipstick.

ChiangMai noon · 26-09-2008, 06:59 PM

it's a shocker alright.

even jet said she came across badly in the Palin thread.

poor woman will be relieved to disappear back into obscurity come post election day.

Boon Mee · 26-09-2008, 08:55 PM

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Originally Posted by ChiangMai noon

it's a shocker alright.

even jet said she came across badly in the Palin thread.

poor woman will be relieved to disappear back into obscurity come post election day.

Heh...biggest Troll Thread on this Forum!

AntRobertson · 26-09-2008, 07:04 PM

Hard to believe this is the same woman that some on here were touting as the one to rip Obama/Biden a new one.

panama hat · 26-09-2008, 07:46 PM

As I said in the other thread - it was unfair to bring her into this campaign, she is clearly not up to standard.

But then, how the hell did she become governor of Alaska . . . or even mayor of Wasilia . . . Jesus wept, someone like that would have no chance at home . . . even Hanson was smarter.

And Jet out her on the same plane as Merkel?

(Texas. Alaska. No diff)

ChiangMai noon · 26-09-2008, 09:07 PM

^
troll??

it's quite easy to see why palin has been kept in the attic while Biden has given some 89 interviews in the same period.

bet she gets sick the night before the veep debates.

hope for her sake she does.

aging one · 26-09-2008, 09:17 PM

slow suicide.

britmaveric · 26-09-2008, 09:29 PM

Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks.

AntRobertson · 26-09-2008, 11:16 PM

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Originally Posted by britmaveric

Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks.

A polished turd is still a turd, Brit.

Boon Mee · 27-09-2008, 02:46 AM

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Originally Posted by britmaveric

Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks.

Got that right!

Boon Mee · 27-09-2008, 04:04 AM

Couric the partisan hag
refuses to call Palin by her title, Gov.

attaboy · 27-09-2008, 06:48 AM

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Originally Posted by Boon Mee

Couric the partisan hag
refuses to call Palin by her title, Gov.

Boon this "fk you" by Couric is definitely a demonstration of her petty prejudice. The woman is primitive and small to the point of being a political bigot. How can she call herself a professional reporter or professional journalist? She needs to find another form of work perhaps as a hack.

panama hat · 27-09-2008, 08:28 PM

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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.

It's really not difficult to see that she is not in the same league, Biden will rip her a new one . . . even if he's not the sharpest tack in the box, he is going up against a blunt nail

flash · 26-09-2008, 09:31 PM

my 16 year old niece would make a better VP

ChiangMai noon · 26-09-2008, 09:32 PM

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Originally Posted by britmaveric

Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks

you stretch this trolling thing a bit far sometimes brit.

aging one · 26-09-2008, 09:37 PM

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Originally Posted by britmaveric

Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks.

Credibility shot. Wow had no idea.

26-09-2008, 07:46 PM	#9 (permalink)
panama hat Selamat Datang Last Online: Today 07:47 PM Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: South of the border now - thank God! Posts: 7,951	As I said in the other thread - it was unfair to bring her into this campaign, she is clearly not up to standard. But then, how the hell did she become governor of Alaska . . . or even mayor of Wasilia . . . Jesus wept, someone like that would have no chance at home . . . even Hanson was smarter. And Jet out her on the same plane as Merkel? (Texas. Alaska. No diff) Last edited by panama hat : 26-09-2008 at 10:31 PM.

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26-09-2008, 06:15 PM	#2 (permalink)
flash Fag an bealac! Last Online: 20-11-2009 10:48 AM Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: 53 00 N, 8 00 W Posts: 2,469	Any Americans worried at all if McCain gets elected and dies in office that this woman would be the leader of your country?

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AntRobertson Ich Bin Ein Auslander Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 12,727	The self-professed 'pitbull' comes across more poodle-terrier-whippet cross. A toothless one at that.

26-09-2008, 06:59 PM	#6 (permalink)
ChiangMai noon punk douche bag Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: o dan y bryn Posts: 28,059	it's a shocker alright. even jet said she came across badly in the Palin thread. poor woman will be relieved to disappear back into obscurity come post election day.

26-09-2008, 07:04 PM	#8 (permalink)
AntRobertson Ich Bin Ein Auslander Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 12,727	Hard to believe this is the same woman that some on here were touting as the one to rip Obama/Biden a new one.

26-09-2008, 09:07 PM	#10 (permalink)
ChiangMai noon punk douche bag Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: o dan y bryn Posts: 28,059	^ troll?? it's quite easy to see why palin has been kept in the attic while Biden has given some 89 interviews in the same period. bet she gets sick the night before the veep debates. hope for her sake she does.

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aging one Elite Member Last Online: Today 07:08 PM Join Date: Nov 2005 Posts: 4,347	slow suicide.

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britmaveric nid aur yw popeth melyn Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: Pattaya Posts: 3,916	Great interview and I think she will make a good VP for the Yanks.

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Boon Mee Thailand Travel Forum Last Online: Today 07:26 AM Join Date: May 2006 Posts: 12,927	Couric the partisan hag refuses to call Palin by her title, Gov.

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flash Fag an bealac! Last Online: 20-11-2009 10:48 AM Join Date: Mar 2006 Location: 53 00 N, 8 00 W Posts: 2,469	my 16 year old niece would make a better VP

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