Thread: Sarah Palin interview

^ O'Reilly's OK. Hannity is a panderer. But hey, look at the opposition: Olbermann and Maddow are the worst -- the gloating, schedenfreude attack donkeys for the Dems. They just attack and have absolutely no manners or unblinkered views or responses to anyone who disagrees with their views. They are Obama's Koolaid groupies.
Already commented on Palin's interview in other threads. Again, she didn't do well, IMHO.

Originally Posted by flash

Originally Posted by attaboy

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.
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Any opinion on Bill O'Reilly's interviewing techniques??

O'Reilly by his definition is a commentator. If Couric were to acknowledge she is in the same league as O'Reilly I think that would be honest on her part.

you are probably right, each as bad as each other.
tell me honestly if you would feel confident of her being be a good leader for your country if McCain died while in office??

Geez, you can look at that both ways, Flash. Obama hasn't proven himself except in his slick rhetoric. To me, he would be scarier as prez coz he will use his Chicago political style to form his power base, deflect decisions and do stupid things like meeting leaders such as Ahmadejin without preconditions. If Palin had to take the lead, I think she would be smart enough to turn to her advisors, as all leaders do anyway.
More after the debates.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I think she would be smart enough to turn to her advisors

you don't elect advisors, you elect someone who is strong enough to make their own decisions

If Palin shows herself to be totally out of her league, people will step in and strongly advise her.


When Reagan's Alzheimer's disease was getting to be too much for him Howard Baker took over as chief of staff and did a great job of maintaining a stable White House.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

Geez, you can look at that both ways, Flash. Obama hasn't proven himself except in his slick rhetoric. To me, he would be scarier as prez coz he will use his Chicago political style to form his power base, deflect decisions and do stupid things like meeting leaders such as Ahmadejin without preconditions. If Palin had to take the lead, I think she would be smart enough to turn to her advisors, as all leaders do anyway.
More after the debates.

You make a good point Jet. If Obama gets elected he must payoff those people who delivered votes and cash for him. There are thousands of political appointee jobs which will be filled with the likes of William Ayers. Radicals will be coming to Washington. Don't forget the payoffs to the religious leaders too. More religious people going to Washington. More mixing of church and state.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ O'Reilly's OK.

And you are his love-child. Hey, even FOX criticised Palin's bunch for the lack of press interaction

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

But hey, look at the opposition

Ah, that's the raison d'etre for Jet . . . always swerving off the patch by saying: 'look at them'

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

schedenfreude

Are you using this word as an adjective? Verb?

Before you use 'big' words, perhaps knowing what they mean and how they are used, how they are spelled would help.


Oh, Jet - - - did you know that an old shoe is NOT legal tender in Canada, but the two-dollar bill is?

^ Ah, yes, thank you for alerting me to that typo. Should be schadenfreude. How kind of you to point it out, but not surprising that you know it as you personify the meaning. Keep on with your mindless twitter, dear. The gods at least surely have hope for you.

^Pot kettle black, Jet

So why do you hate America ?

Wrong thread...

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

^ Ah, yes, thank you for alerting me to that typo. Should be schadenfreude. How kind of you to point it out, but not surprising that you know it as you personify the meaning. Keep on with your mindless twitter, dear. The gods at least surely have hope for you.

Spelling is secondary to using the word correctly . . . care to try again? As for me delving in Schadenfreude? Only when you are the object, Jet.

Two-dollar notes?

Admitting to being wrong is a good, cleansing thing.

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

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he's got to be careful though.

the republicans have already played the gender card (lipstick on a pig) and will be looking for any chance to make a huge drama out of the most innocuous remark.

I wouldn't mind giving Katie Couric a facial.

Let's wait and see. Palin should be prepped by then and heck, Biden will stick his foot in his mouth every time he opens it, so not much of a contest there. She has to be honest, that's the most important thing for her. I also hopes she firms up her voice pitch and keeps the limp fist waving to a minimum.

Originally Posted by attaboy

If Palin shows herself to be totally out of her league, people will step in and strongly advise her. When Reagan's Alzheimer's disease was getting to be too much for him Howard Baker took over as chief of staff and did a great job of maintaining a stable White House.

Kurt Vonnegut once wrote a short called Harrison Bergeron. To maintain its facade of egalitarianism, an ordinary person was randomy selected to become US president every four years while an oligarchy secretly ran the whole show. I suppose if the vacuous Sarah Palin becomes president we're no worse off than Vonnegut's dystopia. A new Wall Street or Neo-Con puppetmaster will no doubt call the shots for Palin and she'll be reduced to photo ops and reading teleprompters. The country will be no worse off than it was under Reagan (or George Bush for that matter). But isn't there something a little disturbing to you about a scenario where an unelected entity runs the USA and you and I have no idea who that entity is?

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

She has to be honest, that's the most important thing for her.

Originally Posted by Jet Gorgon

I also hopes she firms up her voice pitch and keeps the limp fist waving to a minimum.

"I love her. She can go full sentences without lying, her voice is real purty and she is deeply moving with her restrained but wise hand movements."

Hhheeeeeee HHhhawwwww... brays, jet

^ Sorry, I'm busy.

Originally Posted by pai nai ma

Hhheeeeeee HHhhawwwww... brays, jet

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Originally Posted by Norton

McCain's judgment putting her in the position.

True, but I don't think McCain had much to do with the selection . . . some back-room spinmeisters had to decide how to counter Obama's choice . . . Cynical, solely to win an election, not thinking of the country - completely opposed to McCain's supposed ideals

Originally Posted by panama hat

some back-room spinmeisters had to decide how to counter Obama's choice . . . Cynical, solely to win an election, not thinking of the country - completely opposed to McCain's supposed ideals

Perhaps but if this was the case, if McCain can't lead his campaign any better than this how in the world can he be expected to lead a nation?

^ Exactly

Originally Posted by raycarey

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he's got to be careful though.

the republicans have already played the gender card (lipstick on a pig) and will be looking for any chance to make a huge drama out of the most innocuous remark.

You saw it first with Hillary's senatorial race against Rick Lazio. That mean man Rick.

Curic and Palin are same same, both light weights. Only there because they are women