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Her problem isn't the questions asked but the answers she is suppose to give.
I think she's suffering from information overload. It reinforces my thoughts that she's crammed too much into her head. These are things she's never had to think about before.
the above is an interview with Larry Kudlow and Sarah on I believe July 31. It is very telling about Troopergate and her understanding at that time about what the VP does. The link below is shorter and is just the VP job part of her response to Kudlow. The first one is longer and full of insight. She answers tough questions from Kudlow fluently and comfortably. It is however prior to her having a team of handlers. Then she was in charge of what she thought and what was going on, and now is she?
It seems that she was very comfortable and confident in this interview and this is the Sarah Palin that McCain should have stuck with instead of trying to shape her into his image. He constantly mentions that she is a maverick and took on her party but it appears as if she has got to stick with talking points that the campaign has told her and not stray. Her answers in the interview with Katie Couric were strange and I think that whole Alaska is right next to Russia thing is something that the McCain campaign started tooting first and she just has to ride with it no matter how foolish it makes her look. Not only has he dumbed her down for the public IMO, he has also jeapordized her political career in the future if they do not win the White House.
And she still hasn't deleivered to Katie the answers she promised to deliver.
She's a war pig. She had an affair. Her unwed teenage daughter is pregnant. She supported th bridge to nowhere before she opposed it. She built the road to nowhere for 26 million. She refuses to testify at the hearing she said she supported. She abused her office. She charges rape victims for the rape test kit. And she produced a semi-retarded child. Retard is in her DNA.
Great Chice Johnboy. You crippled loser.
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Yes, she is. All the candidates are. She doesn't deserve a pass here just because she's inexperienced and nervous. Sorry.
Excuse me, I didn't realize the concept would be so easily misunderstood...
The other three have been in cesspool politics for a long time. They're no longer regular people... they're humans that have been covered in crap so long the scent no longer bothers them. Palin hasn't been desensitized to that scent yet.
Better?
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Originally Posted by Mike from back east
True story, happened today. I was downtown picking up yard signs for the Udall campaign here in Colorado and a street person walked up and started speaking to me in disjointed, run-on, sentence fragments, JUST LIKE PALIN DOES.
It seems that she was very comfortable and confident in this interview and this is the Sarah Palin that McCain should have stuck with instead of trying to shape her into his image. He constantly mentions that she is a maverick and took on her party but it appears as if she has got to stick with talking points that the campaign has told her and not stray. Her answers in the interview with Katie Couric were strange and I think that whole Alaska is right next to Russia thing is something that the McCain campaign started tooting first and she just has to ride with it no matter how foolish it makes her look. Not only has he dumbed her down for the public IMO, he has also jeapordized her political career in the future if they do not win the White House.
Amen, everyone should watch the full video it is very telling. The Palin problem may not really be a Palin problem but a campaign problem. I was just watching video of her in the Philadelphia cheese steak store and she seemed very awkward and worried when asked a question. That is not normal for a candidate on the stump and from what I have seen not normal for her. Let Sarah be Sarah.
Amen, everyone should watch the full video it is very telling. The Palin problem may not really be a Palin problem but a campaign problem. I was just watching video of her in the Philadelphia cheese steak store and she seemed very awkward and worried when asked a question. That is not normal for a candidate on the stump and from what I have seen not normal for her. Let Sarah be Sarah.
She repeats what the people ask her as if it's her opinion. I'd be willing to bet that's a campaign tactic. It makes people think you're listening to them and that you understand what they're saying. In essence, it shows no knowledge, only that you listen.
Excuse me, I didn't realize the concept would be so easily misunderstood...
The other three have been in cesspool politics for a long time. They're no longer regular people... they're humans that have been covered in crap so long the scent no longer bothers them. Palin hasn't been desensitized to that scent yet.
Better?
Eh, I have a hard time giving her a pass on this. Don't step up to play with the big boys if you can't play. And I do not believe the same pass would be given to a man - not even for a second. I'd ask my usual question of 'if this were the Dem candidate what would you be saying?' but y'all never answer that question.
It seems that she was very comfortable and confident in this interview and this is the Sarah Palin that McCain should have stuck with instead of trying to shape her into his image. He constantly mentions that she is a maverick and took on her party but it appears as if she has got to stick with talking points that the campaign has told her and not stray. Her answers in the interview with Katie Couric were strange and I think that whole Alaska is right next to Russia thing is something that the McCain campaign started tooting first and she just has to ride with it no matter how foolish it makes her look. Not only has he dumbed her down for the public IMO, he has also jeapordized her political career in the future if they do not win the White House.
I don't think she's necessarily "dumb", I just think she's of average intelligence and we need better than that. She's not well-read, she's not well-travelled, she's doesn't have the global vision that a presidential candidate needs.
In part 2 of the Katie Couric interview, Katie asked Palin why she only obtained a passport a year ago and that it would seem there was no desire for world travel. Did you see Palin's reply?
Palin said that she wasn't one of the privileged that had parents that sent them off to Europe with a backpack and presumably a gold card after graduating college. Now how presumptuous and closed-minded was that?
I sent myself to Europe with a backpack, thank you very much, while entirely self-supported. It was important to me to see what I could of the world so I made the necessary sacrifices to save up and head of to Europe on a shoestring budget. Those experiences cannot be duplicated by reading a book - which was Sarah Palin's reply to Katie.
She's fine as a PTA leader, but not a World leader.
She repeats what the people ask her as if it's her opinion. I'd be willing to bet that's a campaign tactic. It makes people think you're listening to them and that you understand what they're saying. In essence, it shows no knowledge, only that you listen.
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It is safe and provides you an out. Also if you agree with them it makes it difficult for them to ask a probing question since you agreed with them.
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