Maybe it’s Cindy who is teaching her geography.
I didn’t really feel like logging on tonight and actually defending Sarah Palin, but, what the hell…
Dio, I’m not sure you’re aware that Charlie Gibson took her words out of context to the point of alteration. Here’s what she said (transcript from this article in The Huffington Post, and it coincides with the tape of her saying it which I heard on NPR):
That is not a direct assertion about God’s will. It seems to me to be in the same spirit as Lincoln’s remark, and in fact when I heard the tape I actually thought of Lincoln, because he sure was pithier about it.
Now, please read further in that article for some real kookiness, where she asks the congregation to help her get that $30 billion gas pipeline in the bag:
The Republican party is completely bereft of ideas and of reasonable leaders. Their VP is once again a dolt, able to say more words and express fewer actual meaningful ideas with them than your average 5th grader.
We can’t afford more leadership from this group of empty headed simpletons. True conservatives should feel great shame in listening to these awful responses to pretty straightforward policy questions.
lol 
In all seriousness, I don’t see why the Republicans have to keep putting the radical fundies ahead of the more numerous moderates. Who cares about the extremes? Most traveling is done in the middle of the road. Why do they have to keep finding people that will make the Radical Right happy when it’s the people in the middle that they’re in danger of losing?
Agreed. I dislike Palin more than I’ve disliked any politician in a long time and it’s really hard to find fault with these answers.
Of course, the fact that they’re coming from a power mad fundie worries me a lot.
No we don’t back Israel if they strike Iran or no we shouldn’t invade Pakistan?
Because Israel destroyed Iraq’s facility in 1980 during the Carter Administration and also an unknown Syrian facility this last year under Bush. And we’ve always had a military policy that doesn’t preclude the use of a first strike if necessary.
Presidents have always been vague on yes/no scenarios and they do that so that countries like Pakistan don’t have to deal with newspaper articles on politicians who advocate cross border confrontations. The correct response is something vague about working behind the scenes to capture terrorists.
No, we don’t give Israel carte blanche to do whatever the fuck it wants.
I agree, and I thought Gibson looked taken aback at her total ignorance; he was expecting to get an answer, not a moose-in-the-headlights look followed by flailing obfuscation. Sorry if I didn’t make that clear.
Well, if you’d focus in on where the relevant portion is in that article, it might help. He has, in the past, criticized Obama for his suggestion that we would go in to Pakistan if necessary, and McCain has talked of Pakistani sovereignty. Jon Stewart did a nice little juxtaposition of McCain saying that he’d follow bin Laden to the gates of hell, just not past the borders of Pakistan.
Well, they DID go for Pat Buchanan!
The one I found particularly damaging is the clear demonstration that she doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is, and tried to bluff around her ignorance like a student trying to snow the teacher when he gets called on in class after failing to read the assigned homework.
She might have lost a few points if she had asked “Can you be more specific?” to the Bush Doctrine question, but at least she wouldn’t have flailed around like she did. I could tell she was nervous. On the surface she presents as confident, almost overly so, but I could tell it was an act. Sorry to say this, Repubbies, but the woman is still not ready for primetime.
After having listened to Bay Buchanan say that Palin’s lack of international know-how is an endearing quality (Cuz a dumb VP makes us think she’s good people like us!!), I’m reminded of that phrase “the soft bigotry of low expectations”. That’s the real sexism, people. Not pigs on a lipstick (or whatever that crap outrage was about).
Ok, that makes more sense that way, so I will drop my accusation that she lied and I’ll even say that ABC might have pulled a Fox News and cropped the clip in a misleading way.
Having said that, I would point out that the idea of “praying for something to be God’s will” is a logical contradiction. It suggests that you’re asking God to alter his will to fit your own agenda. Hoping that something is God’s will and petitioning God to customize his will to suit your own actions are two different things, but since Palin is not very bright, I assume she’s probably oblivious to the implicit arrogance of her request.
Then she still went on to obliterate even the attempt at making a statement of humility by claiming flat out that the natural gas pipeline was God’s will.
I really, really, do NOT want to be much smarter than the next Vice President of the United States.
Link to the question.
Yikes. I think she just got briefed by Charlie Gibson on national TV.
So, you’re saying you would rather have her say that we would abandon a NATO ally (If Georgia is indeed ever admitted into NATO) if they were attacked, or only if they were attacked by Russia.
The Republican Party punted with their pick of Sarah Palin.
I would rather have her say Georgia should not be admitted into NATO.