Here is last night’s SNL sketch. The worst thing is, it doesn’t differ that much from the real Katie Couric interview.
I think parts of it are verbatim.
The comment “She makes George W Bush sound like Cicero” has got to be one of the sharpest one-sentence slapdowns I’ve seen in some time.
A significant fraction of her base, while not exactly part of the black-helicopter crowd, is at least willing to entertain the notion that the black-helicopter crowd has one or two good points. They’d suspect the “serious medical issue” of being a cover story for the party bosses strong-arming their darling off the ticket, and stay home in November.
My personal favorite is Letterman calling her meet-and-greets with foreign leaders at the UN “Take Your Daughter to Work Day”.
You should watch this one.
I don’t see how you can watch the interview Sarah Palin gave with Katie Couric and think there isn’t cause for Sarah Palin to resign or be taken off the ticket or at least grounds for the discussion.
Yeah, Biden makes some gaffes occasionally, but at this point I’m having trouble locating any extemporaneous conversation of Palin’s in which the coherent parts consist of anything other than gaffes.
“Health reform and reducing taxes and reigning in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief.”
Um, OK. I don’t know about you, but I personally agree that reducing taxes has got to accompany any tax reduction. It’s not just a good idea, the English language demands it.
I’m having trouble locating any extemporaneous conversations of Palin’s that contain coherent parts!
But we do know.
There will be exit polls.
And lots of people state outright whom they support.
Democrats shouldn’t get too jovial. We had terrific candidates this year, but that’s not always the case. Republicans had a lousy crop this season, but that happens sometimes.
Pity the responsible Republican.
On gaffes: all politicians do it. But if Palin wasn’t a lightweight, she would have held press conferences and made the rounds on Sunday talk shows by now. It’s gotten to the point where McCain said that what Palin says doesn’t necessarily represent the position of the campaign. (Then again, earlier this year an aide claimed that just because McCain said something doesn’t mean it’s official.) So it’s not just that Palin has said some incomprehensible things. Rather, I’m concerned that I’ve never heard her present a detailed and articulate treatment of a policy issue, when quizzed extemporaneously. It’s like she can’t even hit 3 relevant talking points in a row. Dan Quayle was far, far better.
Palin has her skill set. Her TV-likability is at a world-class level. Seriously. And I expect to see a lot of improvement by November 3rd. But qualified for the Presidency? No. Not now and plausibly not ever.
I do, very much. If you have his address, I would send him a card.
I saw the SNL sketch before I opened this thread, and I had no idea it was verbatim. I was laughing my ass off thinking how funny they were…but now after seeing the clip of Palin’s actual interview, her using those exact words…I’m not laughing anymore. 
Yeah, it was scary when I watched the Cafferty link right after watching the SNL link. They weren’t word for word, but damn, they were close! Dance, Sarah, dance!
Holy crap. Sarah Palin, who mocked Community Organizing as relevant to elected public office, actually cites her babysitting and waitressing experience as something she draws upon as Governor. :eek:
Actually, that’s the most coherent and intelligent I’ve seen her be thus far.
And how scary is that? LOL
Let’s give credit where credit is due. Fareed Zakaria of Newsweek stated flat out: "Sarah Palin is utterly unqualified to be vice president. "
And according to Kevin Drum, “George Will, David Frum, Rod Dreher, Kathleen Parker, Ross Douthat, David Brooks, Charles Krauthammer”, have taken similar stands.
Heh. Here’s the infamous exchange with Couric. The question was an opportunity to explain that credit is the lifeblood of the economy (yada, yada) and if it dries up - if small, medium and large businesses cannot secure short-term loans- there will be job loss, possibly massive.
It was once said that satire is dead. Not so: at SNL, the scriptwriters have taken it to the next level: they simply quote Palin verbatim.
Sissy Farenthold, the women’s libber, observed “We will have achieved equality the day mediocre women take their place beside mediocre men.”
Judging by the text of the Couric interview, the implication that Palin is a mediocre candidate is an insult to mediocre people. You owe the American Society of Mediocrity an apology.
She makes Dan Quayle look like Abraham Lincoln. I mean, read that response. Jesus H. Christ in a chicken basket. Anyone who has watched cable news on a semiregular for the last two weeks knows more about the issue than she demonstrated.
The society founded by the late Sen. Roman Hruska, R.-Neb., that is? Defending Nixon’s nomination of the unimpressive Harold Carswell to the Supreme Court:
“Even if he were mediocre, there are a lot of mediocre judges and people and lawyers. They are entitled to a little representation, aren’t they, and a little chance? We can’t have all Brandeises, Frankfurters and Cardozos.”
Well, what makes the Vice Presidency so different? 
It is frightening to note that Paris Hilton’s energy policy was far more coherent than anything Palin has said so far.