Condilicious Condi would have covered all the suspect classifications (female, black and suspected lesbian). If Condi would have married Charlie Crist . . . Last time we saw Charlie he was running to call off his wedding and join the Log Cabin Republicans.
Letterman’s top 10 last night – “Things Overhead at the Sarah Palin Debate Camp.”
Number 1 – “Any way we can just get Tina Fey to do it?”
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It’s been reported that John McCain is taking an herbal supplement to improve his memory. Apparently McCain is having trouble remembering why he picked Sarah Palin.”
_O’Brien, NBC’s “Late Night.”
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“Great day for Sarah Palin. She has been practicing for the big debate tomorrow night. Palin’s staff has tried to find a stand-in to pretend to be Joe Biden. But so far all they’ve come up with is a tree stump. Which actually sounds about right.”
_Craig Ferguson, CBS’ “Late Late Show.”
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“This is for all the marbles, this debate tomorrow night. And Sarah Palin is nothing if not diligent. She’s working hard on preparing for the debate with Joe Biden. Earlier today in Arizona, we just heard, she shot a donkey.”
_Letterman, CBS’ “Late Show.”
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“Now we all know Gov. Palin has a lot of foreign policy experience because from Alaska, she can see Russia. More to the point, Russia is on the other side of the international dateline from Alaska. It’s tomorrow there. So when Palin looks at it, she’s actually seeing the future.”
_Stephen Colbert, Comedy Central’s “The Colbert Report.”
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“The vice presidential debate is tomorrow night. Joe Biden, already gearing up. I understand he went to the hair salon, told the guy to put a little more on top … And Sarah Palin she’s getting ready for tomorrow’s debate, too. I understand she now knows all three branches of government.”
_Jay Leno, NBC’s “Tonight” show
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“Teams of technicians have been working around the clock trying to figure out how to run an Internet cable directly into the back of (Palin’s) skull.”
So tonight we will be treated to (subjected to) another evening of Katie Couric interviewing Sarah Palin.
I was listening to the radio on the way home from work a couple of days ago. A woman caller was telling the talk show host that our future leaders should be those folks who start out as PTA moms, work their way to city leadership . . . well, we know where this is going. Of course she used Sarah Palin as a shinning example of this type of new leadership in American. According to her, all we need is a little more Sarah Palin.
When the caller said that integrity was much more important than qualifications, the talk show host challanged her with the choice of having brain surgery performed by a neurosurgeon who was board certified vs her family doctor, the woman simply would not answer. Shades of things to come Thursday night, I suppose.
The caller flitted, she hemmed, she hawed, she changed the subject but bottom line she refused to acknowledge the obvious – of course qualifications matter. Surely the woman wouldn’t get on a jet flown by Sarah Palin; although she seems quite taken with the “Straight-Talk Express.”
Well . . . singing to the choir I suppose. Let’s hope that we can teach our children to have more common sense, then again to keep our economy on track someone does have to buy the Amish heaters of the world.
CBS News Exclusive: Palin Talks About Biden, Age
COLUMBUS, Ohio (CBS) ― CBS News anchor Katie Couric continues her series of interviews with Republican Vice Presidential nominee, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin. Tonight, Couric gets an exclusive behind-the-scenes visit with Palin on the campaign trail.
Sarah Palin: And I do look forward to Thursday night, debating Senator Joe Biden. We are going to talk about those new ideas, new energy for America. I am looking forward to meeting him too. I’ve never met him before, but I have been hearing about his senate speeches since I was in like second grade.
Couric: You made a funny comment. You said you’ve been listening to Joe Biden’s speeches since you were in second grade. Something like that?
Sarah Palin: Yea, its been since like ’72. Yea.
Couric: When you have a 72 year-old running mate is that kind of a risky thing to say? Insinuating that Joe Biden’s been around a while.
Sarah Palin: Oh no. It’s nothing negative at all. He has got a lot of experience. Just stating a fact there that we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years. He’s got a tremendous amount of experience. And I am the new energy, the new face, the new ideas. And he’s got the experience based on the many many years in the senate. And the voters are going to have a choice there in what it is they want in these next four years.
According to Wikipedia Andrew Halco is a politician from from Anchorage, Alaska. He is formerly a Republican member of the Alaska Legislature and he ran for Governor of Alaska as an Independent candidate in the 2006 election, running third with 9.46% of the vote.
He’s also very critical of Sarah Palin. If you want to read some of his stuff Halcro has a blog. However, at one time Halco wanted Palin to be his Lt Gov running mate. Leading nother Alaskan blogger, Tom Lamb, to ask the question, “Why is it that Andrew Halcro who is so critical of Palin, wanted to be on the same ticket with her?”
Halcro’s answer: . . .
because I believed Sarah Palin had the qualifications to be a terrific Lt. Governor. And watching her struggle to give coherent answers on the national stage, I believe more today than ever before she has the qualifications to be a terrific Lt. Governor.
Halco now has an article on the Christian Science Monitor telling us what we already knew about debating Sarah Palin. “She’s a master of the nonanswer.”
“I’ve debated Governor Palin more than two dozen times. And she’s a master, not of facts, figures, or insightful policy recommendations, but at the fine art of the nonanswer, the glittering generality. Against such charms there is little Senator Biden, or anyone, can do.”
On April 18, 2006, Palin and I sat together in a hotel coffee shop comparing campaign trail notes. As we talked about the debates, Palin made a comment that highlights the phenomenon that Biden is up against.
“Andrew, I watch you at these debates with no notes, no papers, and yet when asked questions, you spout off facts, figures, and policies, and I’m amazed. But then I look out into the audience and I ask myself, ‘Does any of this really matter?’ ” Palin said.
Gwin Ifel will be the moderator for the Palin / Biden Debate.
“You do your best to get candidates to answer your question. But I also trust the viewers to understand when questions are not answered and reach their own conclusions,” Ifill told BlackAmericaWeb.com. “Four years ago, when neither John Edwards nor Dick Cheney proved capable of answering a question about the domestic epidemic of AIDS among African-American women, viewers flooded me with reaction. They got what that meant.”
The biggest pressure you have as a journalist ever is to make sure you get an answer to your question,” said Ifill, whose crowded resume includes The New York Times, The Washington Post and NBC News. “That’s what I’m focusing on — how to ask questions that elicit answers instead of spin, or in this case to elicit engagement between the two.”
In the same interview Ifel pointed out that sometimes forget that she’s moderating a debate, not an inquisition.
“People who watch these debates are incredibly engaged,” she said. “I don’t have to chase the candidates around the table to make them answer questions. The people will know whether a question has been answered or not.”
Well, let’s hope that the moderate independent’s will know.
YouTube has removed the footage of Sarah Heath Palin in her swimsuit during her run for Miss Alaska 1984. It’s down from YouTube but we’re all up here with a little help from Jossip.com
Well, it’s back on. So one of these should work. By the way – she looks hot. I would have voted for her as Miss Alaska.
Read the transcript and watch the video of Sarah Palin being interviewed by Katie Couric. This is the interview that was on last night September 25. It dealt with foreign policy.
As Anderson Cooper of CNN said, “Coming up — the interview everyone is talking about. You have to see it to believe it.”
Transcript of Katie Couric Interview of Sarah Palin, night 2:
Katie Couric: As we stand before this august building and institution, what do you see as the role of the United States in the world?
Sarah Palin: I see the United States as being a force for good in the world. And as Ronald Reagan used to talk about, America being the beacon of light and hope for those who are seeking democratic values and tolerance and freedom. I see our country being able to represent those things that can be looked to … as that leadership, that light needed across the world.
Couric: In preparing for this conversation, a lot of our viewers … and Internet users wanted to know why you did not get a passport until last year. And they wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity in the world.
Palin: I’m not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world.
No, I’ve worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had kids. I was not a part of, I guess, that culture. The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world.
Couric: Gov. Palin, you’ve had a very busy week. And you’re meeting with many world leaders. You met with President Karzai of Afghanistan. I know the McCain campaign has called for a surge in Afghanistan. But that country is, as you know, dramatically different than Iraq. Why do you believe additional troops, U.S. troops, will solve the problem there?
Palin: Because we can’t afford to lose in Afghanistan, as we cannot afford to lose in Iraq, either, these central fronts on the war on terror. And I asked President Karzai, “Is that what you are seeking, also? That strategy that has worked in Iraq that John McCain had pushed for, more troops? A counterinsurgency strategy?” And he said, “yes.” And he also showed great appreciation for what America and American troops are providing in his country.
Couric: The United States is deeply unpopular in Pakistan. Do you think the Pakistani government is protecting al Qaeda within its borders?
Palin: I don’t believe that new President Zardari has that mission at all. But no, the Pakistani people also, they want freedom. They want democratic values to be allowed in their country, also. They understand the dangers of terrorists having a stronghold in regions of their country, also. And I believe that they, too, want to rid not only their country, but the world, of violent Islamic terrorists.
Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.
Couric: Mocked?
Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.
Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.
Palin: We don’t have to second-guess what their efforts would be if they believe … that it is in their country and their allies, including us, all of our best interests to fight against a regime, especially Iran, who would seek to wipe them off the face of the earth. It is obvious to me who the good guys are in this one and who the bad guys are. The bad guys are the ones who say Israel is a stinking corpse and should be wiped off the face of the earth. That’s not a good guy who is saying that. Now, one who would seek to protect the good guys in this, the leaders of Israel and her friends, her allies, including the United States, in my world, those are the good guys.
Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.
Couric: When President Bush ran for office, he opposed nation-building. But he has spent, as you know, much of his presidency promoting democracy around the world. What lessons have you learned from Iraq? And how specifically will you try to spread democracy throughout the world?
Palin: Specifically, we will make every effort possible to help spread democracy for those who desire freedom, independence, tolerance, respect for equality. That is the whole goal here in fighting terrorism also. It’s not just to keep the people safe, but to be able to usher in democratic values and ideals around this, around the world.
Couric: You met yesterday with former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who is for direct diplomacy with both Iran and Syria. Do you believe the U.S. should negotiate with leaders like President Assad and Ahmadinejad?
Palin: I think, with Ahmadinejad, personally, he is not one to negotiate with. You can’t just sit down with him with no preconditions being met. Barack Obama is so off-base in his proclamation that he would meet with some of these leaders around our world who would seek to destroy America and that, and without preconditions being met. That’s beyond naïve. And it’s beyond bad judgment.
Couric: Are you saying Henry Kissinger …
Palin: It’s dangerous.
Couric: … is naïve for supporting that?
Palin: I’ve never heard Henry Kissinger say, “Yeah, I’ll meet with these leaders without preconditions being met.” Diplomacy is about doing a lot of background work first and shoring up allies and positions and figuring out what sanctions perhaps could be implemented if things weren’t gonna go right. That’s part of diplomacy.
Couric: You recently said three times that you would never, quote, “second guess” Israel if that country decided to attack Iran. Why not?
Palin: We shouldn’t second guess Israel’s security efforts because we cannot ever afford to send a message that we would allow a second Holocaust, for one. Israel has got to have the opportunity and the ability to protect itself. They are our closest ally in the Mideast. We need them. They need us. And we shouldn’t second guess their efforts.
Couric: You don’t think the United States is within its rights to express its position to Israel? And if that means second-guessing or discussing an option?
Palin: No, abso … we need to express our rights and our concerns and …
Please invest 12 minutes of your time to watch this video about the national and global farce of Sarah Palin as VP.
In response to Palin’s supporters’ claim that Palin’s experience is similar to other VPs here is an exhaustive comparison of Governor Palin’s experience as compared with every other Vice President in U.S. history.
Pass it on to your conservative friends to drive them crazy.
The Palin nomination is without historical precedent for her total lack of any alient qualifications as well as her refusal to engage the press in any meaningful way in a national election campaign. Truly surreal and utterly without precedent. Just listen to Lessig go through the history of the vice-presidents. Palin’s candidacy is a national and global farce.
Read report detailing Palin’s briefings on Russian jet incursions
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