A Supreme Question

An AP-Gfk poll released Wednesday found that just 25 percent of likely voters believe Palin has the right experience to be president.

With Palin, McCain has shot himself fatally in the foot.

IN ALL MY YEARS I HAVE NOT SEEN A POORER EXCUSE FOR PRES AND VICE PRES-----WE WOULD BE THE LAUGHING STOCK OF THE WORLD IF THESE TWO GOT INTO OFFICE--
or maybe the public is just that dumb and deserves no better.
note---N-O-------B-A-I-L-O-U-T

Now that we've seen and heard Sarah Palin on the issues (foreign policy experience, the economy / rescue plan, the Supreme Court) there can be no doubt: Palin needs to put country first by stepping down.

If she doesn't, she clearly holds this great country in contempt.

Who knows what her true loyalty to an independent Alaska is. As we know her "First Dude" firmly supports it.

American voters, take care.

The Two Jakes: Your example (quoting Obama saying 'I have never said that I was prepared to immediately normalize relations with Cuba,' followed by his quote regarding meeting foreign leaders without preconditions) doesn't show that Obama is a liar. It shows that you don't understand what 'normalizing relations' and 'meeting without preconditions' are.

Meeting without preconditions does not mean immediately normalizing relations. It might, depending on whether the meeting is successful, result in moving towards a normalization of relations, but that is hypothetical and wouldn't be immediate even if realized.

On the basis of your example, Obama is not a liar.

This answer shows she takes no interest in serious issues beyond those she was dealing with regularly in Alaska. Amazingly, she even whiffed on criticizing the Valdez case.

She easily could have talked concepts of cases and not gotten into the name. How about "Katie, I did not like that eminent domain case a couple years back."

"Katie, I think child rapists really should get the death penalty."

"Katie, I think the school prayer decision was a bad one."

Instead, complete and total whiff.

I mean, I am pro-choice myself.

No one is pro-abortion. We just feel it's safer to at least allow things to be done legally, of course we don't delight in killing a foetus.

You can at least make sure the mother makes it out alive, instead of both dying because of botched up back-room abortions without proper surgical procedures.

And even then, women can be counselled at abortion clinics directly, perhaps to ask them to reconsider an abortion. If it's illegal, you miss this opportunity too, because they'll just try to hide.

i guess terrorist going through our court system --could plea temporary insanith and maybe waLK-----HAS OUR COUNTRY GONE CRAZY----maybe say they were abused as a child---wow is all our country as nieve as palin.

palin would leave abottion up to imdividual states-------does that mean women would have to go to the pro choice state to have an abortion--how stupid can this broad be.

Honestly,

I'm sure most of us will not be able to rattle off all the Supreme Court cases, but considering that Palin is running for VP, that's different.

Now, if she had demonstrated herself to be able to quickly grasp the nuances of foreign policy, I don't think not being able to name the Supreme Court case would be a concern.

But so far she has shown us she is pretty uninformed (she could not cite a particular magazine she read-Newsweek, TIME, anyone?). She got her facts wrong about the Ossetian conflict, she thinks America can give arms to Israel and not ever second-guess Israel- even if they were to start invading Iran- which would DESTABILISE the whole region, no matter how much we dislike Ahamdinejad. That would be disastrous. Her inability to cite examples of Supreme Court cases just reinforces the opinion that she is not ready.

McCain's age and health history of cancer also significantly tips the odds of Palin having to step up- and that's quite a terrifying thought in my opinion. She may be qualified to be governor, but I don't think she demonstrates the knowledge and understanding of foreign policy to be the VP of the USA.

There are plenty of innocent people who are stuck in Gitmo- that the CIA had been forced to release after two years of detainment after they concluded (this is without trial, mind you) that they had nothing whatsoever to do with terrorism and were just at the wrong place and at the wrong time.

Now, I have no doubt that some of those they have netted are indeed terrorists, but with such lack of transparency and few safeguards- anyone can be detained on just the President's word- there are plenty of loopholes. And especially since we have heard stories of waterboarding or torture methods, some of these innocent people may end up derailing the fight by misleading and wasting the CIA's resources.

I think at the very least there needs to be more accountability as to who is getting detained- the President alone should not be able to decide that by himself.

And what do you think the family members of these people would think- if they were innocent? They would be angry and resentful of America. And maybe some of them might really join the extremist cause.

This whole thing is like a poisonous ideology. You can't win the war on terror just using guns and bombs or by trying to arrest all of them-they will just get more recruits, you need to win the moderate Muslims in the Middle-East over in order to discredit and illegitimise the terrorists.

I don't believe that many of us could actually name any case by case decisions made by the Supreme Court unless we went back a refreshed ourselves or we had been a student of the Courts workings. I doubt very seriously any journalist, be it Palin or Couric, could answer any one question at a particular time, unless it was their job to do so. Many suggest she should be able to answer any and all questions since she could be "in charge". Unless we raise an infant in the capital and pump info into it on the workings on all phases of Government we will never have a person who knows everything we want them to know. And somehow I don't think the founders actaully meant for it to be that way.
More importantly as we all see the mess our "learned" men and women, mostly Lawyers and business people, have made of a great economy I for one wonder exactly what the qualifications for any politician are.

Oh good one, GOT CHA!

This is so stupid, she is not a senator and she is not a lawyer, so does that make her not eligible to run the country? Why don't you ask one of the other candidates about who they have ever governed?

Ladies, do not vote for Palin and you will be sure to get a nice pat on the head from the Patriarchy. But that is all that you will ever get.

Female, ex-democrat for McCain/Palin

Oh please. This is a fake criticism of Palin. Only lawyers and legal activists are going to remember the names of Supreme Court cases. We have two lawyers on the Dem ticket and no lawyers on the Rep ticket.

Since when is asking what do you read a gotcha question?

Obama is on the WRONG side of history! He tried to game everyone and there is no question that despite uneasiness about a fresh face in Palin not knowing alot about national issues Mccain will be elected... remember Dukkakis had a 20 pt lead going into the final month of the election with GHW Bush and lost

I love you Sarah Palin. I am proud of your accomplishments. Only losers quit.The pleasure we feel in criticizing robs us from being moved by very beautiful things. Best, and be strong.

-me

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You wrote:
"The gotcha questions are not fair."

She's running to be the VP she should be able to answer any question...

If McCain was to be the President and something happened to him... This woman could be ask to decided if we should push the button or not!

Please GIVE ME A BREAK!

May 2008 Obama, Des Moines IA:

OBAMA: I have never said that I was prepared to immediately normalize relations with Cuba. John McCain keeps on making these statements that simply aren't based on anything I've said.

Obama July 23rd, 2007

Viewer named Steven from California asked Obama, "Would you be willing to meet separately without precondition during the first year of your administration, in Washington or anywhere else, with leaders of Iran, Syria, Venezuela, Cuba, and North Korea in order to bridge the gap that divides our countries?"

OBAMA: I would. And the reason is this, that the notion that somehow not talking to countries is punishment to them, which has been the guiding diplomatic principle of this administration, is ridiculous.

OBAMA IS A LIAR

Palin is quick study. Although, the interview Katie Couric was not a true representation of her skills. Katie does ask a few stupid questions and some good ones. The gotcha questions are not fair. Palin has not had much time to be prep for her interview. Plus, katie surprised her because Katie did not like the sexism toward Hillary clinton. Palin had a bad day like the rest of us. It has been a fast pace for, esp, traveling everywhere. Perhaps, that is why she has not gone on TV much. She had not had the time to catch up. She need to know McCain, Joe Biden, and Obama's voting record. Things will get better.

I know a lot of people think this may be an instance of "gotcha" journalism, but the point to these questions was to find out if she had ever even given serious thought to issues outside of Alaska.

It is plainly obvious that her focus has been completely on Alaska. Economics, constitutional law, foreign affairs, etc. simply held no interest for her for the last 44 years of her life.