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Gov. Palin could have and should have answered Couric's questions if nothing more than the Anchorage newspaper or Time magazine. However, it was really a nonsensical, put-down question. Couric did a lousy job as if she were attempting to "get to" Sarah Palin. No wonder CBS is dead last.

McCain would have done better with Michael Palin

I have just wasted my time reading this entire blog. It proves the United States really has become an uneducated nation! I thought Couric stooped to an all time low in shady reporting tactics and outright disrespect. She should be fired immediately! She has brought down an entire news agency...but then CBS has always been at the bottom of the heap so maybe she is their "secret weapon" to try to make it out of the mudhole by manipulating Courics childish pranks into news. I would caution everyone to be alert to, and refuse to support, any media that uses the "seek and destroy" mentality!

I have a master's degree in international relations, have traveled far and wide in the world and read all the time. I'm in no way qualified to be vice president and neither is Palin.

She simply throws out vapid comments that mean nothing in essence but evoke emotion in those less capable of comprehending what she's actually saying.

She and McCain are calling it "mainstream media" that practices "gotcha" journalism and then it is so to their supporters or people on the fence who are too lazy to investigate for themselves.

I thought Couric was asking really fair questions and in many instances, giving Palin ample opportunity to discuss who she is and how she will be able to adequately fill the seat of vp.

The fact that Palin herself said she was annoyed because all she wanted to talk about was how Obama is going to raise taxes shows a lack of respect for the free press. And her defensiveness over the newspapers question was beyond me. Couric was letting her again prove her knowledge of foreign affairs, but Palin chose to take it as a dig she's from Alaska. That was strange - I didn't get that at all.

She is being asked fair, straight-forward questions and cannot or will not answer them and we're suppose to be okay with that sort of evasion.

I am middle America - Missouri in fact - and this woman is not speaking to or for me because she is basically condescending what I do believe in - free press, right to information, intellectualism, etc.

So she is now painting herself not as dumb but as flippant? Does she assume that is a good thing?

Everyone knows, Sarah, that you didn't answer the questions because you had no idea what to say. No one is buying your do-over interviews with your friends at Fox.

I agree. Being able to answer the same questions a second time is ridiculous. Of course she was prepped in how she "should" have answered the questions. The point is that the Supreme Court question or the newspaper questions were not hard. Any high school student in US history should be able to cite Brown v Board of edcuation or Plessy v Ferguson or Miranda or even the recent supreme court case Palin's own office put out a letter on and Palin signed - the Exxon Valdez settlement.

She cannot talk intelligently about thses things and she does not know what Hamas is, what the Bush doctrine was and she is trying to bluff her way through this.

She is unqualfied to be a VP, let alone a president. She cannot even answer questions or speak coherently. The last anwer about freedom of the press is nonsensical - but it appears she is against freedom of the press - it is just so hard to tell exactly what she is saying. Someone who is this incoherent, even in a friendly interview, is simply not qualified.

Why is this woman so rude to people?
Her unresponsive answers just provoke follow up. If she applied for a regular job and was as evasive, vague, and apparently confused as she has been I guarantee she would not get a call back.
I wouldn't hire her to work at a fast food restaurant and she expects the country to elect her to vice president based on snarky bad manners and a smile.
I don't think so.

... no comment ^^

Plain sounds like she still thinks the Feudal system is still in existence. In a scary look I think she wants it back. No habeas corpus and freedom of the press is a privilege granted by the ruling class.

This women is dangerous!!!

How anyone can think this woman is qualified to occupy any position in the White House is beyond my understanding. She's incoherent, can't think beyond what she's been told to say, has a very insular view of the world outside of her own state, and has a personal set of beliefs that put her to the far right of the rest of the US.

"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege. We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."

Wow. Palinisms that equal Bushisms in stupidity and confusion. Yup, women have come a long way, baby. You betcha!! (wink wink)

Uh I think that there Palin girl is what
we need in the whitehouse. Just think how
she would do if she were ah ah talkin with old Putin there about Georgia or any of the other world leaders. She so skilled with them there words shes ah using. I bet she would wink and and say
Hey there Joe say it ant so, then she wink and all would be alright. Who needs to anwser one of them there stupid questions, like ie.. Whats your name or what state is Washinton D.C. is in. She is exactly what we need in the big house. I bet she really knows how to whoop up one good cookin with them there Moose burgers. Yes siree Bob...

So Sarah Palin believes that freedom of press is a "PRIVILEGE"... maybe she hasn't heard of the 1st Amendment!!!Well, let me clarify for you, Mrs. Palin, wink wink, freedom of the press is a Constitutional RIGHT, not a privelege! Gosh golly, how could we have expected you to know that, sixpack Sarah!

"Now it is the worlds turn to ask Couric some questions."

Yes, how dare known hardball interviewer Katie Couric ask basic questions like "can you name a court case?" and "what newspapers do you read?" HOW DARE SHE.

Do you even pay attention to the things you are writing? What failure of our educational system is responsible for such a shambling lapse in critical thinking?

A point that needs to be mentioned:

When was the last time anyone got "clobbered" by Katie Couric? No one gets clobbered by Katie Couric. Asking you what newspapers you read isn't a clobbering question. It's a really basic question. Just tell them your local paper has articles from the AP and we're just peachy. That's not a hardball question.

Oh, puh-leeze. In the real world, the President doesn't get a do-over.

Could you imagine if you were interviewing someone for a job, had asked them a specific question and then watched them ramble into incoherent nonsense without ever mentioning anything relevant to the question initially asked? How could you take that person seriously?
If these interviews and debates are the interviews for this Vice Presidential slot, shouldn't we be considering that this woman is giving everyone complete asinine answers to the questions shes being asked? This is a job, these are important questions to be answered and she replies with babbling incoherence. This position would be filled by someone else, if this was a serious interview.

Why can't I copy text from this web site?

I just watched a clip from the Cameron interview. Palin was talking about the death penalty and "heinous crimes." She actually said HEE-nee-us. Chalk that one up alongside nucular.

Ahmadinejad keeps saying about "freedom of the press". Right down to "We just want truth, we want fairness, we want balance."

she makes NO SENSE WHATSOEVER. she is an insult to all americans.....

she is especially insulting to those young men and women fighting for "freedoms". good grief. i'm glad so few are finding her anything but shallow and full of b.s. she reminds me of the saying, "if you can't dazzle 'em with brilliance, baffle 'em with bs

Oh You guys You. You are funny. I have a question for Palin : Is Alaska on the East or West side of the Globe?

What a crock of crap in an interview!

Sp Palin goes to Right Wing outlets where they can act like they are FAIR AND BALANCED? AND WE SHOULD JUST ACCEPT THAT WE WILL GET ANOTHER RW IDEOLOGUE WHO SELLS THE REST OF THE COUNTRY WHO DOES NOT AGREE WITH THEIR AGENDA DOWN THE TUBES?

Is the rest of what goes for journalists going to take this b.s. lying down?

In reply to those curious about Alaskans and their motives, Sarah Palin was elected governor, because the Republican governor she replaced had the lowest ratings in Alaska history.(There are many reasons). Of the other two candidates, one had been a Democratic governor. (Alaskans abandoned the Democrats, because of natural resource development vs.conservation questions) The other candidate, also a Republican, was not well-known enough.I personally was amazed at her win. Many of us were amazed and astonished by McCain's choice of this novice governor. The real travesty would be if she were indeed elected to be the Vice President of the United States.Alaska is paying dearly for our misjudgment; let the country not do the same.

Ha hah![/Nelson]

One of the good things about this election is that with such an overwhelming victory by the Dems., there is a very good chance that the Repubs. who have been progressively dumbing down their candidates since Reagan, just might have to be forced into giving the American public a candidate with a brain and the wisdom to use it correctly. I guess we will see in 2012.
Remember that these polling numbers we keep seeing do not include those without a land based phone line. Most people I know in their 20's only have cell phones. Thats alot of young new voters who are not represented in any of these polls we see.
Landslide for Obama/Biden in November.

Wow, this blog is sure populated by a bunch of folks spouting propaganda they've clearly just memorized, trying to sound intelligent, but reminding one vaguely of the hatred seen in the faces of those performing a stoning in Iran....

And those are the liberals! Wow, I used to be one of you!

It's just eating your lunches that she is kicking butt, and that people like her. You can't believe ol' Mac pulled a woman out of the hat (when you killed off the best candidate out there, who happened to be a woman - so much for the liberals' claim to be the party that can best represent women) and what's worse, you can't believe she is this GOOD as a raw, untrained, unsophisticated talent.

HAHAHAHAHAHAHA. If I wasn't impressed by McCain before, I sure am now. And as an ambitious woman that has traveled the world, taking my child with me on business trips, making that work-family thing balance as best one can, I totally back Palin, and am cheering her on!

I would like to copy and paste a quote directly from the Carl Cameron interview.

"There's not going to be the cutting and pasting and editing of any of our comments. Right on."

Power to the Palin.

I finally decided that Palin, in her last paragraph, says that the press, so as not to aid "those fighting freedom of the press," should not take advantage and exploit and "abuse the PRIVILEGE" of freedom of the press.

So much for the Bill of Rights.

But of course when you speak so elliptically, you can deny that there was any such meaning, or any meaning at all, in what you said.

I've read many daily newspapers and weekly and monthly magazines, for years and years, but I can't remember a single one of them!! I read the articles in them, but of course I don't remember what newspaper I'm reading at the time!! Yeah right, and I have a bridge to nowhere to sell you. Sarah is a terrible example for our children.

Sarah Palin was not treated badly by news reported prior to this last Fox Interview. News Reporters actually treated her with kids gloves. Couric was extremely nice. Sarah Palin has had plenty of time for adjusting to news interviews when running for mayor and while serving as governor for two years. Sarah Palin excuses and attacks upon media inexcusable. She is a Vice Presidential candidate and must to be ready to answer questions.

Well Caribou Barbie

If you answer the questions like a dufus of course you are going to get clobbered.

Politics is all about know how to talk about stuff that you don't have a clue about.

Shhhhhh don't tell anyone. But Barack doesn't know a lot about certain things but he can definitely talk his way out of a corner.

Ms Palin ... she talks herself into a corner and turns on the big neon light "HEY LOOK OVER HERE.... I AM CLUELESS"

so much so that SNL doesn't even have to embellish the her words to make a joke.

I read all of them ......

how about

You know Katie.... not one particular one is coming to mind right now.

or

I don't even read. I just wink and smile and show a little leg and get all folksy and people just love that and they vote for me.

or

I wanna talk about barack's tax plan.

or

I wanna talk about my track record as a energy regulator.

Foxy Sarah Palin not good enough to make independent voters to vote McCain.
Too much talking but not any substance! Foxspin not Fair not Balanced!

I’m not really sorry to say some big Fox spin masters are in urgent need of psychiatric evaluation and help. They are the main reason for the election of Bush to White House, and for consequence they are responsible for his failure and the suffering of the American people! Now they are trying again to do the same, with Johnny Macaroni and Sarah Plain.!

"...we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting freedom of the press."

I believe this is an attempt to kiss and make up with Charlie Gibson for whom Palin secretly has the hots.

Grey matter,

Thanks for the clarification.

I am glad to hear that.

My unreserved apologies to Alaskans for jumping to conclusion about them on account of Gov. Palin's inaptitude

I agree.

Come on. Palin reads the Economist? Oh really? She doesn't seem TOO knowledgeable on issues that are discussed in the Economist.

I have no idea why she couldn't answer the question when it was Katie Couric posing it. I didn't see anything derogatory Katie was trying to insinuate that she was "out of touch" being kind of isolated in Alaska from the rest of the United States. This is one thing I don't like about her behaviour, she is always so defensive and likes starting culture wars.

The McCain Campaign knew that her IQ is not too impressive. That was why they went for a debate format that would allow her to avoid questions she considered tough without being called to reckoning on them.

I am sure subsequent interviews will be monitored and controlled by McCain Campaign to save them from further embarrassment.

I wonder which professional Journalist will allow herself to be controlled because she wants to interview Sarah Palin.

They should save us from further embarrassment by withdrawing this Woman from other Press engagements.

People watch her interviews not because they expect her to say something sensible, but to listen to her gaffes and apparent lack of depth.

She is fast becoming a comic relief after a day's job.

Dare Nigeria,

Alaskans don't all love Sarah Palin.

Just go to any video sharing website and search for "Anti-Palin". You'll find lots of videos of rallies of enraged Alaskans carrying very creative signs.

They're fed-up that Mrs "Hold Me Accountable" has gone back on her word and is now trying to stall her ethics investigation.

What an ostrich and the Republicans have in common? Let me guess!
An ostrich bury its head in the sand and pretend everything is fine.
Republicans do the same and follow McCain!
I don’t have any problem in characterizing McCain .He is a Republican!
According to his own campaign, Republicans are corrupt and incompetent.
Obviously he has inside information!
The Republican ticket!
John McCain (We bomb everything)
Sarah Palin (I see Russia from my house)
His aged and ambitious
She is young and motivated.
For him is the last chance to be President
For her the last chance to be his cheerleader.
Their story SPIN, LIES and LIPSTICK
The last days of the campaign confirmed that McCain -Plain are the most inadequate people to run this country.

WARNING! WARNING! WARNING!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
People watching FOX Spin masters are in Risk of Permanent Brain Damage!
Excessive Political spin can harm your perception of the reality and impair your Judgment for ever!
CYNICAL REPORTERS OPERATE ALL THE TIME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Governor Sarah Palin is a bad representative of the Alaskans on the national scene.

Are Alaskans this daft? (Please I need answer to the question because I have never been to Alaska and I don't have a Friend from Alaska).If not, why elect the Woman to office in the first place?

Is there a dearth of intelligent People in Alaska?

There School system must be in trouble if the best they can produce is Mrs Palin.

"...we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting freedom of the press."

Can anyone tell me what the hell this woman is talking about? Is "fighting freedom of the press" part of her "expansionist" view of Vice-Presidential powers?

The "Do Over" is pathetic. I am yet to see a student that will, in the midst of an exams, ask to be excused to go out of the hall to research in the Library before coming back to finish the exams.

She didn't know or perhaps, she has not heard of these Newspapers and Magazines as at the time of her Interview with Kate Couric.

She apparently did not know other Supreme Court's decided Cases apart from Roe vs Wade during the interview too.

Taking a second-chance at the questions is not only ridiculous, it is infantile.

She must think we are fools. Even a 10 year old can do more research than these in one week.

It goes without saying that this woman is empty and she lacks general knowledge of the Country.

She feels totally at home and on her own tuft when the issues are on Alaska.

Any other thing apart from Alaska is an uphill task.

Gotcha' Journalism?
What newspapers do you read?

Heck, if I asked a 7 year old what books they read, is that a gotcha'???

I think since she is "new to Washington" any intelligent person would sure want to know about her since she could be president.

You people are more nosy about movie stars then you are about someone who holds your life in your hands.
How sad!!
I want to be more informed then that.

Obama/Biden '08

I got it.

Even as our young soldiers are on a task that is from God, the fight from freedom, freedom of the press even, here at home in this great country of ours, we must have a level playing field between the press and the anti-press, but no hitting below the belt on either side, and no spiking of the ball in the end zone.

Now where's my hundred bucks?

"As we send our young men and women overseas in a war zone to fight for democracy and freedoms, including freedom of the press, we've really got to have a mutually beneficial relationship here with those fighting the freedom of the press, and then the press, though not taking advantage and exploiting a situation, perhaps they would want to capture and abuse the privilege."

OK - I will pay $100 to the first person who can identify one coherent thought in that paragraph.

ha hah aha haaa.. ok. ok.. I caught my breath..

So now Fox News is reporting that she reads 'The Economist' & 'Wall Street Journal'.. ? Seriously, people cannot be this stupid.. The McCain campaign is getting really desperate, if they are trying to redeem Sarah Palin by having her do a second interview with the same questions asked.

I've noticed most Sarah Palin supporters are usually 11 year old girls or 86 year old men.

The 11 year old girls think she is cutesy, has a bubbly personality (probably like the fun soccer mom they hang out with, who takes them to 7-11 for a slurpy after a tough day out on the soccer field) and her command of the English language is on par of an 11 year old.. "Don'tcha know.. you betcha.. watchout for those nucklar bombs...."

The 86 year old men cannot hear her talk, but like what they see.

Why would they refuse to not investigate the Obama campaign's foreign illegal donations from Iran, The PLO phone bank and the millions of dollars bundled from overseas that they refuse to report.

Umm...maybe because these stories have no basis in reality? Just a guess.

I read Gov. Palins last statement after Carl Cameron asked her about objectivity-fairness several times and it was a completely incoherent statement, a non sequitur.
When John McCain choose Gov. Palin I was routing for her. I discounted the inexperienced argument because I don't think it's as much of an issue having the ability to think through complex and being knowledgeable. Gov. Palins lack of these abilities is truly a dissapointment.

Don't forget which party is slinging mud to their opponents.

"Sarah Palin claimed that Barack Obama should be disqualified from serving as president because he had once proclaimed that troops in Afghanistan were "air raiding villages and killing civilians."

f the charge seemed oddly and painfully familiar it's because it has been levied at Obama - and subsequently dismissed - several times before during this election season.

The issue stems from a remark the Illinois Democrat made in August 2007, in Nashua, New Hampshire. Speaking to supporters, the Senator called for an increase of U.S. troops in that war zone because, without the influx, operations were being limited to air raids that resulted in many preventable civilian deaths.

"Now you have narco drug lords who are helping to finance the Taliban," Obama said, "so we've got to get the job done there [in Afghanistan], and that requires us to have enough troops that we are not just air raiding villages, and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there."
"

"...it affected me as a mayor, also. Property rights are so precious in this nation and for the Supreme Court to have sided with government instead of the people, the property owners on that -- that was frustrating."

Huh? Sarah Palin TOOK private property, using eminent domain, to build hher famous sports facility in Wasilla.

Now she is claiming to be against eminent domain, and saying she holds property rights sacred?

This sounds like another "Thanks, but no thanks" to a Bridge to Nowhere.

I have read over many of the precisely-prepared comments above, as carefully pondered and meticulously crafted by so very many obviously gifted, amazingly prolific masters of the written word, I am indeed stunned by your brilliant intellectual prowess, as you so precisely outline the abject failures of Gov. Palin, both in her "interview" with Ms Couric, and in her "Do-Over" posted above (which, you might want to note, was written and titled by the author, Jake Tapper, of ABC News, as his summary of an interview (do-over?) by FoxNews Carl Cameron. It just amazesa and humbles me to be here in the presence of so many of you intellectual GIANTS! Just one little question, though...Do any of you actually READ what you write? Do you own a dictionary? If so, can you find it, and, further, can you actually read it AND comprehend what is being stated?! All the while you are launching your attacks and hurling your insults at Ms Palin with your strong, stinging remarks about her inability and lack-of-preparedness to actually assume the role of - if needed - the POTUS, you are apparently either unaware of the fact that Mr. Obama, the revered, even worshipped, Democratic candidate for President, lacks even the most basic of tools to aspire to that office, or you are so deep in denial that you think he is the Second-Coming-of-Christ, and therefore, being omniscient, has neither the need nor the desire to obtain for himself either an understanding of the world situation or the experience needed to enable him to deal with it? And are you so very naive as to believe that he doesn't avail himself of the best "talking-points coaches - handlers" that all his money can buy? He is a "genius" with a teleprompter, but, when it stalls, he's suddenly lost, apeaking in "ums" and "ers" and "ohs"...and don't forget the Old Faithful "Change" and "Hope", his two most favorite descriptors of what he will do and how he will do it if he is elected.

You geniuses are right there like a pack of wolves to attack your opponent (in the Holy name of your candidate whose mantra includes "healing",
and "cooperation",and "bipartisanship"),all the while completely avoiding a real airing of thoughts that one might construe to be realistically representative of how Americans deal with one another, especially in the realm of politics and government, and especially when the Nation is facing a multitude of crises of all kinds.

I find all these asnine posts to be pointless and just plain stupid, as well as insulting to all true Americans.

Y'all have a good night now, alrightey?

Here's the tally of some of our favorite words:
democracy 1
freedom 3
oil 3
fairness 4
Alaska 4
Also 9
Here's another fun game to play. This was a relatively short article, right? Not even the full text of the interview? Doesn't that say something?

And maps! She wants maps for the.. like in the 4rd world and they don't even have the possibilities. And our children.
And you're right on, the press they have to, with maps, charter a way for the mutual understanding so that we never lose our ways. And it's got to all be about job creation, too. Totally.
SHOUT OUT FOR THE 3RD GRADERS! I WILL BE IN CLASS AGAIN SOON I GOT CALLED FOR DUTY. SORRY TEACHER I WILL TAKE ALL THE TESTS I MISSED. RIGHT AFTER I COMPLY WITH LAW ENFORCEMENT.

Get this joke off the national stage. Stat.

If you need the benefit of hindsight to realize that you shouldn't be "flippant" when being interviewed on national TV about important issues regarding your viability as a candidate for vice president, perhaps that's an indication that you don't have the good judgment necessary to hold the position in the first place... don't you think? I mean, you're not applying for a job scooping ice cream here.

Sarah(c) Chatbot Passes the Turing Test; Creators Thrilled

Quoted the project's design head: "The entity we affectionately call Sarah is actually an assortment of pre-selected responses and a public-opinion-generated appearance, designed to maximize likability and another factor we're calling 'folksiness'."
In response to attacks as to the ethical merits of this research, the doctor concluded, "The risk that beings like Sarah will rise up and enslave us all is really very minimal." The doctor went on to clarify that these easily-trigged, stimuli-based responses are prone to random firing, and should in no way be mistaken for true intelligence.

I should write for The Onion :P

Makes me think of of Miss Teen South Carolina appearing on the Today Show a few days after her infamous crash and burn on the map question, where she got to explain to us all what she really meant to say... Yeah, sure you did.

Palin knows who a bad guy is whether he's wearing a white collar or a turban. She has proven that by her actions.

Biden, a child of the 60's, who worked 5 years as a lawyer and the rest of his life in the Senate, knows how to butter his bread.

Any reasonably intelligent person asked themselves whether Palin read anything at all after watching her fumble through her interviews.
Her apparent lack of interest about the world around her was amazing. She is a politician, so it was even more puzzling. You would think that would come with a certain inqisitiveness of what goes on around you.
Maybe we could Putin for rearing his head over her, and not the questions.
And how does being annoyed explain ALSO the way she answered. And why did she keep doing them ALSO?

To: foreclosure.

send the bill to yourself. You neocons are sounding like gongs---repeating the same talking points again and again.
Who do you think is going to foot the bill for the crooked Wall Street companies with the Trillion dollar bailout: US the US taxpayer. You always bring up the simplistic generalization, democrats=more taxes, but you don't realize that you and your children and grandchildren are going to suffer for this bailout for a long time.

This woman is a farce! Anybody with a college education could have gone up there and improvised their way through. She just better be glad that Joe Biden didn't put her over his knee.

"Oh, doggone it Joe, you betcha, but I'd like to send a shout out to your wife, ya know, her reward is in heaven, right? And those hungry markets are craving mooseburgers. Cause, ya know? But I want to talk about like my expertise on energy while Mayor of Wasila..."

Give me a freaking break. It's not like she took a kickoff to the house in the Super Bowl. She freaking had note cards and used to be a sportscaster. She's not any better than the saleslady at Sears.

Is this what America has come to? Average? I guess the hot dog vendors on 34th street are qualified too because they're experts on business and the economy.

I find it slightly funny that her list of things she reads is identical to the list that O'Reilly said she should have said the other night. If I remember correctly, he even said, "say The Economist... everyone says The Economist even though no one actually reads it."

Well, she did drop Time which I believe O'Reilly had.

It is a bit strange that she didn't read her local newspapers until she started getting interviewed in them though.

The question is? Sarah Palin proved she is ready to be the next vice president? The answer is: NO
The question is: was she able to answer accurately on questions made by the moderator?
The answer is simply NO: She was using time after time such irrelevant talking points.
The question is: did she make independent voters change their minds and vote for John McCain? I don’t think so!
Joe Biden was chosen for VP, for his honesty free spirit and his experience!
He’s supposed to make a point when is needed. Sarah Plain was chosen for the position after only one meeting .The decisive factor was only the women’s vote and the prerequisite to be the John McCain cheerleader. She has only scripted talking points and very thin Resume. Sarah Plain VP? Thanks but not thanks!
OBAMA/BIDEN RULES!

Palin is unprepared! She is good only in scripted interviews, and answering questions with just talking points. The foxspin masters news people are in urgent need of Psychiatric evaluation!

Here in St. Louis the people loved her. The local big radio station today said the sample group of all ages loved her. The college group(you would think were for Obama) were undecided. Women loved her. This is after you can't turn on the television or radio without an Obama ad playing. My questions would have been to Biden(who did not tell the truth about clean coal) just HOW does Obama plan to PAY for all the things he's promising? They're "slightly" over budget right now. And if he is immediately going to bring the troops home, shouldn't that include Afganistan? I quess he really doesn't mean ALL the troops. And how, with a straight face, can anyone blame the Wall Street crisis on McCain? Whose idea was it to "push" low income people-or any people-to get house loans they can't afford? Who thought up Fannie and Freddie to begin with? Sarah Palin hit the nail on the head with that one. People talk about a lack of substance?--Is Obama looking in the mirror right now? Of course not. He'll just keep on making promises he can't possibly keep. When he raises my taxes, I'm sending the bill to the one responsible.

Will Fox News also offer her a do-over for every crazy decision she makes in office?

I can't believe I'm hearing this. Is this really the Republican VP candidate or is McCain just pulling a prank on America?

A pitbull with lipstick would litterally be a better pick.

Palin knew what she was doing all along. And she either knew answer or didn't. I had seen Alaksa debates and knew she would do ok. But substance was lacking in Alaska also. The other two candidates knew much more than she did.

Couric was actually quite nice to her. I watched those interviews. All the news reporters that interviewed her were extremely nice to her. They really treated her with kids gloves. I feel Palin is just attacking to attack. That is what a politician can do and does. But this type of behavior is not becoming to a candidate character. First there were sexist accusations by all the news media. Now this. Appears she wants no interviews unless they are Republican leaning news reporters??

Biden won!! End of subject.

"Bring Palin into a Borders and give her two minutes to find a copy of the Economist."

LOL!

Sarah, I read industry publications, gal, like the Oil and Gas Journal - and I can't find a single interview with you or anyone on your staff. Exactly what industry publications were you interviewed by? World Oil Review? AAPG? And what article did you like best in the Economist?

Following your logic, if you feel a little annoyed with a congressman - well you just won't talk to them. Don't like a NATO ally? Well, he kinda bugged me, so I didn't answer. Sometimes, gal we just have to talk to people we don't like much - and sometimes we have to answer questions from people we just can't even stand. It's called being an adult. It's time for you to grow up - and we don't have time to wait for it to happen.

Note to Katie Couric:

Bring Palin into a Borders and give her two minutes to find a copy of the Economist.

Flippant. yes, that is the word I was looking for to describe how Palin came across in the debate yesterday. I know there are some that do not believe that Palin connects with mainstreet but perhaps it's not McCain that is out of touch, perhaps it's the press?

I think the press needs to do a better job of communicating what they percieve so mainstreet can get some perspective on this wink, wink campaign.

Flippant hardly describes it. She was stupefied and meandering. This woman reminds me of a department store Santa's helper.