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Palin Regrets Not Doing More Interviews; Again Denies Africa, NAFTA Confusion
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ABC News' Tahman Bradley Reports: Reflecting back on the presidential campaign, Sarah Palin now wishes she had spent more time talking with the media.
In an interview with Fox News' Greta Van Susteren, the Alaska governor explains what she would have discussed had she been more available to the press.
"I would have preferred more opportunity to speak to the media more often, because there were a lot of things that I think it could have, should have said that could have, would have helped John McCain," Palin told Van Susteren, according to a Fox News transcript. "I have such great admiration for him. I honor him. I love him. I believe that he is the best leader that we have in the nation right now, still, is John McCain."
The McCain campaign went to great lengths to shield Palin from press interaction. She avoided all interviewers for two weeks immediately after being announced as the Republican Party's vice presidential candidate and she rarely was made available to the McCain campaign traveling press corp. She did, however, take part in high-profile interviews with the three network evening news anchors. Commentators noted that Palin's performances in those interviews -- especially her sit-down with CBS's Katie Couric -- fell short of reassuring voters that she was prepared to be a heartbeat away from the presidency.
On other issues discussed in the Van Susteren interview, Palin again refuted the suggestion that she did not know which countries participate in the North American Free Trade Agreement and that Africa is a continent. Palin loaded her answers with details, perhaps trying to show there's no way she could have made the alleged flops reported by Fox's Carl Cameron.
On NAFTA, she said, "I remember that discussion, but there was never a question about, well, who are the participants in NAFTA? So for my discussion there to be spun into something that it was not and then being broadcast on national television, again, based on anonymous sources, that's been another puzzling thing to me."
On Africa, "So we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or is it a continent. I just don't know about this issue. So I don't know how they took our one discussion on Africa and turned that into what they turned it into," said Palin.
"I don't know, because I remember the discussion about Africa, my concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue, as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska's investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars, I wanted to make sure that that didn't happen anymore."
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ok--she has again demonstrated why the mccain camp kept her away from the press. the woman is incapable of constructing a complete, grammatical sentence. it is all but impossible to garner any meaning from the incomprehensible gibberish she strings together.
she reminds me of the student who, when confronted with an essay question on the exam that he knows nothing about, starts writing about whatever pops into his head that might be remotely related. he keeps writing and writing, hoping that if he just puts enough words down, the answer might be discovered amongst them.
Posted by: antijake | Nov 10, 2008 8:46:59 PM
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG, this woman is empty headed
Posted by: Mp | Nov 10, 2008 8:49:06 PM
GGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG, this woman is empty headed
Posted by: Mp | Nov 10, 2008 8:49:09 PM
Does this woman come with an interpreter? I sometimes have to read what she says two or three times and I am still not sure what she said does anybody there understand what she said like there with some of the countries there that were kind of the people and whatever you betcha.
Posted by: Len | Nov 10, 2008 8:50:03 PM
Surely, even Greta Van Susteren didn't fall for that pile of "explanations."
Posted by: Adela | Nov 10, 2008 8:50:06 PM
Hay, Sarie!! Hay! You can bearly string a sentence together, but boy do we'all luv ya!!
Posted by: ErniePF | Nov 10, 2008 8:51:52 PM
Sarah, you are still an idiot.
Posted by: jms | Nov 10, 2008 8:51:54 PM
A VP who doesn't know the ENGLISH language..... OMG!!!!!!!!!!!!
Posted by: mo | Nov 10, 2008 8:53:10 PM
Sara Palin is an empty barrel. Empty barrels are the ones which make the most noise.
Posted by: gertrude lang | Nov 10, 2008 8:53:19 PM
let her explain what's the difference of 0bamanomics and class war between 95% and 5% of americans. if she can I will support her in 2012.
Posted by: fat cat | Nov 10, 2008 8:53:34 PM
between
Posted by: fat cat | Nov 10, 2008 8:53:51 PM
Can any one please tell her to SHUT UP>
Posted by: shosilk | Nov 10, 2008 8:54:14 PM
You have planted enough seeds of hatred and division. That will be enough out you Sarah Palin. Go to your room!NOW.
Posted by: arvin | Nov 10, 2008 8:54:16 PM
Blah! Blah! Blah!
Can someone shut that hillbilly moose up!!!!
Posted by: sisterdearest09 | Nov 10, 2008 8:54:22 PM
Please give us some relief from this nonsense. The woman needs to go back to the far corner of the country and get ready for winter.
Posted by: Shana | Nov 10, 2008 8:55:59 PM
Seriously? She wished she had done more interviews? Has she ever watched one of her interviews or read the transcripts from one? I had to read her comments above multiple times just to get a partial grasp on what she was trying to say.
This is a person with a journalism degree? People should be destroying the school where she got that degree as proof that they graduate unqualified people.
Posted by: zenquest | Nov 10, 2008 8:56:00 PM
Did anyone else notice the "spontaneous" interviews she gives have EXACTLY the same terminology and in the same order? Everything with her seems to be memorized talking points.
Posted by: ISH | Nov 10, 2008 8:56:03 PM
Who cares?
Posted by: Allan J Krueger | Nov 10, 2008 8:56:30 PM
She reminds me of George W Bush and Dan Quayle. We both know how well they did...
Posted by: Peter | Nov 10, 2008 8:56:32 PM
palin 12'
Posted by: frank | Nov 10, 2008 8:57:03 PM
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