Newsweek: "Palin is Ready? Please...."

[Joanne98]

by serecovery
Sat Sep 27, 2008 at 01:23:52 PM PDT
Wow. Mr. Zakaria of Newsweek has just published an extremely damning article absolutely destroying Governor Palin and Senator McCain for making the selection of Governor Palin. (link below the fold)

Prior to McCain's phony Washington DC photo op a few days ago, the Palin Express was running right off the rails into oblivion...

Does this give the Obama/Biden campaign a "green light" of sorts to directly challenge her candidacy? (I'm hoping...YES!!!) Or will the Vice Presidential debate moderator challenge her directly on key issues? (My dream!!)

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First there was the drip drip drip of conservative journalists calling for her resignation, with little fanfare from the MSM. Now, Mr. Zakaria, in Newsweek, has written the harshest MSM article to date on just how poor a candidate Sarah Palin is.

Here's a link to the article:

http://www.newsweek.com/...

I completely understand the Obama rationale for treating her with kid gloves of sorts. They've deftly tried to paint her not as an inexperienced complete bafoon, maladroit, wrong on every issue, scary individual candidate, but as a protege of the Bush/Cheney/McCain mindset.

Slowly but surely, this week we've seen Grumpy Jack on CNN really lay into her, but there's been a slow and steady trickle of disdain building within the national press core.

The McCain fiasco in DC this week effectively took away any of the building calls for her resignation by conservatives of all people.

Its my carnal fear that under the guise of the economic stalemate for the economic emergency bill, the McCain campaign will try to delay the VP debate, or cancel it outright. What choice do they have really? She's clearly not ready for prime time, slow time, no time, any time.

What Mr. Zakaria has done is put his excellent reputation, not so much on the line, but his reputation out there to let people know what a disaster Sarah Palin is as a selection. Further, he was given the permission for this article to be printed in a nationally respected news organization like Newsweek...

Will this slow, but steady drumbeat build to the debate this week?

Will the VP debate moderator bring this up?

Will my head explode if I hear Governor Palin give another run on, memorized speech?

Will the media continue the calls for Governor Palin to resign?

How many more diversions does the McCain campaign have up its sleeve to protect Governor Palin?

How much longer will the Obama campaign stay away from challenging her credentials directly???

http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2008/9/27/16317/4141/620/612649

[jillan]

1. NO - Obama/Biden should not destroy her.

Their line has to be that they will let the voters decide.

This race is not about her - or Biden for that matter.

Obama/Palin going after her like that would only come back and bite them in the butt.

[Danger Mouse]

2. That's why Obama and Biden and their staff are in charge of things...

and people on the internet shoot wind out of their collective asses.

[Catshrink]

5. Obama/Biden don't need to -- she's doing just fine destroying her own self

They could not have been more effective at this than Miss Sarah herself is proving to be.

[Vinca]

3. Ouch - that's got to hurt the McCain campaign.

My favorite remark in the article describing her response to Katie Couric over the bailout - " . . .a vapid emptying out of every catchphrase about economics that came into her head."

[LonelyLRLiberal]

4. Must-read piece in Newsweek - he quotes the most inane answer Palin gave Couric:

"Couric asked her a smart question about the proposed $700 billion bailout of the American financial sector. It was designed to see if Palin understood that the problem in this crisis is that credit and liquidity in the financial system has dried up, and that that's why, in the estimation of Treasury Secretary Hank Paulson and Fed chairman Ben Bernanke, the government needs to step in to buy up Wall Street's most toxic liabilities. Here's the entire exchange:

"COURIC: Why isn't it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?

"PALIN: That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it's got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we've got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."

Every voter should be forced to read this.

[justgamma]

6. Did you see the video?

All the while she was answering, she was desperately searching through her pile of notecards. She couldn't find the card with the answers on it.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

7. Yes! Can you believe it? Notecards!!!!!

I can't even conceive of an interview situation (job or otherwise) where you would get away with doing that - you automatically make yourself look like you have no idea what you are doing or saying.

[iceman66]

8. And 40+% of Americans will still vote for her!

[Spider Jerusalem]

10. Which, oddly enough, is nearly equal to the percentage of the population with a sub-100 IQ

[POAS]

11. What are you some kind of elitist?

:evilgrin:

[abumbyanyothername]

9. Saturday Night Live

Amy Poehler asked the question verbatim then Tina Fey did this answer verbatim. Then went on with some more over the top comedy.

But Palin deserves a writer's credit for kicking the skit off!

[Doremus]

12. All Biden needs to do is let her talk. She will lose it all by herself. n/t

[LaurenG]

13. No no no, she is OUR ace in the hole. Too bad that they don't like her and that she's

an embarrassment.

They deserve this and more for running her. Obama is going to win either way but I think she is great - she'll help to sink them and it will be my pleasure to watch it unfold.