What did Palin say about promises that have been made during the campaign?

[rainbow4321]

I was in a crowded restaurant watching the debate so I missed the exact wording. The question was what promises she/McCain wouldn't keep and she said something along the lines of that she had only been in this for 5 weeks so she hadn't made alot of promises yet???? IF that is what she said, she is full of shit. She is Mclame's running MATE...HIS promises over the last year ARE also HER promises..assuming she supports him and his "platform".
All I heard clearly was "five weeks"...

[BrklynLiberal]

1. She totally avoided answering it. She concluded by saying there wasn't anything she could

think of that they would not be able to do.

[Richardo]

2. Another one asked and not answered.

In fact that may be the one where she SAID she wasn't going to answer the questions.

[BrklynLiberal]

3. Here is her exact response..from the transcript..

http://blogs.suntimes.com/sweet/2008/10/sarah_palin_joe_biden_vice_pre.html
MS. IFILL: Thank you, Senator. Now -- (laughter) -- I want to get -- try to get you both to answer a question that neither of your principals quite answered when my colleague Jim Lehrer asked it last week.

Starting with you, Senator Biden, what promises -- given the events of the week -- the bailout plan, all of this -- what promises have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you are not going to be able to keep?
<snipped Biden's answer>

GOV. PALIN: Well, the nice thing about running with John McCain is I can assure you he doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around and tells something else to another group, including his plans that will make this bailout plan, this rescue plan even better.

I want to go back to the energy plan, though, because this is -- this is an important one that Barack Obama, he voted for in '05. Senator Biden, you would remember that in that energy -- energy plan that Obama voted for, that's what gave those oil companies those big tax breaks. Your running mate voted for that.

You know what I had to do in the state of Alaska? I had to take on those oil companies and tell them, no, you know, any of the greed there that has been kind of instrumental, I guess, in their mode of operation, that wasn't going to happen in my state. And that's why Tillerson at Exxon and Mulva at ConocoPhillips, bless their hearts, they're doing what they need to do as corporate CEOs, but they're not my biggest fans, because what I had to do up there in Alaska was to break up a monopoly up there and say, you know, the people are going to come first and we're going to make sure that we have value given to the people of Alaska with those resources.

And those huge tax breaks aren't coming to the big multinational corporations anymore, not when it adversely affects the people who live in a state and, in this case, in a country who should be benefiting at the same time.

So it was Barack Obama who voted for that energy plan that gave those tax breaks to the oil companies that I, then, had to turn around, as a governor of an energy-producing state and kind of undo in my own area of expertise, and that's energy.

MS. IFILL: So, Governor, as vice president, there is nothing that you have promised as a candidate that you would -- that you wouldn't take off the table because of this financial crisis going on?

GOV. PALIN: There is not. And how long have I been at this, like five weeks? So there hasn't been a whole lot that I'm promised, except to do what is right for the American people -- put government back on the side of the American people, stop the greed and corruption on Wall Street. And the rescue plan has got to include that massive oversight that Americans are expecting and deserving. And I don't believe that John McCain has made any promise that he would not be able to keep, either.

[rainbow4321]

5. "So there hasn't been a whole lot that I'm promised"

THANK you...at the time I thought "nice cop out" if what she said matched what I heard.
Like I said...not many promises my ASS. Does she think that her stump speeches are not filled with "promises"..and McCain's year's worth of promises are also HER promises given she accepted to run with him.

[mw]

4. We heard "Palindrone" tonite

Palindrone: recited verbage which is so generic, it says the same thing whether you read it forward or backward.