Sarah Palin: This will be on the test

[radfringe]

Sarah Palin: This will be on the test
September 14, 2008
BY ROGER EBERT Sun-Times Movie Critic
http://www.suntimes.com/news/elections/1162811,ebertpalin091408.article

I watched Sarah Palin's interview with Charles Gibson, and felt uneasiness stirring in my stomach. The feeling did not involve politics. Somehow it was personal. Gradually, memories churned to the surface.

I was in class. I had been asked to answer a specific question. I could not. I hadn't read the book, or listened to the lecture, or done the research. The teacher was looking at me in expectation.

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My nightmare was happening to Sarah Palin. Gibson asked her questions she didn't have an answer for. No, I'm not thinking about his stumper on the Bush Doctrine. I doubt Bush could have answered it. I'm thinking of her reply on "reform." When Gibson asked her to name three items she would do to change the Bush economic policies, she couldn't. She replied with generalities and drifted into sound bites. He asked her again.

More vague language. He asked: "Three things. One. Two. Three." I think that's when my stomach began to churn.

Gun control. She opposes it. Gibson observed that a majority of Americans support a ban on semiautomatic assault weapons. She praised the tradition of gun ownership in Alaska, mentioning protection, hunting, and sport. With machine guns?

Abortion rights? "I am pro-life but respect other peoples' opinions." Would she respect the opinions of others if choices were substituted for opinions? "What we do not need is a cultural divide in this country." Of course we do, lots of them. Otherwise everybody would have to be on the same side. Words have meanings.

She was caught flat-footed. I've been there. She made a popular speech at the GOP convention, which was written for her. She has repeated sound bites from it ever since. This was the first time we have heard her speaking spontaneously. She crammed, she employed rhetorical strategies, she evaded specific answers. But she had not read the text, or listened during the lecture, or done the research.

[riverdeep]

1. Unfortunately, she's going on Hannity next.

They're trying to build her back up into the grande damn of the Republican party.

[radfringe]

7. I know, but

the questions and answers will be well rehearsed ahead of time,and that will raise even more questions about her knowledge of the issues, because the hannity charade won't diviate from the script

she'll only be allowed out in public where everything is controllable - no pressers where a journalist might ask a real question, no interviews with "unfriendlies"

she's being handled even better than bush, and secluded even more than cheney. we are only being allow to see the 'character' in this farce, not the real person

[rodney_phillips]

2. Sarah Palin: This will be on the test

What scares me the most about Sarah Palin is that is doesn’t bother her one whit that she is ignorant of crucial facts. I was squirming for her as Gibson asked his questions, and she was leaning forward in her chair, eyes bright, smile in place, and just jabbering away senselessly. I could have died when Gibson stopped her in the middle of her “flurry of words”. She missed the meaning of that one too. (Essentially, “You’re yammering, Sarah.)

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[Jack Rabbit]

3. I must disagree with Mr. Ebert on one point

Mrs. Palin's failure to answer a simple question about the Bush Doctrine was very disturbing. She didn't know what it was.

It isn't that I presume that she would support if she knew what it was while I would hope the first sentence in President Obama's inaugural address will be to repudiate it. At least she should have been able to recite the latest GOP talking points about it.

Of the four principle candidates, Mrs. Palin might be the one whith whom I'd like to share a beer. I;m fascinated with a former beauty queen who rides motorcycles, can field dress a moose and run for public office. She still isn't ready to be president, and even if she were, I still wouldn't want her to be.

[ElectricSoul]

4. Palin Lacks intelligence

She subsitutes blind faith for intelligence. She is a fool who will ruin us all.

[Jack Rabbit]

5. Welcome to DU

She can't ruin the country. Bush has already done that.

She can, however, deliver the coup de grace and send it the way of the Soviet Union.

[liberal renegade]

6. Blind faith

that sounds like someone else we know.

[2008]

8. "I doubt Bush could have answered it."

:spray:

k&r

[GeorgeGist]

9. One major flaw in your argument.

Neither her teachers, nor her supporters, ask questions she should be able to answer.

[OneGrassRoot]

10. "I identify with Sarah Palin," says her fans....

because they don't know a fucking thing, either!