Video: I’m not closing the door on 2012, says Palin
posted at 8:51 pm on January 6, 2009 by Allahpundit
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Ten minutes with the Canadian answer to Carson Daly for your edification on a slow news night. Nothing too provocative, although there’s an enjoyably tense moment around 10:30 when she’s asked if she ever thought her critics were right about her being unqualified.
In any case, I need an excuse to update the poll post from this morning and this’ll do. An eagle-eyed reader checked Newsmeat, which I should have done, and found out that the polling firm involved has a history of donating to — ta da — Frank and Lisa Murkowski. So if you’re wondering how reliable the data is, weigh that accordingly.
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Michelle the conservative blogger or Michelle the Klingon First Lady?
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM
George Stroumboulopoulos is much, MUCH worse than Carson Daley. In my best George Stroumboulopoulos voice:
“Oh man, I’m George Stroumboulopoulos! The news is cool! I’m relevant, I have an earring!”
Hate him. My low estimation of her judgment is not improved by her attendance on that program.
alex342 on January 6, 2009 at 9:55 PM
That’s another thing…seemed the GOP powers that be had chosen Dubya at least as early as 1998 as the guy to run. McCain had early primary victory, and I’m sure he was pushed aside by those same powers that be in the party to make way for Bush.
JetBoy on January 6, 2009 at 9:56 PM
ZZzzZZZzzZZZ – that didn’t even work back in the campaign, why keep pushing it?
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 9:56 PM
Yeah, I prefer, umm, teleprompter, uh, readers, um, er, myself.
fogw on January 6, 2009 at 9:58 PM
Benny,
It’s the bad educated people like..say Ponzi Scheme Madoff..that we have trouble trusting and also the educated people at just about every newspaper in the country that cannot be objective about the news and don’t even try to anymore.
I’m educated. But education is worth nothing without some amount of trust, integrity, and wisdom. The Devil is a very articulate fellow, but I wouldn’t trust him.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 9:59 PM
That’s incredibly silly. And that’s about all the response that statement is worth.
Matt Helm on January 6, 2009 at 9:59 PM
We LOVE you Sarah…………….
………….. I sure hope you read HotAir!
Seven Percent Solution on January 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM
For all the clueless I voted for Bob Barr, Bush twice before that and Perot twice before that.
The Resume nor the Polls are fake.
Sarah Palin
Age: 44
Religion:
- Pentecostal
Education:
- Attended, Hawaii Pacific University, 1982
- Attended, North Idaho College, 1983-1984
- Attended, University of Idaho, 1984-1985
- Attended, Matanuska-Susitna College, 1985
- B.S. Journalism, University of Idaho, 1987
Political Experience:
- Former Council Member, Wasilla City Council, Alaska, 1992-1996
- Former Mayor, Wasilla City, Alaska, 1996-2002 (pop: 7,028) (Votes: 909)
- Failed Candidate, Lieutenant Governor, Alaska, 2002
- Resigned, Alaska Oil and Gas Conservation Commission, 2003-2004
- Governor, Alaska, 2006-present (1+1/2 years) (pop: 670,053) (0.002% of the U.S. population)
Total Career Political Votes: 188,125
Professional Experience:
- First Place, Miss Wasilla Beauty Contest, 1984
- Second Place, Miss Alaska Pageant, 1984
- Television Sports Reporter, 1987-1989
- Director, Ted Stevens Excellence in Public Service, Inc., 2003-2007
Poptech on January 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Oh that’s clever.
I never understood the willful misunderstanding of her comment about Russian incursions of Alaska’s air space. She was speaking the simple truth.
And do you really think that she doesn’t read the newspaper? She’s written editorials for newspapers including the New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News. Her friends and family have said that since childhood she has been a voracious newspaper reader.
Kaylene Johnson’s Palin bio noted:
In fact, many have noted that she has a photographic memory — including recently Elaine Lafferty, the former editor of Ms. Magazine who wrote an article titled “Palin is a Brainiac” in Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. Cindi Adams also confirmed her photographic memory in one of her NY Post columns:
Please note that the Johnson bio was published long before the Couric interview. Long before the Couric interview people were commenting on Palin’s photographic memory and fondness for reading newspapers and books. I think her answer to Couric’s newspaper question was flippant because Palin was clearly offended by it. I understand this reaction because I was offended by the question too. It was as if Couric was asking, “do you know how to read?” Palin has written op-eds for the NY Times. And was quite fond of writing op-eds and letters to the editors of major newspapers before she became governor of her state.
Heck, she was seen reading the newspaper in a paparazzi photo taken of her poolside!
And according to this, it appears that she does read “all” the papers.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM
Ugh. Look I can understand why people have reservations about her. I get it. But can please stop this “She can’t name a newspaper” stuff. She’s a Governor of a state…. she reads newspapers. She can name newspapers. During this interview she ticked off a bunch of stuff that she could have ONLY read on a newspaper, magazine, or blog. My guess is that she answered that question poorly during the Couric interview either a)she sensed a gotcha question b) she’s just media savvy and was caught off guard. Let’s not read too much into the interview.
terryannonline on January 6, 2009 at 10:00 PM
LOL. I know if he said that in my family reunion, hell would break loose!
jencab on January 6, 2009 at 10:01 PM
The way McCain was treated in 2000 is not cool. At least we would’ve been spared Rumsfelds moronic self if McCain were prez.
therightwinger on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Oh that’s clever.
I never understood the willful misunderstanding of her comment about Russian incursions of Alaska’s air space. She was speaking the simple truth.
And do you really think that she doesn’t read the newspaper? She’s written editorials for newspapers including the New York Times and the Anchorage Daily News. Her friends and family have said that since childhood she has been a voracious newspaper reader.
Kaylene Johnson’s Palin bio noted:
In fact, many have noted that she has a photographic memory — including recently Elaine Lafferty, the former editor of Ms. Magazine who wrote an article titled “Palin is a Brainiac” in Tina Brown’s The Daily Beast. Cindi Adams also confirmed her photographic memory in one of her NY Post columns:
Please note that the Johnson bio was published long before the Couric interview. Long before the Couric interview people were commenting on Palin’s photographic memory and fondness for reading newspapers and books. I think her answer to Couric’s newspaper question was flippant because Palin was clearly offended by it. I understand this reaction because I was offended by the question too. It was as if Couric was asking, “do you know how to read?” Palin has written op-eds for the NY Times. And was quite fond of writing op-eds and letters to the editors of major newspapers before she became governor of her state.
Heck, she was seen reading the newspaper in a paparazzi photo taken of her poolside!
And according to this, it appears that she does read “all” the papers.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
My deceased mother would only with great reluctance have voted McCain-Palin.
She does frighten me, because her nomination would mean a second Obama administration. Yes, there have been some real stinkers from the Ivy League (one was president of Princeton before carving up eastern Europe over tea). But populism is no better. Think of populist leaders: Wm. Jennings Bryan (anti-science and pro-prohibition) and the lesser lights of Huckabee or Perot or the faux-populism of John Edwards. With populists, the best you’re likely to get is the guy on the $20-bill (a lawyer who might today not even count as a populist). Populism? No, thanks.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
Anyone who think there are 57 states should not be President. Poptech, move on!
technopeasant on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
And therein lies the problem: we have a lot of well educated treacherous, dishonorable, cowardly, effete fools in office right now. One of them is the Senate Majority Leader and another is the Speaker of the House.
As for the President and Vice-President Elect–well…
Matt Helm on January 6, 2009 at 10:02 PM
which I certainly appreciate. I’m tired of the ‘wink” photo.
Red State State of Mind on January 6, 2009 at 10:03 PM
And people freek out over Ron Paul or Sarah.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 10:03 PM
If I can recall you stated before that she did an op piece for the NYT but was too embarrassed to cite the paper. :)
An Era of Hate on January 6, 2009 at 10:03 PM
Only a retard would draw that mindless conclusion. I like “Sarah P.” as opposed to BO simply because BO is a corrupt statist who loathes the constitution. I could also throw in the fact that he has constructed alliances in the past with marxists, jew-haters and anti-capitalists. But you see, none of that matters to Boner Shaker because BO went to Hahvad. If only he got in due his own ability and not his fathers.
V15J on January 6, 2009 at 10:04 PM
My immediate reaction was that she was annoyed and thought it was an insulting question not worthy of an answer. I certainly thought it was insulting. On looking at it again: I think she was annoyed and thought it was an insulting question. My only problem with her answer was that she was polite in her response. I wish she’d told Couric exactly where to get off.
meltenn on January 6, 2009 at 10:05 PM
This interview was conducted the same day she was interviewed on Canadian TV about the Pipeline deal:
More info:
Governor Palin fulfilling campaign promises
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:05 PM
Barack Hussein Obama
Community Organizer Extraordinaire.
Favorite saying: “Present”
fogw on January 6, 2009 at 10:07 PM
If you really Hamilton was a populist, then you really don’t know what I’m talking about. I would think that you would admire Hamilton, he sounds like your sort of guy. Me, I lean more towards Jefferson with a touch of Andrew Jackson. While Sarah Palin is no Thomas Jefferson, she does accept many notions of Jeffersonian democracy, added to that more than a measure of Jacksonian practicality and that’s a combination I can go for while you can go on ahead and keep your J. Q. Adams’s and Van Burens.
Matt Helm on January 6, 2009 at 10:08 PM
there is a segment of the American public known as drones … they only repeat what the media tells them and they do not do any research on their own
when this segment reaches the majority of the population we will have what John Adams referred to as “mobacracy”
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:09 PM
What did it have to do with anything? Was she going to have the Alaskan Air Force scramble their planes? It was a silly answer and made her look bad.
She can’t name a newspaper. And she can’t answer tough questions or leave her prepared, memorized script. That’s why they kept her in hiding, or only let her out with McCain sitting next to her.
She’s got a good thing going in Alaska. Let her stay where she thrives.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:09 PM
So what’s the problem with the resume Pop? Looks OK to me. Although my resumes have more details on each job and my current one is about 6 pages with full detail not a 1-page summary like the one above.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 10:10 PM
Good we need a sacrifical lamb in 2012. I wonder how creative the excuses will get when the ‘Cuda is beaching herself.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM
excellent … you are 100% right
She is a combo of Jackson-Jefferson
she also has the determination of Andrew Jackson
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:11 PM
Hamilton (great guy) is not on the twenty.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:12 PM
I agree Obama is not qualified to be president.
Poptech on January 6, 2009 at 10:14 PM
No, Andrew Jackson is–and yes, Jackson is a great man. Hamilton is on the ten, my mistake–you see, people are human, a wonderful thing. I’ll take a man or woman of Jackson’s caliber over a Romney or a Forbes, or any other “manager” or “elite” any day of the weak. I want a leader.
Matt Helm on January 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM
While everyone seems focused on the ‘Newspaper fiasco’ of
Sarah,as a woman from the extreme north sticks,basically
the Liberal MSM trying to render Governor Sarah Palin as a
dolt,and as untraveled,
it brings me back,thinking about Hopey!
Has Obama ever been out of the community organizing of
Chicago,in other words,was Hopey’s Excellent Adventure
to der Fatherland his first outside America,besides his
travels of Hawii,in which he still can’t prove where he
was born!
The crack about Sarah’s reading habits as well as her traveling exploits seem to be a bit more than Hopey’s
and yet,Sarah’s life is real,and litterly can be docum
ented,
where Hopey’s was a tale,fabrication,and yet know one
knows to this day,where Obama has come from!!!!!!!!:)
canopfor on January 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM
Ut-oh. Better do your homework next time.
Barack Obama:
Age: 47
Religion:
- United Church of Christ
Education:
- B.A. Political Science/International Relations, Columbia University, 1983
- J.D. Harvard Law School, 1991
Political Experience:
- State Senator, Illinois, 1996-2004
- U.S. Senator, Illinois, 2005-present (pop: 12,831,970)
Committees:
- Chairman, Illinois Senate’s Health and Human Services Committee
- Chairman, Subcommittee on European Affairs
- Member, Foreign Relations
- Member, Health, Education, Labor & Pensions
- Member, Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
- Member, Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations
- Member, Subcommittee on African Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Children and Families
- Member, Subcommittee on East Asian and Pacific Affairs
- Member, Subcommittee on Employment and Workplace Safety
- Member, Subcommittee on Federal Financial Management, Government Information, Federal Services, and International Security
- Member, Subcommittee on International Development and Foreign Assistance, Economic Affairs and International Environmental Protection
- Member, Subcommittee on State, Local, and Private Sector Preparedness and Integration
- Member, Veterans’ Affairs
Professional Experience:
- Writer/Researcher, Business International Corporation, 1983-1984
- Community Organizer, New York Public Interest Research Group, 1984-1985
- Executive Director, Developing Communities Project, 1985-1988
- President, Harvard Law Review, 1990-1991
- Executive Director, Illinois Project Vote, 1992
- Board Member, Public Allies, 1992
- Board Member, Center for Neighborhood Technology, 1993-1994
- Board Member, The Joyce Foundation, 1994-2002
- Board Member, Woods Fund of Chicago, 1994-2002
- Chairman, Chicago Annenberg Challenge, 1995–1999
- Lecturer, Constitutional Law, University of Chicago, 1992 to 1996
- Senior Lecturer, Constitutional Law, University of Chicago, 1996-2004
- Attorney, Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, 1993-2004
Poptech on January 6, 2009 at 10:16 PM
That’s it AP? Give credit to the reader who did your work. Sheesh. Have some class.
conservative pilgrim on January 6, 2009 at 10:17 PM
Cheers to that. McCain would have made a great POTUS in 2000, and this year as well. We don’t know what we missed. And yes, McCain was certainly pushed out by the GOP in 2000. Bush was the party choice, and that’s the way it was gonna be.
JetBoy on January 6, 2009 at 10:18 PM
Do. Not. Want.
John_Locke on January 6, 2009 at 10:19 PM
Barack Obama:
Poptech on Jan 6,2009 at 10:16PM.
Poptech: Excellent Intell.:)
Hey,do you have a list of Hopey’s extensive
traveling history of his past?:)
canopfor on January 6, 2009 at 10:21 PM
I doubt you’ll find anyone–certainly not Gov. Palin–with a CV (or caliber, if you prefer) like Jackson’s. Her interviews, when she’s been let out to give one, have shown her to be made of a wood far softer than hickory.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
She was asked to explain what insights her state’s proximity to Russia gives her. Her answer was to illustrate that proximity by stating the fact that when Russia invades US air space as it has been doing at an increased rate since the end of the Cold War, the place that the incursion occurs is Alaska. And, yes, the Alaska National Guard is one of the few that is on 24/7 alert for this very reason.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:22 PM
Governor Palin also receives National Security Briefs and top secret intelligence reports because of terrorist interests in disrupting pipelines
just sayin
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:26 PM
Jackson was a racist uncouth pig. He is not a great president, if anything he set the table for the rise of the “idiot electorate”
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM
She’s given plenty of interviews that were very good. Take this one for example, which she gave to the Pittsburgh Tribune Review in 2007. She sounds just right to me in that interview. In fact, the more I listen to her old interviews the more impressed I am. I often wonder what in the hell the McCain people did to her.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM
And she couldn’t.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:27 PM
I don’t know about “great”. Though, it’s possible. I think he would’ve been the GOP equivalent of Bill Clinton. In other words, moderate. Except McCain actually has little things like “honor, integrity, ethics”. Things Bubba severely lacks.
Sadly, we’ll never know. I’m fairly confident he’d be better than Bush though. I would’ve never voted for the guy in 2004 if I knew this is what we were getting.
therightwinger on January 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Nope.
McCain was ticking off the Republican base, and cozying up to the media, well before 2000.
Some of the crap that happened to him was nasty. He wasn’t the best candidate in 2000, and wasn’t the best in 2004. Unfortunately, he had a large field that split the social con base, and he got a plurality. Open primaries didn’t help, and too many party leaders thought it was “his turn.”
Without Palin, he’d have lost by a good 10%, IMO. Palin showed us that a good social-con at the TOP of the ticket could have squeaked out a win.
Oh well, water under the bridge.
cs89 on January 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Oh so that is the story line now, I remember when she got those briefings because of the strategic warning assets in her state. She gets no more of a briefing than Governor Crist or Kaine gets.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:28 PM
Oh, you’re going to find very few individuals like Old Hickory–they literally don’t make them like that anymore. But, she possesses many of traits in common. As for her interviews–remember, she was constrained by what she said. Also, she was poorly served by her staff and was obviously tagged by a hostile media. Her interviews since the election, where she has more control over what she can say has revealed a far different Sarah Palin. Your problem is that your mind is made up and you refuse to see that.
Matt Helm on January 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Thanks for all the do nothing BS. HAHAHAHAHAHAHA.
I had a better resume when I was 29 years old, was running my own high-tech company at age 32, retired when I was 58.
fogw on January 6, 2009 at 10:30 PM
Hey Poptart,
Did it ever occur to you that your “resume” for Palin omitted a number of board memberships that she has sat on? It also omitted her private businesses? I don’t even think it mentioned her time as chair of the Alaska Oil & Gas Conservation Commission. Chairing the oil & gas commission of our largest energy producing state is no small matter — just as being governor of that state is no small matter. If she were a man we wouldn’t even be having this discussion.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Just skipping through this one quickly (which she gave to a Greek American, by the way, Mr. Δημήτρης Βασίλαρος), she does indeed sound like she knows her stuff. But her stuff is all domestic. As I’ve said above in this post and previously in other ones, she’s been a good governor. It’s work well suited to her. I like her. But not for foreign policy (which is generally more important to me than are domestic issues). Not for President. We can find someone else ready for that job.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:34 PM
I also haven’t seen anyone commenting on her class. I don’t like McCain much, as probably comes through in my posts.
However, I do respect his service. I like that, even after “anonymous sources” from his campaign trashed her, his name still comes out in this interview multiple times and always in a complimentary way.
That’s class, IMO.
cs89 on January 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM
oh oh
Governors do not have foreign policy experience …
Bush didnt
Clinton didnt
Reagan didnt
Carter didnt
FDR didn’t
Coolidge didn’t
Wilson didn’t
and on and on and on and on
anybody who uses the “no foreign policy experience” line when referring to a governor should not be allowed to vote
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:37 PM
She can afford to be classy, her career is not over.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:38 PM
And with the exception of Reagan and FDR, you just mentioned some of the worst foreign policy presidents of the last 100 years.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM
At least TR had some FP experience instigating wars with Spain. :)
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Did she have a script when she wiped the floor with good old Joe Biden, the blowhard Senator, in the most-watched VP debate in American history?
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Thank G-d for that too.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:41 PM
So much so that you felt compelled to respond. Loser. Romney loving loser.
chunderroad on January 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Yeah I am sure a script would have helped them with “Say it aint so Joe” and the deer in the headlights look followed by “You..are…raising the white flag of surrender”. Yeah that was a floor wipe.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM
That is not a stupid answer. Spin it however you’d like. But it was a clear answer. Proximity does give you perspective. She made the same point to Couric. She could have said something as mundane as it snows a lot in Alaska, and the MSM and the left (but I repeat myself) would have screamed at how stupid she is because she doesn’t realize that it snows a lot in Michigan too!
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:43 PM
Gee, your name wouldn’t happen to be Eli Whitney, perchance?
chunderroad on January 6, 2009 at 10:45 PM
Huh – remind me again of who in that debate was blathering about eating in diners that had been closed for decades, or talking about mythical Franco-American invasion forces that drove Hezbollah out of Lebanon? I think Palin made only minor error in that debate (got a general’s name slightly wrong, or something like that).
Floor. wipe.
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 10:46 PM
when did I say I approved of any of the president’s in the list?
I was stating that the argument that governors do not have “foreign policy experience” is not valid
whatever “foreign policy experience” is anyway
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I know you’re just exaggerating when you say such people should be treated, in re their enfranchisement, as felons are. One need not necessarily have foreign policy experience (though I wouldn’t cite Wilson or Carter as successes), but we ought at least to expect candidates for the office to be au fait with the goings-on in the world and able to explain their positions. (To have positions.)
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:47 PM
How does a low talker get his own show?
Elektra on January 6, 2009 at 10:48 PM
remember Reagan’s “deer in the headlights” moment against Mondale? … when he couldn’t get out a simple sentence…
we should have dropped Reagan like a bad habit!!
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:48 PM
The best part of all the anti-Palin folks here … they are going back and looking at the campaign as if she was running for President!!
Was John Edwards under this much scrutiny? Jack Kemp? Walter Mondale?
give me a break …
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Yes: see bold above. (As for whether her performance in the debate constituted a victory, that seemed to me, from the responses I heard, to be highly contingent on whether the person liked her ahead of time. In other words, Republicans thought she won; Democrats thought he won.)
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
The following is from a 1975 telegram from the US Embassy in London to the State Department about the surprise victory of Margaret Thatcher in wresting the leadership of the Conservative Party from former Prime Minister Ted Heath to become the leader of the Opposition:
The telegram then goes on to note at the very end:
No real national leadership experience! No foreign policy experience! Comes from out of nowhere! Upsets the Party establishment!
Sound familiar?
Someone who worked with Thatcher thinks Palin has a lot in common with the Iron Lady.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Throw in Biden’s inability to know which article on the constitution establishes the executive branch
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Because you guys keep bringing her up and drooling all over her.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:52 PM
The strength and grace with which she handled the attempted media slaughter of not only herself, but her entire family showed her to be made of nothing less than tempered steele, in my admittedly biased opinion. Particularly when compared to BO whining when anyone ‘attacked’ Michelle for her anti-American comments… talk about soft wood…
+1
pannw on January 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM
The foreign policy experience argument is BS..
BHO had none.. which is why he ‘tapped’ Joe Biden (heheh, Barack tapped Joe) as the VP.. Now that Joe is out of the picture.. shoved to his little corner in the Senate, he has Hillary as his Sec State. because of her foreign policy chops (Sniper incident notwithstanding) He as surrounded himself with ‘experts (and I use that loosely) on foreign policy for advice.
Barack knows squat about foreign policy.
DaveC on January 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Good for them, still strongly disagree.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 10:53 PM
No, it isn’t a smart answer. It’s a stupid answer (about the airspace) followed by a non sequitur (the idea that that shows the need for alliances). And the non sequitur itself is something obvious and unnoteworthy: of course we have to have alliances and good relations; did anybody say otherwise?
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Actually, AP is the one who brought her up by posting this.
INC on January 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Let’s see. The only non-governors we’ve had as presidents in recent years were JFK, Johnson and Nixon. Do you really think JFK and Johnson were great foreign policy presidents?
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM
Poor old Joe Biden can’t even trade on his VP cred to get into a movie. Anybody think Sarah would have that problem.
Joe Biden has tarnished the long-venerated Office of the Vice President-Elect.
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I get weak at the knees every single time.
blatantblue on January 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM
1. ZZZZZZZZZZZzzzzzzzzz is not a response, it’s called ignoring a loser troll who has nothing of merit to contribute.
2. I’ve been a winner all of my life, but have dealt with losers like you many times in my career. Usually squashed them like a bug – not physically, just put them out of business with superior product and flawless expertise.
3. Romney was not my guy, not that you have any kind of evidence to demonstrate that he was.
4. I wasn’t offended by your attack on Romney, I was offended by your general overall ignorance.
Tah-tah bonehead.
fogw on January 6, 2009 at 10:55 PM
She isn’t built of hickory and I don’t think she’s made of iron either. And even if you believed it, you certainly couldn’t sell it to the American voter. Nominate her and you’ve voted for Obama.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Republicans dropped dozens of reporters into Alaska?
Republicans wanted to know if her kid was really her grandson?
Republicans wanted to know her husband’s driving record?
Republicans ran with stories from angry bloggers regarding Palin’s religious beliefs
Republicans ran FALSE stories that Palin wanted to ban books?
The Republican Party dropped operatives into Alaska to dig up dirt?
Republicans reported that she “charged victims for rape kits”?
Republicans referred to her as “the mayor of wasilly?”
Republicans tried to bring her down with “Troopergate?”
Republicans ran with stories that she was “having an affair with he husband’s business partner?”
Give me a break rodent
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:56 PM
So basically , the anti Palins are divided into four groups . The first group does not like Palin because she was not educated from Universities and Colleges that created the political elite like Obama , Kennedy , Bush , McCain , Reid and what have you . Second , she came from a rich but underpopulated and politically backward state and because of this , she does not know how to govern , she does not know how to talk to the intelligent people of the lower 48 especially the folks from the elite coasts . The second group does not like her because of what she is , a fundamentalist Christian over achiever that should not been a VP candidate , much less a Governor or even a mayor of an American town and btw , she and her family would had much better off if she had aborted Trig when she found out early in the pregnancy that the fetus would become a defective baby . The third group are folks who wanted another candidate like Ron Paul . The fourth group of anti Palins are the media echo chambers , these are the folks who would regurgitate everything the media reported against Sarah Palin without any thought of whether it’s true or not .
Tzetzes
In other words , grass roots equals populism . I really , really hate to tell you this , but conservative grass roots does know who are the real thing and those that play them for fools . If Sarah was a populist , the press and the Obama campaign would had ignored her and McCain would had lost more electoral votes and national votes .
Squid Shark
The difference between Obama and Palin is this , Palin have to prove herself to a hostile press , Obama needs only to show up to a receptive press . Unfortunately for Obama , he won’t be so lucky in the real world . The press and his political handlers can only do so much in protecting him and I fear that Hope and Change would become Cringe and Pray when the reality and responsibility of being the US President sets in .
DinobotPrime on January 6, 2009 at 10:56 PM
Wow, this is one light resume, but heavy on the number of alphanumeric characters.
The committee stuff is a joke because he did nothing for this and campaigned for POTUS the whole time.
Normally a law degree is good but from Harvard, which means it is very leftist tainted. We already know that he knows little about the actual Constitution, although we know he doesn’t like our Constitution and the prudent limitations it puts on the powers of the federal government.
The rest of it has NO actual experience with government except for some time in the state legis.
This is a PRIME example of a resume that is what is called ‘hollow’. There is little MEAT or mass in it.
We know very little about this man. Time for phone interview with this hollow man and that gal from what was it…Wazillee?
Of course at the phone interview we learn Obama is black based on voice and so it is immediately apparent he is an affirmative action beneficiary at the liberal schools he attended. Other than that, he seems to talk very articulately about some subjects but seems more like an academic type than what I’d refer to as a doer. Seems like there is just not much there or he is holding something back? Evasive is the word I think. Let’s get him in here for the face to face to learn more.
At Sarah’s phone interview I hear a very eager young spunky female voice with a tinge of what could be a Scandinavian accent. She talks a bit long and doesn’t come off as an academic or as articulate, but more shall we say earthy to put it favorably. However, her obvious energy is infectious even from a simple phone call, and she really comes off as being very up front and personable (was that a child I heard in the background?). It is very clear she really wants this job, and I sense a certain humility. I can imagine her hitting it off well with many of our clients, although not as much with those that our male applicant would be better with. She’s a real go-getter it seems. Let’s bring her in for the face-to-face but at an unusual time to test her flexibility.
After the FTF:
Well they both fit in their roles well. Mr. Obama, who seems to be good with the word seems to lack some leadership characteristics, however, he will make an excellent staff advisor at the corporate headquarters some day and can certainly waltz in a china shop.
Ms. Palin although not near the polish of Mr. Obama, is a natural leader and very hard worker and will perfect in our Sales/Marketing management program. I see a bright future for her with her obvious charisma. Doesn’t seem to be a numbers person, but this woman will impact revenue and boost customer satisfaction. She’s a natural. Comments are already coming in, especially from some of the men. My admin is already impressed with her as she has spent a few lunches with her this last week and they have kids in the same public school.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Wait until she’s not playing second fiddle and carrying someone else’s water.
As of this point, the state the “unqualified” Governor Palin is the Chief Executive of isn’t asking for a federal bailout like every single Democratic Governor and a few Republican Governors like Arnuhld are asking for.
50 states in the union. Last time I checked 42 of them asking for Federal Bailouts. And Alaska isn’t one of them. Where I live in North Carolina, is.
I wish we had Palin’s level of “inexperience in my state. I could use a budget surplus rebate.
Hog Wild on January 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM
That Nixon was unelectable too … lost his bid for the presidency, went home to California as lost there too
oh … except for those two landslides
oops
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Saying that mediocre X is better than bad Y does not make X good.
Tzetzes on January 6, 2009 at 10:58 PM
No accomplishments on that resume i.e. Woods Foundation, Senate Foreign Affairs European Subcommittee, etc. Obama’s resume shows the typical corporate habit of jumping from job to job quickly and endless self-promotion / resume fluffing. Now that he’s top dog, let’s see how he handles responsibility and decision-making for the first time in his adult life.
chunderroad on January 6, 2009 at 10:59 PM
dude, you can’t even keep your line of debate going
Palin is unelectable because she is a governor … even though in the past, governors are elected president
Obama is elected President with absolutely no foreign policy experience
the lesson is this … THEY WERE ALL ELECTED PRESIDENT
good grief
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
They were asking what insights her state’s proximity to Russia gives. She made the common sense answer about what a small world we live in. What else could she say? She did mention trade relations, but that part of the interview ended up on the cutting room floor.
Just last weekend, she made a joke about this proximity issue before a large audience which included the Russian trade delegation. It’s at 2:48 into the video clip. The audience loved it.
ramrocks on January 6, 2009 at 11:01 PM
The reason Palin scares the RINOs in the party is that once conservatives find a true conservative candidate they can believe in and rally behind, they won’t accept a substitute.
The big-government Republicans want conservatives to believe that only big-government types can be winning GOP candidates. Palin proves them wrong, and offers an appeal to libertarians and clean-government conservatives that they never can. Her social-con cred, which apparently has never impacted her policy or governing style, is just icing on the cake.
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 11:03 PM
“If Governor Palin walked across the Potomac, the headline would read, “Governor Can’t swim”
joey24007 on January 6, 2009 at 11:04 PM
Poptech can’t even get her religion right on that resume of his – she’s not Pentecostal. Wasilla Bible Church is non-denominational…most would probably describe it as evangelical, but it’s definitely not Pentecostal.
Poptech leaves out the Oil and Gas Commission because he doesn’t want to remind people of the corruption-busting that Palin did there.
Jim62sch on January 6, 2009 at 11:05 PM
Yes he was a great president, and most caucasian men of the period WERE racist including many you think were good presidents.
I disagree with many of his views but he is a GREAT president who kept the south from seceding with his MASS and leadership and the fear he put in others. Those years of industrial growth turned out to be the difference in the union winning the civil war (or the war between the states) over a south that thought seceding to protect slavery was OK.
He was a giant of his times. If he were our president now, NOBODY would f**k with us, not even Putin and China. Of course, the media would be scared s**tless of the guy, but he’d give a damn about Americans.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 11:06 PM
I am sorry, please explain how any of that makes her qualified to be president. Reporters hassle celebs all the time, does not make them good leaders.
Squid Shark on January 6, 2009 at 11:07 PM
Oh, and another thing about Andrew, he could be a gentleman when the moment called for it. I could see him charming Ms. Noonan and Ms. Parker up real smooth like.
Sapwolf on January 6, 2009 at 11:08 PM
No, I was saying that their is no such thing as foreign policy experience for first timers at POTUS. it’s ALL on the job training.
For people saying they didn’t like Sarah because of her ‘lack of foreign policy’ experience sound like the pampered Beverly Hills princes not liking her brand new convertible because it’s the wrong shade of red.
Nothing wrong with the convertible, in fact it’s a great car, they are being a little bitch about it.
DaveC on January 6, 2009 at 11:09 PM
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