The Palin Interview

I was scared about Sarah Palin before, but now I’m terrified.
In that excerpt above, she used 346 words and said NOTHING, and answered NOTHING!
The Emperor has no clothes…

Charlie, Charlie, Charlie,
I once respected you. You asked, you hound Obama with the tough questions. Why did you go light on Palin? Why? Why? Why? Her first interview is with you and you put on the kid gloves, put her over your shoulder and burp the pit bull. No wonder they selected you to be the first…Please regain your objectivity and quit thinking with your…Please! I used to think you were better than that!

So neither John nor Palin thought about whether she was ready to be President? Good to know.

She’s nobodys fool. YOU GO GIRL!!!

Interesting… everyone is focusing on Palin’s qualifications, not McCain’s, yet Obama is the least experienced of all.. Very interesting

She’s Rove’s fool. She’s Limbaugh’s fool. She’s Bush’s fool. She’s McCain’s fool.

No Bill – Obama is somebody who has put in the time, studied, and obviously knows a great deal about foreign policy. Palin is obviously someone who knows nothing about it. That’s the difference.

And exactly when has Obama been asked a tough question other then on O’Reilly?
I’d heard this place was ultra left. It might have been understated…

Gibson, has was not accurate when he quoted this and stated Palin said this:
“Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?”
When in fact she said this:
“Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God…That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan”.

Arrogant, arrogant, arrogant.

I mean, what better, harder-hitting follow-up to “are you qualified?” then “no, really–are you qualified?” Excellent job, Chuck.

She handled those questions honestly and fairly…she makes good points and it is hard to pin anything against her without looking like a hatchet-man from the liberal left ! The are squirming like worms on a hot rock right now !

Palin’s son joined the army because Mom and Dad couldn’t handle him anymore. It’s all coming out, and there isn’t anything patriotic about his enlisting. Lots of young people when they get into trouble are given the option of enlisting or facing jail time.

ok so what experience in anything but voting PRESENT!!! does Obama have??? who is number one on the ticket??? i believe the main reason you dont hear him talking to much about Palin is because he has NO record to run on!

Obama has put in the time??? How about McCain… If your vote is for experience, then why are you siding for Obama… Think about it for a little bit… In my opinion, Biden is more qualified to be president than Obama. Biden himself said Obama is inexperienced yet NO ONE said anything about McCain’s experience.

If there was any doubt at all…she is 100% politician. If I was a hockey Mom I’d be ticked by her assertion that she is one of them!

disgusted in Illinois
I am with you. I am very interested in what she will have to say.

…Well I guess we will see then won’t we? Ultimately we will know who Sarah Palin is…

The Obama team is on the ball!!!
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That’s right. ENOUGH! We’re going to talk about issues whether you like it or not.

I love it. “I didn’t blink.” That’s what makes you qualified? Not taking time to consider the implications?
We’ve already had to stomach one two many presidents who rule from their gut. Can’t wait to have somebody who uses his head for a change.

Bill,
Hillary said McCain had something to offer but Obama just has a speech he gave back in 2002.

NADA, NADA, NADA. SHE IS PURE THEATRICAL GESTURES AND LOUD VOICE. SUBSTANCE WHERE IS IT? OR IS IT THAT YOU DID NOT ASK WHAT YOU SHOUD HAVE ASKED. BUT AFTER ALL THANKS. WITH YOUR INTERVIEW SHE PROVED TO BE NADA, NADA, NADA

Just curious (seriously). How many of you Palin defenders would also vote Bush into another term?

what a joke this country has become…

U are asking what Palins foreign policies are, yes of course she wants a war with Russia.

They are exactly the Republicans we are used to. Sarah Palin doesn’t believe man causes global warming. She doesn’t believe the polar bear should be labeled endangered. She doesn’t believe in evolution. She doesn’t believe in a woman’s right to choose. What’s new here?

Will the drive-by media sit down and ask Obama if he is ready to lead the country? Let’s ask him the same questions about his experience. The drive-by media will not do that because they are biased and sexist! Who exactly is this man, Obama, and what are his associations? Who were is college friends? George Stefanopois went to Columbia at the same time. Did he or any of his friends know Obama? Obama lived off campus in a neighborhood controlled by Haitian drug gangs. His roommate was a huge druggie!

Aside from that, the fact that she says she NEVER EVEN THOUGHT about whether she was qualified to properly govern the country shows that she’s not putting country first by any means.

Even if someone is completely confident in themselves, if they REALLY loved their country, surely they would pause at least once and ask if it would be the best thing for the nation. Seriously, come on.

What strikes me most from this excerpt
is Gov. Palin’s decisiveness in contrast
to Sen. Obama. I want somone in the White House who our enemies fear and know has the decisiveness to pull the trigger if prompted. Would Sen. Obama check the political climate first? It is beyond his scope of mentality to think of any cause except “himself”, let alone a cause bigger than himself.

Americans are fools. The packaging of Palin proves it. This is no different than a High School Student body election. We get exactly what we deserve $4+ gas forever, endless wars and a Gov’t run by Corporate America.

Palin did mean it when she said HER God has a “plan.” And that plan includes NO CHOICE for women&Creationsim being taught in our schools. I know many Penecostals and their views on the world as it relates to their beliefs is male dominated and wako!
WAKE UP AMERICA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WAKE UP before it’s too LATE!!!!!!!!!!!!

She finally talked to a reporter???? She’s been hidden away from the press until she could get a cushy one on one interview. Palin is afraid of the press? Palin is tough but can’t handle tough questions?

Charles Gibson, you are a disgrace to journalism.
This person is running to be the VP of the United States of America! And yet you treat her like she’s an actor auditioning for a part.
The American people deserve so much more.

What the heck kind of questions are these?
He should’ve asked her a follow-up like, I don’t know, umm,
“Can you name an accomplishment you’ve had regarding international affairs?”
Or…”WHY ARE YOU HIDING YOUR EMAILS?”

If Sarah Palin was “not ready for Prime Time” exposure to the media, then she should not have been made a candidate for VP, nor nominated. Furthermore, why must Americans wait two weeks for an “exclusive” interview by a Disney-owned news organization (read: conservative), with less than 2 months to go in the Presential race? She’s a public servant; she should have been ready for impromptu interviews the very moment she stepped off that nomination stage at the RNC convention.

Are you kidding me, ABC? This is truly pathetic. You should, once again (remember the Democratic debate?), be ashamed of yourself.

Amy at 5:31: Palin and McCain “will lead our country on the path that leads to prosperity and peace!”
Except for that little bit about going to war with Russia:
GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn’t we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?
PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally…
“Perhaps so.” That’s about as casual as how we got into Iraq. Which is only fitting, since she’s been getting her foreign-policy lessons from McCain’s neocon advisers, who are some of the same nut jobs (Randy Scheuneman, Douglas Feith) that got us into Iraq.

I am still undecided about who i would vote for.I supported Hillary and feel she got the shaft. Sarah Palin is not trying to take Hillarys place,nor could she. She appears to be very smart and on top of her game. She has taken on so much with having her family and her career . She has my support as a mother and someone who is down to earth. I do not have trust in Obama, I feel he is a good speaker , but brings nothing to th eamerican people. It seems as though he does not think for himself and has other people running his campaign. Is that the kind of leader we need?

Hey 30yr – you know why gas prices are high? its got nothing to do with drilling – too bad you are fooled by Big Oil’s propoganda. Its because of speculation from your Repub fat cat buddies. Exxon made more money last year then any corporation in history! Turn of Fox and try actually doing some research and reading.

“Will the drive-by media sit down and ask Obama if he is ready to lead the country? Let’s ask him the same questions about his experience. The drive-by media will not do that because they are biased and sexist! Who exactly is this man, Obama, and what are his associations? Who were is college friends? George Stefanopois went to Columbia at the same time. Did he or any of his friends know Obama? Obama lived off campus in a neighborhood controlled by Haitian drug gangs. His roommate was a huge druggie!”
Where the hell have you been for the past 2 years. Senator Obama has been vetted, re-vetted by the media, especially Faux News, his patriotism has been questioned, his Christianity has been questioned, his wife has been questioned. What exactly DOES Palin have to offer this country as far as experience???? No general answers please, specifics? What’s that I hear?
Silence.

Tracy,
I hope you watch tonight…I was a Hill supporter too….McCain always was my #2, no I have never voted rep. but Obama lacks experience, plus the church he went to, well his pastor offends me and Obama went there so long.

I think Jim asked…I am voting for McCain/ Palin but I would never vote for Bush–never have. You know why? Because I see how the media elected Bush and they have been doing the same thing for Obama for the last 20 months.

Whatever happened to conservatism? Now conservatives want to the USA to fight for every little country out there and nationbuild them back up?
Why are Republicans so EAGER for war? What’s wrong with taking care of the US for a change?

Come on “Jack” lets get real. You say you are “undecided”? But you dont trust Obama? Sounds like in fact you are VERY decided!!!! Lets be honest.

I really hope Gibson also asked her some tough questions. A lot of unflattering stuff has surfaced about Palin, and this task-from-God-thing was one of the few that were obviously overblown. Anybody with a brain saw that. So why pick that one? What about the bridge to nowhere? Her lies about earmarks? What about her flirting with censorship when she was a mayor? What about her giggling while a political opponent was exposed to explicit sexism on air? I can think of at least ten issues surrounding Palin that she will have a hard time explaining her way out of. But we rely on journalists to ask the tough questions and not waste precious time on obvious non-issues liek this one or the whole motherhood hysteria.

obamamama and johnTX … why don’t you wait for her to answer your questions before you make up your own??
… also, Obama refused any more debates with Hillary … and has only agreed to the “required” three with McCain … so what does that tell you? … and he has already admitted he was to flip in his answer at Saddleback Church!

Bea said it all. Unfortunately many Americans are so anti-intellectual (proud of being an idiot for all you Repubs who don’t understand compound words) that they’d prefer a mental midget like Palin to a true intellectual like Obama. “She’s got 5 kids! That means she can run the most powerful country in the world, no problem! Plus she likes killin’ things!”

Jim,
I live in a oil state, if we don’t start drilling and taking care of our own needs they are going to run the prices so high we won’t be able to by gas here in America.
If we had been drilling more here we would not be in this mess now.

Simple Republican political math:
Truth = Lie (repeat 100 times)
When will our media do the public a real service by asking our leaders for truth? How can we parents show our children appropriate role models when most people in public life seem to lie, and enjoy getting away with it! Lie and cheat and you’ll be rewarded, tell the truth and you’ll take second place.

You know that Obama ONLY met with Bill O’Reilly THIS WEEK!
Obama has been running for president for nearly 20 MONTHS. Obama has never really had to answer to tough interviews.
Palin is on the scene for only a few weeks and is already involved in serious interviews.
You guys are underestimating Charlie Gibson. He is very smart and tough.

It is only fair that she be asked the same questions that all the other candidates have been asked. Honestly, if she can’t stand and answer questions from reporters how do you honestly expect us the American people to make an intelligent decision on her?

She seems completely unprepared, to me. And now we hear that she is already thinking about another war! Out of touch and out of control — that’s the GOP ticket this year.

Jack wrote: ” It seems as though he does not think for himself and has other people running his campaign. Is that the kind of leader we need?”
With McCain with one foot in death’s door, and Governor Palin having her “speeches” written by Bush’s speech writers you can honestly bring yourself to type this? Karl Rove is running McCain’s campaign and you can honestly bring yourself to type this? Neither one of these Mavericks can speak for themselves on foreign policy or the economy and you can bring yourself to type this? Good luck in your future, you’ve just been OWNED by the Republican machine.

Wouldn’t any normal person question whether or not they were ready to be the vice president? Wouldn’t that necessarily require some deep reflection. The fact that she didn’t is very scary. Hubris in the White House has caused enough problems. Thanks, but not thanks, Sarah. And to threaten Russia with war? My God.

Wretched. Worthless. Thanks for being a spineless toady. Thanks for standing up for infotainment and the right of every citizen in America to fed a constant diet of lukewarm pap. Thanks for nothing, Charlie.

It gets very HOT in the kitchen! If Palin cant take that HEAT….get out! If she can then its supper time!!!!

I’m so proud of Sarah! John McCain will be remembered as a visionary for this astonishing pick of a VP.
I look forward to seeing Sarah sworn in on Jan. 20th, alongside John McCain.
I wanted Mr. McCain to run with Mr. Kerry, four years ago. But this is so much better!

I am glad Palin did this interview. I bet she DEBUNKS a lot of rumors!!
Almost every “negative” thing I have read about her online has been false.

Why won’t someone ask “did you stop for one second to consider that maybe your daughter didn’t WANT to become worldwide tabloid fodder? Did you worry that the people who ripped Jamie Lynn Spears and her mother to shreds might not be as supportive as they have have?”

Honestly, one of the first questions should’ve been why she wouldn’t talk to the press unless it was on her own terms. But of course, by definition, he couldn’t ask that question.
That whole thing made my head explode. After years of conservatives saying “not ready on day one” and “if he can’t handle X how can he handle al qaeda”, they pick a vp who’s not ready on day one and can’t handle the press, and somehow everyone’s fine with that.

Oh My God!! Please tell me that this is a horrible joke. This is the woman Republicans think is capable of understanding the complex issues facing this country. This is the woman capable of executing two wars, the economy, energy, healthcare , etc. Oh, and let’s not forget her statements about a war with Russia. Please let me wake from this nightmare. And Charlie, please go back to Good Morning America and interview celebs because you’ve shown that you are incapable of asking biting questions unless of course you’re grilling Sen. Obama. Sarah Palin has zero credibility as a viable candidate and Gibson has zero credibility as a journalist.

i’m an independent, i CRIED when George Bush won the second term, i honestly thought it was one of the worst decisions america has made in decades. and it turns out i was right.
and I looooove sarah palin. you guys want to make her out to be some kind of a crazy right winger, yet she surrounded herself with people from both democratic and republican party, as well as independents when she was in office. she fired people from both of the parties, and some of the republicans she got rid of are now in jail. she is an equal opportunity offender, she doesn’t care about party lines, and that’s what we need in washington. and that happens to be what john mccain is as well. we need REAL CHANGE AND REAL REFORM, not fancy speeches about them. all that obama has done in office is travel around the country promoting his celebrity status. no action, no change, no unity.
MCCAIN/PALIN – the only sensible choice we have this year, and what a great choice it is!

Is anybody surprised by this? Why do you think the Palin folks picked this guy? Fear is an incredible motivator. Since ABC feared getting ostracized if McCain/Palin wins, they backed off and threw her a bunch of softballs.
Hannity is actually right — Journalism is dead.

Is anybody surprised by this? Why do you think the Palin folks picked this guy? Fear is an incredible motivator. Since ABC feared getting ostracized if McCain/Palin wins, they backed off and threw her a bunch of softballs.
Hannity is actually right — Journalism is dead.

Everyone raises to their own level of incompetence….Palin may have reached hers as governor of alaska…

Well, that was pretty bad. What issues did we discuss today Charlie?? What happened to talks about the economy, healthcare, etc. You briefly touched foreign policy so I guess you and Ms. Lipstick can pat yourselves on the back. Weak!

Obama and Biden look like America! They think like real Americans! McSurge and Palin “the puppet” are a throwback ticket from the cold war era. We should all be ready to take America to the next level. I would really be embarrassed to have an old, backwards thinking, self serving fool like McCain representing me as my President. That goes for him and his crazy nurse.
Americans (who embrace diversity) will elect OBAMA and BIDEN in ’08.

Are you sure weren’t interviewing Bush in lipstick?

Ms. Palin is ready to wear her “Runner Up for Vice President” sash in November 5th.
That she is smug and cocky enough to accept such a huge role without thinking about how it would affect her family or whether she was qualified is enough for me.
Judgement. McCain has none.

“18 million people – Democrats, Republicans and independents – voted for Obama in the primaries. They chose him after listening to his speeches, watching the debates and examining his record over a 2 year period.”
NOW, THAT IS SCARY!!!! we have 18 million people in this country that wanna pick a guy with really good speaking skills and nothing else to be president. “examining his record ” – i know, and no one will ever give me back those 10 minutes.

I guess the bots have received their programming for the day and are out spreading their cheer.
She actually wants to hold firm and not appease or apologize? What’s wrong with her. I can’t wait to hear what Matt Damon and Madonna will have to say about this.

looks like Sara did a great job, can’t wait to see the whole interview!!

Great job, Sarah.
McCain/Palin – proven agents of CHANGE!

I’m so tired of the dbl. standards…
When Clinton used the words “fairy tale,” it was racism. When Obama says pig and lipstick, it was just a phrase. (even though he is supposed to be the master orator and chooses his words so well). Did anyone notice how his audience caught the real meaning right away, just like when he not so secretly gave Hillary the finger last spring.
Palin is inexperienced and scary, but Obama is bringing new faces and a breath of fresh air.
Palin’s church and religious beliefs are terrifying, but Obama’s 20 year associations with radical religious figures like Wright and Phleger are nothing to be worried about.
Palin’s anti abortion views are dangerous to women, but Obama’s support of denying medical treatment to babies surviving abortion is perfectly fine.
Palin’s experience as governor doesn’t qualify her for anything, but Obama’s state senate (sorry, 1 year in the US Senate before spending every waking moment running for President doesn’t count at all to me)experience qualifies him to be President of the United States.
Gov. Palin has the audacity to have small children and run for v.p., but Obama and all the other good old boys can have small children and run for anything they want.
I’m sick of the whole mess, it’s even worse than with Hillary. I’m disgusted with Bill and Hillary for kissing up, dumping their principles, and campaigning for the most inexperienced candidate ever to reach this position in an election.

I read that she didn’t want to be senator because then she wouldn’t be a “team MOM” what changed? Her ego or her ability to parent.

Here’s a fun game: go find the transcript of the democratic debate with gibson and stephanapolous. For each question they asked, recast it as a question for Palin, if applicable. Original:
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator Obama, do you think Senator Clinton can win?
New:
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor Palin, do you think Senator Obama can win?
Original:
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Senator, two questions. Number one, do you think Reverend Wright loves America as much as you do? And number two, if you get the nomination, what will you do when those sermons are played on television again and again and again?
New:
MR. STEPHANOPOULOS: Governor, two questions. Number one, do you think Ed Kalnins loves America as much as you do? And number two, if you get the nomination, what will you do when those sermons are played on television again and again and again?
Etc., etc. These things pretty much wouldn’t happen.

I would give her a C-. I read a report from someone who used to work for her that said that she answers questions by paraphrasing them and parroting them back. I think some of the questions she was giving answers she practiced (like the one about “task fron God” and the ones she didn’t expect she parroted back the question. If McCain is elected and somehow she becomes President we are in BIG trouble.

“Dumbing down of America continues: McFood, McRealityShows, McNovels, McSchools, McPolitics, McCain/Palin.”
You are to blame too. Make no mistake about it.

Jan,
She would be attacked like this and probably worse if it was 10 days before taking even one question from the press and they are all softball questions. The press needs to stop treating her with kid gloves. They were never this nice to Clinton.

What does the election of either Barack or John revel about the citizens of the country?

What were Governor Clinton’s foreign policy credentials when he won the Presidency?

I am an Obama supporter and I’ve no time for Palin or McCain but I actually felt sorry for her as I watched the ABC clip. I don’t know if it’s the camera angle but she is definitely tanking, no question. She seems ‘wired’ alright (her words), seems to lack confidence and someone has obviously told her to keep saying ‘Charlie’ even though it sounds really unnatural.
I think things are going to be okay.

Can you see her now? Marching across the Berring Strait with the Moose Lodge to protect her country.

I saw Christine Todd Whitman on TV the other day, former governor of NJ and former head of the EPA, and I thought, “Why didn’t they pick this Republican woman? So much more of a centrist Republican, so reasonable, so eloquent and thoughtful.” Really, Sarah Palin? Are you kidding?

Hard hitting stuff Charlie. Maybe you want to ask her how much she loves America next?

My vote goes to Michael Palin as D.P.Gumby. My brain hurts!

One can only surmise that Gibson was well paid to ask these softball questions.

I feel the Lumberjack song coming on…

Of all the Republican comments on here, I don’t see any that actually say why she is qualified. Just pointing at Obama and Clinton (remember what peace was like?) and saying, “So what, nobody else is qualified!” Is living in a state close to Russia and being the head-in-name-only of the Alaskan National Guard really comparable to sitting on (or leading, in Biden’s case) the Foreign Policy Committee? You want to compare Biden’s experience and Palin’s? Come on!

Sarah is AMAZING. She did a fabulous job. If the left is screaming about this interview you KNOW she did well.
At least every answer was direct and without all the hemmming and hawwing you get from Obama. A man who couldn’t make a decision if his….make that OUR… lives depended on it.

Kat in the hat,
Palin got her passport in order to visit the Alaska National Guard in Kuwait (not Iraq) less than two years ago. Kuwait is the nice, safe resort country to the south where they have the R&R areas for the troops in Iraq. I suppose you should also add Ireland onto her foreign experience, since she did make a lay over there.
If you go by those trips, I should be VP, since I have been to more foreign countries (England, France, Germany, Israel, China, and many other places in Asia). Hey, China is next to Russia, and I grew up in a state bordering Canada.

Kat in your hat….Hillary supporter to McCain…..haha no true Hillary supporter would vote for him….unless your voting based on body parts

Hey, Charlie, did you ask Palin what she knows about Obama serving as the Chairman on the Chicago Annenberg Challenge that Bill Ayers founded? Ya, it’s bigger than the Wooods Fund, when they both sat on the same board.
This one was about Obama and Ayers running an education program worth $160 million dollars, and then FAILING. BAD choices.
No, no one wants to talk about what Ayers and Dorhn are doing through our public schools.
lol. We are so screwed. So many people in the country are DUMB!

Obama lived in another country when he was a child and says it gives him experience????
Give me a break!
Bill Clinton was right when he called it a Fairy Tale!

Obama only agreed to go on Fox with O’reilly with preconditions. I read that Palin wouldn’t have any conditions of what they would have to ask her. You Obamabots are just in need of a brain and a change of underwear. Obama is the one that can’t talk without a written speech and a telepromter. UHH, uhh, da, da, well…, uhh. Obama was never asked what makes him think he has the experience to be President. He’d probably say his mentors Rev. Wright, Frank Marshall Davis and Ayers gave him all the experience he will ever need. An enemy within our own Government. I never thought that would have ever happened. It’s possible now.

All you Sarah Palin Haters just can’t get over the fact that Palin the number 2 on the ticket has more experience then your number 1 guy. Lol how sad!

“Charlie, here in Alaska nobody expects the Spanish Inquistion. Our three chief weapons are…”

This is not about Palin being inexperienced. Sges been a politician long enough to get the job, they all have. The issue is with her own words she lacks the wisdom to pause count to ten, consider, thoughtfulness. We the people must judge. Judge well my fellow Americans because the next Presidential administration will either strengthen or break OUR back. The case can well be mad that this country needs another Regan republican not the spirit of(MC)Cain. Choose Obama- Biden our best chance.

Fear… Surprise…

Meh. McCain and Palin will send us into World War 3. Only this time, we’ll be part of the Axis.
McCain was all ready to go to war with Russia and still claims Russia fired first (Georgia fired first, but into a area that was to secede from Georgia).
Does McCain not realize you can’t just go to war with a country with enough nuclear weapons to obliterate us?

It is interesting that this new brand of DNC supporters seem to have turned into the thing they claim to loathe. They are full of anger and hate and have very few arguments to offer other than that Obama is so much cooler, so much more cosmopolitan, etc. and that everyone will love us once he is elected–interesting theory, but not really a compelling argument. The DNC has lost its way and has gone so far to the left that it no longer cares about the majority of their old constituency. Making fun of Wal-mart moms, working-class whites and rednecks is not a winning strategy. The new Donna Brazile strategy of neglecting the democratic base seems to be coming apart and being exposed for what it really is–she said she didn’t need us and now the DNC is trying to prove it by hurling insults and invective at average Americans for not being cool, smart and educated enough for their party. Good luck, maybe the Clintons will come in to try to save the ship or maybe they will wait for the Brazile/Obama/Dean faction to fail and they will come in to put the wreckage back together. We’ll see…

Obama has become angry and disoriented. Ever since the announcement of Sarah Palin he doesn’t know what to do with himself.

I laugh everytime I hear Obama supporters trying to diminish Palin’s experience. Besides being totally unqualified to be President, Obama has made some serious strategic mistakes in recent weeks. Notably, Biden not Clinton as VP, and attacking Palin on of all things, her credentials to be VP? Someone needs to whisper in Obama’s ear that he’s running for PRESIDENT, not VICE PRESIDENT. What a fool.

I’m relatively new to this country and am very puzzled with the divide between the two sides. The McCain/Palin supporters keep giving the sneers to Obama/Biden’s and calling them liberals and elitists. In other countries, people are proud to achieve academic successes, trying to learn other cultures, publish new ideas, have a rational mind, and be able to communicate eloquently. Families sacrifices everything to send their kids to get educated and to be elitists so that they are respectable, and contribute to the country with worldly visions and progressive ideas. The answer from Sarah Palin “I’m ready” doesn’t answer anything. So we should just take her words for it? And anyone who is outraged by this must be liberal and elitist. It doesn’t take much to be a liberal and elitist in this country, it seems. Look at the crowds watching Obama’s convention speech. Does everyone look like liberal and elitist? Really, they are people who have to have 3 jobs to pay bills. They are people who finally see hope. On the other hand, “Drill Baby Drill!” was being chanted at the Republican convention. Was everyone drunk there? Why is Obama seen by half of this country as this out of touch, lofty person while he grew up in a working class single-mom family, lived on food stamps and started his career working for the poor and local communities, and every proposal he has is for the people. Why does anyone who is not rich (making $250,000 or more a year), feel they can relate to fur-wearing, country club going rich republicans? How can we trust them to have incentives to improve public schools while they and their kids all went to private schools. How can you count on them to feel our financial struggles when $3 or $5 gas price doesn’t make a difference on their life styles. They say they respect individualities, but they wire tap us. They say they are conservative but they hate the conservationists. They say they don’t want the government decide what doctors is on your net work list, but they let insurance company do this? They say they are pro-life but they risks our soldiers’ lives to fight a war that has no proof to be justified. They say their are physically responsible people and they got us into this deep debt. They tout small town value while most of them grew up in a gated community and don’t know what coupons are for. I can see why rich people love these guys, but I just don’t get it how an average American get excited about them.

Liz, because Alaska is close to Russia, so she knows Russia. At least that’s what McCain just said in an interview.

^5 joan from TN

It is not republicans who want to know about Ayers, Annenberg etc…it is dems who won’t vote for an inexperienced lair.
I know I was one of them…I prefer God Bless America.

argument for experience and obama
1) He has ran committees (and a very successful campaign) – here are some resume highlights:
* 1983-1984 Writer/Researcher for Business International Corporation. Helped companies understand overseas markets in the “Financing Foreign Operations” service and wrote for the “Business International Money Report”
* 1984-1985 Community Organizer for New York Public Interest Research Group (PIRG), promoting personal, community, and government reform at City College in Harlem.
* 1985-1988 Director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization originally comprising eight Catholic parishes in Greater Roseland on Chicago’s South Side. While director grew the DCP staff from 1 to 13 and their budget from $70,000 to $400,000.
* 1992 Led Chicago’s Project Vote! push. This effort resulted in a record number of voter registrations, over 600,000 in Chicago.
* 1993-2004 Visiting Law and Government Fellow, then Senior Lecturer, in Constitutional Law at the University of Chicago Law School. Taught courses on the due process and equal protection areas of constitutional law, on voting rights, and on racism and law. Helped develop a casebook on voting rights.
* Chairman, Health and Human Services Committee (Illinois State Senate)
o Spearheaded a successful bipartisan effort in Illinois to pass the broadest ethics-reform legislation by any state in 25 years, and also gained bipartisan support for his successful bills reforming death penalty interrogations and ending racial profiling by police. Worked with the Republican-led effort to reform welfare
o Also sponsored successful bills expanding tax credits and child-care subsidies for low-income working families, protecting overtime pay for workers, expanding health care for children, and providing job skills training for juveniles
o Number of sponsored bills: 65
o Number of co-sponsored bills 364
* Member, Senate Foreign Relations Committee
* Chairman, Senate Foreign Relations Subcommittee on European Affairs
* Member, Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions
* Member, Senate Committee on Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs
* Member, Senate Committee on Veterans‘ Affairs
* Barack Obama has introduced nearly 300 bills during his time in the U.S. Senate, and cosponsored close to 1,000 others. If you would like a full look at his legislative efforts, search the 109th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d109query.html and 110th Congress at http://thomas.loc.gov/bss/d110query.html
2) Executive experience has no correlation with your ability to run the country. The examples are numerous of this, and McCain’s own lack of “executive” experience is quite telling at just how little it really matters. The truth is only19 of the 43 presidents had more experience than Barack Obama would have if he were elected in 2008 (this includes governor experience in the tallies).
3) Attacking the “present” vote is fine, but you may want to look at why he voted present in some of this situations (it wasn’t that he didn’t want to make a decision, many times it was because of constitutionality reasons or as a protest with his party) – and note the total number of votes he did cast (more than 4,000 total votes) – that’s a 3.25% vote of “present.” You may also want to point out/contrast that this year McCain has missed 63.8% of the votes in the senate.
4) The military has donated to Obama at a rate of 6 to 1. He has shown a level head and fortitude to make the tough – and right – decisions.

Obama is not the tradtional democrat who really gives a crap about ALL working class and middle class. That was the Clinton’s. NOT Obama.
Posted by: kat in you hat PUMA
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So why are the Clintons campaigning for Obama/Biden and not McCain/Palin?

Bopper:
Didn’t you hear that Palin was proud of her daughter’s DECISION to have her baby?
Palin is not as hard-core as you think.
She is against abortion yes, but not against contraception and sex ed.
Seriously.

If you elect this crazy wacko you will be saying god damn america!

Leigh39: Quess what alot of Americans are bitter and we do cling to what we have left.He was Indonesia when he was 6…and what ? He was secretly brain washed. Gees…I’ve got poor relatives too

Roger, I don’t have the links, but 18 months of 60 Minutes, Face the Nation, This Week, Meet the Press, 26 debates, Time, Newsweek… are you seriously comparing one interview with Cupcake Gibson to this? Now who’s drinking Kool-Aid?

“The Obama team is on the ball!!!
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That’s right. ENOUGH! We’re going to talk about issues whether you like it or not.”
oh yeah, you guys have been talking about THE ISSUES all right. I didn’t realize that issues included: a 17 years old being pregnant, that sarah’s child is really her daughters, that sarah slept with her husband’s friend, that sarah should stay at home and tend to her children instead of running for office, that sarah tried to turn gay people straight, that sarah cut a budget for disabled even though she tripled it, etc etc. you guys have been talking about everything BUT the issues. on the issues there is no conversation because your candidate didn’t bother to show up for his job in the senate much, so all that he’s got is talking out of his butt. there is nothing to look at as far as any issues, just what he decides that he supports on a given day. that’s why he’s spreading every rumor he can about sarah (with the help of his 30 lawyers released into alaska), to divert attention from the fact that this woman with 5 children, 2 years his junior, had accomplished more reform than obama and biden put together.
sad sad democrats and their little following. and it’s getting smaller by the hour.

My friends, to claim that Palin is more ready/experienced than Obama is truly disingenuous. Obama as a US senator (albeit for a short time, but no shorter than Palin was Governor) has heard and dealt with the issues concerning Afghanistan and Iraq. Republicans like to say that Obama just gave a speech denouncing the Iraq war, he never had to vote on it (not true, but let’s agree for the sake of argument). Well, I don’t think Palin has had an opportunity to formulate an opinion to give even that one speech… This is not meant to bash Palin; I’m just saying it’s not on the record. There is really no evidence that she has been thinking about these world affairs to any significant depth. Whatever ideas she will speak now are merely the ones that Bush advisers are going to coach into her. In a speech to her church, she only managed to claim that the war in Iraq was God’s plan. Even if we give her the benefit of doubt on this (let’s just say it was an inappropriately phrased comment), it only shows that she had nothing deeper to say here.
Folks, tossing around names like Rose and Orange revolution and re-assuring us with statements like “Russia, formerly the Soviet Union” just means that she sat on a flight with a bunch of Cliff’s notes (i.e., Bush advisers now coaching her for the upcoming debate). This doesn’t mean that she has thought deeply about these issues, or even cares about them.
I’d ask Republicans to look deeper in their hearts and ask themselves… what direction is this country headed? This is not a game. This is very serious stuff. Let’s not get caught in the mudslinging. It’s quite obvious that Palin was chosen to appease the social conservative base, along with peeling off some women votes. If you belong to that base and you are appeased, then I can’t really argue with you. We just see the world differently. Best of luck. But, for the independents and Republican social centrists, take a deep look at the issues and the direction of the country before making your choice. Do not be swayed by the crazy rhetoric, both from the left and the right… this is just mudslinging.

obamamama:
Hillary has said before that even if one can absolutely not support Obama, to please support democrats down-ticket.
Hillary is campaigning as much for Congress, maybe even more than for Obama, and it’s to pay back favors, but mainly…to make sure if McCain wins–there will still be a dem majority Senate (they vote on supreme court judges, etc).
I will be voting dem down-ticket. McCain/ Palin top of the ticket.

The American public and the media are playing by the republican rule book. Do we not remember how the election of 2000 went and 2004? The (Karl Rove) Republican Media Playbook was all about make the media come to you, drop the crumbs make them follow you like a pack of dogs. Give them just enough to keep them interested but don’t give them to much substance because they might then go away and really listen to the democrats.
We are falling for it again, is saddens me that the American public is once again playing themselves to be the fool.

mike, the Obama campaign said to back off the Bristol. It was the super left wing extremists (yes, the left wing has their own extremists) that took that to an extreme.
If you look at what the Obama campaign and their *actual* surrogates have said, you’ll quickly realize that all that god awful witchhunt stuff is entirely media driven.

Gibson’s questions appear to be softballs with little follow-up. Palin’s answers are fluff she’s been coached to regurgitate. Folks on the right who are quick to jump on her bandwagon never explain, with any detail, why they support her. They simply become adamant about defending her, and then they attack anyone who dares to criticize her (see above comments for multiple examples). In my opinion, Palin does not have enough concrete experience to be VP or (god forbid) Prez. Perhaps Obama doesn’t either. But when it comes down to it, McCain and Palin have both PROVEN, through their actions and statements, that they are impulsive and reactionary, and their campaign is resting on a carefully choreographed routine of distracting people from the true issues. There are countless lies in her acceptance speech that have now become woven throughout their campaign as part of the false-reality they are trying to sell. No, not just rumors drummed up by the media – actual facts documented in government records, quotes captured during speeches during previous campaigns, and other things your righties keep trying desperately to dismiss as liberal bias. How can it be liberal bias if it came out of Palin’s or McCain’s mouth during non-partisan events? If Palin can’t handle the scrutiny from the media, how can she possibly handle it from Putin or Chavez? Obama has PROVEN himself to be someone who thinks things through carefully before responding with statements or actions that demonstrate solid diplomacy skills.

the fact that this woman with 5 children, 2 years his junior, had accomplished more reform than obama and biden put together.
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Lay out all their experience, Mike, Obama and Biden. Then Palin’s. She’s got more, really? Is this new math or something?

“In reading back over the comments, I find it interesting (and sad) that the supporters of McCain/Palin largely resort to name-calling and nastiness while the Obama/Biden people engage in respectful debate.”
OMG! No more calls, please! I think we have a winner!
Doh!!!

Bush was voted into the Presidency because people thought he was “someone they could have a beer with”.
Our leaders shouldn’t be ordinary. They should be extraordinary.

LOL. New Obama talking point:
*Enough* *issues* *no distractions* *it’s about issues*
That’s RICH! After 20 months of YES WE CAN; BELIEVE; HOPE; CHANGE! CHANGE! CHANGE!
Gimme a break.

Mclame just put this election ove rhis country with this pick. It’s very obvious I honestly can’t believe that “Mavrick” Mclame would honestly pick this woman to lead our country into a war. I just don’t buy it. and I aint going to drink this republican kool aid

Totally agree with you Bob. Its nice to find a Republican I can agree with for a change. At least we can agree, intelligence and knowledge matter! Let’s not put Sally Homemaker into the White House!

obamamama:
I also heard Hillary say that Obama was too inexperienced, and that both she and McCain crossed over the Commander-in-Chief threshold, with decades of experience, and all Obama has done was give a speech in 2002.

“Obama only wants to raise taxes on Americans”
You lost me after that.

“Maybe she should have stopped and thought, “Gee, my daughter’s unmarried and pregnant at 17. Maybe I should consider her feelings?”
Yeah. I’m right there with ya. Until you try to imagine what the 17-year old would have to live with knowing that she was the reason her mother declined to be the first ever republican vice presidential candidate. You play the hand you’re delt in life and pray that you have a loving family standing beside you.

Carole, where is the proof she is brilliant? What are her *actual* accomplishments? How hands on was she as governor when she resided 600 miles away from the seat of government?
I need to know where she stands on issues. This it the first real interview she’s given. That’s insane! McCain did his first interview today after a *month*.
Why are they hiding?

I voted for bush because i thought he was a good Christian man. He used religion to take advantage of the world and has made it easier for those with the means to rob this nation. I will not vote republican, the revolution is in our vote. GET RID of the republicans before they ruin, steel our draws.

Is Obama running against Palin or McCain? Why are the dems/Liberals so afraid of her? Is it perhaps because they know the republicans will win again? Lets pull up Obama’s and Palin’s resume. put them side by side, and see who is more experienced! By the way, what has Obama accomplished as a Senator? At least Sarah is #2 for the republicans. The Dems/liberals have Obama as the head on their ticket and their #2 says Hillary is more qualified than him!!! Do we want those two as our leaders?! In essence, one has no experience, has not had to make decisions in office, voted present as Senator, and the other believes he is less qualified than someone else to be Vice President!!! Very Interesting. Only in America.

I watched the video clips. She sounds great, so articulate, secure of herself, smart, and authentic. If she’s not completely ready now, she will soon be. Now I feel more comfortable voting for that ticket!
GO SARAH !!!! Nobody can intimidate you, GO GIRL!!!!!

Joe SixPack, I have a 17-year-old daughter. I’d stand by her side, too, no matter what the mistake or decision she made. But I wouldn’t feed her to the wolves. Do you have so little confidence in Palin that you think this is her only opportunity to serve her country?

Like any of you dems really care about anything but yourselves. COUNTRY FIRST!!!

So serving as a governor of a state with a population equal to the size of the city of Austin means Sarah has the right amount of executive experience? Seems eight years ago we voted another governor in with more “executive experience” then Sarah and look where that got us as a country.

I was for Obama, then for McCain since Ms Alaska Came in with so much vigor, after watching the first interview by Charlie, “oh my Gwad” i am Sooo Not for McCain Anymore.. this woman is a joke.

Democrats are afraid of Palin because the democratic party has ALWAYS had a huge women’s voting bloc.
But now the republicans are getting a bigger women voting bloc. It terrifies the democrats because it could destroy the democratic party and it even threatens the two party system.
Turns out the democratic party is more sexist than the republican party (this year).
The democrats feel that it should have been THEIR party to push through a woman to the highest office, and they are just very shocked that it will be the republicans to do it.
The democrats NEVER thought McCain would put a woman on his ticket, and so they are scared to death and attacking Palin. They should be attacking themselves, for turning into sad woman-haters under Obama’s influence.

I think what scared me was how she kept saying “you can not blink when making these decisions”, so does that mean that since she has access to the nuclear codes she doesn’t consult congress just starts pushing buttons?
Also, this looks very edited…

Charlie and the rest of the wing-nuts keep talking about how Palin is more qualified than Obama. Put their resumes side by side and see how they do. Better yet, give them each a test on world history, geography, and international politics and see how they’d do. Palin might win a test on moose-skinning or slaughtering helpless animals from a helicopter, but not any real issue that one would actually need to know to be a VP.

Just curious (seriously). How many of you Palin defenders would also vote Bush into another term?
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How many of you Obama defenders are afraid of Obama FINALLY being vetted??? Just curious (seriously).

It’s because we care about our country, Bruce Ballard, that we speak out. Patriots are not just those who nod their heads without thinking. Patriots speak up when they see their country is heading in the wrong direction, even when they face derision from people like you.

My Republican friends in my office are panicked by her statements. In fact, one has jumped ship already. I personally cant believe this lunatic nut job actually stated “Yes, I’m qualified to be President ! ! ! “

*Charlie*
Personally, I’m afraid of her because shes regurgitating everything thats being fed to her. She could EASILY become the Pres. if something happens to McCain (which is very likely). If you’re going to take part in leading the country, at least have your own mind. I’ve already said everything I need to say bout McCain but Palin came out of nowhere and expects us to trust her. Mofo please!

Eighty per cent of Americans believe our country is on the wrong track. EIGHTY PER CENT! This election is about bringing our TROOPS home, creating and keeping JOBS, keeping people in their HOMES, and finding long term solutions to our ENERGY problems. IMHO, the Democrats are playing right into Karl Rove’s hands by wasting a lot of useless talk on “what a redneck” Sarah Palin is. Well, a redneck is as good as the next person when it comes to wanting someone to lead us out of the mess we’re in. The Republicans are just getting the Democrats to say things to drive voters over to their party. Enough already! Let’s start talking about the issues that have 80 PER CENT of people ticked off and what we all agree on to get us out of the mess we’re in. And, to my mind, it isn’t more of the same old crony capitalism, lies about WMD and attack politics. People are not fools and they will soon catch on that Sarah Palin is just a decoy. Of course she’s not qualified to be VP, but that’s not why she’s on the ticket to begin with….

The only religious wacko in this campaign is Obama’s spiritual guru, Rev. Wright. Obama listened to his hateful sermons for 20 years and refused to disown him even when it came to the anti-American preaching.

Like any of you rich fascist Republicans care about anything but your corporations and your money!! America First! Obama/Biden Time!!!

Wow, what a wonderful, insightful interview. Thanks ABC NEWS. I am even more impressed with Gov. Palin! Go McCain-Palin Team.

It has just become more apparent to me that without Tim Russert we will never get to the heart of the matter. I am sadden that we have not had a journalist step up to the plate Since Tim Russert’s death. No one is up to the challenge and it is very sad.

There are both Republicans and Deomcrats in Alaska. Govenor Palin has a 80% approval rating!!! She is obviuosly doing something right!!!!

Media is so focused on liberalism. They absolutely hate the right side. It is a lopsided vision of the truth. This interview was at least a fair chance for Palin to come out into the light. Being from Alaska I know what she has gone through with the oil companies and the old republican guard. She is a strong leader with a vision and she has the guts to see it through. (and it is very American,,,,not Marxist). Obama is making transparent fake promises that will be very damaging to the American Economy.

I love all the people on the comment board like “Buster” and others who says she did provide any facts and said nothing…..and yet you support Obama?? Also did you watch the interview? What facts could be given with these questions? Obama hasn’t had questions like this from the majority of the media. Read all these comments, every one of them is from a political spin-point. I like hillary she lost. I am trying to pick a ticket yet all I get from the media is bias and all I read from peoples commmentary is delusion

I think the interview is GREAT.
I am glad.

Bravo! Well said!

Mc Cain’s choice of Sarah Palin should be seen as major insult to all Americans. She is not qualified to be on any major ticket.
But what should we expect from a man who finished 4th from the bottom of his class at Annapolis.
This country needs intelligent people to lead it right now not another dolt like Bush. That someone is Obamma who was president of the Harvard Law review.
Clinto was a Rhodes scholar also another itellect. The country did fine under his watch it’s time for intelligence in the oval office and not ignorance.

One thing is ABSOLUTELY clear…NObama has a huge number of people with a lot of time on their hands to write garbage on sites and call in to radio shows and spout talking point drivel. Perhaps they’re the people that he failed to get educated when he was a community agitator.
Governor Sarah is far more clear to me than NObama who cringes and dodges when any details of his limited and questionable past is slightly exposed. I feel confident that Governor Sarah doesn’t associate with America haters and aging terrorists.

I am an Independent voter. I have voted for some Republicans and for some Democrats. I am a woman and I will NOT be voting for McCain and his Palin-Puppet, also known by her own words, “soccer mom/pit bull with lipstick.” Let us get “real.” Experience can be highly overrated, especially when it is highly ineffective. OBAMA was wise enough to say NO to a senseless war that has only cost dear, precious lives – US and Iraqi’s. Republicans, do you realize this war has taken more lives than the overthrown, beheaded Iraqi leader was responsible for? The war has cost us BILLIONS pushing TRILLIONS in resources, the most precious are the lives lost – blood for oil. Blood to make Cheney and his puppet Bush and their cronies richer than any of us can ever imagine. If that is the kind of experience we need, forget it. Republicans and Independents, WAKE-UP! Experience in this Presidential race equals more war, more wreckless spending of resources and lives, more tax cuts for the wealthy, more Republican rationalism for all of their poor choices for the populace. We ARE NOT BETTER OFF after eight years of puppetry. Where is the sanity of intelligent people in the US? WAKE UP!

Do the Obama heads really think that the party of Disgrace (democrats) will be able to Con the American People with their control of the mainstream media? “Most” intelligent people in this country see right through the Tissue thin experience of Obama and his more of the same Clinton Policies that Failed so Miserably. Barak Obama reminds me of so many athletes who talk a good game and sometimes a great game, but when the action starts they are the first ones to rattle of excuse after excuse as to why they can’t get the job done. While Barak Obama is talking, people like John McCain and Sarah Palin are getting the Right things done for this Great Nation. McCain/Palin ‘08

Hey Nate, if you are from Alaska, could you please give us back our $200 million from the Bridge to Nowhere? We’re kind of in a pinch here, and buying popularity in your home state is not real high on our agenda. How much was your rebate?

I’m sorry but this interview not only seems scripted, but it is extremely edited. Does anyone besides me notice how it cuts away at points? I want to see her interviewed “Unplugged” or live.

Oh yeah Roger. Drilling – that’s going to solve everything. It is incredible how uneducated and ignorant McCain/Palin supporters are about basic realities. Fact – we went to war to increase big oil’s profits. Fact – they now have the most profits of any industry ever in the history of the world. Fact – if we started drilling today that would barely make a difference. Fact – we actually have a surplus of oil, the reason the price of it is so high is because of speculation and because high prices mean more profits from the oil companies.
Drilling won’t help anything. Do a little research.

Charlie, for someone as long in the tooth as you, I would have thought by this time you’d have learned how to listen. Gov Palin gave you several credible answers the first time and you needn’t have asked them 3 times. You were too busy giving her that condescending look over your glasses. I also would have thought by this time you’d be better able to mask your true political leanings…but alas, none of your ilk seem so enabled. Network news is quickly following in the footsteps of our daily newspapers which have the life expectancy of the dodo. Keep up the bad work.

Palins first question GIBSON played her repeat the answer re Russia and attacking another country if threatened!!
It seems ABC picked and chose what exactly they wanted the viewers to see….it appeared to be her answers were picked and played and other words left out…
YOU bias hypocrites……AT ABC….I will never watch your station again….even the tv programming

“Joan
People who don’t like community organizers are generally racists or facists. Which one are you?”
But it was ok for Barry to belittle her mayoral experience. A job where you acutally have to make decisions, not just stuff envelopes and hand out flyers. Al Sharpton is a community organizer, and there is about as much hate in his community as there is in Wright’s church.

Kat in your hat PUMA, ok since you “know” people who died there that makes you more American? Im sure it was nothing to you, obviously, but there were people all the way across the nation who still cry every day and knew noone that died there. Our Nation was attacked, not just those loved people. We ALL died a little there that day and she has every right to be offended. So you RELAX.

Wow! The candidates are all good people. It seems that most of you are just upset over the fact that McCain and Palin are going to be the winning ticket in this election. So get over it and deal with it and stop with the personal attacks.

If this is what she said, “Our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God…That’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for, that there is a plan and that plan is God’s plan”, then it’s silly to be upset about it.
I’ll translate for those who are fanboys and not really paying attention:
She stated a hypothesis that they are being sent due to God’s plan and then urged the audience to pray that her hypothesis is correct. Fair enough and quite nice really.
[if you don't know the word "hypothesis", look it up.]

Yeah, John, drilling is the answer. Drop in the bucket, dude. We need better answers than drill, baby, drill. You guys have had 8 years. You didn’t drill or come up with better solutions. Move over. Enough.

Don said: “In reading back over the comments, I find it interesting (and sad) that the supporters of McCain/Palin largely resort to name-calling and nastiness while the Obama/Biden people engage in respectful debate.”
OMG! No more calls, please! I think we have a winner!
Doh!!!
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Thank you, Don, for making my point for me so nicely. Truly, I hope all the hate in your heart doesn’t destroy you. Peace.

Whenever I get down about our country it is usually when I read the bulk of fool comments by readers in these blogzones. I’ve been watching and studying Gov Palin since last Feb and spreading the word about her. The moment John McCain announced her name as his VP pick I have been thrilled and elated. She really does represent the kind of energy and reform this country needs. That’s not a quick fix. In fact, our dependence on quick fixes is part of our problem. John McCain and Sarah Palin will not give us any quick fix but will LEAD us in a new direction to strengthen American values and restore values almost lost.
Together we can re-ignite the heart and soul of this country and lead the rest of the nations who want to follow toward a real New World – not the New Order of George Soros and company.
McCain/Palin ’08. Palin/Jindal ’2012 !!

*Roger*
And what promises is McCain making that will help the American economy? How often do you hear him talk about things he will do for the economy? All I hear from him is war and foreign policy, they’re important, but they’re not the only issues on the table. What about energy? More drilling? What’s that going to do for this country in the long run? His tax cuts benefit those who make 250K or higher more than they benefit people like little ‘ol me who can barely afford nursing school. I’m sorry but John McCain doesn’t cut it. What about the military? Since he loves the war so much and wants to keep at it, why isn’t he more concerned about the soldiers fighting the war? Most of us don’t have full coverage for mental healthcare, especially if you’re a guard or reserves. When I came back from Iraq I was under the impression that the GI Bill would cover my education! $400 a month doesn’t do a thing. He wants us to keep fighting this war but he won’t give us the benefits we deserve. John McCain DOESN’T CUT IT!

Mary McCurry, my values are just fine. Thanks, but no thanks. Instead, let’s fix the economy and get out of this international mess we’re in. I don’t need your values imposed on me. I want a president, not a pastor.

I was very Disapointed with Charlie Gibson. It was very clear that he is not impartial and has an agenda. He was very condescending in tone and body language. I would like to see the same questions asked of Obama in the same way. Whether you like her answers or not, give Sarah Palin credit for being cool under fire.

I think the funniest thing is that Biden stated that Hillary is more qualified than Obama and would have been a better choose than him. Well if this is an example of Obama’s leadership and experience he’s really ready. Also I watched the O’Rilley interview and I have one question for liberals, Obama stated that he would lower taxes on 95% (more than the evil president bush did) of the country, and raise the other 5%, but he stated that he would delay raising taxes on the 5% because it would slow the economy down more. Well with this brilliant statement when the economy improves then he will raise taxes and “slow it back down” that’s the change we need. Maybe at the same time he will tax the oil companies more, which will make the price of oil go down (what?).
And for every one out there saying how evil the oil companies are (I don’t work for one and I drive a big truck). Go look at Exxon Mobile financial report for last year, yes they made more than $40 billion, but they had over $450,000,000,000 in sales (that’s billion for you slow people), and less then 25% was in the US. They make less than 9 cents on the dollar. Google last year made over 22 cents on the dollar, but had no ware near that amount in sales as Exxon did. But if Google did have $450,000,000,000 in sales then they would make $99,000,000,000 (Billion), and probable spend a good amount of that money within the county by hiring people “evil”, buying equipment “Evil” and so on.
This shows that Obama doesn’t know basic economics work; go to the IRS web site you can see that the top 5% pay more than 40% of the countries tax bill. And you will also see that even the IRS states that each time taxes are lowered the revenue goes up. And again for the slow people, the reason it goes up is because the population spends more money and the “Evil” companies make more and hire more people and then people in turn spend more, and so on.

Charlie, your impatience and rudeness during the Palin interview could not have been more apparent. I know “the facts” are important, but is it a “bad thing” to be a Christian? If religion is that much of a concern, then I feel we must revisit Obama’s previous and current religious beliefs. In addition, I will be anxiously awaiting to see if your Biden interview is handled with the same demeanor.

She lied. Her statment in the church had nothing at all to do with Abraham Lincoln’s quote. She was resuming the opposite…that God is on our side. If she isn’t called on this, what is credible about the interview. She’s a liar!~ Just like Bush, just like McCain, more of the same old lies.
GIBSON: You said recently, in your old church, “Our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.” Are we fighting a holy war?
PALIN: You know, I don’t know if that was my exact quote.
GIBSON: Exact words.
PALIN: But the reference there is a repeat of Abraham Lincoln’s words when he said — first, he suggested never presume to know what God’s will is, and I would never presume to know God’s will or to speak God’s words. But what Abraham Lincoln had said, and that’s a repeat in my comments, was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God’s side. That’s what that comment was all about, Charlie.

Registered and always vote. All my family is the same.

I find it interesting that many, let’s say US Citizens, are okay with a candidate that doesn’t put his hand on his heart when the symbol of freedom is being formally presented. He doesn’t wear an American Flag on his lapel, and then says he loves this country too much…to allow what? What is Obama afraid of, offending who? And what about the voting citizens that support him? Are you afraid of offending another country? or people who live in this country who are not citizens? That’s pretty scary.

Registered Holly!
I made my mom and brother register two! Do I get a prize or something? :-)

After seeing the ABC interview, Palin is not ready to be President. Anyone with even a passing interest in foreign affairs is familar with the Bush Doctrine of pre-emptive war and her not being able to answer shows that she was prepped with some set talking points and has no real inherent understanding of the issues.
She is not ready to be a heartbeat away from the leadership of the free world.

Cory, patriotism has nothing to do with flag pins or red-white-blue ties. Get real.

on top of the tacky leg shot, isnt it kind of tacky to do her breakout interview on sept.11?

Just watched the interview on TV. Gibson let his dislike of Palin shine through with the scowl on his face. He is supposed to be unbiased as a hard news reporter -RIGHT!
No more ABC news for me. It is indeed the year journalism died in the U.S. with all the newtwork news anchor being in Obama’s pocket.
Rah Rah

Its obvious that ABC has a left leaning bias. The posts prior to mine are obviously blind to reality and driven by emotion rather than facts.. Exactly what has Obama done other than give a good speech. Its a shame he can’t put together a paagraph when not behind the teleprompter.. uhh… umm.. well

Kevin Morgan you said she lied that is not what licoln said….go read what he said. He stated that we can’t say God is on our side we must hope we are on God’s side. I find nothing wrong with a mother of a service-person stating that God is on the side of our soliders; in a church. It helps people cope. She does not have to think we are waging a holy war just because she says that….or you could just keep yelling “evil bush” “no blood for oil” “impeach bush” “rove is the devil”….that all helps move us foward to.

I have to laugh at you poor fools who are going to vote McCain/Palin. Once we are at war with Russia and Iran simultaneously, we default on our national debt, and the Chinese are buying up our assets like caffeinated housewives at a WalMart sale, your houses will be foreclosed, your jobs gone, gas will be $8 a gallon and your Hummers will sit abandoned in the streets. But we’ll have prayer in schools, so you can pray that maybe you’ll learn something and wise up and elect intelligent, rational candidates next time.

Do you REALLY want Palin with the NSA databases to say nothing about the nuclear codes?

Mrs. Palin sounded SOO scripted its funny. Palin is not ready to lead

I found your interview with Gov Palin very informative and eye-opening. I hope you ask those exact same questions of Senator Biden (word for word). I am your over-50, white women, on the fence in this election. Had a very strong inclination towards Obama. But now, with your interview, the questions you asked, the manner you asked, and her responses, I am very strongly looking more to Gov Palin for the “change” this country desperately needs.
I really take exception to the condescending way the questions were asked (looking over glasses, body language, voice intonation, etc). And please stop twirling your foot when you get bored with her response.

Charlie, Charlie, your true political colors are showing as well as your biased journalism. Your interview screamed LIBERAL MEDIA.
I am disappointed. You used to report fair and balanced news.

My Reaction/Random Thoughts to Part I of the Sarah Palin Interview With Charles Gibson

| She can’t even put a proper sentence together half the time. | She has no understanding of the issues. She only repeated what she had been told by rote. She refused to answer a number of his questions by

Wake up America. How many times does someone need to hit you over the head come in your house and rob you? When will we make the intruder pay? It’s about policy, not about who you like to have a beer with, if you can shop at Walmart together, who has been in Washington the longest, if you are a war hero, or if you give the best speech. It’s policy!!!!!!!!! Now I know what policies don’t work. We had them for eight years with Bush. Don’t you regret that 2004 vote? I know trickledown economics doesn’t work, our current foreign policy doesn’t work, and our current healthcare system is shameful. Now who has been in power for eight years? Who had full control? What party still has the same policies along with John McCain? It’s that easy people.
I’m sure this lady is really nice. I’m sure she means well, but how strange that she has only done one sit down interview and has not answered questions on the trail from reporters live. I love this country even when people say we are stupid around the world. If you think from this interview Sarah Palin can bring along with John McCain the change we need. I think our horrible education system has caught up with us and pray for us all.

Cause its not in the least bit true, “Mack.”
” All Obama has done in his entire career is advance his own career.”
Why can’t people understand this?

“Charlie, Charlie, your true political colors are showing as well as your biased journalism. Your interview screamed LIBERAL MEDIA.”
An overwhelming majority of “journalists” identify themselves as liberal.

Sarah Palin is for Sarah Palin, not the country. She was plucked out of obscurity and will try to make the most out of an opportunity to make it big. She will bluster and intimidate her way through everything with the help of the Republican machine. She is being used and she knows it. That’s what disturbs me about her. (By the way, Sarah – I played women’s basketball and I know your kind. Full body contact doesn’t always win the game).
And McCain. I think he thinks he DESERVES to be president because he was tortured. (Has he ever been treated for posttraumatic stress disorder?)
Both of these candidates are unstable.
Both of them want to win and they will do whatever it takes even if it means the country goes down the tubes. Together and separately they are vicious.
Neither one of these candidates is a consensus builder or a leader. They are pile drivers — ready to bash heads in to win. They may be win but the country won’t.

Robin
Oh, yeah, being geographically close to another country is now proof of international knowledge and foreign policy experience. In an already dumb campaign, this is perhaps the stupidest claim yet to be made.

bscad….good points, I will take them into account. You know just how I like to hear “Bush is evil” and “its carl rove politics” they all really advance the cause. I really liked the part where you mocked McCains torture: very valid point…Another check for the GOP. By the time I am done ready all this stuff I will be working for McCain…sorry hillary

I thought she did very well for her first time as vp pick… Obama has had years of blowing smoke which I might add he can do like no other…There isn’t anything Obama can do or say to get my vote… It isn’t for sale…

I haven’t been following politics very closely but was going to vote Obama (I always vote Democrat out of habit). But after seeing Mrs. Palin I have decided that I am voting McCain this time around. Thank you Charlie Gibson for opening my eyes!

If you aren’t scared after watching this interview, then I don’t know what to say about you. She clearly doesn’t know what she’s talking about. She was feed talking points and even when probed, she would not stray from those talking points and give answers from her own thought process. When she did, she rambled and sounded extremely forced.
Translation, this women isn’t fit to be Secretary of State let along VP. Obama, McCain and Biden have ALL sat in that chair on Meet The Press etc and had to deal with these tough questions many times…this is the first time she’s EVER had to do it and the fact she’s never been exposed to national issues was PAINFULLY obvious.
Again, if you aren’t scared of the decent possibility that if elected VP, she could likelly be commander in chief, you can’t be watching the interview with an objective mind.
(Note: I watched the actual interview on TV which showed her head on. This interview was abbreviated and didn’t show her body language).

Iran is no threat to us. Afghanistan speaks Arabic. I will sit down and talk with leaders of terrorist countries with no preconditions. I do not think the surge worked because I voted against it. – BHO
Yep, that’s foreign policy experience. Gawd.

Enough already! She brings a lot more to the table than Obama. And further more someone said 346 words and she said nothing. Well Obama has been talking for almost 2 years and has nothing. The man could talk about his tie for 2 hours straight. GO SARAH! SHE IS THE REAL DEAL!

do you think palin even knows what the word “HUBRIS” even means? i am in the central zone and haven’t seen the interview yet, but this woman scares the bejeezus out of me.

Make sure and ask her what books she wanted banned and WHY.

Do the research: Sarah Palin and John McCain–two candidates with very short fuses. Doesn’t make me feel secure! I truly believe if they are elected that not much will change economically. Other than yours and my taxes will be raised.

I read there was a lot of “drilling” going on at the “corrupt” EPA, but it didn’t do much to help alleviate the energy crisis! I’ll bet Wall Street is extremely thankful for “big government” right now, since it’s bailed them out, with no trade-off for oversight to prevent the banks from continuing the same insane practices (since God forbid that government would be allowed to actually watch out for taxpayers). But, I’m sure that McCain will solve all of these problems. In a perverse sense, I hope the Republicans are stuck with the huge mess they created, but I don’t think they’ll do much to clean it up!

Now, I didn’t go back and triple-check the quote of what she made in the church, but Charlie’s quote sounds right to my recollection..
That being the case, Palin’s response is a horrible distortion. I agree that the clip (at least) of the qualifications question was soft questioning, but Palin seems to panic a little on the church quote thing. She tries to shoehorn in the Abe Lincoln quote, but WHAT PALIN ACTUALLY SAID WAS PRECISELY THE OPPOSITE OF LINCOLN’S IDEA–AND EXACTLY WHAT HE WAS CAUTIONING AGAINST.
Her statement in the church VERY MUCH presumed to proclaim the mission in Iraq as God’s will. Honest Abe is ill used by Palin here.

As an independent I was going to wait till all the debates were over, then make up my mind. After seeing Palin I don’t need to waste my time on the debate… I’m votin Sarah.

“Hey Mack,
Look up above for the post that cites Obama’s resume. 100 bills introduced in the Senate. He’s the real deal. Too bad so many Americans like you are scared of the intelligent black man. Luckily one day soon white males will be outnumbered, then perhaps our country will be able to approach the greatness which the ignorant assume it already has.”
You’re entitled to your opinion, even if it is wrong.

Yea, Charlie, Charlie, I’ve watch many many interviews and never have I seen you act so non chalant to your victim. You closed your eyes after every question you ask her as if you could give a crap less about what she is saying, treated her as if she were beneath you, and your impartiality has never been more obvious to the viewers. You Charlie should go back and watch this interview and apoligize to her for your DISRESPECT! Shame on ABC for allowing such untasteful reporting! No matter who you vote for, REP. or DEM. this was just an outright, plain, chovanistick?, bias, demeaning interview! I will have to watch the rest to see how you finish her off Charlie, and I feel you have crossed the journalist line by showing America what you are really made of. Ummm, maybe Bob Woodruft should be your replacement? And yes I am a registered voter.

As I suspected, she’s a beauty pageant winner that has experience reading from a teleprompter as a sports broadcaster. It’s easy to see why McCain chose her. Charlie Gibson asked very easy questions with no follow-up. After hearing her response about her readiness to be Commander-In-Chief, I would have thought that Gibson would have followed up with a difficult question about foreign affairs. This does not qualify as vetting the candidate. A simple template for Gibson’s interview should have been the questions that Biden answered during debates held to determine the Democratic nominee.

i have to agree on one thing with dems: this is one lame interview.
who cares what she said in her church, and if she thinks that it’s God’s plan for her son to go to Iraq? what does that have to do with the falling economy? messed up tax system, education, healthcare, foreign relations, immigration, where is all that? is this guy on something? geesh, i really hoped to hear her talk about something sensible. this is a huge disappointment.

Mack
Check the resume again. 100 bills introduced. Now tell me about Palin’s credentials. I’d like to give her a basic geography quiz and see if she even knows where half the countries are located on the globe. I sincerely doubt it. That’s why even the neo-con strategist Repubs are so worried about her – she just doesn’t know anything, plain and simple.

Regardless of what ANY man thinks “God did creat this world. !!!So you go Sarah Palin! No need to argue about it, just read your Bible!

“who cares what she said in her church, and if she thinks that it’s God’s plan for her son to go to Iraq?”
They’re trying to define her as a religous fanatic. Barry gets a pass on his religous background like everything else though.

“I’d like to give her a basic geography quiz and see if she even knows where half the countries are located on the globe.”
Just don’t ask Barry where the Great lakes are located. That wouldn’t be fair.

That was a lousy interview. It looked like a grilling. She couldn’t finish one question before you jumped to another subject. She does’nt have enough experience? What about Obama? What about Clinton, Regan, and Careter.? They ran for president with no more experience than she has. She’s got my vote

We adore Sarah Palin.
Thank God McCain chose her.
She has class, guts, and brains.
In short, a superstar.
Unlike Obama,the gutless, plagurizing, racist, America-hating socialist empty suit.

“mike, the Obama campaign said to back off the Bristol. It was the super left wing extremists (yes, the left wing has their own extremists) that took that to an extreme.
If you look at what the Obama campaign and their *actual* surrogates have said, you’ll quickly realize that all that god awful witchhunt stuff is entirely media driven.”
you’re right, he did distance himself from that – since his own mom was in the exact same predicament. everything else is being unearthed by his own team of people who descended on poor little wasilla (sorry, don’t know spelling for it) with the sole purpose of digging up dirt. you do realize that if mccain did that, obama would say that’s this just the typical dirty old politics.
i personally don’t think obama is some kind of evil, i believe he is severely wrong for this country, and his socialist ideas are truly terrifying for someone who grew up in communism (me). and yes, i do know his agenda, i read both of his books, and was very excited about his bid. unfortunately, he’s a hard core leftist, in his books he painted himself to be a centrist.
thank goddness mccain won the primaries, if Mitt had won i would have been left with no one to vote for.
MCCAIN/PALIN 08!

I find it rude that ABC doesnt give Sarah Palin the respect of showing her face while she is answering a question. Why is the camera fixed on her side profile. Scumbags.

“Nice response to my pointing out the list of Senator Obama’s considerable accomplishments.”
You were speaking about giving them a geography quiz and I wasn’t sure if you really wanted to go there. Yes Obama is intelligent. Is he more intelligent than, Palin, McCain, Hillary, Bill, Gore, Nixon…who knows? Is he ready to lead? I don’t think so and neither does Hillary or Biden, who are members of his own party.

It’s obvious that McCain did not put coutry first. I live in the great state of Texas, and my governor, Rick Perry, is far more qualified than Sarah Palin. Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani are far more qualified.
McCain pandered for our votes but he will not get them. Only those that are crazy enough to want another 4 years of inept leadership will vote Senator McCain.

I think the name-calling and nasty remarks should end…from both sides.
There has been a large amount of speculation on Gov. Palin, mostly due to the fact that no one knows her. If you think you do, then you are mistaken. It hasn’t been shown where her policies are except for saying that they are the same as Senator McCain’s. But there is very little information, even on his website of his actual policies.
If she’s so ready, why hasn’t there been a little more openness to the media in the form of interviews? It makes me think that she had to be coached in what to say. Why were the questions to be asked in the interview required to be okayed by the campaign? Why has it been the same speech at every campaign spot as was given at the convention, even though, putting it politely, it’s full of inaccuracies? We need to know this person and all we’ve gotten so far are mostly rumors sprinkled with some things that have been proven to be factual that don’t put her in a very good light. This is a watershed moment in our country. I need to know more about her than what we do. Again it seems as if many have decided that they know her by just seeing some very superficial things, as the public has done in many other circumstances. We can’t have that this time. Too much lays in the balance and we are coming to the edge of a cliff.

She was obviously coached to sound tough but she came off as really cold and not comfortable with herself. What a thoroughly unlikable person. By picking someone so blatently unqualified, McCain made an impulsive, cynical choice that had nothing to do with putting the country first– it was a last-ditch attempt to save his flailing campaign. That is unforgivable and he will pay.

@MA from NM
Sorry to disappoint. I became rich during the Clinton years during the tech boom. You remember those days huh?

Mack,
Thank you for admitting that Senator Obama is intelligent. I believe that no, Gov. Palin is not very intelligent. Creationists are by definition not very intelligent. McCain is certainly far more intelligent – my problems with him are his integrity, his hotheadedness, and mainly his policies, not his intelligence which I think is certainly adequate.
Biden thinks Obama is ready to lead, at least now. That’s why he agreed to be VP. Hillary said a lot of things when running against Obama that she’s taking back now that she’s on the team.

I have never witnessed so many smart, intelligent, and intuitive people in all my life. Less than a dozen questions and you all are experts on this ladies qualifications to be VP. WOW! YOU GUYS ARE SMART.

That wasn’t an “interview”, it was an attack by an obvious leftist MSM hack.

“@MA from NM
Sorry to disappoint. I became rich during the Clinton years during the tech boom. You remember those days huh?”
Good for you. Now go adn redistribute some of that wealth in your community.

I am disappointed that Gibson did not hard press Palin on the ISSUES and ask Palin the same LEVEL of questions other candidates have been asked. People need to see her knowledge and capability beyond the teleprompter. From this interview, I learned nothing more about Palin’s stance on the ISSUES! No substance! McCain-Palin are more of the same. As Obama said yesterday, “How many times do you need to be hit by a 2×4 to figure out who is hitting you?” Haven’t we all learned who is hitting us after 8 years? The same policies will continue for another 4 years if they are elected.

Jim, I too recall hearing that Obama would lower taxes for people and families making less than $250,000, but I don’t think he ever stated how much lower. What did you hear?

“They’re trying to define her as a religous fanatic.”
“Barry gets a pass on his religous background like everything else though.”
That’s because his religious background is nothing more than a stepping stone to something more. Jeremiah Wright and Bill Ayers brought Obama up through the Chicago machine, then were thrown under the bus when the mainstream folks of America found out about them.
Obama is worse than an empty suit. He is a Marxist-leaning leftist who wants to provide cradle-to-grave government care, paid for by the evil rich.

Vicki,
I checked it out briefly but will look at that site in more detail. It seems like a good site, thanks for the link. But I don’t agree with your summary of their voting records at all. I’ve heard that active duty military are heavily supporting Obama over McCain by the way…..

Hey Mike,
Show me where that 50% is coming from.
The last 15 years or so we’ve seen a dramatic polarization in income inequality. In Europe, where income inequality has been lessend with progressive taxation, their economies seem to be doing better than ours. Oh yeah, and their life expectancy is longer, people report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction, etc.
And how Republicans can talk to Dems about job losses after the decimation Bush has caused the economy over the last 8 years is beyond me.

Jim,
I spent the entire weekend checking out every bill that was voted on by McCain in pre-Obama days and every bill Obama voted on since he joined the Senate.
an example of anti-country: the amendment to the constitution that would prohibit burning of the American flag. McCain’s vote was yes, to ban the physical descration of the flag. Obama voted not to prohibit the descration of our flag.
And everyone knows that his wife is anti-American. (…”for the first time in my adult life I am proud of our country.”)…
Can you imagine a coach of a baseball team starting the season with “for the first time in many years I am proud of you?”
No thanks, Michelle. Take a hike, Barack.

Ever wonder how Obama can provide universal health care, invest in alternate types of energy, guarantee affordable college education, create new jobs…and still give everybody a tax cut. He must have been ill the day they taught math and economics. Not sure where he is going to get all the money to pay for his programs, but I always thought it comes from us. If everyone is on the wagon, who’s pulling it? Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus. Good luck to this modern-day Robin Hood.

Sounds like a lot of people here are disappointed that Palin did not make a faux pas in her interview like Obama’s “lipstick on a pig” comment and came across far better than Obama’s interview with O’Reilly where he looked like he was terrified to be there.

Vicki,
On flag-burning, its simple. Its called the First Amendment to the Constitution. It says:
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.”
There is no such thing as anti-country. There is only anti-certain policies of a country. Obama is as much of a true patriot as McCain or anybody else.

Dave
Obama’s health care plan is not Universal health care. And McCain is also proposing tax cuts and investing alternative energy. Oh no, how’s he going to pay for it?

Stacy
What’s really scary, Stacy, is people like you who vote on “personality” and can’t even be bothered to look up Obama’s extremely considerable list of accomplishments.

Sarah Palin will fall unless she gets up to spead on the issues. She did not know what the Bush doctrine was and she did not answer the National Security question correctly. I would ask her about the Israel and Palistine conflict and sit back with a cigarette and listen for dead air.
This women scares me …..

I am a woman and I am sick of the faux sexism that the Republicans are trying to play. We have real issues of real sexism that we deal with everyday and this diminishes our fight in order to achieve equality. Everyone was all excited when Governor Palin was giving the can speech everyday but now that she was asked hard questions and did not do the greatest job answering them, Republicans are making excuses. You each should be ashamed of yourselves, not Charlie Gibson. Someone needs to be concerned about this country. Our children are dying each day and I want to know that the person who sends them into danger understands the ramifications and consequences. This is not a popularity contest and it should not be based on the same criteria. This country has a lot on the line with this race and each person needs to study the facts and stop electing our leaders based on whether you want to have a beer with them or go hunting. SHAME ON YOU! Neither one of these parties are without fault in the problems that we face but we as a people better stop making excuses and start demanding more accountability of our leaders.

correction, Joe.
as for myself…

@Polo:
“Great stand on Russia”
I’m not sure I heard he mention the term diplomacy. I didn’t hear her talk about the economic interests that we have with the Russians. I prefer it if Gibson was asking someone who was qualified to answer like Secretary Rice. It was the weakest answer I’ve heard in regards to Russia. It stopped short of saying our only option was to go to war with the Ruskies.

Mrs. Palin gestures confidently and does her best to match prepared answers to actual questions. I guess, the worst thing a partisan politican can do is be caught not yapping for more than a few seconds.

She has been SO coached! You can tell when she keeps repeating the same phrases over and over when “Charlie” keeps trying to get a straight answer. And do we have to hear another candidate pronounce NU-CLEAR as NU-CULAR?! She has not said anything that is new here. The repetition of “buzz” words that she was probably told to memorize makes her look uneasy rather than trying to look tough with the pointing – because she really doesn’t know what she’s talking about.

I think McCain / Palin may win ALL of Obama’s 57 States.
She knocked it out of the ballpark.

@Frank56,
“I wish Obama would have answered these questions long ago.”
All of the candidates that ran for the office of President this year were asked the same questions about Russia and Iran. The questions posed during the debates went into greater depth and even some hypothetical situations. The only question like that was the one asking what she would do if Israel took preemptive action against Iran. She failed to really answer the question.

It was nice not to hear whining and crying about our Country.
What a positive message about HOPE and Change.

She has not a clue!! Political parties and political differences aside, the thought of this woman running the United States of America scares the hell out of me!

Victoria,
Ummm…. “red” communism is a political-economic form of government in which there is no private property and the working class own the means of production. I haven’t seen anybody advocate that lately, and I certainly don’t myself. So, uh….. could you perhaps update your insults a little bit to reflect critiques of actual existing forms of government instead of long-deceased hobgoblins?

Governor Palin is defiantely far more qualified than Barack Obama. It’s not even close.

i live in Illinois, by the way

@Frank56,
I’m sorry to have to be the one to inform you, but this race has been decided. CO, MI, and NH are all that Obama has to carry in order to become the next President. He’s leading in OH, but McCain can have it. McCain can take FL too. McCain can have VA even though it’s a dead heat. McCain can have all those states, and he still has to go back to the Senate. He can practice his bipartisanship there, and reform himself again.

Jana,
Sorry to insinuate you were born rich. About no-bids, look at the accumulation of wealth under Bush/Cheney. Weapons corporations, check. Oil companies, check. Billionaire, check. Everybody else, nope.
There are plenty of countries in the world where the society is able to take care of their poor and educated their children properly. Guess what? They’re getting happier and more prosperous, and our economy is being run into the ground.
People don’t need to make like 500 million dollars a year – and greed and exploitation should not be rewarded infinitely.

How electoral votes do the extra states Obama invented add uo to?

Mike,
There are a few long posts detailing Obama’s accomplishments at the state and national level above. Try reading. Its even better than listening to Rush Limbaugh.

I thought she did really well ! No wonder Obama is desperately going after her with his verbal attacks. The whole world is in God’s hands anyway–He will decide who becomes President.

Hey Badger,
Name all the languages spoken in Afghanistan. Quick, without using google.

Jim:
“There are plenty of countries in the world where the society is able to take care of their poor and educated their children properly.”
If you are referring to Socialist Europe, most countries there have double digit unemployment. The “rich” are paying huge taxes to compensate.
And, why do you think that only greed and exploitation lead to wealth? And, what do you think is too wealthy? What’s the magic number that you think would be “fair” to everyone?

Hey Jim,
Since Badger may not know what languages are spoken in Afghanistan does that make him as ignorant as Obama?

The idea that we need a preemptive strike against another nation is absurd.
There is not a country on Earth that is stupid enough to attack the USA. It would mean instant vaporization (for them). If 9/11 were a declaration of
war by an actual country, that country would be nothing but ashes now. Only
the religious lunatic fringe is dumb enough to attack America. Palin’s saber-rattling is either a) pandering to the extremist right wing for votes or b) signs of a seriously uninformed person.
And the fact that she thinks oil is the path to energy independence shows that she’s out of touch with the modern world.

Jana,
Europe is not socialist, for one thing. if it is, then by that definition there are zero purely capitalist countries in existence. Pure capitalism in the Smithian sense just doesn’t exist. All countries have some form of progressive taxation and wealth redistribution. The reason for this is that there is never a level playing field and those with most wealth and power always can find a way of gaming the system. Thus, the greed and exploitation I refer to.
As to how much wealth is enough, I don’t have a concrete figure but making 10s or hundreds of millions of dollars while people are living in the streets and dying because they can’t afford health care is wrong. I have wealthy friends and they are in favor of paying more taxes if it will help right social wrongs. The selfish me-first attitude of the free-market crowd is not the only way, nor the right way, nor the moral way.

@Shannon
I agree McCain was not my first choice for president, however he still better than Obama

Obama’s problem is not his name.
You could put lipstick on his name and you would still have a community organizer with no real experience.

z
re: your weird diatribe.
I’m no fan of Clinton and am against NAFTA. I guess that puts us on the same side on at least something.
On Kyoto, yeah nobody has any political courage, or moral responsibility. But your guy McCain is actually concerned about global warming (as is Obama, and I, and anybody with even a faint knowledge of climate science). So what are you trying to prove?
as far as the manufacturing jobs coming back – can you document that for me? Are the wages equivalent to what they were before they left?

No governor…or senator for that matter…ever comes to the presidency, much less the vice presidency, with anything like the foreign policy experience that may be required during a term of office. That is why we have a Secretary of State, a State Department, a National Security Council and a National Security Adviser to the President. The more important question is whether a candidate has the ability and inclination to choose his or her advisers well and to make sensible, rational decisions on the basis of the advice he or she receives. Should it ever become necessary, I sense that Governor Palin has that ability and in addition the executive skills necessary in a president; experience not possessed by Senator Biden or for that matter Senator Obama.

By the way…what is Joe Biden doing?
He acts like he wants to get off the ticket…like a rat leaving a sinking ship.

@James Riman
“They are making a big deal about her religion yet OHB gets off the hook about his religious affiliation.”
It’s clear that Obama, as a constitutional law professor and a supporter of women’s rights, believes in the separation of church and state. He has been asked his opinion on faith based initiatives. I think the concern with Palin is that she believes in legislating morality and governing with a sense that God’s will is directing her decision making. These questions aren’t meant to be gotcha questions.

I reiterate:
Democratic Vice Presidential Nominee said on 9/10/08 “Make no mistake about this. Hillary Clinton is as qualified or more qualified than I am to be Vice President of the United States. She is qualified to be President of the United States. She’s easily qualified to be VP of the United States, and quite frankly, it might have been a better pick then me.”
If the Democrat’s own VP nominee thinks Hillary was a better choice what does it say about Obama’s sense in having chosen him as a running mate?

I am hardly uncaring, nor am I selfish. I just think there is a point in time when people should stop looking to the government to take care of them.
As I said before, I was poor growing up, and my husband and I work very hard now.
Taxes are fine. I have no problem paying taxes. I just think that there should be a limit as to what the government should be able to take at gunpoint from one group of people and give it to another.
And I think that it is counter-productive to “punish” successful people. The idea of having 50% of income seized by the government is hardly an incentive to succeed.

“Taxes are fine. I have no problem paying taxes. I just think that there should be a limit as to what the government should be able to take at gunpoint from one group of people and give it to another.”
Jana – I actually agree with this. But the question is to what the limit is. In Japan, for example, which nobody ever refers to as socialist, income tax rates go up to over 90%. Now I personally think that is way too much. But 50% for people making say 10s or 100s of millions, I think is reasonable and doesn’t diminish incentive.
Also, people work for reasons other than just monetary incentive.
As for punishing succesfull people, who would want to do that? But at a certain point you just don’t need more money – at some point you have enough, and that’s pretty much that. Excess beyond a certain point is just greed and as a society we don’t need to condone that.

Charlie,
After your coverage at the Republican Convention I will no longer respect you or your so called reporting credentials. ABC is in the tank for Obama.

mike Sep 11, 2008 5:37:18 PM stated
>We’ve already had to stomach one
>two many presidents who rule from
>their gut. Can’t wait to have
>somebody who uses his head for a
>change.
Funny, the last time the Demoncrats were in charge, their guy was doing a lot of his thinking further down than his gut.
Not many surprises in this interview. Gibson and ABC (like most “mainstream media”) have a long history of liberal bias. The way they conduct the interview, ask the questions and portray the subject is all expertly managed to marginalize those they oppose, or build those they support. They are pros at this.
Gov. Palin handled herself well in spite of it.
And the predictable, pathetic lib-bot sheeple whining the predictable hypocrisy about “experience” need to remember that Obama has less ACTUAL time in the US Senate than Palin does as governor (remember, he’s bragging about being on the campaign trail the last 19 months, instead of being the Senator he was elected to be). Until 2 weeks ago, Palin was on-the-job.
We’re in trouble because so many people want the government to take care of them. Hey, sheeple, it isn’t the government’s job!

If McCain were to become the next president (God forbid, I don’t want another 4yrs. of the same old BS)how comfortable would you feel with Sarah Palin as the VP and possibly next President? Let’s face it, John McCain is not getting any younger. John McCain is riding on her coat tails, the only reason he’s staying ahead in the polls now is because he chose her and it doesn’t take a genius to figure out why he did. He’s a politician! Or you can look at Obama’s pick for VP, Joe Biden and his 26yrs. of experience and he doesn’t dodge the press. Actions speak louder than words. Do we want change or do we want the same old thing? You see where that got us!

Show me where that 50% is coming from.
The last 15 years or so we’ve seen a dramatic polarization in income inequality. In Europe, where income inequality has been lessend with progressive taxation, their economies seem to be doing better than ours. Oh yeah, and their life expectancy is longer, people report higher levels of happiness and satisfaction, etc.
i said – “nearly” 50% and that comes from the mouth of Barack Obama, O’railly interview (no, he didn’t say it flat out, you have to do your own math). he even wants to increase taxes on SMALL businesses that bring in more than 250 a year – which is just about any successful business out there. and he claims that’s what will make the economy stronger, increasing the taxes on the rich and businesses and handing out money (literally ) to the poor. but wait wait, in the same interview he says that if the economy is really really bad, than he wouldn’t increase the taxes because that would slow down the economy. doesn’t make sense to you? yeah, it shouldn’t. but he still would cut the taxes for the poor – the 95% of people (of course the bottom 50% don’t pay any taxes, so he wouldn’t be cutting anything, he’d just be giving them money). where would the money for the tax cuts come from, you ask? good question – MORE GOVERNMENT SPENDING without having any resources for it. and that’s the big economic rehabilitation according to the rather confused on the whole matter Barack Obama.
I am from europe, i am an immigrant, so please, i beg you – show me where you coming from with all your stats about higher levels of happiness and satisfaction, the better economies, etc. cause that’s just laughable. have you ever even been to europe? i highly doubt that. have you noticed how many europeans are on the waiting list for a green card just to have an opportunity to come here? no you haven’t, you know nothing about it, i do. do you have idea how many europeans live his illegally, just hoping that a legislation gets passed so they can get a legal status? i didn’t think so.
I suggest you go and live in france – i’ll give you a year of income redistribution, social healthcare (i hope you don’t get sick though), maybe try starting a business (it will take almost a year for the govn’t to approve it) where you won’t be able to fire a lazy employee because you have to keep them there for 2 years because of the workers rights (thankfully sarkozy has a brain and is trying to reverse that ridiculous law,). you’ll be racing back over to the land of the free in no time my friend, in no time.

pain knows about Russian issues and Obama knows about global issues.

sniveled by Joe at Sep 11, 2008 6:39:32 PM
>Wasn’t Mclame like 280th at some
>crappy naval school?
Nice shot, Joe, you just guaranteed that most Annapolis grads will back McCain, even if they didn’t like him. Insult McCain, fine; insult the USNA, and they’ll sink you.

Does Charlie Gibson really consider himself a journalist? Did anyone else watching notice the outrageous number of blatant edits in this segment? I thought I was watching a Saturday Night Live skit. One second, Palin had her hand up making a gesture, then down on the arm of the chair the next second. Does ABC News really think the American viewers are too stupid to notice a thing like that. I’ve NEVER seen an Obama interview chopped up so much. These edits occurred right in the middle of many of Palin’s answers to Gibson’s antagonistic questions. Just when Palin was on a roll with a great answer, the clip was interrupted. I guess ABC felt the answers were too good for the American people to hear. The editing was so extensive that the sound dubbing was even off time. I completely agreed with everything THAT THE ABC EXECS ALLOWED ME TO HEAR. I guess integrity in the media is just an urban legend. And by the way, the “Bush Doctrine” question was a shameless attempt to trip Palin up. I think the way she turned the tables back on Gibson was brilliant. How often do you see Charlie stutter? Shame on you Charlie and shame on you ABC News. Your news network has shown itself to be just one-half step above the tabloids. I’m sticking with Fox News where the reporting is “fair and balanced.”

It is amazing how many people Gov. Palin has running scared on the liberal side. She is doing every thing right. McCain’s team is friggin genius! They found the only true-to-their-word politician in the country. Just look Northwest people. Read my lipstick, McCain Presidency!!!!

Come on tooncesmom…for your info, Palin’s degree was in Journalism, with a few political science courses tossed in. Many years ago, I took some journalism courses, and believe me, they did not require a great deal of mental ability to get through. Check out Wikopedia for her education.
While you are checking, run by B. Obama’s academic credentials…Magna Cum Laude, Harvard Law. I really think that’s pretty fair.

“Come on tooncesmom…for your info, Palin’s degree was in Journalism, with a few political science courses tossed in. Many years ago, I took some journalism courses, and believe me, they did not require a great deal of mental ability to get through. Check out Wikopedia for her education.”
LMAO you mean wikipedia, the people’s encyclopedia, where anyone out there can go on and change the entries. that’s funny.
i have a journalism degree with political science – exactly what sarah has. with this degree you need to pretty much be familiar with just about any issue out there. it’s pretty overwhelming. i don’t think you can compare one degree to another, especially if you didn’t go through it.
harvard law is very impressive, no one is gonna take that away from Obama. But that hardly qualifies him for presidency. John McCain has a tested IQ of 133 – anything over 130 is considered genius. what’s obama’s IQ? no one knows, he refused to release any of his records, we have no testing scores on obama, not even sats. interesting isn’t it?

You gave it a good try, Charlie. God knows you would have liked to trip her up. The Obamatons are seething right now, having nothing to gnaw on. Raw meat! Raw meat! Raw meat! Ha, ha! John McCain, you’re a genius. McCain/Palin 2008. Lefty-loonies: read ‘em and weep.

Palin Power was every evident in this first interview. She is ready and determined to go after the terrorist no matter where they hide, that was very evident in her response to “Charlie” Gibson in the first of three exclusive interviews. Several times Gibson asked the same question several different ways and she answered them the same way. Her commitment to our nation is admirable, refreshing and revealed a leadership trait long needed in that high office.
Heads of states, should take notice, it should not be, if she knows those heads of states, the question Gibson should have asked, is do they know Sarah Palin
Cook Barela, Riverside, California

I think Sarah wanted to be famous: look at her choices in life: Broadcasting Major, Beauty Queen, TV Sports Broadcaster, a Politician. And now they are making a doll that looks like her. So she’s famous now, let’s leave it at that. We don’t need someone in office who basically only has their own agenda in mind – INSTEAD OF THE CITIZENS OF THE US! She seems to pander to her own wants and needs and can’t seem to separate her religious views from the state of the nation – which, last time I looked that was the law! Obama truly seems to put others’ interests ahead of his own.

Mrs Palin was fantastic, great, etc., she will make a fine VP if y’all let her.

I watched Charlie’s face, don’t think he was too pleased with the interview. That is because most of the tv media is so bent on electing “your obama” that you don’t take into consideration that regular watchers have brains and think for themselves. The tv media has done in all their power to degrade McCain and Palin, its pathetic as you will see in November. Twist stories all you want, it won’t stop normal voters from finding the truth, so spin all you want.

God is in control, press the buttons on the missile launchers, god will guide them,,, amen

Obama has my VOTE, the other guys can;t be trusted, after all they just LIE LIE LIE LIE and the dumb people eat it up like candy.

Sarah was fantastic! I look forward to hearing more from her.

I was soooo embarrassed by that interview, She made us in the USA look like a bunch of ignorant fools. I was expecting the spunk of her first speech. She was like a deer in the headlights of a car, stumbling with her answers, not knowing what the hell she was talking about. A war with Russia not off the table? RUSSIA HAS 6681 NUCLEAR WARHEADS. The cold-war may be over but total nuclear annihilation is still possible.

The Republicans will have to spin until they get dizzy to cover up her lack of knowledge of world events. Please don’t let her in the White House. Close the door!

I thought Gov. Palin did fine. None of Charlie Gibson’s questions were particularly surprising or unusual, and I have no real complaints about his work so far. I didn’t think the interview was particularly well shot or lit, but so what? Now can we stop obsessing about hearing the woman speak? Those of us who think she is a perfectly fine choice for VICE president still think so; those of you who were not fans to start with appear not to have changed your minds, either.
I do think people should bear in mind that she is running for vice president, not commander in chief. Yes, she has to be prepared to step in should there be a tragedy, but, regardless of the handwringing over McCain’s age and melanoma history (and is there a hand-equivalent of crocodile tears– like crocodile hand-wringing?), that is not likely to happen, certainly not “on day one,” as reporters keep breathlessly putting it. Were most vice presidential candidates of the past substantially better prepared? Some, but not most. She will learn on the job of vice president, she will be surrounded by the strong group of cabinet members and advisors McCain will select, she will
be more than worthy of fulfilling the obligations of vice president. Let’s concentrate on the top of the ticket for a while, okay?

As I read most of the comments posted, I do not know whether to laugh or cry… at the end of the day we have four very fine American citizens and Irunning for the highest office and I will be glad no matter who wins. But, I can comment on the fact that I believe most of these postings are riddled with personnel biases that go beyond prejudices. You should all take a step back and re-read your comments. I say, who cares about you postings? You are no better than the candidates when it comes to trashing someone you oppose!
I’ll tell you what matters to me… two of my three brothers are unemployed, I was let go by a major telecom provided (headquartered in the Northeast) due to obvious age discrimination in November 2007, both my daughters cannot afford health insurance, I have about three months left before I may have to declare bankruptcy, and neither of these candidates have even begun to address the issues. Regardless of who wins this election, we have a senate and congress riddled with “pigs wearing lipstick”. We need a drastic change! We the people have to put aside our prejudices and become better educated on what the real problems are as opposed to, what the symptoms are. (I’m sure I may have lost some of you on that one…) For example, if we had term limits on congressmen and senators, can you imagine how that may impact this country? These piglips may actually have to work in order to get things done as opposed to sucking the blood out of all of us to fulfill their own agenda. Anyone who has been in these positions longer than two terms should be ashamed because they have been inept and self indulged! I implore all of you to look past you personal biases, look around your community, get educated on what the real problems are and actively get involved in making a difference. And remember, no vote, is most likely a vote for the person you least like. I am proud and always been proud to be an American as I believe you all are…
By-the-way, our politicians do not deserve all the blame, most of the leading corporations and their CEO’s must take some of the blame also… They are the one’s that have sold out America by sending jobs and business outside the USA. The loss of job’s, tax dollars and contribution into social security all suffered due to someone lining their pockets. America is composed of different citizens then we were 15 years ago when outsourcing started. Today we have more immigrants that would be willing to perform the lower paying occupations, the internet and newer web enabled applications provides citizens anywhere in the country the opportunity to work at home and provide call center and other services etc. that are now being performed in India, China, and elsewhere. Well, just remember make sure you vote and cherish and protect this right by getting involved… Walk the Talk!

As already said by others, Sarah Palin is a character from a bad Disney movie. It is irresponsible to elect an inexperienced uneducated person like this from a small town and state that is so foreign from the other 49. Most major cities in the US have greater population, diversity, industry and international presence than the state of Alaska. John McCain is older than Ronald Reagan was when he left office and also has a significant history of healthcare problems. So there is a high probability that Palin could become the president of the United States. Heaven help us. My 77 year old mother would be more qualified. This is a serious problem and very disillusioning to see people flocking to her candidacy like the latest fad or hit movie. This is our life. In a day she could do 10 times more damage to world peace and the economy than George Bush did in his 2 terms. Palin doesn’t seem to know what she doesn’t know. What a dangerous situation. Osama Bin Ladin must be very pleased with this joke of a choice for VP by a major contender for the US Presidency. Makes it seem like McCain is senile.

I’m independent and I’m really shock with most of these comments on this board. Most of you guys are just as crazy as the right. I also found it very disappointed no one was upset when someone made a comment (like 100 post ago) that enlisted soldiers are uneducated and were people who join to get out of jail. This statement is not correct, the military has change alot since the Vietnam era.
You have a lot educated people who join the military that have various education backgrounds and are people with high values. The fact that they are willing to give there individual freedom for are country and us is something that makes them extraordinary people.
I was glad today that both McCain and Obama agree that higher education needs to stop censoring there students from the military. Let the students have a choice and help close the gap between the military and the civilian world.
I like to end with saying, thank you!!! to anyone that has ever served this country.

To be perfectly honest, she did fine. She is not an expert on foreign policy. She’s not an idiot though. She will become far more solid on these issues fast. However, like most of our Governors, she has been doing the job she was elected to do, and doing it exceptionally well. She has other strengths that benefit this ticket. Gibson, I am afraid was more concerned about being called a cream puff than being respectful. As a woman with a Juris Doctor degree, I would have problems knowing what part of the Bush Doctrine he was referring to without clarification. It actually refers to an evolving set of policies. Good job Sarah!

Sarah Palin is on trial !
She says she is ready to lead our country if need be.
Why can we not ask her the same questions we would ask any person of any race or gender in order to make up our minds? What is so unfair about it?
For God sakes people, wake up!
This woman would have the nuclear launch codes!
I am a woman!
I was NEVER a Hillary supporter and I desperately would love to see a woman President someday. But NOT this scary,
opinionated, uninformed and radical woman.
No Way, No How, Never.

My last comment for the evening.
No matter your gender, race or political affiliation, I call for all of you who believe in a God, no matter which God that may be, to pray for the people in Texas this evening as Hurricane IKE is about to wreak havoc upon all of their lives.
Put aside your pettiness and hatred for either party for at least one minute and pray for them.
It is predicted this is going to be the worst natural disaster in American history.
Good night and God Bless each of you.

Charlie,
What would you say, if you were in Palin’s shoes, and asked “what do you think about Bush’s docutrine?” Would you know what it mean?
All you reporters are taking too much power in your hand. In either a big or small way, you guys are betraying this country. Yes, “BETRAY” is the word to describe all you who get paid to say and do the things that hurt this country and the good candidates and shield the bad candidates who are pontially if not actually is a threat for this country’s security.
You guys should be wake up and defend this country and stop saying things against your conscienous that’s of you still have some left.

Charlie Gibson was a HUGE disappointment tonight in his interview with Gov. Sarah Palin. His liberal mouthpiece showed BIG time. I expected much more from Gibson but in the end he is just another drive by media operative set out to destroy the Republican party and this country.

Gibson hit a real low with this interview. Maybe it’s time for him to consider retirement. What an obnoxious interview! Let’s ask Obama if HE ever met a foreign head of state prior to this campaign and how about his experience in national security????? ARE YOU SERIOUS!!!

I am wondering why the questions directed to Sarah Palin, have not been directed to Obama as well. What are his qualifications, running for President for 2 years as a freshman Senator?
Obama keeps saying we need change, and we do need change. However, I have never heard him say what he will change and how. Give some specifics if he thinks he is qualified to be President.
People are concerned about Palin because she MIGHT be President. Why are they not concerned about the lack of Obama experience.
I have to ask why tough questions are never asked of Obama. He is a dynamic speaker…but I want substance

Mr. Gibson, I would like to thank you for doing a great job interviewing Sarah Palin. Governor Palin’s answers to your tough questions gave me the distinct impression that she is a very self confident person who is far from being qualified for a position in which she could potentially be President. I thought she did a moderately good job of keeping her composure. However, the substance of many of her answers seemed evasive or vague because she was uninformed, seemed like coached responses from the McCain camp, or seemed to be fired off without a true understanding of the complexity of the issue. Your interviews have provided a critical insight into her true qualifications, unlike much of the fluff and spin we have been inundated with since her introduction at the RNC.

Reading transcripts and watching the video of Palin. Charlie you really should watch the video before the question of whether or not Palin thinks we are in a Holy War. She actually said we need to pray for God’s will. I typically enjoy Mr. Gibsons interviews but his heavy sighs and condescending views over his glasses needs to be removed. Looking forward to finding out more about Palin minus any unfactual information

Sarah Palin was more or less forced onto the ticket by the right wing of the Republican party. She is anti-choice, while a majority of Americans are pro-choice. she supports the shooting wolves from airplanes.She is a global warming denier, and most Americans now believe there’s an emergency and are looking for leadership. Our job is to broadcast who she really is loud and clear

The fact is, people are posting what they want to hear, not what was said.
Palin did NOT say she wanted war with Russia, only that IF Georgia and the Ukraine were NATO members, would we fight Russia if they invaded them. OF COURSE we would, that’s part of being a member of NATO. She said nothing that isn’t already our policy.
As far as the Bush Doctrine, check Wikipedia, it doesn’t even have a simple, clear definition of the term. It can mean many different aspects of Bush’s foreign policy, and the definition is ever-changing. Charlie’s snobbish attitude only shows his ignorance of foreign policy, not Mrs. Palin’s.
Heck, does she ask people in wheelchairs to stand up? If not, she’s already better than Biden! LOL.

I was skeptical of Palin’s readiness before this interview. Now I am convinced that Palin is not ready to be VP, and more paramount, President. Let’s be realistic – John McCain is aged there is a real chance he could succumb to death. He was a soldier for our country, and that is admirable. However, his personal choices regarding affairs, cheating on his wife, etc., makes me pause when I think about his character and ability to be honest in office. That, coupled with his special interest cronies, makes me question his ability to truly change the way Washington does business. Also, for those who will vote on the abortion issue alone, did you know that Cindy McCain agrees with abortion in the cases of rape and incest? Don’t you think John McCain will listen to Cindy on this matter? Don’t you think if Roe v. Wade could be overturned, Bush would have done it in the past 8 years? He clung to the abortion rhetoric when he ran both times. He obviously didn’t deliver on that campaign promise. McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time! Do you think that McCain is the change agent we need? ARE YOU BETTER OFF THAN YOU WERE 8 YEARS AGO? DO YOU WANT REAL CHANGE FOR THIS COUNTRY AND FOR OUR CHILDREN? If NO to the first, and YES to the latter, please think critically when you vote in November. Look past the phony accusations and study the candidates’ positions on the real issues. Economy, healthcare, education, global-warming, world-standing and stability, homeland security; these are the real problems we have to focus on. Please, for the sake of our children, open your hearts and minds, and vote consciously, not just along straight party lines. God Bless and take good care – Thank you.

Charles, not Charlie, Gibson, you showed your true “colors” during your interview with Sarah Palin. She didn’t back down did she? I used to like you and felt safe with your reporting. I’ve been suspect for while about what you are truly like. Now I know. Sad, sad, and sad, I feel sorry for your family. Why didn’t you grill Obama the way you did Sarah Palin? After all he is running for president. I have lost all respect for you.

Palin can speak well under questioning. It’s obvious she knows more about Nato than Charles Gibson. Note her direct and careful articulation of words. She doesn’t stammer like Obama when he’s giving an answer. She doesn’t say “uh.. uh… uh..le eh eh et, me me me say this about th-th-that” as Obama does. Her thoughts and words are in sync, which shows a clarity of thought and a clear superior verbal skill, under pressure, that comes through her strong-held values. Obama can’t think well on his feet without stuttering. And his answers betray his equivocation on issues. Palin’s philosphy underlying her words is the view of 60% of Americans. And, she’s only the VP candidate, clearly superior to Obama. I believe America could weather an Obama Presidency perhaps, but Republicans have the better ticket. I am much more confident in McCain/Palin than the Dems.

I have never seen Charlie Gibson look so mean giving an interview. I always liked him but now I have seen the other side of him and it is obvious that he his an Obama fan. Too sad that our news media runs our country. I always thought the it was up to the people,

If 10 people on the street were asked to describe the Bush Doctrine, you would receive 10 different answers.
If 10 people on the street were asked to describe Obamas plans for Change, you would receive 10 different answers.
Come November, America is going to get nothing new no matter who is elected. We have a disfunctional government run by people who’s only plan is to get re elected. So I say, at least give me a war hero with a running mate that hasn’t been sitting around Washington doing nothing for the past two years.

God has shined his light of benediction on Sarah and she will lead us to justice and peace. We need her because she will pray and God will tell her what we should do. At last, a woman who knows that all the answers are in the Holy Bible.
Jesus loves you all.

Fact Check: 1) Every Vice Presidential Candidate in recent history has had extensive meetings with Heads of States!
2) The Bush Doctrine is the foundation of all that has gone wrong with our foreign policy. We are not asking employees of the Pentagon or any other service, we are not asking ten people on the street, we are asking a person who could possibly be POTUS in 3 months!
Ask any 10 people on the street who Putin is and they won’t know either, so is this our measure, our standard for picking a VP any one of 10 people on the street?????

Cheerleader in Chief Barbie and her made for TV Disney movie… This is the woman the republicans want as their VP. NO WAY!

Wow! It almost sounds like people didn’t hear/read the same interview. Isn’t it amazing how we come away with exactly opposite opinions.
I for one did not think that Charlie was playing softball. Charlie often came back at Sarah with the same question and with an edge in his voice when he didn’t think she had answered the question to his liking (“But do you…”). It was like a prosecutor grilling the defendant on the witness stand. I think that was very disrespectful. Sarah handled it all in a very gracious manner. I have to admire her for that and so many other things. I hope to learn much more in the future.
It is rather presumptuous of you who think she gave no thought at all as to whether or not being a VP nominee would be good for her or her family. Do you not think she had any idea that she was being considered??
Although I call myself a Republican, I often wish we could bring solutions from both sides together to tackle our national problems. It’s hard to agree with all that one party stands for. Even so, I would be very fearful if Obama were to win the presidency. His voting record has been on the extreme side of things. I am willing to give these Republican ‘mavericks’ a chance.

Speaking of Messiahs and prophets, people need to tb looking at that pentacostal Assembly of God church she attends in Wasilla. Even the Assembly of God church (As wacky as they are) denounced the Wasilla branch that Palin attends as heretical. The spot light needs to be put on Palin and her church before she gets to close to the white house.

She scares me. Does hse really think we would go to war over Georgia, Ukraine? Has she no understanding of Russia’s history of having to battle invading nations on its border and its determination of “never again”?
John McCain scares me. He thought(as well as others) she is right for the job. What were they thinking!!

After I closly listened, what came to my mind was, when I hire new employee for the job opening, on the interview they came without any experices and they pretended as if they know all and do experience. Palin is JUST hunger for power and money. I am very sorry for her husband. I wish she stay close with her new born baby, and take care of him. Instead, given all responsibilty for her daughters. Shame Shame Shame. John Mcaine, what kind of choice he brought to Us?

Typical liberal media, I wasn’t sure about Palin, but after the crap Gibson threw at her, I am going to vote for her.

As recently stated, she is a “Cocky Wacko”.
Look to all you Republicans out there praising her, you know darn well if she were on a Democrat you would be laughing at her too.
See the thing is the Democrats picked smart people, not this Bozo. Because she can see Russia from an island in Alaska will not change that fact…

I am tired of liberals saying “McCain voted with Bush 90% of the time”, Well if you look at Barack record, he voted with Bush 90% of the time also. 90% of the votes are to just operate the government. Its the other 10% of the votes that scares me about BO.
McCain and BO voted 90% of the time with Bush.

Mr. Toad, I take issue with the statement that Democrats picked smart people, not this Bozo. I personally have talked and listened to allot of Democrats but have never thought they were smart, or intelligent, mostly just arrogant idiots.

I don’t understand people who don’t want the person running for VP of this country to be asked tough questions. We need these people to be put under fire as much as possible BEFORE they become VP or President. We need to pay close attention to their answers. I agree with the person who related Gov. Palin’s interview with someone who applied for a position but had woefully inadequate experience and pretended to be qualified. Shooting off answers without any hesitation does not qualify someone to be VP or President. The content of their answers is what matters.

She wants a different government but she sounds just like the rest…she answered nothing important directly, she didn’t even know what he was talking about half the time, and not one thing seemed genuine and something out of her own mouth..more political bs

compare this interview with the he did with Obama last year. His “interview” with Obama consisted of background stories of Obama’s family tree. Even the interview with Edwards after the 04 convention was lightweight.

For the first time in thirty years this old Democrat is excited about an election, I think McCain and Palin make the perfect ticket, experience and Brilliance!!!! I cannot wait to see this lady take on the Washington fatcats that have bilked and torn this country apart. Look out Nancy!!!!

I think we all is forgetting the real issue here which is this woman is running for vp. Sarah Palin clearly dont know what she is talking about in this interview which sadden me. The republicans are playing the same game that they have been playing for years and its tireding. The funny thing is the republicans know that Sarah Palin is just a hoax that’s been thrown out in public to get Hilary voters and play the sexism game. The republicans is stating change but yet hands us lies and a female with no experience what so ever. Us americans people is getting frustrated with these blind sided republicans with their schemes and last 8 yrs in office that is straining the americans dollars. Sarah Palin is wrong for the vp. The republicans are distancing themselves from GWB but is still nominating a vp close to his iq. Wow when are we going to open are eyes and start making smarter choices for are leaders in america. The republicans is doing the same thing when GWB was running for office just in a different way and we as americans are fallen for it again be smarter their not different they is just more of the same.

Everything I wanted to say was said in the Ltlbranch email (9/13/2008). I always admired you – but it appears you
are part of the “good old boys” club. Now I know why I watch Fox News which is always fair and balanced. I look forward to Bill O’Reilly interviewing
Sarah Palin. The comparison will be exciting to behold.
As Ltlbranch said – Shame on you.

Charlie, you need to work on your body language…tells it all!! Your hidden agenda was evident…out to get the “lady” and make a name for yourself among your elite peers.

Sarah did a fantastic job during Gibson’s interrogation. The only problem is that ABC chose to edit out of context, set up the entire interview from the left liberal bias.
When will Obama or Biden going to get the same tough questions? I admire a woman who stands by her personal beliefs, but understands that she governs for all, not just her personal feelings.
It was a very calculated attack. Compare Gibson’s questions to Obama or Edwards vs. Palin’s.
It just confirms, that the good old boy network is shaking in their boots and sent Gibson out there to destroy her.
She held her own. You go girl!

Would Obama have held up under the same interrogation as Palin?
Anytime he is asked anything off script he flounders like a fish out of water.
You can wrap a stinky fish in media bias, but he’s still a stinky fish.

Charlie Gibson’s interview of Sarah Palin wasn’t meant to be a fluff People Magazine interview. It was supposed to challenge her. It was intended to be carried out with professional skepticism. Do you think that if she and McCain were to be elected that all the reporters, let alone Senators and Representatives, heads of state, the heads of the US Military, terrorists are going to treat her with kit gloves? There are always plenty of “gotcha” questions and angry moments that any Vice President must face, not to mention President. Whoever is elected had damn well better be able to handle a little scowling and pressure, or we’re all in a lot of trouble.

I have waited 8 years for a president who would know how to pronounce the word “nuclear”. As the end nears, I am appalled to hear Sarah Palin say “nucular” just like GWB. Could we please just have a literate politician in the white house?

Mispronouncing “nuclear” won’t seem like such a big deal to you after you hear him go “duh, heh, duh” over and over for about 45 seconds.