Unclear If Palin Subscribes to Bush Doctrine

you missed the bigger point..she DIDNT KNOW what the bush doctrine is…she had no idea until he explained it…wake up america..

YOU GOTTA LOVE PALIN IN ALL HER QUARKY IGNORANCE. WE ALL SEE WHY THE GOP TRIED TO KEEP THEIR OWN GOODY TWO-MOOSE IN A SHELTERED CRANNIE, TO AVOID EXPOSURE FROM THOSE “LIBERAL ELITIST MEDIA FOLK” WHO ARE TOO LIBERAL TO KNOW ANYTHING THATS HAPPENING IN THE “REAL WORLD”
HAHA… YOU GOTTA LOVE THIS RIGHT WING CHICK! OBAMA 08′

Oooooh, chortle, chortle. This was it…the “potatoe” moment. The are you smarter than a fifth grader moment. The moose caught in the headlights moment. But there were others. I predict she’ll be off the ticket before another week passes.

PALIN ISNT EVEN THE REAL MISS ALASKA…
A WOMAN WHO SUPPORTS OBAMA IS… BUT I GUESS PALIN LIKES STEALING TITLES…. MISS ALASKA—-AGENT OF CHANGE…. WELL YOU GET THE IDEA.
OBAMA 08′

it is funny that left tried like her to bush third term and yet she does not know bush doctrine.

“Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?” is a very sarcastic questions

coke man, sorry, didn’t know you were a teacher!

Women are crossing over to Palin, but they are just getting warmed up.
Osama bin Biden is toast.

If a man(Terrorist)walked into your home (Country) and murdered your family and then is witnessed walking into your neighbors house, should the police (military) have the right to go into the house and get him? Should they be allowed to use force? Should my neighbor be allowed to protect him? I think you need to look no further than the laws that apply to every american citizen to to find your answers.

I thought Palin was being coached by Bush’s advisers, like Steve Biegun, who served as a former staff member of Bush’s National Security Council.
Shouldn’t they have explained this to her? But maybe they assumed that as a Republican she already knew?
Or maybe they just told her, when in doubt, repeat over and over, “radical Islamic extremists”.

How can ABC not know how to summarize this moment of its own interview. Clearly the term “Bush doctrine” was wholly new to her. He asked her multiple times, even asking her at one point what she understood it to mean. Her response? His “world view.”
It was only after Gibson defined the doctrine for her that she gave the wishy washy answer. Unbelievable that ABC isn’t reporting this aspect of the only interview they’re allowing her to do.

After her comments about the Iraq War being the work of God, it is further proof that this woman is a liar. More than that, she is a know-nothing who needs a lot more prepping before she can be let loose on her own. Apparently she is like George W. Bush who takes his orders directly from God. Scary Sarah is truly unprepared and unqualified. She all set to start WWIII – if God tells her its the right thing to do. McCain has put at risk the long term stability of this country by bringing this wingnut into the election. He has made a mockery of the electoral process. Palin must be rejected for the sake of future generations and for the entire world. Shoot First is not an acceptable policy in a nuclear world. She is another Goldwater.

You can see Russia from Alaska??
Boy, she sure hit that one out of the park.

The hockey mom with lipstick will take us to war with Russia. She scares the hell out of me!!!

The “Bush Doctrine” is a pejorative term, coined by pseudo-intellectuals hell-bent on deriding a shoot-first approach to attacking terrorism. Funny that Charlie would believe that it is common parlance. Do you think the President thinks he has a doctrine? Charlie, why don’t you ask him?

I bet if Charlie had asked her about the National Security Strategy of the United States she would have known what he was talking about. He should have just said that when she asked for clarity.

WOOW! JOHN IS REALLY REACHING FOR SOMETHING… WAY TO SUPPORT YOUR PARTY JOHN. LOL

IKNOW PATRICIA… HE SHOULD HAVE JUST ASKED HER WHAT MOOSE HUNTING IS LIKE AND WHAT HER FAVORITE SHADE OF LIPSTICK IS…. YOU CANT BE SERIOUS.

Relax everybody, she did fine. No mistakes.

It is amazing isn’t it? The Obama Doctrine that is. Such a powerful force that none can refute. So clear that even a child can understand. What is it you ask? Change. Nothing more nothing less, just change.
So you’ll have to pardon those of us who need more than just the one word to define their world view.

I find it completely beyond comprehension how people can see anything other than the fact that Sarah Palin didn’t have any idea of what she was talking about. Especially about the Israel questions. Her answer was the same every time. No wonder she wsa kept sequestered from the press. She doesn’t have all of her answers memorized. They only prepped her on one answer about Israel. This is crazy. I am so disappointed in McCain picking a running mate like this. I truly respect him but at his age his chances of living through his term are what? One in three? I’m not willing to take that chance. She’s a nut case.

BEING CONTENT WITH THIS COUNTRY IN ITS CURRENT STATE IN 2008 IS TREASON WITHIN ITSELF!… I THOUGHT THE REPUB PARTY WAS THE PATRIOTIC PARTY????

THANKS BECKY…. THAT COMMENT WAS REFRESHING!

Actually, there is a Bush Doctrine. It’s not made up. There was a Clinton Doctrine, a Reagan Doctrine, a Ford Doctrine, etc. etc. etc. I think it goes all the way back to FDR if you want to look it up.
The “Doctrine” is a pithy collection of a president’s overall positions regarding foreign policy. It’s not a new term, and certainly not one made up by the media. It’s used by pundits and politicians as shorthand for a president’s general policy stance.
Political jargon? Yes. But if you’re running for VP, it’s something you should at least be aware of. And Palin’s response definitely indicated that she wasn’t aware. Pretty bad when it’s a central tenet of your own party’s policy platform. . .

Will someone please inform the president that he has a singular doctrine? I don’t think he knows. Charlie will tell him what it is. Of course, if Charlie had listened to NPR the last few years, he would have learned that the intelligentsia now uses the term to cover everything they hate about Bush’s foreign policies. Sorry, Charlie. You have to give up your liberal card.

It was pretty obvious Palin wasn’t clear about what the Bush Doctrine is
but does Charlie? Most foreign policy wonks agree with a preemptive strike where there’s imminent threat but the biggest criticism of the Bush Doctrine is that it’s preventive rather then preemptive. I don’t think McCain has even given a clear answer on the Bush Doctrine to date. While she may not exactly know what the Doctrine was in this circumstance what was clear is that she’s quick and sharp. You can guarantee she probably knows it better then anyone within the next couple days and probably will even know (if she doesn’t know already) about the Carter Doctrine. Obama has minimal experience in foreign policy since he squandered the one opportunity he’s had to get it in the US Senate because he decided to run for President. What Obama does have, in fact his primary experience for President, is almost two years of campaigning for President and answering question after question on issues like the one’s presented to Palin today. His campaigning for President has actually made him more Presidential because he certainly didn’t into it with much behind him. Actually, on the Bush Doctrine question people should be happy she stuck to preemptive rather the Bush’s preventive strikes.

I never knew that Bush had a specific doctrine either. I think the Obamabots just made the doctrine up.

I love how everyone on here is acting like they knew what specific Bush Doctrine Gibson was even talking about.
And yet for all your brilliance, you, like me, are sitting here on abcnews.com reloading a website — far away from anything that really makes a difference.
Geniuses.

YES ABC THANK YOU MR. GIBSON.
EXACTLY LIKE HOW WE ALL THOUGHT PALIN WOULD DO. YES PALIN NEEDS, TO BE, AGAIN NEEDS TO BE, EXPOSED, I THINK THINGS ARE JUST TOO IMPORTANT TO SHUT UP THIS TIME. OH WOW TO HAVE HER AS PRESIDENT?
TELL ME THE JOKE IS ON THE REPUBLICANS OR WHO EVER, SUPPORTS PALIN AND MCCAIN.
HE IS CRAZY WITH DESIRE TO NOT SEE WHAT WILL HAPPEN, ESPECIALLY WITH PALIN BY MCCAINS SIDE.
THANK YOU TO ABC FOR DOING YOUR JOB AND IN REALITY PROTECTING ALL PEOPLE OF THE PLANET. MAYBE SOME ANIMALS TOO NOW THAT I THINK ABOUT IT.
JUST AS WE ALL THOUGHT. PLEASE DO NOT LET THIS GOP PULL THE WOOL OVER OUR EYES AGAIN. EVER. I AM SO DISGUSSTED BY THE JOKE TO THIS WENCH OF A PERSON, PALIN I MEAN. FORGET RESPECT.
I WILL TELL THEM IF NO ONE ELSE WILL.
THANK YOU FOR YOUR TIME ABC
SHIMA COODY-POSEY

The problem for Palin is that if you take the GPS unit away and she gets one block off of the route – it starts to get entertaining.

She basically said, Charlie I don’t know squat about international matters, I am from a state with oil and that is going to be my calling. If McCain bites the big one, we are in a world of hurt. Please don’t elect that fool.

Waah Actually there was no Clinton Doctrine. Clinton chose to go with experience vs. doctrine and felt that deeds mattered more then words and despite pressure to have one rebuffed it. The conservatives felt this showed weakness and indecision on his part and George W felt CLinton not developing a foreign policy framework helped squander US influence. Bush towards the end of his Presidency has even been moving more away from his own doctrine in a manner more similar to Clinton’s approach in that it’s more multilateral and tailoring solutions to specific challenges. This no doubt has to do with the fact that his doctrine worked out oh so well.

WHAT DO RIGHT WINGERS STAND FOR EXACTLY… FOX NEWS IS THE BEST THING THAT HAPPENED TO YOU GUYS… A WHOLE NETWORK DEDICATED TO GIVING THOSE IGNORANT FOLKS A TALKING POINT TO REPEAT OVER AND OVER UNTILL THEIR HEADS FINALLY EXPLODE FROM MISSINFORMATION OVERLOAD… OH BOY! I CANT WAIT FOR THE DEBATES… THIS IS GONNA BE HILLARIOUS!
OBAMABOT APROVED! LOL

Obama..57 states! Really smart.

IDIOT LEFTY?????
WOOOOOW! IF HE IS AN IDIOT…. THEN PALIN IS AN IIIIIIIIDDDDDDIIIIIIOOOOOOOOOOOOOOTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTT X 9 TO THE 16TH POWER.
AAAWWW MAN! I HOPE OBAMA GETS IN!

Palin is a joke…she sounded like a dumb drunk blond girl that would say non the least “do” what it takes to get out of a speeding ticket. The way she didn’t answer any of the questions directly. The way she tried to look so intelligent covering up for her speech she gave in church and saying she was repeating Abraham Lincoln. That is almost an insult and didn’t make any sense. She is full of crap and you can tell she can’t come up with anything on her own to be intelligent. Palin needs it written for her to address it just like bush. The moment they forget a line, they stutter for words. In a war where countries are involved, you can’t use nuclear weapons and risk ANY countries lives, then say “oh, we were just aiming at the terrorists”. That’s where she couldn’t answer the question about crossing the lines. “DuH!!”

so she isn’t familiar with the Bush doctrine, isn’t that the idea? Bringing in somebody fresh, outside, and not tainted by the Washington’s politic? I thought we don’t want another 4 years of Bush.

I wish he would ask Barack Obama the same questions because I know he would have known the answers. She didn’t and doesn’t. Does anybody use their real names on here? I have. Let’s be honest here. How does anybody know that one person isn’t putting the pro-Palin comments on here? Surely not that many people could be so stupid. We all saw the same thing.

She got stuck on ‘repeat’ a few times… the record skipped on several occasions… she didn’t stop talking in the middle of a sentence… perhaps she should’ve. She nervously rambled, spouting gems about ‘the Iraq’ and ‘King Putin.’ She’s in it to win it, folks. Have your cyanide pills ready.

Wow, Palin is toast now. No more interviews will be allowed, and then the debate moderators will eat her alive at the debate, given her lack of knowledge about everything- Biden can just sit back and watch. It’s over for her. No one will take her seriously now. It’s a low moment for women. Hillary was the polar opposite of Palin. Hillary has knowledge and handles herself well.

Barry, in his 57 states mind, has he checked the murders in his own city of Chicago. This guy is not ready for CIC. He needs to go help in his own community.

GOOD JOB GOV Palin – As a FORMER DEM -
McCain/Palin will get my VOTE – and
MILLIONS of Americans feel the same way.
The real question – is obama qualified to lead our country – Think NOT!

BECKY… I WAS THINKING THE SAME THING…. IT MUST BE THE PROFFESSIONALSNOW-BOLIE THAT MARRIED HER! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! (OUCH I THINK I JUST BUSTED MY KIDNEY)

why are people comparing Hussein to Sarah. She doesn’t run for president. He is.

My the obama gang just cannot seem to give credit where it is due!!! Can obama answer these questions on foreign policy?????? Let’s ask Joe Biden – or Hillary – they both told us – he is NOT ready to lead – and we believe them!

Christie… shhhh. You aren’t making sense. Go to sleep.

MOLLY….MILLIONS OF AMERICANS ARE STILL BITTER OVER HILLARY. THOUGH THEY WILL COME TO THEIR SENSES ON THAT TUESDAY IN NOVEMBER…. THANK YOU MY FELLOW AMERICAS. GOOD NIGHT!
OBAMA 08′

The doesn’t matter whether Palin was for or against the Bush doctrine but she clearly had no idea what Charlie Gibson was talking about. She simply didn’t know about the policy that got us into the war with Iraq in the first place! And that was shocking. Absolutely shocking!
Matt Damon was right: “It’s like a bad Disney movie!”

Obama will not win. A war hero vs a community organizer. Palin is not an appeasor. Biden is. McCain’s points will only move out further. People are tired of Barry getting a pass. I quess he would cry if he got tough questions. The lady can handle them, but how about Barry? Oh, sorry, The one.

Yeehaaaaw! Praise the Lord, ole Sarah’s gonna exorcise the demons! Tell you what, Ten Commandments is all the Constitution I need. Burn the heathens!

Hmmm. Yes. I see. She’s an idiot. Good luck with the rest of your political career. Maybe Sarah Palin will finally triumph in firing that librarian. Ban books – yes. Read the most sweeping US foreign policy strategy that has mired the nation in an illegal war, turned the world against us and resulted in the greatest rape of the treasury in US history – no.
Nice job, Sarah. You imbecile.

Alsaka is #1 in the country!!!
… in domestic abuse!
… in rapes!
… in earmarks!
… in moose hunting!
I assume I’m right about the moose hunting. The other three are fact, per capita.
Palin for elected office!!

I say put her in there in the number # spot. On the job training is something we have used in the country for years. She can do no worse than Bush. He has screwed up every single thing in this country.

CHRISTIE? ARE YOU EATING THOSE WILD MUSHROOMS AGAIN?…GO TO HANNITY’S SOCIAL NETWORKING SITE AND FIND A RIGHT-WING MAN WHO KNOWS WHAT HES TALKING ABOUT.

Mike dear, maybe somebody already told you this, but Sarah DID NOT KNOW what the Bush Doctrine is. She just plain did not know.
She said, when pressed, something about Bush’s World View… which I am sure is ALSO a brand new concept for her.
Well, I think we can safely say that not too many people will be talking about lipstick tomorrow. Slapstick maybe, but NOT lipstick.

Moosehunters for Changeish
What’s the Obama doctrine? Please give me last years murder stats in Obama’s didtrict in Chicago, the rapes, robbery, gun crimes.

I know the stories tomorrow will be that Palin doesn’t know what the “Bush Doctrine” is, but the truth is, Charlie Gibson is the one who doesn’t know what it is, and that is was caused all the confusion.
The Bush Doctrine is a term that encompasses a broad spectrum of Bush policies and principles related to the war on terror. While preemptive war is one of these principles, and perhaps the most controversial, there are many others. One of those is the policy to treat a state which harbors terrorists as a terrorist itself.

lindsay Well too bad Charlie didn’t get the Bush Doctrine right. Charlie said it was preemptive in the case of
imminent threat and very few would disagree with that framework but the problem or controversy with the Bush Doctrine is that it’s preventive not preemptive. So if Charlie couldn’t answer his own question right then I don’t think I’ll fault her.

I dont care about bush doctrine o she dont no the answer but she is si sexy this is all i care today about VP

A community organizer: was that while he was around people saying God d— America. Oh, yea, that’s so wonderful of him.

Shouldn’t a candidate who claims that she is going to Washington to reform government and get the country back on track know what policies have been instituted in order to address them properly? We have flown blind under Dumbya for 8 years, we really don’t need another four.

I am 28. 6-7 years ago I was in graduate school in the sciences. Here’s a wholehearted attempt to remember what I know of the Bush Doctrine. I must have been 22 when I first heard about the Bush Doctrine, and it was first talked about in the context of: aha, bush finally has a cohesive doctrine he can speak about, after spending months pretty much taking a vacation. It was first formulated to concretize his reasons for afganistan. But in the lead up to the Iraq war, so around 2003? It started being talked about in earnest because contrary to what Palin described, he was going beyond Pre-emptive strikes. that was what was different and memorable about the doctrine, and what got the rest of the world roiling, and what makes it funny that we’re all about chastizing Russia for invading Georgia. Bush argued it was okay to invade without reason, to prevent the unsubstantiated possibility that something may or may not happen in the future that may or may not impact us. That’s what sank the U.S.’s moral standing in the world, and that’s why when you say Bush Doctrine, if you’re a Republican, maybe you blanked it out in horror. However, if i can remember this and i’m a science researcher, why can’t someone who’s been prepping for the last 2 weeks on foreign policy not know this? Its not that she’s dumb, of course she’s not, she almost got Charlie to answer the question for her. She even has okay moral standards, as she’s obviously not a supporter of the Bush Doctrine, in the way that she formulated that we should respond to imminent threats. She’s just not plugged in. Which is fine for governorship in Alaska, I’ve heard her speak about oil and she seems incredibly fluent and knowledgeable, and would make a phenomenal energy adviser or czar for McCain, but definitely not someone expected to be taken seriously on the international stage, even seriously as a VP, much less a president.

Leonard Peltier
Why don’t you give me a complete outline of the Obama doctrine?

Shame on you, Charlie Gibson. You were the sexist and mean, asking those questions. Where were the softballs that Biden gets, like ‘What’s the biggest trout you’ve ever seen in person?’ and ‘Who are you wearing?’
Shame on you, Charlie Gibson. Sarah is one of us… not some map of France.

This lady scared the heck out of me. War again? We’re not even done with one? No stupid surge is working, we’re not stupid. We’re military family and we don’t see any surge is working. That’s it! If this McCain and mooseburger become elected, I’m moving to Europe and spend our U.S. military retirement there instead of here. I’d rather give my money somewhere else than the government here if republicans get elected.

Al Debaran
Will Obama let the Russians do as they will one nation at a time? Perhaps you can give me a complete outline of Obama’s doctrine with appropriate references.

Christie i agree but stil better than Mc

New Doctrine:
The Football will henceforth be called:
“The Briefcase O’ Rapture”

Doug
President Kennedy said the exact same words, as did Washington, Eisenhower, Truman, and Jefferson. Do you condemn all those presidents like Palin?

OMG, Charlie,How dare you treat out Queen in such a rude way? You will be damned to the hell for this sin.—-
Excuse me, She is not our Queen, she is an applicant for the VP job. And We, american voters are the boss who will decided whom to choose. As usual, before hiring anybody, we have every right to ask her qualification.
If you want to just praise her, make a seperate kingdom in Alaska and go there. Make her queen, then you can just chant her name in endless illusion.

Okay, here’s my questions to the Republicans…
1]If she wasn’t sure what “Bush Doctrine” Gibson was talking about why didn’t she just ask for clarification. Something like, “There are several policies that could be described as the Bush Doctrine. Are you talking about the ‘National Security Strategy of the United States’?” would have been more than appropriate.
Instead it looks like she tried giving an answer to a question she didn’t fully understand.
Wouldn’t you want the next VP or possible president to ask for clarifications on questions being asked by foreign diplomats BEFORE giving an answer???
2]How can Republican supporters claim that Gibson’s questions were biased or too hard when Gibson was the reporter that McCain’s group hand-picked to interview her out of all the other media members they could have picked????
Really, it’s like complaining that the person giving you an exam is biased against you when you’re the one who’s had plenty of time and to hand-pick and research, the teacher that’s giving the exam.

Well said, Okiemom.
I’d like to point out that in one news cycle, Palin has suggested:
1. “Perhaps” we could go to war with Russia.— THIS IS STUPID! What’s next? Will she put Russia in the ‘AXIS of EVIL’?
2. 9/11 was linked to Iraq (Not in this interview – in a speech to her son and other soldiers in Alaska). EVEN BUSH ADMITS NO LINK!
3. She has no idea what the Bush Doctrine is. CLEARLY NEEDED OF A PUBLIC SERVANT ELECTED TO NATIONAL OFFICE – be it Congress, VP or President!
Based on these three facts, the media fully deserves our criticism for failing us AGAIN! If you are going to claim to be an analytical, investigative news organization, you cannot ignore the utter failure of Palin here. Remember that steady drumbeat of the news media that was regurgitating whatever it was told by “The Decider” before the Iraq War? Now, we see regurgitating in order to appear “Unbiased to the right or left”. But let me tell you, a risky VP selection is a risky VP selection; a doe in the headlights is a doe in the hear lights; and utter lack of knowledge is utter lack of knowledge.
Call it like it is.
This “He said / She said” reporting is reporting does a disservice to anyone seeking news. Leave gossip and light entertainment to their appropriate venues.
Dear media, we need to hear about foreign policy, jobs, health care, economics, infrastructure, energy plans and education -
And we all need to agree that Palin scored about 15/100 – and that those points were purely for ability to BS and parrot the simple phrases taught her by a team of top advisers from the McCain team.
This is insane!
Best and brightest? Not by a long shot.
I definitely believed her when she said “I haven’t thought about Iraq much…” this summer.

Harley Obama supports both Georgia and Ukraine’s entrance into NATO so his answer (while it may have been more articulate ) would have been not much different then Palins (other then it wouldv’e taken about 15 minutes more for him to answer) because what she said was accurate.

Mike, maybe Charlie wasn’t being clear. But anybody with a lick of sense about Bush’s policies would have been able to take a cue and say SOMETHING about the Doctrine.
Sarah didn’t even know about the concept of anticipatory self-defense. Charlie narrowed the question down for her and she was STILL clueless. She had NO freaking idea what he was talking about even when he got specific.

i would like to know how many of you even knew bush had a doctrine and what is in it{answer none} you have your head to far up your ass.Here,s a better question for you how come your pres.elect was,nt even born in the u.s.a thought you had to be born in the country to be pres {if you dont believe it check it out yourselves} or does that only apply for rep.
and for obama running partner could you be any dumber he asked another senator or governor to stand up and meet the people when he has been in a wheel chair for most of his life

Can you explain why no one talk about helthcare lik healthcarein europe.Why are americans buying same storry from politicians all the time.You get sick you in trouble for rest of your life.Watch SICKO find the truth

Ticket of the Major Pary of USA ….
A Senile Grandpa & a Birdbrain Beauty
What a joke to the world.

Palin sounded like she was repeating talking points and continued to stick with the same answers without answering some of the questions at all. Are we really sure she is ready to be Vice President let alone President someday? Good for you Charlie for asking these tough questions.

Hey Shima Cody– sorry my comment was directed at Cristie.

Maybe Professor William Ayers can instruct Obama how to handle the Middle East crisis. You OBama supporters are insane if you think we are going to allow Obama near the oval office knowing of his radical ties. He will be crushed in November. McCain’s has a good veep. Clinton had that goofus idiot ALgore and you call Sarah all this stuff.

Yeah! this is so funny, should I say this woman is a sickooo without a clue. Who in there right mind want another war? Oh we know, McWar & McLipstick. The Repub’s don’t have a clue, and if you stupid people don’t wake up, we will be in another war with no job and social security, and living under that bridge to nowhere!

laura You obviously don’t understand anything about NATO. Her answers were entirely accurate. NATO is a collective defense organization and it requires all members to come to the assistance
of any other member that is threatened.
If you have a problem with her answer about could Georgia and Ukraine’s being in NATO lead to war in the case they were threatened or attacked then you need to email the Obama campaign and let them know you don’t support his support of both Ukraine and Georgia entering into NATO because could that lead to war with Russia “perhaps so”.
You also fail to mention the follow-up to that question where she talks about how the situation with Georgia should not lead to a new cold war or war itself because there are sanctions which can be used.

As a former Alaskan, there are parts of the state where on a clear day, you can see land that is Russian! So to answer someone’s question, can Alaska see over to Russia – absolutely!!!
What I don’t get is the remark she made about God’s will. Sarah made that comment in the house of God. She did not make it to the common public or non-believers, she made it to her peers of the church. Again, the media trying to boil things over…

Karen You’re the stupid one here.
Her answer was correct about what our committment to Ukraine and Georgia would be if they were to enter NATO and if you don’t like it then you should think again about Obama since he supports both Ukraine and Georgia entering NATO himself. If they go into NATO and are attacked or threatened is it possible we would have to get involved militarily- you bet. So before you tell everyone else hear they’re stupid then you should do your own homework .

alpaig52
I’m actually ashamed of you. You asked those fine democrats to read more than one sentence. I’m sure Obama will have a new government for that sort of policy.

Jeaves:
Thanks so much for your wisdom regarding Palin’s aversion to labels.
It’s like when she and you extreme right wing neocon evangelical nut jobs attempt to evoke silence with inflammatory words like “liberal”. To you, I say, G-F-Y!!

Wow. Just wow. The grinding vacuousness of the rabid Palin haters is truly astounding. I wonder who ties their shoes… Whether you can fathom the nuance or not, Palin’s answer regarding the Bush Doctrine was dead on. Gibson is the one who does not understand that the NSS 2002 (aka Bush Doctrine) covers eight different broad areas of national security and international relations. He may as well have asked her if she supports Webster’s Dictionary. Oh, and ABC edited out Gibson’s lie about “exact words” in their West coast feed. Gibson’s performance was poor. But the worst by far was Olbermann’s interview of Obama. I felt sorry for Obama. Olby was making him uncomfortable with his drooling, fawning sycophancy. That was the most embarrassing spectacle I’ve ever seen.

>>>>Christie,
Bush WAS elected TWO times by the stupid amoung us! That’s why we’re upset that they might do it again!<<<<
Hi, the smart people outwitted the elites, 2 times. Get your meds refilled. Come back and see me on election night. I will be here.

And while you are at it. how about Joe Biden, who doesn’t even know that the Vice Presidential nominee is supposed to believe he is the best person for the job. Hillary is out (for now), but I doubt they knows any more. After all, she changed her mind on IRaq about 8 ties – every time there was a different poll.

Pat, you spelled McCain wrong. Did you and Sarah go the same school?

Dr. Dean,
Then why didn’t she elaborate when she asked “what aspect of it?”.
Wouldn’t that have been the perfect
opportunity to demonstrate her mastery of international policy by outlining the main elements?
Instead she got fidgety, a bit nervous and waited for Gibson to throw here a bone.

The “Bush Doctrine” is President Bush’s interpretation of both the War Powers Resolution of 1973 and the right given him by the constitution. The War Powers Resolution of 1973 permits presidents to send troops to war but it says they must be withdrawn in 60 days if Congress doesn’t authorize the war. Our Constitution states that, while the commander in chief has the power to conduct wars, only Congress has the power to declare war. The loophole used by every president since Trumen is that we have “conflicts” and not “wars”. No congress has ever forced the issue about the 60 days provision. While Palin might not be knowledgeable that the modern term for the Iraq rationale is the “Bush Doctrine”, it was certainly painstakingly explained by Gibson to her. Did she not know the principle behind the Iraq and Afghan troop movements? I know she was too young in 1973 to understand what Vietnam was all about and the War Powers Resolution that came out of it but, really, shouldn’t the VP nominee be conversant on WHY we have troops fighting overseas? If Charlie Gibson failed to make her understand what the rationale is behind the wars, imagine her issuing orders to the military and advising congress.

Oh, this just gets scarier and scarier. This woman is barely qualified to to shine McCain’s shoes. What in the heck was he thinking? I don’t want a ‘gimmick’, as Peggy Noonan said, to be a heartbeat away from the presidency. I am also profoundly troubled that she didn’t for a single moment question her qualifications for the VP job before she took it. That bespeaks an arrogance and a lack of depth that I find very frightening.

What’s wrong with talking to God? Moses did pretty well by Israel doing that. Lincoln who is consistently voted our best president did that regularly and received strength to change our nation. People who know God enjoy talking to him. I’m sure God will give her better advice than Rumsfeld gave to Bush. I know from all the vitriol poured out on this woman that she needs God to stay sane.

Here is a link from Andy Martin about Obama’s true ties to Ayers….
Andy Martin exposes Barack Obama’s lies about William Ayers
(NEW YORK, NY)(September 9, 2008) Nailing down the relationship between “mad bomber” William Ayers and Barack Obama has been the greatest challenge of the 2008 presidential campaign.
The second biggest challenge of 2008 has been deciphering and understanding Barack Obama’s campaign structure. His campaign is unlike any other presidential campaign in U. S. history. Obama’s operation is authoritarian, disciplined and centralized in Chicago. Obama’s reliance on a nationwide network of local “offices” and mailing lists points inexorably to a political latticework straight out of William Ayers’ revolutionary playbook.
The bottom line: After an exhaustive investigation ContrarianCommentary.com can confirm that Barack Obama appears to be William Ayers’ “front” for a national, ongoing Maoist-style revolutionary campaign structure which will endure past November 4th.
Ironically, as we searched for the Ayers-Obama relationship in the present, it was staring us in the face: Obama’s campaign is structured precisely the way Ayers would want. That is why Obama has created “Camp Obamas” across the United States to indoctrinate workers, and adopted other similar Fidel Castro/Hugo Chavez tactics.
The puzzle pieces are finally starting to fall into place. Last week we asked why would Black Panther party revolutionary Khalid Al-Mansour start soliciting money for Obama’s legal education? The answer: Ayers and his wife, Bernadine Dohrn, were close associates of the Black Panther Party and even unleashed a terrorist attack on a New York judge who heard a Panther case.
In the 1980’s, the Ayers/Dohrn revolutionary terror network was still working through individuals such as Al-Mansour, who had sufficiently laundered his radical past to assume respectability as a front for a Saudi Prince. The same way Ayers laundered his own past to become a professor of “education” at Illinois’ taxpayer-subsidized university.
Ayers and Al-Mansour appear to have been in contact. Ayers vouched for Obama to Al-Mansour, who then began a law school fund-raising campaign among prominent African-Americans.
Obama’s law degree thus appears to have been financed through the encouragement of persons who had been violent revolutionaries and remain unrepentant to this day, the same unconventional way the purchase of Obama’s Chicago mansion was party financed by an Iraqi billionaire.
Why did Obama get hired as a “summer associate” in 1989 at the law firm which had hired Ayers’ wife, and where Ayers’ father was a prominent friend of the managing partner at Sidley & Austin? The answer is obvious. Ayers was grooming Obama as his future “front.”
Where did Obama get his first and only legal job after Harvard? At a law firm where Tony Rezko was a prominent client and where name partner Judson Miner was a law school classmate of Bernadine Dohrn-Ayers. Yes, the pieces are starting to come together.
Was Obama telling ABC the truth when he said met the Ayers’ at a coffee klatch at the Ayers home in 1995? Ayers had already been working with Obama for seven years; Ayers had appointed Obama to head a $50 million foundation. Did Ayers appoint a stranger? Or a front man? The answer is obvious.
Obama has relentlessly tried to conceal the Ayers/Obama time line, and the ongoing connections between the men. When bits and pieces of the Ayers/Obama relationship have popped up this year, Obama has sought to debunk and deflate each isolated piece of information. No one was able to grasp the big picture.
Until today, no one had actually connected all of the dots. ContrarianCommentary.com is the first to do so.

Obama has spoken eloquently in regards to the issue of religious intolerance
and all of our candidates have been asked about and made reference to their personal faith. I personally have no issue with one’s faith , regardless of whether they grew up in a Pentacostal Church or sat in the pews of Pastor Wright’s church for 20 years, as long as it doesn’t dictate their policy. I have no reason to believe it would with Obama and there is nothing to indicate to date when looking at Palin’s record as Governor that it would her either.
There were no books banned, she is pro-contraception and she never advocated that just creationism be taught in the schools. I am amazed at the total offense the left is taking around Palin’s supposed whacked out views when Obama went to a church where Pastor Wright stood on a podium at a press club speech and told us that HIV was a genocidal plot on the government’s part and that blacks learn from one side of their brain and whites learn from the other and schools are racist because they don’t accomodate that fact, or the facts as Wright sees them. You can feel comfortable with the fact that those people who died in 9/11 deserved such because of the misdeeds of this Country and GDAmerica and yet get all freaked out because someone mentions God being on their side or watching over them as they leave for Iraq. Now I personally don’t like either, but to feel comfortable with one and yet be appalled at the other is just hypocritical. Did Obama say those things himself? No. But Obama supporters supported Wright and his teachings and defended him as it’s a
“cultural thing” (I guess they don’t have culture in Alaska) and I sat there watching the CNN idiots fawning all over Wright while he gave that speech.
The only thing worse then the far right is the far left because they are one in the same.

Leonard Peltier
Gotta love Bush speak. Nor sure I’d want to hunt with Chaney, however.

Michael Many Presidents have a doctrine. It’s the framework for their foreign policy. Clinton opted to not have his own doctrine and was criticized by the conservatives for such. Reagan’s doctrine was we would assist with anti-communist insurgencies worldwide. Truman’s was we would support free people’s against communist usurpers. Carter had one which is still worked off of and is certainly in play in regards to Iraq and that is to protect US interests (oil) in the Persian Gulf by force if necessary.

all you people{democrats} that are blaming bush for everything from the hurrican in louisana to the economy in the u.s.a you better look in the mirror who is in the house and senate that,s right the democrat,s these are the people who said when they take over things will change and they did for the Worst/ oh wait one of them did obama he wrote 2 books about how great he is

Hilary Smith
The British hate the French, the French hate the British. British and French hate the Germans, poles hate the Russians, Muslims hate everyone somewhat equally, with special emphasis on the United States and Israel. Sweden hates Norway, and the Baltic State hate Russia. China hates and loves everything west. And on and on and on. Oh, well, just another normal day on Earth.

I love the way the right-wing scream machine is now saying there is no such thing as “The Bush Doctrine.”
Google it, and watch the hits line up on right-wing web sites from 2002 forward.
Somewhere in hell, Dr. Paul Joseph Goebbels is in envy of the Republican capacity for baldfaced lying.

AuthenticSkeptic
What is Obama’s doctrine?

How can we be so critical of Palin not knowing the Bush Doctrine when Charlie didn’t even get it right. The controversy around the Bush Doctrine has always been that it is not preemptive (as Charlie said and Palin supported) but rather preventive. Most everyone supports preemptive (and remember there was no imminent threat from Hussein against this Country) rather it’s Bush’s preventive Bush Doctrine that people debate.

McCain/Palin ticket is a joke.
Even Ms Teen from South Carolina would know that you can see part of Russia from Alaska looking at the map.
I’m sorry to say Republicans did it again. Just shut up and admit to it that you guys made bad judgements to everything and anything including a chose for VP. That’s scary dude!!
OBAMA-BIDEN FROM CALIFORNIA

Harley-
Candidates don’t get to have a “doctrine,” only presidents do. Monroe, Truman, et al.
Need to brush up on the civics? Or were you just having a Scaracuda moment?

Given that Obama didn’t even know that there were 50 not 57 states, I don’t think he knew you could see Russia from Alaska.

AuthenticSkeptic
Are you saying Obama has no doctrine? Doctrine is also foreign trade, treaties, world bank, World bank policies, environment, Nato, and on and on and on.

In the 11th hour, suddenly you people you know what the Bush Doctrine is? Listen up you idiots! Sarah Palin is the breath of fresh air this country needs!!!

Goodnight to all of the Obama supporters who live in all 57 states .. :o)

Oh, Harley. Those may be policies, but they’re not “Doctrine,” at least not in the foreign relations sense, which was the question posed to Scaracuda.
I trust that you have the intelligence to find the Obama campaign’s web site, if you’re really interested in knowing his positions, and that you can read.

AuthenticSkeptic
1. A principle or body of principles presented for acceptance or belief, as by a religious, political, scientific, or philosophic group; dogma.
2. A rule or principle of law, especially when established by precedent.
3. A statement of official government policy, especially in foreign affairs and military strategy.
4. Archaic Something taught; a teaching.

Is it me, or was Palin inappropriately sarcastic when responding to Gibson’s Bush Doctrine question? Too bad the typed words of “In what regards, charlie?” look so innocent on a computer screen, but sound so rude in actuality. Did anyone else see her ya-son-of-a-b twitchy look once she realized she had no clue what he was saying?

gmom After the Russia/Georgia crisis Obama responded by saying that we will use the UN and yet seemed to not know that Russia has veto power and he looked like an idiot. Should we disqualify him for that? 57 States we can give him a pass on due to fatigue but not knowing Russia has veto power and yet offering that up as an action to be taken? This is what happens though when you’re on vacation and asked a question and you don’t have access to your 300 foreign policy advisors. If he had been President at the time he would have looked like an idiot. And bad judgement? Even Biden said the other day that Obama should perhaps have put Clinton on the ticket.
And who’s Biden working for? Going around and talking about how if McCain needed him for any reason he’d be there in a second and talking about McCain dancing on a table in Greece with Biden’s wife while drinking ouzo. Of course Biden was the same guy who said he would be honored to run on a ticket with McCain in 2005. No, the bad judgement call here was Obama not putting on his ticket a candidate who came with 18 million voters and who was overwhelmingly kicking his behind with those blue collar/rural voters that love Palin. Had Clinton been put on there would be no Palin. Obama made a political decision and brought Biden on to compensate for his own lack of foreign policy experience and to attract those blue collar/rural voters that he needs to win the Presidency.
McCain made a political decision also
to bring a new, fresh, up and coming politician within the GOP (basically Obama’s counterpart) with limited experience who will represent the future and change (as did Obama until he put a 30 yr veteran on his ticket).
Put Palin out on the campaign trail for 18 months like Obama has been (which is
where most all of his Presidential experience comes from) and have her answer the same questions foreign policy questions over and over again and you’ll have another Obama.

E.R., not sure if it was sarcasm as much as being completely dumbfounded. (Internal dialogue: “Oh crap! What is that? They didn’t prep me on this one)

The thing Palin is lacking is a self sense of being “Presidential”. No, Palin, you didn’t need to ask Gibson to clarify “in what sense” of “Bush Doctrine” you’re asked, You should command him to “Define ‘Bush Doctrine’”.

Are you seriously still bringing up the community organizer bit? That was soooo 2 days ago. You need to catch up… unless you’re running out of Ammo Mr. Doctrine.

A.S.S.-
You must be overdue for your medication, as I never mentioned anything about community organizing.

Harley-
ANYONE who doesn’t blink about being asked to be the second in command of the world’s most powerful nation had best know the context of her OWN party’s sitting president’s WELL PUBLICIZED doctrine of preemptive war.
Maybe she should have used a lifeline?
Next, we’ll be hearing she’ll only be interviewed by Regis…

alpaig52
You didn’t have to type all those words for me because what you said and whatever you are going to say it does not help. get over about 57 states if that is ALL you got. go to bed because you don’t have a place here neither your candidates. When she went back to Alaska I hope she stays there and take care of her troopergate which now republicans trying to interfere.
GOBAMA

AuthenticSkeptic
Take it away Obama.
From ‘Dreams of My Father’,
“I CEASED TO ADVERTISE MY MOTHER’S RACE AT THE AGE OF 12 OR 13, when I began to suspect that by doing so I was ingratiating myself to whites”
From Dreams of My Father, ” I FOUND A SOLACE IN NURSING A PERVASIVE SENSE OF GRIEVANCE AND ANIMOSITY AGAINST MY MOTHER’S RACE”.
From ‘Dreams of my Father’, “The emotion between the races could never be pure….. the THE OTHER RACE (WHITE) WOULD ALWAYS REMAIN JUST THAT: MENACING, ALIEN AND APART”
From Dreams Of My Father, “never emulate white men and brown men whose fates didn’t speak to my own. IT WAS INTO MY FATHER’S IMAGE , THE BLACK MAN, THE SON OF AFRICA, THAT I’D PACKED ALL THE ATTRIBUTES I SOUGHT IN MYSELF.
From Dreams Of My Father:
“THAT HATE HADN’T GONE AWAY,” he wrote, BLAMING WHITE PEOPLE,- SOME CRUEL, SOME IGNORANT, sometimes a single face, sometimes just a faceless image of a system claiming power over our lives.”

Gmom, how is a question about foreign policy during an interview focusing around foreign policy inappropriate?

Does of you Obama supporters know what “Chinese Doctrine” is?

Harley-
As a white person who vividly remembers the “Whites Only” restrooms and drinking fountains of Jackson, MS, I can’t say I’d blame a black kid for feeling that way in the 60s and 70s.
Nothing, of course, says that the grown Obama still feels that way. Until you can prove otherwise, better skip your right-wing talking points. You’re just making someone else’s heartfelt honesty illustrate your own ignorance.

I hope everyone who was so excited about Sarah Palin’s pick as McCain’s VP choice places the blame of her humiliation squarely where it belongs: on McCain for choosing an obviously unqualified candidate as his choice, and on Palin for stating, unequivocally at the beginning of the interview that she truly believed she was ready for the post. This is judgment? Goodbye.

xz-
Can she see China from Alaska, too? And with what ammunition do you think she will attack?
In a battle of wits, the woman is clearly defenseless.

AS(…)
Your Obama has all the wits he wants, I vote for character!

Candice-
Let me disabuse your of your delusions, from no less a faultless source than Norm Podhoretz (Rove’s boofoo buddy) on freepers:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/745073/posts

These Presidential doctrines are nothing more then the President’s putting their framework on foreign policy on paper. Clinton didn’t have one because he said he put more emphasis on action then words.

It seems thaat Gov. Sarah Palin gets a “bye” on anything she says because she is either a woman, or, from Alaska. We all know that any man running for national office would have to know, at least, the basic definitions of “doctrine”, “policies”, and/or, “formulation”. The poor woman is clearly in over her head. Sen. McCain would have been so much better off had he chosen someone like Secy. Condoleeza Rice who knows who the foreign leaders are and where most of them stand. (However, she has already said she is not interested.)
Seeing how Palin is looking for the questioner to give her a “hint” as to the correct answers, which will be published in the press, only reveals that she is not qualified to be V.P. What would she do, God forbid, if something did happen to McCain. Come on people, wake up! Is there a color line etched so deep in our society that we have lost our perspective on picking someone to lead this country?
If so, the US is about to become the laughing stock of the world. Would we rather have a white air head as President that have a black man who is capable of thinking before acting? If so, we are losing face around the world!
Ernest 2x

Bombs, No, I don’t necessary like the character of the man. I don’t like the character of the other man either. As of Sarah Palin, I don’t know!

az-
For which part of Saracuda’s character are you voting?
A) Her Wasilla administration charging rape victims $300-$1200 for the forensic tests to catch their assailants, until the state passed a law to ban the egregious practice?
B) Reducing by 40% Alaska’s support of Covenant House, which provides housing for unwed mothers? (karma’s a bitch, eh?)
C) Lying about her supporting the Bridge To Nowhere?
D) All of the above.

Palin not ready to be Commander in Chief.
If she is not familiar with the Bush Doctrine, this means she has not been paying enough attention to national and world events in the past few years. You cannot be an effective president (if McCain has a stroke or heart attack) during a time of two wars by taking a 4 month crash course. It takes years and years to learn world history, the complicated history and politics of the Middle East, other regions of the world, and all the subtleties involved in foreign policy. If McCain ends up in the hospital, and she gets different opinions from her generals and secretary of defense or other cabinet members regarding military options — to attack or not to attack — can we really be confident that she will make an informed and wise decision? It concerns me that she could make a huge blunder.

Oh, key/Kerry. Obama is no more a Muslim than you are an intellectual.

The nutty liberals are too dumb. Obama made the same comments as Palin did.

He slipped and said his Muslim faith..makes you wonder.

Dave in VA: No, actually Sen. Obama did not slip, he was saying that John McCain never attacked him for “his Muslim faith” which has been a line of attack by idiots like Sean Hannity and Bill O’Reilly. You see? He wasn’t saying he is a Muslim, because he’s not, he was actually giving credit to McCain for not taking up that line of attack. You really should pay a little more attention to things.

AuthenticSkeptic:
Obama’s no better please!!!!
Obama wouldn’t know honesty if it jumped up and bit him…He’s nothing more than gutter trash.
He sat in the pews of a church and heard nothing in reference to his illustrious pastor that was derogatory……He realized how STUPID that sounded so, he launched this master speech that would set the record straight.. Even had the audacity(love this word) to tell US that WE had racial issues. I like that touch! I guess he would know coming from a racially charged atmosphere for two decades. Made this bit production of Hillary’s tax information which revealed nothing we didn’t already probably know. But, have received campaign contributions far exceeding their total 8 year gross income…Oh my goodness that one is crazy.
Took questionable donations from none other Tony Rezko……But was the only living soul in Chicago that didn’t know the dynamics associated to him. Didn’t know him still even though he sold you the house and lived right next door…… I love it!
Can’t be held responsible you were oblivious of everything that was going on around you. Receiving money from unregistered lobbyist, their families, as well as other business associates….. But, because they were unregistered it was OK……. Call that a little double standard wouldn’t you say? Didn’t understand the voting process while in the Senate and oops my Senate records mysteriously disappeared.. Yeah right! EVERYBODY is looking at him like maybe we have a nut loose.
He made this great BIG issue oh my god Hillary has embellished her trip to Bosnia she is not to be trusted…But you on the other hand…..This next one is one of my personal favorites he truly should be nominated for an award……….
Your father was airlifted into America by way of the Kennedy’s in 1959. Story brought a tear to my eye of how your parents were able to meet through the kindness of the Kennedy’s…….Unfortunately your father came here in 1960 the air lift had already occurred……So that says…. It never happened!

AuthenticSkeptic:
Obama’s no better please!!!!
Obama wouldn’t know honesty if it jumped up and bit him…He’s nothing more than gutter trash.
He sat in the pews of a church and heard nothing in reference to his illustrious pastor that was derogatory……He realized how STUPID that sounded so, he launched this master speech that would set the record straight.. Even had the audacity(love this word) to tell US that WE had racial issues. I like that touch! I guess he would know coming from a racially charged atmosphere for two decades. Made this bit production of Hillary’s tax information which revealed nothing we didn’t already probably know. But, have received campaign contributions far exceeding their total 8 year gross income…Oh my goodness that one is crazy.
Took questionable donations from none other Tony Rezko……But was the only living soul in Chicago that didn’t know the dynamics associated to him. Didn’t know him still even though he sold you the house and lived right next door…… I love it!
Can’t be held responsible you were oblivious of everything that was going on around you. Receiving money from unregistered lobbyist, their families, as well as other business associates….. But, because they were unregistered it was OK……. Call that a little double standard wouldn’t you say? Didn’t understand the voting process while in the Senate and oops my Senate records mysteriously disappeared.. Yeah right! EVERYBODY is looking at him like maybe we have a nut loose.
He made this great BIG issue oh my god Hillary has embellished her trip to Bosnia she is not to be trusted…But you on the other hand…..This next one is one of my personal favorites he truly should be nominated for an award……….
Your father was airlifted into America by way of the Kennedy’s in 1959. Story brought a tear to my eye of how your parents were able to meet through the kindness of the Kennedy’s…….Unfortunately your father came here in 1960 the air lift had already occurred……So that says…. It never happened!

OBAMA: DIRTY POLITICIAN FROM THE START
http://tinyurl.com/2zwwte
OBAMA’S CHANGING STORY ON REZKO: Chicago Sun-Times, March 16, 2008: For the first time, Sen. Barack Obama put a figure Friday to the amount of campaign contributions that indicted political fund-raiser Tony Rezko raised for the senator’s campaigns, and the number — about $250,000 — was far more than he previously acknowledged. Obama’s estimate exceeded his campaign staff’s previous estimates of Rezko’s fund-raising during Obama’s 12 years in politics. In November 2006, Obama’s staff estimated Rezko raised $50,000 to $60,000 over the senator’s career. In the last year, Obama’s campaign fund has given charities more than $157,600 in donations it linked to Rezko, his family, friends and business associates.
So Obama is still claiming that Hillary lies and he’s against the war… or rather was that day he was looking to run for Senator, and tagged onto Jesse Jackson’s speech at an anti-war Raly. No tooo impressive if that’s still all he’s got to uphold his excellent Judgment and that he campaigned for Liebermann in Conneticuit to try and defeat the Anti-War Candidate Lammont. I’m sure Lammont is not Impressed. Obama said Lieberman was his mentor at a dinner during that trip.
Obama is full of half-truths… Well documented in the media for anyone who cares to read about him vs. take his words at face value. I started reading about him because I could see he was voting like a Hawk and when it was disclosed he claimed to be not taking money from Sepcial Interests and that was debunked.
Here’s an interesting list:
1. He joined and remained active in a church where racism and anti-American hate is routinely preached. He and his family attended, and heavily contributed for about 20 years. This has received worldwide attention, as show in the link below.
Ten Must-See Videos from The Times Online
Obama first claimed not to know about Wright’s inflammatory statements. He later admitted he did.
CBS News
Flip-Flip Video
CBS News
OOPS… didn’t notice. Or else he forgot.
Rev Wright, one of the ministers, even promoted Obama and denigrated Hillary Clinton from the pulpit spurring an IRS investigation as to the validity of their non-profit status. The Obama campaign is also reported to have campaigned on at least one occasion at church events, furthering the curiosity of the IRS.
WCBS TV
Obama Speech at General Synod of the United Church of Christ
But, OOPS… he didn’t know. Or didn’t mind.
2. Senator Obama bought stock in two companies whose investors included his 2004 campaign political donors. One, in fact, was developing medicine to treat avian flu — with the stock purchase coming right before Obama introduced legislation to increase funding to combat the virus.
The other company, SkyTerra, received government permission to build a national wireless network on the day Obama purchased his shares. Among the principal owners of this business were four people who had raised more than $150,000 for Obama. Attorney Obama claimed later that they were in a semi-blind trust, that just didn’t legally work out. When this became public, Obama sold the stock.
Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times
Oops… he didn’t know. Or didn’t he mind?
3. Senator Obama came into politics through the famously corrupt Chicago political machine, with the help of some of the slimiest characters imaginable. (Several major players who helped him are have been indicted for graft, fraud, etc. Obama now keeps a rep at Rezko’s trial every day to monitor testimony.) Obama has had to donate to charity much of the money they gave him to get his start, though the admitted dollar amount keeps increasing as time goes on. It’s now up over $250,000. Tony Rezko, currently at trial on federal charges of attempted extortion, money laundering, and fraud, was also involved in the purchase of Obama’s home at well below market value.
Huffington Post
Chicago Sun-Times
New York Times
Not so well publicized is the fact that Obama wrote letters to the Illinois Dept of Housing, recommending Rezco’s company, North Kenwood, LLC, for the housing projects that soon became slums, causing inhumane hardship for their residents.
Obama Letters
These slums, later repossessed, were in Obama’s district while he was an Illinois senator. In fact, some are about a mile from his home, and several are still boarded up. Obama professed to be unaware of any problems. During the Democratic debate on January 21, 2008, Obama, in fact, gave the impression that he had merely done about 5 hours of legal work for “this individual.”
The Rezko Foreclosed Properties
telegraph.co.uk
No Quarter
Rezko Watch
Chicago Tribune: Almost Believable
OOPS… he didn’t know. Or did he care?
4. According to the Sun-Times, Barack Obama, “allegedly decent guy and agent of change” in Washington, requested an earmark in 2006 for $1 million taxpayer dollars for the University of Chicago Hospitals, where is wife, Michelle Obama, was a vice president. Said hospital, by the way, gave Michelle Obama a huge raise (nearly $200,000, more than doubling her salary) in 2005 after Barack was elected to the United States Senate.
Michelle Obama
Chicago Sun-Times
According to The Chicago Tribune, “Obama had a special connection to Maytag: Lester Crown, one of the company’s directors and biggest investors whose family, records show, has raised tens of thousands of dollars for Obama’s campaigns since 2003.” Maytag closed its refrigerator plant in Galesburg, Ill during Obama’s 2004 Senate campaign, but Crown says Obama never raised the fate of the Galesburg plant with him. Obama’s campaign responded “that the senator did not know Crown sat on Maytag’s board until the Tribune noted it last September in a story about the closing of the Maytag headquarters in Newton, Iowa.”
Chicago Tribune
Obama Truth
Oops… he didn’t know? Or didn’t he care?
5. Obama took donations from federal lobbyists and political action committees for his House and Senate races and his own Hopefund political action committee. He only stopped taking this political money — and began speaking out against it — when he launched his presidential campaign in February 2007. However, he still takes hundreds of thousands of dollars from their high level employees.
Politifact
The Hill
Politifact
Oops… he didn’t know? Or doesn’t mind?
6. Opponents have asked Senator Obama to release the records from his term of state office in Illinois. Since he has little other experience in politics (he did, after all, declare his presidential candidacy barely 2 years after election to the US Senate), this doesn’t seem an unreasonable request. The records might also shed light on his relationship with Rezko and some of the other corrupt individuals he rubbed shoulders with during his climb up through Chicago politics. But lo and behold, the records all seem to have mysteriously disappeared.
Politico
The Pantagraph, a central Illinois newspaper
Questions have also been raised about Obama-sponsored legislation during the last year he was in office there. It is alleged that, in the interest of making Obama appear more prolific, then Illinois Senate Majority Leader Emil Jones appointed Obama as sponsor of many pieces of legislation, even though other senior senators had spent many years working on the bills.
“I took all the beatings and insults and endured all the racist comments over the years from nasty Republican committee chairmen,” State Senator Rickey Hendon, the original sponsor of landmark racial profiling and videotaped confession legislation yanked away by Jones and given to Obama, complained to me at the time. “Barack didn’t have to endure any of it, yet, in the end, he got all the credit.”
“I don’t consider it bill jacking,” Hendon told me. “But no one wants to carry the ball 99 yards all the way to the one-yard line, and then give it to the halfback who gets all the credit and the stats in the record book.”
As a result, Todd Spivak of the Houston Press noted, “During his seventh and final year in the state Senate, Obama’s stats soared. He sponsored a whopping 26 bills passed into law — including many he now cites in his presidential campaign when attacked as inexperienced.”
Houston Press
Oops… he didn’t know? Or did he mind?
7. Obama’s website sported a page for the New Black Panthers organization until it was discovered and reported by the media. It was quickly removed. Obama denounced their support, but the New Black Panthers’ Winter 2008 newsletter still carries a full page ad for his campaign on page 36. Though the origin of the ad is not stated, it contains logos, graphics and quotes from the Obama website, which Obama could have ordered removed as a copyright violation.
The NBP page, before its deletion.
NBP Winter 2008 Newsletter
OOPs… he didn’t know.
8. In addition to the controversy concerning his numerous “present” votes while in the Illinois legislature, Obama also maintains that he just pushed the wrong button on 5 or 6 other votes. (Let’s not even go there!)
According to the New York Times, however, an examination of Illinois records shows at least 36 times when Mr. Obama was either the only state senator to vote present or was part of a group of six or fewer to vote that way, causing many to question whether he was really just trying to avoid taking a stand.
LA Times on Obama votes
Real Clear Politics
New Your Times
Obama also has an exceptionally high no-show ration for votes since coming to the Senate.
Media Matters
OOPS… he didn’t know? Or didn’t he care?
9. On Wednesday, Feb 27, 2008, CTV reported that a senior member of Obama’s campaign, Austan Goolsbee, spoke directly with the Canadian Consulate General in Chicago to assure them that if Obama publicly spoke about opting out of NAFTA, they should not take it seriously. It would just be political posturing… campaign rhetoric. Obama flatly denied the report, attacking both Senator Clinton and Senator McCain for their comments on the issue.
On March 4, the New York Times, among other sources, revealed that the conversation had indeed taken place, and published the memo. The Canadian government announced that an investigation would begin to find out who was responsible for leaking the memorandum concerning the conversation.
CTV News
New York Times
New York Times published the memo
OOPS… he didn’t know.
10. Obama’s position on the war in Iraq, in spite of the October 2002 speech, has not been as unwavering as he would have us believe.
# He wrote in The Audacity of Hope that by March of 2003, “I began to suspect that I might have been wrong.”
# In July, 2004, he told the Chicago Tribune, “There’s not that much difference between my position and George Bush’s position at this stage.”
# Once elected to the US Senate, he told Charlie Rose on PBS, “Once the decision was made, then we’ve got to do everything we can to stabilize the country, to make it successful, because we’ll have too much at stake in the Middle East. And that’s the position that I continue to take.”
# Obama continued that tack in his speech of November, 2005. Mirroring the Bush administration’s position, he asserted on January 26, 2006, that “it remains my position that we have a role to play in stabilizing the country as Iraqis are getting their act together.” In this interview on Meet the Press, he further stated, “My position has been that it would not be responsible for us to unilaterally and precipitously draw troops down regardless of the politics, because I think that all of us have a stake in seeing Iraq succeed.”
# It wasn’t until October of 2006 that he called for “all the leadership in Washington to execute a serious change of course in Iraq.”
# A month before he announced his presidential candidacy he repositioned himself again, saying for the first time, “It’s time to start bringing our troops home.”
# It wasn’t until May of 2007 that Obama voted against funding for the war for the first time.
# In June, 2007, Obama voted no to Senator John F. Kerry’s proposal to remove most combat troops from Iraq by July 2007, warning that an “arbitrary deadline” could “compound” the Bush administration’s mistake. He voted instead for a Republican-sponsored resolution that stated the Senate would not cut off funding for troops in Iraq.
Commentary Magazine
Obama Gets the Facts Wrong
Clinton Takes on Obama
MSNBC
The Boston Globe
OOPS… did he forget?
11. Senator Obama is chair of of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee’s Subcommittee on Europe, having been appointed in early 2007. According to Congressional Records, the subcommittee’s jurisdiction includes “all matters, policies and problems concerning the continent of Europe, including the European member states of the North Atlantic Treaty Organization.” That means it has jurisdiction over NATO.
As Senator Clinton asserted in a recent debate, “NATO is critical to our mission in Afghanistan. He’s held not one substantive hearing to do oversight, to figure out what we can do to actually have a stronger presence with NATO in Afghanistan.”
Politifact
OOPS… he didn’t know… or did he forget?
12. Senator Obama told Tim Russert in January of 2006 that “I will serve out my full six-year term.”
From the official transcript of Meet the Press:
MR. RUSSERT: But there seems to be an evolution in your thinking. This is what you told the Chicago Tribune last month: “Have you ruled out running for another office before your term is up?” Obama answered, “It’s not something I anticipate doing.” But when we talked back in November of `04 after your election I said, “There’s been enormous speculation about your political future. Will you serve your six-year term as United States senator from Illinois?” Obama, “Absolutely.”
SEN. OBAMA: I will serve out my full six-year term. You know, Tim, if you get asked enough, sooner or later you’re going to get weary and you start looking for new ways of saying things. But my thinking has not changed.
MR. RUSSERT: So you will not run for president or vice-president in 2008?
SEN. OBAMA: I will not.
Obama formed an exploratory committee in January of 2007 and declared his candidacy two months later.
Meet The Press Transcript January 22, 2006
“Obama Takes the Russert Test” from The Swamp
Obama Learns the Washington Ways
OOPS… he forgot.
13. Senator Obama promised to use public financing for the general election if his Republican opponent would do the same. Now, apparently after he realized how much more money he could have at his disposal, he has reversed himself.
League of Women Voters
Mr Obama’s Waffle
OOPS… he forgot.
14. Obama bragged in the Iowa debate about the “nuclear legislation I’ve passed.” When he encountered resistance from the nuclear industry… including Illinois-based Excelon, the country’s largest nuclear plant operator and one of Mr. Obama’s largest sources of campaign money, he edited his bill several times, making it weaker each time. The bill, however, never passed. It died. But Mr Obama gained a chief political strategist… David Axelrod. In October 2007, Obama resubmitted the bill in its watered-down version.
Nuclear Leaks and Response Tested Obama in Senate
OOPS… he forgot.
15. Senator Obama purports to be in favor of “universal” health care, utilizing private insurance, on the campaign trail. In fact, he adamantly denied advocating single payor. But there was a time when he was in favor of the single payor system.
Video
The Swamp
OOPS… he forgot.
16. While campaigning, Obama told several hundred people in Iowa, “No lobbyists need apply to my White House.”
However, in contrast to his pledge to fight against the influence of special interests, his record on employing lobbyists isn’t quite so pristine. Several high level members of his campaign are registered lobbyists, including his New Hampshire campaign manager. Lately, he has softened his campaign line to, “They are not going to run my White House.”
The Boston Globe
The Wall Street Journal
Politico
The Washington Post
The Hill
Obama actually seems very comfortable working with lobbyists on legislation. To site just one example…
According to ABC, Obama “has quietly worked with corporate lobbyists to help pass breaks worth $12 million,” that gave two overseas companies tariff suspensions. Both companies also have facilities in Illinois.
One of these companies, Nufarm, told its shareholders it was making “more money than ever before in North America because it had increased its prices on its U.S. and Canadian customers, predominantly farmers.” This had the effect of profiting business interests in his state, while punishing its farmers.
According to ABC News, “With a dozen tariff suspension bills to his name, Obama stands out as the most prolific of any Democratic presidential hopeful on the topic.”
Despite Rhetoric, Obama Pushed Lobbyists’ Interests
OOPS… he forgot. Or didn’t he mind?

BUSH DOCTRINE WITH RESPECT TO WHAT? SPECIFICALLY..
THE MEDIA JUST PLAYS SMART TO GO “GOTCHA’
WHAT IS BUSH DOCTINE? ID LIKKE SCHEFFER TO TELL US..
VAGUE IDEOLOGY ACCORDING TO PUNDITS AND JUGHEADS IN THE MEDIA
WHAT SPECIFICALLY IS BUSH DOCTRINE.. SHE POSED THAT QUESTION AND SCHEFER NEVER ANSWERED.. WHAT, IN A SENTENCE, IS BUSH DOCTRINE?
IN RELATIONSHIP TO WHAT ASPECT OF HIS GOVERNANCE OR PERSONAL PHILOSOPHY?/

kerry/Kerry/key. You (all three of your personalities) obviously have racial issues. And, you haven’t yet learned how to cut and paste your talking points only one time either, have you?

Kerry,
You are just a “cut and paste” idiot!! Nobody is reading your long boring BS C&P posts full of right wing idiot lies!
Go to bed you dumbass!!

FACE IT REPUBLICANS!!
Your new VP candidate is first and foremost what she said she was on the first day… A HOCKEY MOM WITH LIPSTICK!!
Not qualified, Not smart enough, No experience, Dangerous!
NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN, NO PALIN!!!
Vote for smart leaders this time, vote for Obama/Biden!!

Community rookie organizer. Get a better candidate, would you. Palin would beat him one on one.

If there is such a thing as “Bush doctrine,” there will “Lipstick doctrine.”
This Palin is such a baby doll that McCain tries save his campaign. It’s so sad that it seems to work so far.
Her answer is all cliche, sound-bite without any real substance.
I’m so worried for America. A vice president like her will lead us to war easily, just like the Texan idiot, Bush.

The official term recognized by the White House for the Bush Doctrine is The National Security Strategy of the United States of America of 2006

The people who defend Palin are the same 20% who still believe the country is on the “right track”. These are the same people who, when confronted with evidence about Palin’s support for the bridge to nowhere, will bring up Biden’s plagiarism, yet won’t understand why that’s not an answer to the question that was asked. Straw men and red herrings are all they know, and they are immune to logic and reason.
Unfortunately, the election is no longer an election, but has instead become a census which will determine just how many of these people there are in the US. If they are in the majority, then it’s time to pack your bags folks, because the American experiment will have failed.

ALERT!: Yes, and the official name of the Monroe Doctrine is called “Manifest Destiny” — doesn’t change the fact that a GOP GOVERNOR claiming non-existent foreign policy experience because she can see Russia doesn’t know what it is…not to mention a GOP Governor running for the VP…get outta here — THIS MOOSE IS COOKED!!!

TJ-
I’m sure the neocons gave W a “Bush Doctrine” certificate with a gold seal on it. He was only doing their bidding anyway, the poor chump.
Dave in VA-
Saracuda is obviously a dolt who tries to charm her way out of the shallow waters she plumbs. If she hadn’t run against an even bigger crook, she wouldn’t be governor of Alaska right now.

First, the Obamabots blame Clinton supporters for dividing the party–now they are trying to blame poor ole Rush Limbaugh! Why don’t you Obama people place the blame where it belongs–on you and your fearless “leader”? His greed for power and that of the democratic party leaders knows no bounds. Please do not insult my intelligence by telling me I should support Obama. He stands for nothing that I believe in! I am educated, am not bitter, and I do own a gun and go to church. All of these things are against Obama’s ideals. Oh, I am also not a “victim” like Michelle and Barrack. Only hard-working and optimistic, but do not believe that “hope” will pay my bills–( I am also not a republican). McCain is moderate–best bet–if no Clinton.

Kerry-
I read her thesis – in its entirety.
Did you?
If so, tell us in the next two minutes – in context – what she researched.

But manipulation of the public with the help of the media works. Then when the party and the DNC and the Superdelegates chose between AAs and youth and Older lifelongs and women.
They gambled wrong that the youth and blacks would defect, but not the lifelongs and women.
They were wrong. We have no more loyalty to the party that betrayed HRC, than blacks had. We will go, they will stay.

COOKED.
COOKED.
COOKED.
COOKED.
COOKED.

AuthenticSkeptic:
Unity is no longer possible. The haters took care of that.
Obama mocking annie oakley and brushing Hill off his shoulders took care of that.
Michelle Obama’s taped interview where she said she would not vote for Hillary… took care of the loyalty to party and nomiee, argument.
Obama supporters, YOU cost Obama and the DEMS this election.

KERRY: It’s 2008, let go of your racist tendencies…they’ll eat you up alive.

Veitnam and Korea where pre-emptive wars
neather of them nations attacked us befor we went to war. They attacked there south counterpart. Now Iraq did this same thing but when kicked them out and then let them play game with the U.N. for 12 years. Saddam was a evil man and who knows what that kook would be doing now. This pre-emptive doctrine out Bush doctrine as many call
it has proved affective because we havn’t been attacked again for 7 years today. I’m sick of people attacking what has worked. There was nobody that said we wouldn’t be hit again. Well if it’s working why mess with it. Thats what McCain will do. Keep us safe. Thats the Bottom line. A strong responce was just what we needed after 9/11. God bless the U.S.A.

Obama worshippers… next time, check your rabid hate and your vile, filthy vulgar name-calling insults at the door… then enter the democratic party.
This new party is too hateful, divisive and vulgar for me.
That is NOT change I can believe in.
Obama inspires just too much corruption, reverse-racism, disrepect and hate.

AuthenticSkeptic,
I admit that I don’t know much about Palin. As for the few accusations you made on Palin, I guess I need to hear the other side of the story. e.g. in the case of charge for rape kit, was the true purpose of charging a rape kit is to discourage false accusations. I can understand that if false accusation is a problem. Or was there a policy that the fee will be refunded when the case was proven in the court? I believe there was a reason other than financial. I don’t think we know the whole picture here.

I’m amazed by the Republicans’ incredible adeptness at self-deception, but the GOP is making such ridiculous claims these days, that at some point no amount of mental gymnastics will be enough to reconcile two blatantly opposing viewpoints, and their little heads will just pop.

Women should never kiss and make up when they are gang raped by their own UNdemocratic “family”.
That would be to invite, enable and encourage more of the despicable behavior in the future. Losing an election over the methodology goes further to drive the lesson home.
It is not THAT HRC lost. It is HOW she lost that will have lasting effects on this party.
The dust is settling on the DEMS ideology and HRC will rise from the ashes of the hate that you fueled into a divisive fire.

To vote for the Democrats now would be to say that fixed and unfair elections are okay.
It is to say that woman bashing is acceptable while racism is not.
BOTH are deplorable and go against the ideals of the party.
The Obama camp is full of vicious and vulgar hate for fellow democrats from other walks of life.
I can wait 4 more years until the hatred that divided this party is banished.

Michelle Obama stated in an interview that she would NOT vote for HRC.
That knife cuts both ways.
I will not vote for the party nominee, either
Why should I have loyalty to the party, to the country and to the nominee?

xz-
Nope, no refunds, unless the victim got them from their insurance company. Wasilla’s hand picked police chief just didn’t want to pay for them.
http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2000/05/23/news.txt

Idiot, Pig, Dolt.
These are the words used by model Americans in support of Obama to describe a vice presidential candidate. I truly hope you speak that way about your neighbors, a few relatives, the lady walking across the parking lot, and that you don’t save it only for vice presidential candidates once every 4 years.
Oh, wait – he’s displaced himself from anyone who says nasty words like that. Sorry folks – you’re not his friends anymore.
So I’m assuming you’d ALL say that we have to wait for another 9/11 before we’re allowed to take preventative military action to defend ourselves? You all believe Obama would say that too? You have NO belief in the idea at all? You know you can talk and have an opinion without namecalling. Let’s hear it – all in favor of waiting till a bomb hits before we take a countermeasure?

ABC interview posed so many hypothetical questions to trip her than get her true feelings and commitments.
If the interviewer’s have sons or daughters serving in Iraq or Afganisthan or served for army in the past the questions would be more about how to end the conflict, how to prevent the conflict than one posed ‘would you attack Russia’.
VP once in job has more exposure and information on national security at hand than when contesting for the election. Consequently, decisions made then would be different to what is expected now.
Sarah has answered at best as she could and she would be a capable VP serving the counry and taking care of the working people.
America and particularly the Democrats, by the way it is grilling her and trying to denegrate her, has abundantly shown that they do not need a women either as a VP or as President in the future.

oH gET OVER IT HAYTERS,, THE INITIAL ROCK STAR HAS GOT IT GOING ON,, THIS LAST MINUTE STEP IN DON’T EVEN HAVE ENOUGH TIME TO LEARN THE ROPES!! SO SAD MCCAIN GOT ONE LIFT AND PICKED WHAT GAVE IT TO HIM,, SERIOUSLY,, 72 IS NOT THE BEST TIME TO RUN FOR PRESIDENT!!!AND PICK A SKIRT AS A POLITICAL STUNT!!
GO OBIDEN!!!!

TODAY IS MY OFFICIAL DEPARTURE FROM
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
TODAY I’M LEAVING THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY FOR GOOD.
ALSO TODAY MILLIONS LIKE ME ARE LEAVING
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR GOOD.
BLACKS AND LEFT WING RADICALS TOOK
OVER THE PARTY TO IMPOSE THEIR
AGENDA.
THE PARTY WILL SPLIT IN DAYS AHEAD.
UNITY OF THE PARTY IS NOT A REALITY.
HUSSEIN OBAMA IS UN-ELECTABLE IN G.E.
HE’S UN-TESTED AND UN-EXPERIENCE TO BE
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF U.S ARMED FORCES.
I HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THE DNC, THE
PARTY LEADERS AND THE MEDIA.THEY WILL
NEVER WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.

TODAY IS MY OFFICIAL DEPARTURE FROM
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY.
TODAY I’M LEAVING THE DEMOCRATIC
PARTY FOR GOOD.
ALSO TODAY MILLIONS LIKE ME ARE LEAVING
THE DEMOCRATIC PARTY FOR GOOD.
BLACKS AND LEFT WING RADICALS TOOK
OVER THE PARTY TO IMPOSE THEIR
AGENDA.
THE PARTY WILL SPLIT IN DAYS AHEAD.
UNITY OF THE PARTY IS NOT A REALITY.
HUSSEIN OBAMA IS UN-ELECTABLE IN G.E.
HE’S UN-TESTED AND UN-EXPERIENCE TO BE
COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF U.S ARMED FORCES.
I HOLD ACCOUNTABLE THE DNC, THE
PARTY LEADERS AND THE MEDIA.THEY WILL
NEVER WIN THE HEARTS AND MINDS OF THE
AMERICAN PEOPLE.

confused, you should talk LOL.

OSAM LIES:
Father Was A Proud Freedom Fighter – LIAR, he was part of one of the most corrupt and violent governments Kenya has ever had

osama lies:
My Name is African Swahili – LIAR, your name is Arabic and ‘Baraka’ (from which Barack came) means ‘blessed’ in that language. Hussein is also Arabic and so is Obama.

Yet another perfect example of “all we can come up with,” thanks confused.
“Bush Doctrine,” as I said before is a vague term that was loosely coined, sparsely used, and has changed in meaning over the course of time. Nobody in this whole campaign would want to answer that question without clarification. There’s a lot more to the “Bush Doctrine” than just preemptive strike too – like democracy for all people. Before you point fingers of shame shame, are you saying you wouldn’t want it perfectly clear what question you were answering in front of the whole world?

I’m not talking, I’m writing. Well, did she?

Kerry, no one can stop you but the mods.
The info is quite interesting.

who is “‘we’” ?
kerry, feel free to ignore my original question, i’m looking for someone who actually knows the answer.

Kerry,, really,,YOu are as poor as I am, why is it that the folks that knows Obama’s stand on our issues are for the poor, and they have the audacity to fake like they fall up UNder RICHY-Poo McCain’s promises. They are not on our sides!!! Most of us are up under the $250.000 not rich being over $500 million,,,Come on!!!!! How many houses do you own?
Less than 7 4-show!!
Go OBIDEN!!

OOOOOooo, Obama went to Harvard! Big whoop, George Bush is the first president to hold an MBA from Harvard! Google it.
Many people graduate from the bottom who rise to the top in life, but again, libs make an intelligence issue out of it.
Liberal Education Doctrine:
Obama goes to Harvard – He’s KING!
Bush goes to Harvard w/MBA – He’s stupid.
And these people vote? You can’t make up your mind whether or not someone is smart coming from Harvard. Maybe it’s because he’s black that he’s smart AND from Harvard.
Gasp! OBAMA IS BLACK? I didn’t know that. I’m so glad he tells us every chance he gets.

If Governor Palin governs the U.S. like she has governed Alaska, I will have no complaints.
Tell Charlie that hell yes, we are in a holy war. One we didn’t start, but we will sure as hell finish..if B.O. isn’t elected to surrender our army to his side. He did say he is a muslim and I have it on tape.
As for the Bush Doctrine, who cares what it is. The Doctrine that will matter after November is the McCain Doctrine. B.O. has no doctrine except to redistribute the wealth and surrender our army to the enemy and establish socialism in America..maybe that is what appeals to the liberals. Maybe you guys should call yourselves what you really are…socialist democrats. Then voters who are educated in government schools will know what they are voting for. Under the current system, you don’t have a clue.

DEMOCRATS, OBAMA, BIDEN, DO NOT USE “BUSH DOCTRINE” TO PUT PALIN DOWN. IT IS A SETUP BY KARL ROVE. THERE IS NO BUSH DOCTRINE. THAT TERM OR PHRASE HAS NEVER APPEARED ON ANY GOVERNMENT POLICY PAPERS.
PALIN IS NOT DUMB. SHE IS THE REPUBLICAN’S BAIT. IF YOU THINK PALIN WAS WRONG ABOUT BUSH DOCTRINE, THINK AGAIN. THAT WILL SHOW THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY.
BUSH DOCTRINE IS FAMOUS AMONG CONSPIRACY LOONIES. BE CAREFUL. IF PALIN CAN SILENCE THOSE OLD SCHOOL ALASKAN REPUBLICANS, SHE IS NO DUMB, MEEK MOOSE-EATING BABY-MAKER.
AGAIN, THERE IS NO BUSH DOCTRINE. THERE IS NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BUSH STRATEGY IS BETTER THAN BUSH DOCTRINE BECAUSE IT IS ON THE PAPER.
A SCARED DEMOCRAT

Palin doesn’t know what the Bush doctrine is so who knows if she subscribes to it.

This woman is NO Hillary Clinton. Shes more like Pat Robertson. I see Bush in a dress. She wants to go to war with Russia!! How can she even mention war with Russia? Is she insane? Im afraid her religious beliefs will bring about WW3, since she is all fired up for Jesus to come back for Armegeddon. Shes too scary to be a heartbeat away from POTUS! God help us all!!

On drugs? I love how the Repugnantcans throw dirt instead of facing the issues. Thats a very bad way of debating the issues.

Unclear? She didn’t know what it was!

DEMOCRATS, OBAMA, BIDEN, DO NOT USE “BUSH DOCTRINE” TO PUT PALIN DOWN. IT IS A SETUP BY KARL ROVE. THERE IS NO BUSH DOCTRINE. THAT TERM OR PHRASE HAS NEVER APPEARED ON ANY GOVERNMENT POLICY PAPERS.
PALIN IS NOT DUMB. SHE IS THE REPUBLICAN’S BAIT. IF YOU THINK PALIN WAS WRONG ABOUT BUSH DOCTRINE, THINK AGAIN. THAT WILL SHOW THAT YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT FOREIGN POLICY.
BUSH DOCTRINE IS FAMOUS AMONG CONSPIRACY LOONIES. BE CAREFUL. IF PALIN CAN SILENCE THOSE OLD SCHOOL ALASKAN REPUBLICANS, SHE IS NO DUMB, MEEK MOOSE-EATING BABY-MAKER.
AGAIN, THERE IS NO BUSH DOCTRINE. THERE IS NATIONAL SECURITY STRATEGY OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. BUSH STRATEGY IS BETTER THAN BUSH DOCTRINE BECAUSE IT IS ON THE PAPER.
A SCARED DEMOCRAT

The way she was looking at Charles Gibson as he explained what Bush Doctrine is totaly got me knocked off, she was like a 3rd grader listening horor story from the teacher.
HUH n McCrazy want her to be VP.
God help us

Gus,, coming from Alaska, the soccer Mom did not have to have proper grammar. Only the ability to fish, shoot and crack a joke or two..smile then fire who evers not marching to her beat.. come on America.. We’re SMARTER THAN THIS,,GO OBIDEN!!!

Patricia, Its clear to see that YOU are as stupid as Palin. How can you say that she is not stupid? She could bARELY get a bachelors degree after attending 6 colleges! Her GPA was like 2.0 for crying out loud!! She IS stupid!

Bush Doctrine? What about the Kennedy Doctrine? He certainly seriously considered preemtive strikes on Cuba/Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. To attribute the idea soley to Bush is propaganda.

Bush Doctrine? What about the Kennedy Doctrine? He certainly seriously considered preemtive strikes on Cuba/Soviet Union during the Cuban Missile Crisis. To attribute the idea soley to Bush is propaganda.

BTW, will Charles Gibson issue a retraction for misquoting Palin’s “God” comments? Do some research, Charlie. Don’t just take the biased AP’s word for it.

Libs:
The cost of the war is a fraction of the national budget. And, newsflash, there will ALWAYS be war – it’s just a matter of when.
People who die in wars die for YOU, no matter what party affiliation. They die for your RIGHT to be FREE. They have died for your RIGHT to trash talk our country and leaders aka freedom of speech (although you guys take it across the line with your hate).
You see, if you lived in Iraq, under Saddam, or a number of other places you esteem around the world, like China & Cuba, and you say, in public, what you say against our leader, your tongue would be cut out and or fingers chopped off (so you couldn’t type), your female family members sent to rape rooms and/or you’d and your family, extended family and friends would have their heads cut off. Hmmm.

My Lord, I shudder at the thought of this woman becoming leader of the free world. She is SO ignorant on international politics. This is frightening. That the McCain ticket isn’t 20pts behind is an indication that this country must be full of racists.

I live in erupe and usa have been the most hated country the last 8 years ,we saw how many people kiled bei usa most of them poor people , it seems for us usa cant stop to bomb other countris!!!the us have lot enamy , iran,koria,russlnad,kuba,venusel,chin,somly,etc they even do not ask they self why they are so hated country at moment !!! we saw the last 8 years us was not able to set and talk to other countrys .now with mccann and palin two people who loves war .if they win it will be other war and usa will have more enamy then frands.
usa killed other people in the name of God and that is also what terrorist do .
who are you to kill other people , do not use God name to kill other people our God is LOve of God and if he want to kill he do not need usa help so usa people think befor u vote we donot want other war!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

cmallen
well some people dont live in your cozy latte arugula little world..XChanfe is just a word with Obama with Mccain/Palin Im sure they intend to shake up both parties which is overdue

Obamamama
Obama is a closet right winger just as Bush is a closet liberal… I dont know if the similar personalitiew make them similar polticians or what but they are that cant be denied

staniam:
Perhaps there’s a little of both in all of us, it’s when (like everything else) it goes to the extreme that we blog. LOL!

obamamama
yea some nut on Jake Tappers thread was trying to beat me over the head with stuff all night that is propaganda by Obamas people Im not goign to listen because I have the ability to tell who whos lying and whos not and whats relevant

The Republicans have yet to show Palin is a qualified VP. Well, she’s obviously not.
It’s funny reading the comments trying to defend her…”Charlie was mean”…i.e.: “Why didn’t he ask about being a hocky mom?” He didn’t even let her bring out her kids for a photo op”
Too FUNNY! At least someone should have vetted the GOP VP choice. Thanks ABC for showing the nation the frightening choice that the GOP has offered us!

Governor: Rod Blagojevich (D) Illinois, stuck up for Palin, saying that she has enough experience to be a vp. He said she is the executive of a State, that it is more experience than being a Senator, that a Senator’s decision making is part of a team. A Governor has to make the decisions themselves, and is responsible for every person in that state. Pissed off a lot of the obots!

hahaha, we know what “golly gee” means. It means, “well duh, Charlie!, you think I’m not on to you and your liberal agenda?”

HUSSEIN OBAMA IS A MOSLEM RADICAL!!!!!!
YOU CANT MAKE ME BILIEVE OTHERWISE! YOU CAN’T MAKE ME!

What do you get if you cross Barack Obama and Sarah Palin?
(Just for a moment of civility.)
The Obamanable Snowman.
(Or snowlady. Or snowpitbull. Or whatever.)

Charley Gipson was very unfair and tried to intimidate Palin in this interview. I agree, he should have been tough on her….we have to see if she has what it takes….but….to intentionally try to demean her was not right! All in all, I think Palin did an excellent job in the interview and put Charley in his place.
McCain/Palin 08!
“Country First!”

Did you see the new signs everywhere?
SARAH PALIN: BUSH WITH A BUSH

For everyone saying that there is no such thing as the bush doctrine. It doesn’t matter. Palin first tried to “guess” what it was and said it was Bush’s World View. Then Gibson explained to her what he thought it was, and asked if she agreed. She still fumbled around. Doesn’t McCain promote straight talk all the time? She needs to take some notes from her Presidential candidate because she weakly spun every answer.

Keep trying to spin a PATHETIC interview into something good. Sarah Pitbull Palin is heading back to AK with her tail between her legs.
People are upset that she’s not at all what they wanted you to believe. You mean they overhyped her abilities? Duh.
America saw the intrview. She’s been afraid to do others and it’s obvious why. It’s not any media bias, it’s Palin’s lack of credibility and knowledge that showed.
The answers she did give are just plain frightening. NO WAY, NO HOW, NO McCAIN/PALIN.

Gil, now see, that’s the sad part about “handlers” that she’s probably not used to. She said something fresh and real and from her heart, but when it comes to dealing with the LIBERAL media, she has to be “coached”, too bad.
Did you guys hear Obama across the sea in his “uh squared 10″ speech?

…I’d pretty much say he is unqualified to be in the #2 spot, let alone #1 based on that. It’s about 7 or 8 minutes of uh, uh, uh – seriously

I would like to see the same kind of tone used in an interview with Joe Biden. Where are the conservative media folks? Oops, I guess they don’t exist. I’ve been a big fan of Charlie’s since his GMA days, but was very disappointed in his lack of respect for Governor Palin. He doesn’t have to agree with her; however, he should have the decency to respect her.

If you remember when Clinton debated Obama and Gipson was the moderator, he was very rude to Obama, just like he was with Palin. I think Gipson is trying to make a name for himself…the problem is, is that he is stupid! He tried to trip Obama up in the debate, just like he did with Palin. This interview, just like the debate, was not for the American people, but for Charley Gipson in all of his arrogance, to try and make a name for himself.

The Bush Doctine is what? an opinion. Not a document.If Gibson asked her her thoughts on the Texas Rangers is she supposed to know that too?

Gus, go away. Go like to Russia or Canada or Mexico.
You say: “We know that the word Muslim is your code for a nasty racial reference.”
ROFLMBO! Straight from the extreme left radical blogs, just like your candidate who gets his policy from Keith Olberman. Guess you missed Obama referring to himself as Muslim in the Stephanopolous interview, eh?

At least Gov. Palin gave honest answeres to the questions.
Obama is never asked difficult questions.
The network news reporters, AP reporters, newspaper/magazine writers are all supporting Obama.
They always throw softball questions at him.
They allow him 5 minutes to stutter and stammer and to look up and down as if searching for an answer.
After all his pontificating nobody realizes he hasn’t answered the question.

John, knowing when life begins is above all of our paygrades, unless your willing to push your beliefs upon someone else and force them to accept them. Thats wouldnt be freedom. Thats not gonna happen in this country that I love.

Yeah, I support the BUSH DOCTRINE too. Every time that darn thing gets out of control, I hot wax it into history. Hot wax always preempts that nasty Bush…You go girl!!!

As an Alaskan I’m ashamed by such an inept representation of my state on a national stage. Those of you in the lower 48 and Hawaii, please know that not all Alaskans are as uneducated and ill informed about foreign policy.

Hello, Truth Hurts. Are you what is called a Left Wing Extremist ?

Now, it shows that McCain/Palin is not a third term Bush. If McCain/Palin is trying to follow Bush then they must know and understand his doctrine. No third-term Bush with McCain/Palin. How can your repeat something you know nothing about….

Did anyone notice that Michelle Obama was present to show her respect for the 9/11 event? All the Cindy, Laura, others were there but her. She should have attended. This was a very important event to show that she does not hate America and show respect to the 9/11. There no excuse for her not attending. Poor judgement on her and Obama.

Actually, it was Charlie who got the “Bush doctrine” wrong. We invaded Afganistan after the Taliban attacked us first. Anticipatory self-defense was an argument for invasion of Iraq. But this was done in conjuntion with the 22 UN Resolutions. As Gibson wrongly explained it, the “Bush ” doctrine justifies unilateral attacks against countries threatening the interests of the US. That is closer to the position of Obama when he proposed invading Pakistan.
Gibson only showed his own ignorance.
PPalin did fine.

Are the Republicans making it a habit of going wild over “leaders” who have little or no knowledge of how the world works? We’ve had eight years of that, and this woman is a radical. NO! NO! NO Palin/McCain!

Obama never proposed invading Paistan. You are a great big fibber murphy stone. That is what makes you a fibber for all that you have said. Obama advocated attacking terrorists inside Pakistan, and then miraculously, Bush then does exactly the same thing!

[She had a "moose in the headlights look."]
Maybe a “pitbull in the headlights” look?

Uhhhhhhhh. Help me, I don’t know what’s the Bush Doctrine. I’ll give you a vague answer, in hopes of you explaining it to me Charlie. I am a woman, so please be nice to me Charlie Gibson, otherwise I will make sure the McCain Campaign sends out a press release to everyone accusing you of being sexist. Sarah Palin had no idea of the Bush Doctrine, and yet the GOP want to claim she has more experience than John McCain. Sure. Someone needs to get ruthless with this chick and show all of her mistakes. If she wants to roll up the sleeves and talk trash, then treat her like a man. I bet she won’t be giving any network interviews anytime soon. She was horrible last night.

Charley Gibson cites the so-called Bush doctrine using military force when a strike is imminent when in reality it should be called the Franklin Delano Roosevelt FDR doctrine.
Four days after Japan attacked at Pearl Harbor, Congress passed a declaration of war against Germany on December 11, 1941. Congress had passed a declaration of war against Japan the day after Pearl Harbor attack on December 7, 1941. Germany had not attacked the United States but was allied under the Axis Pact with Japan and posed an immediate threat to the United States. Our war effort and strategy during the early years of World War II was to defeat Nazi Germany and then go after Japan. Germany was considered the stronger threat and therefore it was appropriate to beat Germany before Japan was ultimately forced to surrender. The so-called Bush doctrine is a continuation of FDR successful strategy of winning World War II.

It was a good question for her and I am glad she did not subscribes to Bush doctrine, much better she did not understand it. McCain picks someone that have no relationship to Bush and his dirty people. Good job McCain, I like her answer and how she played it down. It she had subscribed to Bush doctrine then the media and the other-side would have been talking about how much she is like Bush.

Amazing how the Obamabots start firing out against the Sarah Palin interview with Charlie Gibson…
Other than a few snippets provided by ABC, how many of the Obama lynch mob have actually watched or heard the interview (as it airs tonight in entirety)?
Typical Obamabot desperation.
While I probably will not agree with some of Sarah’s positions on foreign policy, I will at least watch and listen before I approve and condemn.
As for Obama, the man who has been spending his waking moments in attack mode because of his fear of Sarah Palin…
From the time Obama was first sworn in as a United State Senator, to the time he announced he was forming a Presidential exploratory committee, he logged a total of 143 days of experience in the Senate.
During that time, Obama requested an average of over $1,000,000.00 per day in earmarks for “pork barrel” projects.
143… That’s how many days the Senate was actually in session and working.
After 143 days of work experience, Obama believes he is ready to be Commander In Chief, Leader of the Free World, and fill the shoes of Abraham Lincoln, FDR, JFK and Ronald Reagan.
143 days.
It’s an Obamination…
Anybody But Obama…

What you guys are not realizing is that it is not a matter of whether or not EVERYDAY people are the ones that know the Bush Doctrine. The point is being made that Palin…who is running for VP of the USA DOES NOT KNOW IT!! Trying to claim a title like that she should KNOW that…even if there are a number of aspects to it. If other members of the goverment know this then so should see. No one is expecting the ENTIRE WORLD to know every aspect of the Bush Doctrine.

Well Gosh Sharene, she was like, just asked and stuff. OMG, she was like just minding her own business, accepting alot of pork for her state, when this guy comes along and wants her to like, go be V.P. and stuff. She had like, no time to Booooone up on these policy thingys. Just give her 6 years or so and she will ready to goooo. M’kay?

Hypocrites!!!!!
“I understand that President Musharraf has his own challenges. But let me make this clear. There are terrorists holed up in those mountains who murdered 3,000 Americans. They are plotting to strike again. It was a terrible mistake to fail to act when we had a chance to take out an al Qaeda leadership meeting in 2005. If we have actionable intelligence about high-value terrorist targets and President Musharraf won’t act, we will.” Sen Obama

Jayhawk: For a while I was thinking Obama will be our next President but now I can not see it. I received an email from Amazon track America’s Political Book Buying. I noticed that large number of states are reading Obama Nations. I strongly feel he will not win based on the high percentage of states and readers of Obama Nations. http://www.amazon.com/gp/feature.html/ref=pe_32390_10299530_fe_img_1/?docId=1000261611

What a joke. John you said you would
surround yourself with the best people
to guide your admistration. Well if
she is a example of the people you
will pick to run our country then
my support is going to the other party.

Is this Sarah Palin really Dustin Hoffman as Tootsie again? She seems like a female impersonator. Is this true or am I just dreaming? I know Alaska is filled with Doodle Bars, but come on folks this is a female version of Bush. Knucklehead number Two.

Christie, some whining. The GOP hand picked Charlie cause they thought he would be easy on Palin. He did his job. She’s running for VP not the PTO. And I don’t know what you were watching last night, but the only one avoiding the questions was McCain. I was keeping tabs and the only question Obama didn’t answer directly was the one about Palin making fun of community organizers. I guess you don’t recognize class when you see it!

Unclear? She doesn’t seem to know the term. I guess since she hasn’t been paying attention to the war in IRAQ it’s understandable that she doesn’t understand the policiy of her party.

Oh these desperate Obama supporters who continue to forget that they have zero argument when it comes to foreign policy experience, and qualifications. Obamas has NONE. You guys are getting all excited as if anybody believed Palin would be able to answer every question on foreign policy. NEWSFLASH!!! She is a Governor of Alaska, not a member of the Bush administration. Palin does however have the rest of the package, and she will be briefed and schooled on foreign policy each day. Obama on the other hand has no foreign policy experience, nor does he have the executive experience. He has never made decisions that affect a city or state, never balanced a budget, never weilded veto power. But he has sure secured about a billlion dollars in earmarks in his short tenure as a jr senator. HIs wifes hospital, and fathers plegers radical left church were just a couple of the very questionable earmarks he asked for. Then there is the 14,000,000 taxpayer dollars he helped now convicted Rezko secure for a doomed to fail project. I certainly do not want Obama making decisions that affect my life. No way Nobama.

Hi Sarah,
Have Cindy get you online and look up “bush doctrine”. I’ve provided a link in case you’re with John and you can’t figure out the internet.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine
:) Ohiogal

Women are more interactive and conversational than men. Men pose questions with “men answer” expectations. They should have picked a woman to do the interview.

I wasn’t at the 911 ceremony either. It’s probably because I have a job and so does Mrs. Obama. She does have children who she takes care of and not a nanny. Give it a break.

It was noticed this morning that the interview of Palin was edited by ABC. Most of your answers were cut from the tape. You can see the full tape on Nightline.

totally clueless, misinformed, unguided. for all of you whining that Charlie Gibson was too tough, you can’t have it both ways. sorry he didn’t stick to fluff questions like “do you like moose stew” “what shade of lipstick do you wear”
the point remains, when asked direct questions, she not only blinked but answered totally different.
What in the world does your energy credential have to do with national security question?
its like Charlie gibson is asking her if she eats brocolli and she’s going on and on about how tomato is really a fruit and not a vegetable
ENOUGH IS ENOUGH
Obama Biden 2008
p.s. she pronounces Nuclear the same way our current village idiot does.
uncanny.

she was really bad in the interview. she showed that she thinks just like our idiot in chief we have now. we all know mccain is stupid just look up his record. we need to elect someone smart this time so vote for obama or suffer more failed government.

she didn’t know what the doctrine was…
pretty obvious that this renegade studied what she thought they would ask and not everything that is required when running for a high office in the whitehouse.
i blame the gop/rnc on that mistake.
i think charlie did a very good job and was more than gentle with this candidate.
nobody can scream’unpatriotic’ within this interview, he was excellent.
but i believe it was obvious to me and probably obvious to alot of elderly veterans who din’t really like mccain as their choice and though sarah might be a good choice as v.p., that their hopes are diminishing after this interview.
romney and/or pawlenty would of been
much better versed on these issues and it was apparent that gov. palin’s world exists in alaskan borders and nowhere else…
john, i like you but this choice was not the best choice for your party…

Sarah Palin handled that interview expertly. I like the ‘Charlie’ stabs. Sarah knows that a free market driven, profit driven economy powered by real energy is key for success. She also knows that our enemies need to understand that they will be wiped out. Obama on the other hand has NO idea what a free a market economy is. He’s idea for success is big government programs for everything. He also want to play footsie-footsie with our enemies. To put it mildly, Obama is an idiot.

If I were a female GOP politician and had been passed up for this – I would seriously consider starting a new branch of the party. I see this all the time at work. People all dressed up. They look the part, talk the talk, but are as intelligent as a bag of rocks.

The question for Sarah Palin and John McCain should be: “In your administration, will the NEOCONIC wing of the Republican Party have any influence or input into your decisions?” Put another way, will your policy making have even so much as a slight similarity with the NEOCONIC wing of the Republican Party? The second and most nasty “N” word in the American vocabulary…”NEOCON”!

tom: You have to look at the whole interview. The interview was edited and most of her answers were cut-out. ABC did not do her well for cutting most of her answers but the GOP did not help by not place “no editing” into the interview contract.

Were you there Badger?

neocon– neonazi— republican… friends dont let friends vote republican.

I honestly think that she didn’t understand the full implications of NATO membership question and Charlie had to define it for. Remarks like this from Repub Neocons simply emboldens our adversaries around the world. It is scary to think of this woman as commander in chief I think we’d be off to WWIII with Mccain’s temper and her lack of contemplation on global security issues.

Barack Obama chair of the senate foreign relatons commitee on Afghanistan, has never attended one meeting, but stated that “we didnt have enough Arabic translators in Afghanistan because they are being used in Iraq”
THEY DONT SPEAK ARABIC IN AFGHANISTAN, BARACK!
At least Governor Sarah Palin knows that Iran is not a small country that poses no threat. Geeeez.

Now Michelle is a ROOSTER? Are you one of those who were SO UPSET TO TEARS that Palin was called a PIG? If you thought she did an excellent interview, then fine. Let it speak for itself. No need to defend it.

The Bush Doctrine is: 8 years of screwing the American people with failed policies on healthcare, economics, foreign policy and starting and not finishing two wars. Didnt’ yo momma ever tell you, if you start a fight you better finish it…. come on Palinites… do you really want this woman running our country?

Yesterday, Sarah was giving a speech and saying good by to our soldier as they leave to war.

Did anyone notice that Michelle Obama was present to show her respect for the 9/11 event? All the Cindy, Laura, others were there but her. She should have attended. This was a very important event to show that she does not hate America and show respect to the 9/11. There no excuse for her not attending. Poor judgement on her and Obama.

Willie – she was saying goodbye to her son and Michelle was taking care of her family. Neither should be an issue.

3 things; 1 -Has anyone ever asked Nobama if he was ready to be president? If you use the Medias descripiton aas to readiness for the office in respect to Sarah Palin’s readiness then Nobama doesn’t meet the mark as well! 2 – Since Websters has multiple meanings to the term Bush Doctrine Gov. Palin was correct in requesting that Gibson define his question, he wanted an answer ti a specfic part. If she would have just said yes than he would have said to all of it? And then all you libs would have been crying about the same thing. 3 – Third for all of you referencing Matt Damon, if you apply his words and just change Palin to Nobama and the word hockey mom to community organizer you would finethat the isn’t a difference! What yes there is Palin id running for Vice-President NOT President

Were you there Rick?

How can you legitimately AGREE or DISAGREE to something you don’t know? An honest straight talker would have asked for clarification instead of beating around the Bush and faking an answer. She gets no credit for that.

If Webster’s has THREE definitions then why could she not articulate at least ONE? Stop spinning – she didn’t know. Move on.

I asked 10 coworkers, and none of them knew what The Bush Doctrine meant. That was a typical attempt by a big name liberal to trap a conservative.

Maybe Charlie should have asked her what she would do if Moose attacked us. That’s more up her alley.

AllergicToSpinAndLies: It is a big issue. Her fat a@@@@ should have attended with Obama. And, you do not know what she was going. We know what Palin was doing. Gov Palin was giving a Govern speech to our boy/girl that were leaving to war. Plus, the showcase was for the potential presidents and family to show their respect before taking office. The media is saying Michelle was dancing on a talk show. No respect and this woman shows she still hate America.

The media is saying Michelle was dancing on a talk show. No respect and this woman shows she still hate America.
Posted by: willie | Sep 12, 2008 9:15:53 AM
You people lie like a rug. That was taped a either last week or the week before, quite yer lying.

Yesterday, Sarah was giving a speech and saying good by to our soldier as they leave to war.
Posted by: willie | Sep 12, 2008 9:03:35 AM
That is only because it was her son. I bet she wouldnt’ have otherwise.
j: did you know she is a governor of Alaska and it is one of her responsibility and duties to the state of Alaska. Such as a community organizer, a The governor has many responsibilities for running a state. Please go to your state office and ask your governor his/her roles and responsibilities of running your state, you may be very surprise.

AllergicToSpinAndLies, she did ask him to clarify. I suggest re-watch it. Palin was correct in asking him to clarify the question.
What’s more important? the Republican VP nonmineeasking Gibson to clarify his question or the Democrat Pres nominee not knowing how many States there are in the U.S.?
I could be obtuse and make a big deal of his lack of geographical knowledge of his OWN COUNTRY but I think we all need to realize that these candidates are expected to answer these questions on the fly and they mean nothing when it comes to the offices they are striving for.
When in office they will have time to think for more than 3 seconds, have advisors, and a better understanding of real situations because of context. Anyone with half a brain should realize this.

PA …I saw that portion of the interview. And yes…she did ask for clarification and STILL did not answer correctly. I guess she should have asked for additional clarifcation or just said simply – I do not know. That shows humility. No big deal, right.

BTW – nothing makes a poster sound more like a stupid partisan than repeating the lame “57 states” misspeak by Obama, particularly after we have had Bush butcher basic English for 8 years.

Michell still hate America and dancing on a talk show but could not attend the 9/11 event with Obama.

let me clarify a little more for all those who insist Gibson ripped her another a-hole , for lack of a better word.
remember the HRC and BHO debates? yes, that one facilitated by Charlie and stephNOpaulous. i remember distinctly people saying that the first 45 minutes was all fair in love and war. that they had a right to grill him, back to back, on personal questions that had nothing to do with policy. Now you’re whining because this Wasilla airheaded Bimbo whose never met a foreign dignatary and who as little as a month ago admitted herself that she “was more focused at home and not paying attention to Iraq”, is being asked unfair questions?
GET REAL.
he asked all the pertinent questions, no fluff, no ****.
she failed, miserably.

Rick – that is YOUR opinion. And I’m going to ask you AGAIN as well. WERE YOU THERE? Does that make YOU DISREPSCTFUL? Did you make it to PA? The Pentagon? Think about the hypocrisy.

I know many agree with me when i say that I CANNOT WAIT until the vice presidential debates! i might even host a watching party to witness Biden wipe the floor with her inept self. :) -
Obama/Biden 2008.

To everyone who thinks Gibson was unfair, this is what he DID NOT ask her about:
The Bridge to Nowhere
Troopergate
Wanting to fire the town librarian
Claiming time at home as travel expense
All thoses passes and she STILL couldn’t pull it off.

Hey Obamites, Is this REALLY a unified party?
HILLARY CLINTON:I know Senator McCain has a lifetime of experience he will bring to the White House. And Senator Obama has a speech he gave in 2002.
BILL CLINTON:This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I’ve ever seen,”
“I think that they played the race card on me. And we now know, from memos from the campaign and everything that they planned to do it all along,” Bill Clinton said in a telephone interview with WHYY’s Susan Phillips. “I was stating a fact, and it’s still a fact.”
SEN. BIDEN: John McCain is a personal friend, a great friend and I would be honored to run with or against John McCain.
SEN BIDEN: Hillary may have been a better choice than me

Rick – that is YOUR opinion. And I’m going to ask you AGAIN as well. WERE YOU THERE? Does that make YOU DISREPSCTFUL? Did you make it to PA? The Pentagon? Think about the hypocrisy.
Posted by: AllergicToSpinAndLies | Sep 12, 2008 9:33:05 AM
No he’s one of those Republican trolls that can’t talk about issues, instead they have to resort to smearing tactics.

AllergicToSpinAndLies: I was in New York with my family saying good by to our friend that died on that sad day. And, Michelle was not present.

Willie – after did you fly to PA and the Pentagon? No – you chose to honor your friend. You made a personal choice to honor in a way that was appropriate for you and your circumstances. We ALL made similar decisions and it has nothing to do with POLITICS.

Mrs. Palin blew it. As a Republican, I was hoping she’d at least demonstrate some critical thinking abilities (something sorely lacking in my party today). All she gave us was scripted talking points, which only work when you have a vague notion of what you’re talking about.
The Bush Doctrine is something that ANYONE running for national office should understand. Period. The fact that she didn’t know what it means is disturbing (to put it mildly). As Mr. Gibson explained, it means preemptive self-defense. The problem with the doctrine is that it completely overturns 200+ years of war policy in this nation.
We shouldn’t sit back and just wait to get attacked. But we also shouldn’t go off half-cocked and invade every nation that *might* someday pose a threat to us. That’s the truest definition of the Bush Doctrine, and that’s where traditional Republicans like myself have a big problem with it. We’ll find “enemies” everywhere if we keep employing that policy.
Ms. Palin seemed to waver a bit, not knowing quite how to respond, especially when she used the word “imminent.” Does she not realize that word alone would have kept us out of Iraq, which never posed an IMMINENT threat to us? The qualification of “imminent” would also keep us out of a conflict with Iran, something which might upset her running mate.
Perhaps Mrs. Palin is fine with us going to war if she believes God approves of it. But sadly, she would seem to share the same philosophy as the Blues Brothers–who also believed they were “on a mission from God”. As I said, she blew it.

There’s a difference between knowing what Bush’s policies are and knowing what the media appointed term for them is. C’mon… “The Bush Doctrine”? Why don’t you enlighten the masses Charlie… Chris?? Keith?????
Oh – that’s right. We’re too busy picking apart the sex lives of pregnant teenagers and the audacity of a working mother who aspires to change the face of politics.
The Bush Doctrine is something my daughter will study because she’s to young to understand what she’s living. But it’s something we live and understand because it has unfolded before us.
Rhetoric is to justice what cookery is to medicine. – Socrates.

Did Gibson even listen to her answer? He did not even address what she said.

this is not a direct question?
Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
Cmon

J.,
let me get this straight, B.O. does not know how many states are in the Union and he is qualified to be President?
What color is the sky in your world?

In a conference call with reporters, Obama said Clinton would continue the “Bush doctrine” of only speaking to leaders of rogue nations if they first meet conditions laid out by the United States
Well is Obama right? Is that the “Bush Doctrine” Pass it on!

I guess context has no value. Where is the entire conference call? The whole truth and nothing but the truth. That’s what is missing in American politics – an oath.

“For those who don’t know what the Bush doctrine is, let me explain that I did. ANYONE with a keen interest in Foreign policy most certainly would”
Steve T,
OBAMA doesn’t know.
Obama said Clinton would continue the “Bush doctrine” of only speaking to leaders of rogue nations if they first meet conditions laid out by the United States

This is ridiculous! _Gibson_ didn’t know what the so-called “Bush Doctrine” is!! Few do, because it has no precise definition. Palin had already clearly answered his extremely vague question, and he repeated it because he was the one who was confused. Nice try, Gibson, trying to trip Palin up (as you should try to do), but you couldn’t, and I sure hope it didn’t sadden you that the attempt failed as such failed attempts do most of the leftist/liberal media.

If all she had to do was strike the gavel at congressional sessions, she would be TOTALLY qualified, however, it takes more than that to protect the U.S. from terrorists.
SHE’S A TOKEN WOMAN ON MCCAIN’S TICKET TO ATTRACT OTHER WOMEN!!
You know it, and I know it!!

Reminds me of that Rollins Band song…
Cause she’s a lier a lier she’ll rip your soul out!

First, I want to remind people that Wikipedia is NOT the be all and end all of anything – merely an information starting point and is not considered as a citable source for high schools and colleges. And the Bush Doctrine is a term, perhaps coined by Mother Jones, which if you Google you’ll find thousands of references to in many media, educational and published sources and even at http://www.whitehouse.org, and builds on the terms the “Truman Doctrine” (containment of the enemy – USSR back then), the “Reagan Doctrine” (supporting Freedom Fighters across the globe), and now the Bush doctrine (preemptive strikes), so the term is not a new one, but merely easier to use that it’s actual title “National Security Strategy of the United States,” which it is most commonly referring to. The term has been around since about 2001, and is used often by the media, pundits, and strategists from both sides to mean the preemptive strike issue. It took me all of about 2 minutes to find this bit of history out – do your homework – this is an important election no matter which party or set of ideals you subscribe to and we all need to understand what is being discussed.

Even though be preped for weeks by the Bush cronies, she still didn’t have a clue about Bush’s (National Strategy??)But this was no where to be seen in this article by ABC. I think Gibson finally came through but ABC lets us down.
It is also scarry that we would go to war with Russia (wwIII) for a Georgia or some other teeny country that we don’t know about.

And Russia was acting to help those people after the Gorgians bombed the crap out of that region. The united states would have done the same thing Russia did only we have the Gorgian lobbiest up our butts

Bush bashers unite! You can follow your Messiah into the holyland called Europe where he has 80% support rating. You can rest forever on government handouts, living in government housing, eating rainbow stew and drinking green bubbleup.
I’ll stay here in the U.S.A. I think Bush has done a good job and I’m looking forward to President McCain and Vice-President Palin making America even better over the next 8 years.

Posted by: cincyr | Sep 12, 2008 12:59:57 AM:
“Or maybe they just told her, when in doubt, repeat over and over, “radical Islamic extremists”.
You noticed that too?? She repeated it so many times I got worried and started looking under my furniture for these Islamic terrorists. Obviously her “tutors” told her to throw that out there if she didn’t know the answer, in hopes of distracting the audience. They are trying to use the same old fear tactics this time around, hoping if they layer on enough terrorism cr@p, the public will fall for it again, and won’t notice until it’s too late that they elected McGeezer and McBarbie.

Come on, give me a break. Sarah Palin is a total B-SER! She is trying to gloss over, and act like she’s on top of her game. She’s on top of one thing – saying anything to ACT like she’s on it. When asked if she had any doubts when thinking about being a heart beat away from the Presidency…she says not at all! She’s not real, she’s phoney in this whole thing. Go back to Alaska and collect your earmarks. She is about as ready to be a heartbeat away to being the President as nothing. The Republicans are wise to try to control her exposure, and minimize her contact with the press and the public. It won’t take long to see this one unravel. Give Keith Oberman about 10 minutes with her. The game will be over! BS BS BS coming out her ears.

“…there are more democrats in Congress who are millionaires,than there are Republicans.”
Yeah, that might be because there are more Democrats in Congress than Republicans, period. And more Republicans will be losing their seats in November.
Too bad, they won’t be able to mess up our great country like they have been doing for the last 8 years.

Palin is really “palin” by comparison to Hillary Clinton, who would have been an excellent first female VP.

Would Sarah Palin have started a war to free the slaves?
That’s what I thought too. Don’t vote for her then.

All agree that John McCain has more experience than Barack Obama. However, some argue that Sarah Palin’s experience equals, or even surpasses Obama’s. This is false. When we construct a straightforward, unbiased measure of experience we find:
McCain is 5 times more experienced than Obama, and
Obama is 10 times more experienced than Palin.
Obama and Palin are not roughly equal: Obama’s experience advantage over Palin is larger than McCain’s over Obama.
Here is the reasoning behind these figures. We define experience as the total number of people governed times years in office. For mayors, governors, and presidents, the number of people governed is simply the population of the entity governed. For city council members, representatives, and senators, the number governed is the size of the entity governed divided by the number of fellow legislators.
We will use the following 2007 population estimates for simplicity, rather than the figures for each year someone was in office:
Population of U.S.: 301,139,947
Population of Illinois: 12,852,548
Population of Alaska: 683,478
Population of Wasilla: 9,780
Here is what the experience of each candidate would be in January 2009:
Joe Biden: 36 years U.S. Senate
John McCain: 4 years U.S. Rep.; 22 years U.S. Senate
Barack Obama: 8 years Illinois Senate; 4 years U.S. Senate
Sarah Palin: 4 years Wasilla city council; 6 years Wasilla mayor; 2 years Alaska Governor
There are 100 U.S. Senators, 435 U.S. reps, 57 Illinois senators, and (at a guess, which will not affect the outcome much) 5 Wasilla city council members. Therefore we get the following experience for each candidate:
Joe Biden: 36*(301,139,947/100) = 108,410,381
John McCain: 4*(301,139,947/435) + 22*(301,139,947/100) = 69,019,891
Barack Obama: 8*(12,852,548/57) + 4*(301,139,947/100) = 13,849,464
Sarah Palin: 4*(9,780/5) + 6*9,780 + 2*683,478 = 1,433,460
And thus,
Joe Biden is 1.6 times more experienced than John McCain.
John McCain is 5.0 times more experienced than Barack Obama.
Barack Obama is 9.7 times more experienced than Sarah Palin.

Norander, if you think the Bush Doctrine is some obscure trivia item, then you must have been living in a cave in Afghanistan during the last six years.

Norander is correct. A non-biased interviewer would of explained what he meant by the term “Bush Doctrine”.
However, Here is how Obama defines it and he is way, way offbase. totally clueless.
“In a conference call with reporters, Obama said Clinton would continue the “Bush doctrine” of only speaking to leaders of rogue nations if they first meet conditions laid out by the United States”

Terri,
Barack Obama has no idea what the Bush Doctrine is and he IS running for PRESIDENT.

Wikipedia defines “Bush Doctrine” as follows:
The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan.[1] Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a supposed threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way.[2][3][4] Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.[5] This represented a dramatic shift from the United States’s Cold War policies of deterrence and containment, under the Truman Doctrine, and a departure from post-Cold War philosophies such as the Powell Doctrine and the Clinton Doctrine.
The first usage of the term to refer to the policies of George W. Bush may have been when conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer used the term in February 2001 to refer to the president’s unilateral approach to national missile defense.[6]
The main elements of the Bush Doctrine were delineated in a National Security Council document, National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 20, 2002,[5] and this document is often cited as the definitive statement of the doctrine.[7][8][9] The National Security Strategy was updated in 2006.[10]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine

What the hell is: Bush Doctrine?

Educate yourself.

it was no surprised that she didn’t know what charlie gibson was talking about. this is why the mccain/palin ticket scares me to death. she doesn’t know what the bush doctrine is? she doesn’t know that it’s the basis of our foreign policy in regards to fighting terrorism??? give me a break! shes not prepared to help lead this country and mccain should be ashamed of himself for selecting someone that doesn’t have foreign policy knowledge. we’re in a critical time in this country fighting terrorism and she is not the one and neither is mccain.

funny how the repubs are making excuses for how badly she did on that question by saying “the bush doctrine is long, it was a vague question, not everyone knows what it is”. some dumb republican said “you could ask people in the pentagon or white house and they wouldn’t know what it is”. are you kidding me? so the people in the pentagon doesn’t know what bush’s foreign policy is? the pentagon DEPT. OF DEFENSE and they wouldn’t know? even those who works closely with bush wouldn’t know what it is? stop making excuses, SHE BOMED ON THAT QUESTION and many more. people better start taking a second look at mccain/palin ticket our national securtiy is on the line here.

Its so sad that you’ll already commit to vote for this person you had no idea even existed a couple weeks ago. Why don’t you research instead of just following like a sheep. PALIN DOES NOT BELIEVE IN ABORTION IN CASES OF INSCEST AND RAPE! can anyone tell this woman is not a nutjob.

Norander, they’ve asked McCain the same question before and since when do all the candidates get the same questions? Ummm, lets ask her easy stuff cuz she’s a woman. Thanks but no thanks. I’m a woman and I believe an intelligent, female politician should be answering the same types of questions as anybody else. I’m glad Charlie didn’t treat her with “deference” or in other words “submit” to her.

everything’s going to be okay…she lives really close to Russia, practically across the street from it (“You can see it from here!”), so she knows exactly how to deal with belligerent, autocratic states. it’s called “osmosis”…just the merely proximity educates her.
if this is lieberman’s best work, i can’t wait for the debates. moose in headlights, indeed.
not ready ’08.

b – More crazy is her support of teaching of creationism with evolution in schools, which if you think about it, is totally impossible. It would have to be non-denominational to be constitutional, so the lesson plan would consist of, “…or maybe evolution is totally wrong due to a god or gods that created things somehow at some point in the past, though I cannot specify further without endorsing a particular religious view. I hope that’s a clear enough picture, class dismissed…”

For all of you who think you are so smart in interpreting Sarah Palin’s remarks on the Bush doctrine, it’s evident that you don’t know what the Bush doctrine is either. According to Wikepedia, “The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a supposed threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way.” (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine) Again, “additional elements” is the key phrase here. And, stop repeating what obama media are saying (a deer in headlights) and start thinking for yourselves, if that is possible. I think left winged liberals/obama supporters are just trying to make obama look smarter than he really is. Pathetic…

Palin/McCain – the Pity Party

Yeah, well you are so smart mccain/palinsupporter that you posted your dribble twice.

mccain/palinsupporter – Wow, you really must be a Palin supporter, using Wikipedia as your primary source to base your stump speeches on…

GrandDadBuz votin’ for the Pity Party. What’s the matter? You upset cuz big, bad Charlie asked poor, pit palin some intelligent questions? If her foreign policy knowledge weren’t limited to seeing Russia from Alaska, she would’ve been able to answer the questions. She was sequestered long enough!

hlc08 – that was funny…… the Pity Party, many accomplishments? my stomach hurts from laughing so hard

mccain/palinsupporter,
This is how Obama defined Bush Doctrine
“only speaking to leaders of rogue nations if they first meet conditions laid out by the United States”
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalradar/2007/

Why don’t Dems rejoice she is unfamiliar with a doctrine they detest and supports the response to an imminent threat as they do (except the real loons)? I am confused, shouldn’t this be seen as a good thing? Oh wait we don’t really care about candidates positions, just the gotcha game.

Gibson himself in the past has defined the Bush Doctrine to mean “a promise that all terrorist organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated”–which is remarkably close to Palin’s own answer.
Consider what a diversity of views on the meaning of the Bush Doctrine can be found simply within the archives of ABC News itself:
September 20, 2001
PETER JENNINGS: . . . Claire, the president said at one point, ‘From this day forward, any nation that continues to harbor or support terrorism will be regarded by the United States as a hostile regime.’ Should we be taking that as the Bush doctrine? CLAIRE SHIPMAN reporting: I think so, Peter,
September 21, 2001
CHARLIE GIBSON: The president in his speech last night, very forceful. Four out of five Americans watched it. Everybody gathered around the television set last night. The president issued a series of demands to the Taliban, already rejected. We’ll get to that in a moment. He also outlined what is being called the Bush Doctrine, a promise that all terrorists organizations with global reach will be found, stopped and defeated.
September 21, 2001
CHARLIE GIBSON: Senator Daschle, let me start with you. People were looking for a Bush Doctrine. They may have found it when he said the war on terror will not end until every terrorist group of global reach has been found, stopped or defeated. That’s pretty broad. Broader than you expected?
December 9, 2001
GEORGE WILL: The Bush doctrine holds that anyone who governs a territory is complicit in any terrorism that issues from that territory. That covers the West Bank and the Gaza Strip. Second, the war on terrorism is indivisible, it’s part of the Bush doctrine.
hmmmmmmmmm

Palin does not have a clue. After trying so hard, she still can’t get the lipstick on. WHAT A JOKE, AND A SAD THING TO HAPPEN TO THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, AFTER 8 YEARS OF THIS MORON.

She is an affront to the highly intellegent women of this country who achieve success because of their intellect, not their pretty hair and high heels.
Sarah Palin is an empty skirt suit. She is the type of politician who has to rely on lobbyists to write the laws because like the current GWB she does not have the intellegence to do it herself.

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so tell me, ohio-oink, just what qualifications does Hitlery have, besides being married to a horney devil?
There are quotes after quotes published in books about Hitlery cussing out her SS details. Her rumored lover, Vince Foster, walked out in the middle of a field, never got his shoes wet, and shot himself????? Was Hitlery entitled to all the Whitehouse china she stole?
When she decided to carpetbag and get into the senate, she couldn’t do it in her home state of Arkansas because she would get beat. She had to move into the most liberal state in the country.
Bush not intelligent? Yes, dumb but he must be smart enough to beat two losers like Gore and Kerry. How smart does that make them?
Palin – 08

ron jones you are right @Remember last spring when Obama said that, as president, he’d order military strikes in Pakistan if he had actionable intel on Al-Kida? McCain (and Hillary) jumped all over him with accusations of naivety and inexperience. Now we’ve started doing just what he suggested. The tribal areas of Pakistan are outside of their goverment’s control and Obama was right to say NO SANCTUARY for the real attackers of 9/11.
funny that obama isn’t elected into office yet but his policies are. lol!

THIS WOMAN IS PATHETIC, BUT THE OLD MAVERICK IS EVEN MORE PATHETIC FOR CHOOSING HER. HER ANNOYING ‘CHARLIE’ , ‘CHARLIE’ DID NOT GET HER ANYWHERE! PATHETIC, ARROGANT AND A COMPLETE IGNORAMUS, WAY TO GO AMERICANOS!!!

Even Clinton used a form of the Bush doctrine, although he refused to formulate it as such. Clinton actively sanctioned operations on within nationally recognized and sovereign foreign national soil to seek out and kill if necessary Osama Bin Laudin.
History shows the best shot he had he failed to take. As a result of Bill Clinton’s failure, a few months later after he left office, the event commonly referred to as 911 occurred. In fact it has also been noted that Clinton’s failure strengthened Osama’s support amongst the Taliban.
Additionally, I don’t agree that a majority of individuals if asked could clearly state what the Bush doctrine is. I suspect many who are lambasting Palin on her did not know themselves until this interview pointed it out. I don’t really believe that Bush knows what his doctrine is.
Finally, I don’t give care if Palin or McCain know anything about foreign policy. There are secretary of states for that role. What I care about is whether they know and will fix DOMESTIC POLICY.
I am much happier she has met and knows the heads of states, that is Governors of the 50 states of the United States then any foreign head of state and that puts her well ahead of Obama or Biden.
Considering the problems we have here at home, I prefer a President and VP who will concentrate on US, the people of the Unites states and give less concern to heads of foreign states or their people. I want someone who will shake up the beltway elite and fix a broken partisan congress and executive office. Who works for THE PEOPLE!

Leesburg, VA–an interesting analysis, BUT A VERY FLAWED ANALYSIS! Is your analysis a situation where you “knew” what answer you wanted and then constructed a scenario which would yield your predetermined result?
Re the “Bush Doctrine”, if you read the Wikipedia article you will learn that the term is a creation of the media and has never been the designated name of any of its policies, and even the media’s version has been quite fluid.

In my opinion Charlie Gibson did come down hard on Sarah Palin and his performance on this recent interview should be commended. Look America, Mrs. Palin is up for the position of becoming Vice President of the United States of America. If you love America, you would want what’s best for your country, not just accepting a candidate simply because she’s a woman who’s the major “cheerleader” for McCain’s platform.

Gov. Sarah Palin FIRED the : Public Safety Commissioner, Then FIRED The : Local Police Chief. __ Because they didn’t display any : Political Nepotism _To Her ____ That SAME Song and Dance That Has Been Played out Before ___ The NAZI Fascist Bush Crime Regime and Attorney General Alberto Gonzales Fired : SEVERAL State Attorneys __ Out of Political and Religious Nepotism __ The Republican NAZI Fascist Party and The Bush NAZI Fascist Crime Regime __ Does Not Want Anyone In a Political Office Who is – NOT – In The EXACT SAME IMAGE of : NAZI Fascist Bush

hum
“let them eat cake”
both parties are working hard on the recipe
but it’s all about “the look”
one cake has
Gram-pa and Barbie military style
the other
Ken and Barbie disco style
it’s all about choices

It doesn’t matter if George W. Bush physically sat down at his desk and spelled out a policy under the heading “Bush Doctrine.” The policy of preemptive war is commonly known as the Bush Doctrine. People who pay attention know this. Mrs. Palin did not.
It also doesn’t matter if it’s a phrase coined by the media. I doubt Kennedy ever referred to the Soviets placing missiles in Cuba as “The Cuban Missile Crisis,” but we all know exactly what that label means, right? Same thing applies to the term “9/11,” a set of numbers easily understood by Americans.
I knew exactly what Mr. Gibson meant by “The Bush Doctrine.” Now, maybe it’s because I pay close attention to politics–but doesn’t that say something about Mrs. Palin if she doesn’t?

Re: Dannie–
Nor would you support the person at the top spot simply because they are Black (according to a recent poll, 96% of Blacks support OB) without out knowing his specific position on various issues and his views of the United States and the World!
CHANGE–
==change what specifically
==specifically how will the changes be
carried out
==what specifically will the end
result of these changes be?
BO has failed to inform us of these vital answers but instead offers a pig in a poke-with or without lipstick.
To the character who suggested that this is the wrong page for comments about BO, thank you for the suggestion, My Friend! It was a suggestion, not a directive, was it not, because you would not want people to think that Leftists order people around, do you?!

gb8898: who still listen and follow Bush. I gald Palin does not.

I need more Kool-aid. I am getting confuse Obama/Palin ticket. Obama follows Bush doctrine but Palin does not. kool-aid please…Obama/Palin ticket.

Let’s not forget all the casualties when the Clinton’s took office-true political casualties like the travel office staff. Political appointments (which the travel office staff were not political appointments) generally serve at the discretion of the “CEO” and can be removed for nearly any reason.

Way to go for “smearing” her lipstick across her face…She sounded like a ditz in this interview…always flipping and flopping around the “gotcha” questions…apparently her foreign policy advisor’s didn’t do a good job of teaching her what she needed to know…and it’s not like you can learn everything about foreign policy in one day…McCain should’ve thought about it before he chose Palin as VP since his campaign is about national security…she doesn’t know squat!

For all those uninformed potential voters out there saying “you didn’t even know what the Bush Doctine was”… Not many people are going to know. But then again… those of us who didn’t aren’t running to be VPof the United States of America.
That’s like someone wanting to be a doctor and not even knowing how to treat a symptom. WAKE UP! We are not talking about us. We are talking about our potential elected officials who should know about this stuff. Quit defending her. Sara Palin is a decent person, a good mother I’m sure… but she is not qualified to lead a country, plain and simple. Since when has this campaign even been between her and Obama anyways.
A women’s right movement into the oval office is not the kind of change we need right now either. I’m 100% for women and equal opportunity… they are every bit as capable as men in jobs. I’m amazed just how much women contribute in the work force and abroad. But this is not an issue of sexism, woman’s right into office… etc. This is our country here. A woman in office is not an issue if you are qualified. Hilary Clinton would have been. Sara Palin obviously is not. And to be voting on the wrong issues (for the sake of getting a woman.. a hockey mom… in office) is obsurd.
If these 2 are elected into office, then I don’t want to hear any whining when it blows up in your face because we have an opportunity for real change and a common purpose and a future for our children with the Obama/Biden combo. You don’t have to agree with everything. But these are 2 men qualified to lead and reach across parties. There campaign has been about change, a common purpose, and unity in a United States of America in which the term UNITED has lost it’s meaning.
If we have a third term of stale, old school policies that have not worked for us in the past… then we deserve the country in the state it’s in. Vote on the issues people and those intelligent enough to lead… not on race, sex, or issues that are going to move this country foward. This country is scary if some of the people commenting are defending this woman as someone who can lead us.

“Vote on the issues people and those intelligent enough to lead… not on race, sex, or issues that are NOT going to move this country foward.”
Forgive the typing errors.. you get my point.

Charlie forgot that the McCain doctorine will supercede the Bush Doctorine when they are elected. The new president can do whatever he or she wants to do, just like Bush did!

This woman is smart as a whip. What other 40-something mother of five has an 80 percent approval rating as governor of a state? Those who are claiming her to be an imbecile or something, or a liar, are themselves liars or morons. Insofar as the “Bush Doctrine” is concerned, it seems to be a buzzword that Charles Gibson invented for the occasion. I have never seen or heard of it in the news prior to now.

yes it does say something: What it says is Mrs. Palin can’t be bothered to turn on the news or pick up a newspaper or magazine to see what’s going on regarding foreign policy. It demonstrates a lack of curiosity on her part.
It’s admirable that she may have been focusing solely on her state duties as governor, but shouldn’t her lack of foreign policy knowledge be seen as a negative now that she’s a vice presidential candidate?
I’m sorry, but knowing what the Bush Doctrine is does not make one an “old order politician.” It simply means one is informed regarding national policy. Wouldn’t we have a problem with a politician who didn’t know what Social Security is? We wouldn’t say, “Well, she’s just not part of that Washington system, so that’s a good thing!”
Holding up lack of knowledge as a virtue is a bit troubling. It strikes me as the same attitude whereby performing badly in school is viewed as “cool.” Do we really want the uninformed and intellectually uncurious as our leaders?

And when Charlie stated he was quoting Palin on her statement made in church in relation to God and Religion, it was Charlie who misstated the quote, having evidently taken the work of someone else rather then doing HIS HOMEWORK.
Here are her actual words concerning the Iraq war and God: “Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, 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 that plan is God’s plan.”
Find the video and check it out for yourselves. Quit swallowing hook line and sinker the false words from both sides of the media.

I can’t stand Obama. I’m a Republican. But Mrs. Palin really seemed unprepared in that interview.
Incidentally, Nobama09, a monkey as governor could probably attain an 80% approval rating in Alaska.
No state income or sales taxes? Annual dividend checks from an oil fund paid out to each citizen ($2,000 per person this year)? More earmark money per person than any other state?
If I lived in Alaska, I’d approve of Mrs. Palin, too…

Charlie Gibson made a deliberate attempt to ambush Palin with the question. Her answer was good and does not need qualification.
Do we have the right to pre empt the foe against us. Look back to history we have done it for years.

xagfre: The McCain Doctrine is the same as the Bush Doctrine: we can attack anyone, anytime, even if there is no imminent threat.
The Obama Doctrine will involve flowery language and the spending of billions of tax dollars to buy off potential adversaries.
Both ideas suck.

gb8898 wrote:
“Annual dividend checks from an oil fund paid out to each citizen ($2,000 per person this year)? More earmark money per person than any other state?”
If you research this, you will find that the oil fund refund was due to Palin forcing the oil companies into negations which resulted in more money from the oil and gas produces in Alaska going to the state and the created the abiility for the refund. That is I believe a first for Alaska.
Concerning earmarks, Both Obama and Biden supported many of those earmarks including the bridge. McCain apposed that earmark.
With the outcome of the negotiations from the oil companies and more funds going to the state, she cut the earmark requests by half a million dollars, farther then any governor in Alaska history. Also, the earmarks that were requested went for infrastructure and essential services which Alaska could not pay for. Obama requested earmarks which benefited a key financial supporter in Chicago, for, I think it was, a bike path amongst other non essential services.
Are you saying that Alaska Americans who have little infrastructure and essential services yet produce upward to 30% of our domestic energy, don’t deserve them as apposed to Chicago which has, though probably not enough, more? Sorry. again, you’re comparing apples and oranges.

Dannie, no Palin is not a Susan B Anthony, Elizabeth Cady Stanton, Jane Addams, and Gloria Steinem.
If she helps to fix broken partisan politics of Washington which is destroying this country from the inside out, if she helps to accomplish for our domestic policy the correct fiscal changes she has implemented in Alaska, then she will however have contributed just as much.

gb889 wrote:
“When states get more back than they put in, though, that’s essentially socialism.”
I see, so those who live in low populated areas yet produce the bulk of the the energy, food and materials ,which are generally low paying jobs, that allow those who live in the highly populated areas with most of the high paying jobs, to do so, should well, be ignored.
Um, quite honestly, that is at odds with the stated Obama, Biden and generally the stated Democratic policy which wants to raise taxes on the few so that the many without can have more.
That also is essentially socialism.
For either party though, to a degree, some of that should be considered essential spending on and for our fellow Americans. Quite honestly, as you are a democrat, I am rather surprised at what you apparently are saying.

Not sure what I am hearing: I’ve already stated several times I’m a Republican (though I lean more libertarian). As such, what I wrote shouldn’t be surprising at all.
I don’t really care that Alaska produces lots of energy. If Alaskans pay $10 in federal income taxes every year and get back $20, that’s socialism. And I don’t like it.
Your empathy for low populated areas with low paying jobs is nice (I live in one of those areas and have one of those jobs), but it could also be spun to apply to, say, migrant farm workers. They’re “ignored” but vital to our nation, right? Don’t we “owe” them something? Many Democrats would argue that we do.
I would disagree.

Turns out Gibson himself, nor most of the media are clear on what the Bush Doctrine is.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/what_exactly_is_the_bush_doctr.asp

Okay all you Obamaites, list Five specific qualifications that OB has that qualirfies him as President–five s-p-e-c-i-f-i-c qualifications:
1)
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Keep in mind that Governor Palin is on the ticket for the No. 2 spot while OB is on the ticket for CEO of an organization of 300 million people, and not No. 2, with no executive experience AT ALL!
The Media is certainly showing its true colors as Bernard Goldberg has described in his books and during interviews.

gb8898, my belief is this, capitalism without a social conscience is ethically and morally bankrupt.
I do not agree that anyone is owed anything. In that regard, I may een agree with John F Kennedy. “Ask not what your country can do for you. Rather ask what you can do for your country.”
However, I do believe that if we are fiscally responsible and use sound fiscal practices that we cannot only advance our ourselves and improve our own lives, but give hand up to those who are without and truly due to their hard work and effort, need it. Not a handout, a hand-up.
To not do so creates social and economic divides that if we look at and study history and current work events, have and do lead to civil unrest and civil wars. We are all fellow Americans. Without those who are willing to work in low paying jobs which allow others to work in the high paying jobs and in comfort, nobody in this country survives. We cannot be a nation where some have more then enough to share with others and not be deprived, while saying to others, “Let them eat cake.”
I do believe in minimal government. I believe in the power of the state a the community to decide best what is needed and how to spend for the essentials. Bloated government wastes money and is ultimately ineffective because unlike the Governers and mayors and local city councilman, it is insulated from answering to “We the People.”
I believe this country must stop swinging from the ultra right to the ultra left. I am convinced it will swing to the hard ultra left from the hard ultra right, unless McCain is elected. I am a centrist and I believe McCain and Palin who have both demonstrated the willingness to take on members of either party for the common good is what this country needs now.
The path I believe this country needs to go politically is not on the right nor the left but in the center which is I am convinced McCain will lead us.

Dannie wrote;
“Also, really does Palin represent America? She was born in Sandpoint, ID , a city near where the Aryan nation once set up headquarters in the area. I feel she doesn’t represent the melting pot of America. How can she govern the population of America if she doesn’t understand their guiding principles and philosophies on life?”
Dannie, the state you are born in, I do not believe, necessarily dictates what you believe concerning race. Also, I think if you will check this, from the age of less then one, except I think when she went to college, she has lived in Alaska the majority of her life.
Where is the melting pot of America, exactly? I was born in Montana. Montana has a large hispanic population in areas, as btw, does Idaho. It has has a large percentage of Native Americans. many of those that live there can trace their roots back to the Irish, English, Scotts, French, etcetera. As can I, being part Native American, English, Irish, German and Scottish. Alaska also is far from homogeneous. Does someone born and raised in the city accurately represent the values of those raised in the country, or vice versa? I think they can and do.
What are the guiding principles and philosophies of life for Americans? Do you not find Americans of faith in the city and in the country? Do we not find those who are struggling to raise families in the city and in the country? Do we not find those who are working multiple jobs to make ends meet and many without adequate health in the city and in the country?
I was born in the country, I now live in the south of the US in a city. I have found in my life there is little difference in many guiding core values between the two especially when it includes the desire for truth, justice and opportunity for ourselves and our children. But, I am only one American. We are all much alike and yet we are all very different. It is overall though, our strength.
As for where the melting pot is today? I really believes it goes from the Atlantic to the Pacific. From Alaska to the Gulf of Mexico.

I am for the center: I do agree with much of what you said. I think the solution to many of our problems lies at the state level–exactly as our Founders intended.
The bloated federal government wastes tons of money, and it can’t effectively serve 300 million people at once. State governments are far more accountable to the people and less likely to suffer from entrenched bureaucracy the way the federal government is.
The problem I see is this: both major parties now believe every problem can be addressed at the federal level (don’t argue, fellow Republicans–actions speak louder than words). In this environment, we will continue to swing from the far right to the far left and nothing will change at all, and we’ll be left wondering why. Again.
The most centrist policy is still the one advocated by the men who founded this nation (“keep it as local as possible”), but that policy is largely ignored today because folks like having power “centralized” now. Unfortunately, I don’t see things going a different direction any time soon.

Obama’s “57 states” comment debunked:
http://www.snopes.com/politics/obama/57states.asp

Charlie should read Charles Krauthammer (he who coined the “bush Doctrine” phrae;
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html?hpid=opinionsbox1

OBAMA WILL NOT EVEN PLACE HIS HAND OVER HIS HEART FOR THE NATIONAL ANTHEM!!!!
During rendition of the national anthem when the flag is displayed, all present except those in uniform should stand at attention facing the flag with the right hand over the heart. Men not in uniform should remove their headdress with their right hand and hold it at the left shoulder, the hand being over the heart. — United States Code, Title 36, Chapter 10, Sec. 171
Turns out that not wearing a flag lapel pin isn’t the only way Barack Obama chooses to show he’s a different kind of Democrat.
go to internet site and see for yourself:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/mark-finkelstein/2007/10/20/obama-no-hand-heart-pledge-either-will-msm-notice

WOULD THE SUITS AT ABC CHIP IN AND BUY GRANDPA CHARLIE A PAIR OF CONTACTS. I FOUND HIM VERY CONDESENDING WHEN QUESTIONING GOV. PALIN AND LOOKING DOWN HIS NOSE AT HER THROUGH HIS GLASSES. NOTE: (COMPARE HIS INTERVIEW WITH OBAMA AND YOU’LL KNOW WHAT I MEAN.) AS FOR THE QUESTION REGARDING PRESIDENT BUSH’S DOCTRINE. THERE ARE EIGHT AREAS IN THE DOCTRINE, HE KNEW IT, AND SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SPECIFIC. BILL SALMON WAS ON TV THIS A.M. AND HE STATED THAT HE WOULD NOT HAVE KNOWN THE EXACT ANSWER TO THAT QUESTION. WAS CHARLIE HOPING THIS WAS HIS “GOTCHA MOMENT”. AS FOR GOV. PALIN NOT BEING AVAILABLE TO THE PRESS–HOW IGNORANT. THE REPUBLICAN CONVENTION JUST ENDED A SHORT TIME AGO AND SHE STILL HAS TO PERFORM THE DUTIES OF GOVENOR OF ALASKA. I THINK SHE IS PERFORMING ADMIRABLY AND IS MAKING HERSELF VERY AVAILABLE. SHE IS TRULY A GIFT FROM GOD AT THIS TIME IN HISTORY.

Where’s the Obama doctrine? Oh yeah that’s right he’s been campaigning for two years and hasn’t done anything…HAH!

Hey, Charlie:
You blind sided Sarah on the Bush Doctrine as you did me ??? What is the Bush Doctrine, anyway ?
JTA

Charlie has defined this so-called “doctrine” differently, on several separate occasions, with none ever the same. Isn’t this like a Faux Journalistic equivalent of a Shell Game, or a Ponzi Scheme?!

The different between Obama and Palin interview is Palin gives complete sentences. No huh huh ah ah from her interview.

Wow. That was devastating. That will surely end Charlie’s career .

Isn’t it just like a liberal journalist to ask a question about a doctrine that there is no specific meaning except what the media has ascribed to it. If you want to focus on these types of things as an example of lack of experience can you picture Obama’s first day on the job when he asks the Joint Chiefs of Staff to end the war in Iraq and asks that this be confirmed by each one of our 57 states. Or can you picture Biden visiting a head of state who might be paralyzed and he says “Stand up sir, stand up!” God love you.

CHARLIE WAS CONDESENDING – PLAIN AND SIMPLE. SITTING HIGHER, MAKING PALIN LOOK SMALL – HE IS BIASED AS THEY COME – Can you imagine him treating OBAMA like that? PLEEEEEESE! I am sick of Left and right. I hope America can think for themselves. Charlie is condesending – that’s the only word I can use to desrice the entire interview!!!

I wanted to listen to what Palin had to say and all I could hear was Charlie interupting. Bush Doctrine should be every President’s doctrine – “Watch America’s behind! Let’s not forget that for the past 4 years the DEMs have run congress – so no one can blame the GOP for the non-decisions that have been occuring in Washington – But the LIBS (or those who can’t even name the Speaker of the House for Pete’s sake) will always put the blame of everything on the GOP.
Do Dems really believe that if we go soft that the world will love us? – Fantasy! Other countries don’t want us to lose our strength because they depend on us to protect their behinds.
Who truly believes that we shouldn’t protect ourselves? Wake up AMERICA!

I guess GOP picked the right VP, because there are actually people out there (You know – the kind that protest yet they don’t know who the heck is Biden,or if you mention Pelosi, they don’tknow who she is) – but yet they bash Bush because they have nothing better to do with their lives.
So three cheers for the GOP because there will be some people out there who will vote for Palin because she is pretty. That’s the intelligence we have to deal with in America. So hats off to the GOP because they’ll win.
I would have liked difficult questions for Obama so that everyone watching could realize that he agrees on some of the same issues that the GOP agrees on.

I see a lot of comments referring to “look it up in Wikipedia.” Since when is Wikipedia a scholarly cited encyclopedia? Wikipedia is a phenomenon of the digital age and is NOT on par with Britannica, Worldbook or Oxford encyclopedias, to name a few. Wikipedia is an anonymous, collaborative “wiki” digital collaboration with no research or scholarly references to support content.
From a librarian

To Ann Marie,
I hate to tell you this but I am a business owner who will be taxed at a higher rate with Obama and willing to do it because there is just too much of a financial squeeze on the middle class and lower. That’s Country First. I am not a free loader and have never been and while I have deep concern for the health of our planet, I’m not a tree hugger. Obama is not for hand-outs. He is know for his programs that get people off the street into jobs to support themselves. Why do you need to get so angry over a political discussion? Name calling and generalities are not going to move this country forward. It’s nice that you would like to have Mitt Romney as President but I believe we are discussing issues that are relevant and crucial now.

Clarity,
Your point that we as Americans might not know what the Bush Doctrine is, but anyone running for a governmental office should is excellent. Although most people I know knew what it was or at least the significance of it.
I would like to add that reality TV has contributed to the acceptance of mediocrity. People have become accustomed to “ordinary folks like me” becoming super starts on shows like American Idol. Now “ordinary folks like me” can become President of United States. It’s sad, but unfortunately so true. Look at many of the comments on this blog and others. People are saying “I love her…she’s so much like me”. While I feel I am relatively intelligent and have run a successful business for 17 years, I would hope that anyone running for the Presidency is more qualified and intelligent than I am.

Well, you can certainly tell who the True Believers are. Eric Hoffer could write True Belivers II. Don’t let any facts stand in your way in making your argument!
Sandra, you stated that a graduate degree should be required to vote–a graduate degree in what? After eight years of colklege (undergrad and grad), it was obviouss to me that many receiving graduate degrees did not have enough common sensse or objectice thinking capability to come in out of a hurricane. Yet I know people with no college at all who are very intelligent–they have not been indoctrinated by leftwing professors.
Regarding Wikipedia, our libraian friend is somewhat off base–0granted that there are some errors, there is also much useful knowledge there. For instance, I looked up Classical Liberal, which I have been for years (not to be confused with today’s leftwing liberal) and found a very accurate description. As a professional researcher, I always verify facts from ANY source, especially third party sources.
Charity, you need to read Charles Krauthammer’s column on the issue. Mr Krauthammer coined the phrase in June 2001. Does one REALLY need to know the Bush Doctrine, which some assert was the basis for the Iraq War, to bring the war to a satisfactory conclusion??
While Bush’s approval rating is low, it is twice that of Congress! Could it that Bush’s rating is low because Democrats have not been able accept that bush DID beat Gore in 2000 (I live in Florida-so bring on your cries of outrage.) and have carried on the Clintonian Permanent Campaign against him day-in and day-out. I will be the first to grant that Bush has made some errors, but he has done many things right: such as helping the economy recover after 9/11. The economy was doing fine despite the trash talk from the Dems, until Jan. 2007, when the Dems took over both houses of Congress. Is it possible that the Dems wanted the economy to tank to have an issue for the election?

palin isnot capable of being vp,she just smart by mouth not brain,you better go back to school.

Hey obama mo coke and Mmm-ike
Everyone is entitled to their own opinion no matter how wrongheaded it may be! My best wishes to you both-hopefully you will get your lives in order soon!

LIBS- There are 4 variations of the term “Bush Doctrine” She asked “in what aspect” CG didn’t even know, he only knew of the 1 example. When will BO get some tought questions? You say he has good judgement but spent 20 years listening to a hate filled/anti-American, anti/white, Rev. Wright. He associates, still, with a self admitted American Terrorist, shady real estate deals, he founded PUBLIC ALLIES (look it up), he was against the surge, we would have lost the war if he were in charge, did he lie on his request to take the BAR, why only 1 page medical record, why a different last name on school records, I can go on. He sent 30 attorneys/investigators to Wasilla to dig up dirt on Palin, yet there is mounds of dirt readily available to the media on Obama and they will not cover it. Go figure.

Mr. Gibson asked a question that most Americans and most politicians don’t know exactly what was meant by the Bush Doctrine so the form of the question was bad.
Mr. Gibson would have had a better question to say something that most people would understand. :
What do you think of the use of preemptive strikes against a country without getting UN approval? And further, do you believe in cutting taxes and use the trickle down and credit card to pay for preemptive wars?
Another question: If the Republicans win control of congress and if McCain is elected, how will he begin to pay off some of our long term debt? All I hear, is cut taxes and perpetuate the myth that the trickle down theory will solve all problems.
Oh, I know! We can pay it off by eliminating Medicare, Medicaid and social security and shipping more jobs overseas and still cutting the job shippers taxes as usual.
But don’t worry, the deficit is small compared to our GDP. Bad news! We don’t tax the GDP so it will just create a deeper and deeper debt if we cut, baby cut

Sarah Palin must show that she can stand up to the pressure. Charles Gibson demonstrated that she can. As to the so-called Bush doctrine, Gibson was in error. I suggest he take to his researchers to task for the goof. See attached article on his gaffee.
http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/09/13/charlie_gibsons_gaffee

I find it funny that both political sides are just crazy!! I can’t believe how divided we are. Sarah Palin did well in her first interview. Gibson was tough, which he should be, and Palin I thought gave him good answers. She was not specific but I don’t think she had to be or could be.
Truthfully, neither canadite is specific because they really don’t know what they are going to do, because the world around us is constantly changing. People make decisions based on their core beliefs and ideals. Sarah showed through the interview that she believes in freedom. That you may have to go to war to up hold your ideals, and to keep your allies and America safe. McCain appears to believe in the same thing.
Obama appears to believe in diplomacy and avoid conflict at all costs. You only go to war if someone attacks you first. I’m not sure if Obama would go to war to protect one of our allies, like Isreal, Georgia, France, England, Europe, etc, if they were attacked.
As a conservative, one thing that angers me about Bush and his economic plan is that I thought his ideals were less government and fical responsiblity, but he has not shown that in his 8 years as president. He likes lower taxes but will spend more than we make.
Sarah Palin in her interview discussed, and demonstrated as mayor and governer, her economic beliefs for success..
1) keep taxes as low as possible, 2)make government more efficient to keep spending at a minimum and 3) government should be governing (overseeing) not running business and peoples lives.
McCain appears to believe the same thing. Bush and many other Republicans say they believe in these ideals but have not demonstrated it. (Talk is cheap and bad for the economy.)
Obama does not believe in those economic principles. He believes government should help run business, and should make laws to run peoples lives. He appears to believe giving people money for doing nothing makes them work harder. (Truthfully it doesn’t make them want to work at all.)
In conclusion, to look to specifics and details from any of the canidates is presumptuous. If you were to ask Bush, 8 years ago, what he would have done if a terrist attacked America, would he go to war and what is is plan? I’m not sure he would have an specific answer. (Is that a fair question?) The truth is aall politicians lie and tell people what they want to hear. As voter we need to cut through the retoric and try to determine what their ideals and true worldview is. Palins interview confirmed and showed me her ideals and worldview, as a conservative. I agree with most of it, because that is what I am. Others may disagree and also make me fustrated, but I won’t call them names. Lets grow up and stick to the facts.

Charlie really could have been a lot tougher on her if he had asked her about the Medvedev Doctrine since they were talking about Russia.

Ronald, would you say that each of the 4 distinct “Bush Doctrines” evolved in series or in parallel to each other. In other words did he forego/declare null and void the previous doctrine and take on a “new” doctrine or did he merely expand his doctrine to include each new “principle”?

As the originator of the Bush Doctrine stated, there is about 8 different bush doctrines if you count all the ideas Bush has put forth that have been labled “bush doctrine” — The one Charlie referred to was about # 3 and the one Sarah answered was another one. Apparently Charlie doesn’t have any idea of what the “Bush Doctrine” and was setting a trap for Sarah to fall into.
Crazy times in our media

Imagine, the same crazy loons writing the above comments have the right to vote; now that is scary.
Read Krauthammer’s column and end this silly talk about “The Bush Doctrine.”

The BUSH DOCTRINE is simple SCREW AMERICA..And he has done so for 8 years.
She is BUSH in a bra and panties.

Charles Krauthammer got it right, Charles Gibson got it wrong.

Ben–Great job!
Ringo–yes, let’s set the bar higher and have a candidate on the “D” side who has at least minimal qualifications.
Is know of the “Bush Doctrine” as the ABC Talking Head believes it to be, necessary to bring the war in Iraq to a successful conclusion? If so, than BO had better start “boning up” on it!

After watching both interviews, I think Ms Palin did poorly on the first one. Her makeup and lighting made her looked worse, she was nervous and tense, she looked like all other life long politicians. Her answers looked like she was reading from her memory of what was taught the last few days. Her performance was no better than a C+. I would not vote for her if this is the only interview.
On the second interview, everything was better. She looked like herself, her tone was more relaxed and natural. Her answers were easy to understand. She needs to be herself as she was on the night she accepted her nomination last week. Her performance was a solid B+. She may get my vote and some independent voters based on this second interview.

if we’re picking a president, vice president or dog catcher for that matter on “gotcha” questions,then by all means judge their qualifications by initial reactions to idealogical doctrines that only last for the term of the incumbent.( if the Bush Docrine was law or in any history book who couldn’t study and learn about it,but why know anything about it if it does not apply to the next office holder? should we expect candidates to know how many calories are in a Big Mac or the planet that Pamela Anderson lives on? or to be jesting, the “color” of that lipstick?)Language being what it is,rephrasing a query so the recipient understands it is always the descent thing to do considering we are all human and subject to error.Our ignorance can be remedied ,our bad manners corrected,but prejudice is incurable as long as the diseased refuses to admit the condition.Listening with both ears, preferred above listening with only a “right” or a “left” ear, would lend to an “educated” process for a decision of this importance.Does any one disagree?fellow americans quit throwing stones at each other!! a house divided will surely fall!!make our founding father’s proud and make your decision on facts,not only by your emotions.Let us be a “United” States!!

The Bush doctrine…
1. Screw America.
2. Steal as much as you can for the Bush crime family..
3. Attack other nations you don’t like.
4. Kill as many American military as you can.
5 Rape the country.
6.Rape the world.
7. Be the dumbest Son O* * Bit** to ever to enter the White House in 232 years.
And he accomplished it all in 8 years. This is the Bush Doctrine.

Please, please ask the hard questions of Obama. Here’s a fellow whose mentors were Marxists, gives the “finger” to Hillary, has no experience in management, has been a Senator in name only and he has only been quizzed once by the news media. Thankfully, ABC asked reasonable questions rather batting their eyes at him. I think the last time I saw this much fawning was w/ JFK. Even when reporters caught him returning from sexual encounters, they didn’t question his morality or maturity. News has returned to its yellow journalism roots. Shame on you.

Only a true idiot would find Palin to be unqualified, but Obama to be qualified. That is the real issue here, is that top of the lib ticket has no experience with running anything at all. He doesn’t even run his own campaign. He has never really stuck with any of the offices he has been into for very long, but immediately seeks another.

Bush Doctrine: Mess with us and we’ll turn your country into a Democracy.
Now Palin is ‘dumb’. I thought ‘idiot’ was the preferred Lib derisive label. Oh, ‘moronic’ seems to be in style, too. And there’s the brand new ‘pig’ that’s been dusted off from back in the day when their grandparents got high and stuck flowers in National Guardsmen’s rifles. (Didn’t Comrade Lennon call President Nixon a pig? So I guess there is solid precedent there).
At least Palin doesn’t stutter.
That’s it…we Republicans should just start calling Obama a stuttering, big-eared, wart-nosed, dum-dum, poopy pants and get with this neo-Marxist groove thang.
Yeah, so much for debating the issues.

Little Diomede Island, belongs to the U.S.Back in the 1950′s and 1960′s the U.S.Air Force, operated long range search and height finding radars as part of the “DEW” (Distant Early Warning Line) tracking Soviet bombers coming south..If an officer really screwed up big time his next assignment was Commnding Officer of “Little Diomede”.And from there on to the trash heap. One nasty island, not exactly like Maui..But fishing was good.a 12 month tour for the poor GI’s.And no pigs to put lipstick on either.

Good time Charlie knew the whole world was watching him interview Palin – not him. But because he doesn’t want to come off as bland and milquetoast as he always does (yawn), perhaps Charlie thought he might take the opportunity to reinvent himself as a hard-hitting, pull no punches real-deal kind of journalist.
Bull.
If the guy ever plays poker, I’ll bet he goes home broke more than he’d like to admit.

I will never believe ABC News for this is the 2nd time they have deceived the public on there news coverage. If you do an interview, cutting and pasting answers is BS. http://elections.foxnews.com/2008/09/12/abc-edits-out-palin-objection-to-holy-war-question/
This news organization couldn’t be anymore biased. Very shamefull!

Disgusting “journalism” from Gibson. He didn’t even know what he was talking about. When there are four potential explanations for the Bush doctrine, Palin was correct in asking for clarification. Then, the explanation that Gibson gave is old, outdated, and incorrect. What a dummy! Where is his reprimand? ABC, I’m done with you.

As was pointed out by the man who coined the term “Bush Doctrine”, Charles Krauthammer, Charles Gibson does not know what the Bush Doctrine is because he completely mis-stated it in the interview. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457_pf.html

Bush Doctrine….Bush SUCKS..

I saw the interview and the only thing that Palin forgot to say at the end of her response about the Bush Doctrine was
“Knibb high football rules”–it worked for Billy Maddison

The proper answer Palin should have given is that the Bush Doctrine has been a miserable failure. No WMDs, no Iraq / Al Queda connection. Nearly a trillion dollars down the drain with nothing to show for it. Over 4,000 of our troops dead and many tens of thousands more wounded. Growth in Islamic extremism. And Bin Laden still not caught! C´mon people, time for a change. Obama-Biden 08.

Obama is a muslim!

Bush Doctrine = Failure

Obama’s change means…
-Universal health care.
-Not just acknowledge that global warming exists but take action to reduce it through alternative energy sources, hybrid cars, etc.
-Create green collar jobs.
-Invest in our infrastructure, also creating jobs.
-End the war in Iraq. Focus on Afghanistan.
-Restore our position on the world stage.
-Truly invest in education so we can compete with China. Increase teacher pay, merit pay.
-Will separate out the social security fund so those funds are not used to balance the federal budget, as is currently the case.
-Restore sanity to Wall Street by bringing back oversight.
-Tax cuts for all, except for those making over $603,403 a year.
-End tax benefits to companies who ship jobs overseas.
-End the corporate tax loopholes.
-Shut down Guantanamo Bay.
-Finally pass a bill to create equal pay for equal work.
-Raise the minimum wage, indexing it to the inflation rate.
-Diplomacy vs. saber-rattling.
-Secure loose nuclear materials.
-End the practice of lobbyists writing our laws.
-And on those awful earmarks, disclose the name of legislators who ask for earmarks and require a written justification within 72 hours before they will be approved by the Senate.
-end subsidies to oil and gas companies who have had record profits.
-windfall profits tax on oil companies with a $1000 energy rebate to taxpayers. Which is the same thing Palin has done in Alaska. Alaskans normally get a yearly check for $2000 but this year it will be $3200 because of the windfall profits tax she imposed on oil companies in her state.
I could go on but you can go to Obama’s web site. It’s all there. McCain’s web site doesn’t even address the issue of social security.

watch the john gibson inverview with john edwards 4 years ago and you will see how he was so much easier on him, lol. what a biased joke.

etw: What is the Bush doctrine? I bet you along with 99% of these posters have no clue. Its not a book? Its not a Law? so what is it? I don’t no all of it. Its just a phrase for a type of run white house.

I’m curious why so many of you critics don’t understand that the “Bush Doctrin” is a concept created by the media! It’s had to change with the times. Think about it, it concerned the economy when he first took office, it then changed to a protectionist view after 9/11, then adjusted twice since then! It’s an interpretation!!! Gibson blindsided her with the question! ONLY THEN did he explain what his question meant! I’d like any of you Obama supporters to realistically look at Gibson’s interview with him! Talk about ridiculous questions! “What’s it like to be the son of…?” For Pet’s sake! I’m looking forward to you folks crying on election day.

Sarah is a joke a distration she does not know about any doctrines ,was clueless,this is scary just because you are not an Obama supporter does mean you should ok her stupidty.

charlie gibson pretending to be smart is hysterical. it was like homer simpson was interviewing palin. bush doctrine? while the man is still in office? that’s something for historians to come up with in a decade or so. i bet charlie got that question from 1 of his ivy league recent-college-gradate staffers who was taught by his/her uber-liberal professor that his opinion of bush was a historical fact. so pretentious it’s comical

It looks like ABC isn’t going to give up on this issue…or non-issue.
There is no “Bush Doctrine.” There have been statements by Bush which have been labeled a “Doctrine” by the media. The one in 2002 ABC is so fond of was superceded by others in subsequent State of the Union addresses.
A “doctrine,” like the Monoroe Doctrine, has traditionally been a formal, written statement of policy issued by a president.
I guess the media has decided they, not a president, are now empowered to determine what is an official presidential doctrine.
Regardless who you support in this election, I hope the winner and his supporters, will be happy to allow the media to pick which of his statements comprise his “doctrine.”

I am sick of the one sided politics the media is playing. It is time for these “reporters” to be balanced. Bush is a fool and I am not sure about McCain however I would like to see Obama grilled on some of his comments over the past few years. The liberal media is scared of the democrat machine to actually tell us the whole truth on their policies.
I know many of the dems want change but do we really want socialism? I have lived under socialism and you have no real rights whatsoever.
I want to see the obama camp answer these questions.
On the campaign trail, Obama made the following statement: “I’ve been to 57 states, and I have one more to go.” Senator how many States are in the USA?
During an interview with George Stephanopoulos, Obama made reference to “my Muslim faith.” After Stephanopoulos corrected him, he said, “My Christian faith.” Senator, why are you ashamed to admit you are a Muslim?
During a recent campaign event in Missouri, Biden asked Congressman Chuck Graham, who is wheelchair-bound, to “Stand up, Chuck!” Were you making a tasteless joke or are you simply obtuse?
Senator Obama your brother George lives on less than a dollar a month in a hut in Kenya while you live a millionaire’s lifestyle in Washington and in Chicago. Do you know if he had anything to eat today? Why was he quoted as saying that he is ashamed to be related to you?
Senator Obama during your introduction of Joe Biden after naming him as your running mate, you referred to him as “the next president.” What’s that about?
Senator Obama you sat in the pews at Trinity United Church of Christ for twenty years. Do you really expect voters to believe that you never heard any of the radical rants of Jeremiah Wright during all that time?
Senator Obama you are “friendly” with former Weather Underground leader William Ayres. What is the nature of your relationship, and given Ayres previous attempts at murderous collusion, what could you possibly have in common with this man who harbors such hatred for America? Do you consider your dealings with this self-admitted domestic terrorist as experience in the War on Terror, much like community organizing is equivalent to military service?
Of course ABC, NBC, CNN and the rest would never ask these questions because the answers might frighten us all.
Look at how Obama disrespectfully tossed the flowers on the memorial of the 911 victims.
Hillary should have been the choice for the Dems but instead they want to make history by dominating an inexperienced quasi muslim/christian who is unclear of his stand on anything.
I want to see true balanced interviews from unbiased journalists because it is our future that they are playing with.

99.9% of you have not the FOGGIEST idea what the Bush Doctrine is….. if there is one! You degrade Sarah Palin…….. and not ONE of you even knew what Gibson was asking… it was something he asked to catch her up. Bias bias bias!!!!!

Gibson threw Obama softball questions and hardball to Palin. ABC edited the interview for TV to make Palin look bad. ABC did put the full interview on the internet but how many people are going to check the internet? It is no wonder that more and more people do not believe the main street media!!!! Shame on you ABC!!!!!