Palin doesn't know about Bush Doctrine

Originally posted by Byzantine Emperor No matter how one slices it, we must face it, there are a bunch of typical politicians offered up to us this election from both sides.  No one stands out as being better.  Neither party has the priorities of the American people at heart.  There is no third party that can make it.  What do we do then in the opinion of all of you political geniuses?

I agree Byz and...

she is nuts. seriously out of all the people in the USA you throw up McPain and this muppet?

...besides anything she says the liberal media will try and twist it out of context because she is a Repulican. Frankly, both parties are globalist and puppets for the elite- we need other choices. I do not like McCain at all but given Obama's radical liberal socialist agenda I am forced to vote for the other evil. Look at Obama's supporters and it could make some of us cringe. At least I can vote unlike some here or some here who choose not to take this responsibility.

Al Jassas do you live in the USA?

What liberal media? Surely none of these puppet cable networks...

Hello eagle

I still don't know what too honestly make of her, without getting into a knee jerk reaction, but this seems and sounds like an interesting view from a liberal weblog:

Now even the normally level headed Greg Sargent has it:

Forget war with Russia. The real news from Charlie Gibson's interview with Sarah Palin is this stretch, where she is clearly clueless about what the Bush Doctrine is...

"In what respect, Charlie?"

This performance is the kind of thing that could have a serious impact on the race, unless everyone politely agrees to ignore it.

This is seriously nuts. Palin asked Gibson to define what HE meant by it. (NOTE: Stellaa points out that Gibson tried the same game with Obama and Media Matters ripped Gibson for it then. Guess Sargent is ok with it when it is done to a Republican.) Indeed, her eventual answer to the question is extremely sensible (unlike Bush and McCain's actual policies) and smart politics. She did not accept the premise of Gibson's question and then gave a sensible answer to the question. This type of stuff is what is killing the Left blogs right now. They look like fools when they act this way. The video is on the flip.

What does seem certain... is that noting seems certain anymore? 

Hi, Panther,

You look at t he video and you make up your mind about it. This was a highly structured interview given under very precise conditions. As the video shows, the McCain campaign has a good reason to keep Palin away from the media.

And she was still surprised by it and didn't know what to say. And even when it was spelled out to her, she couldn't come up with a straight answer.

That says a lot.

Originally posted by eaglecap she is nuts. seriously out of all the people in the USA you throw up McPain and this muppet? ...besides anything she says the liberal media will try and twist it out of context because she is a Repulican. Frankly, both parties are globalist and puppets for the elite- we need other choices. I do not like McCain at all but given Obama's radical liberal socialist agenda I am forced to vote for the other evil. Look at Obama's supporters and it could make some of us cringe. At least I can vote unlike some here or some here who choose not to take this responsibility.

Obama is certainly no socialist, his smart though and thats maybe what you mistaking it for. Such desciptions show how right wing US political culture is to everyone else.

I posted the whole interview, show me in that video where it has been twisted? before last year she never been further than Mexico or Canada and it shows. The whole ranting, strong words but little understanding sounds like Bush. We cant afford, you cant afford more of that unilteral cowboy sh*t. Notice how it doesn't work?

The world is much more complex than how she seems to understand it. Its like hearing our own rednecks talk about global politics 'bomb the wogs' with rudimentary understanding beyond their own suburbs.

I can only say thank god your Pentagon command are more rational and push back on such ridiculous ideas as bombing Iran, they learnt their own lessons in Vietnam.



Edited by Leonidas - 13-Sep-2008 at 05:04

Originally posted by Leonidas she is nuts. seriously out of all the people in the USA you throw up McPain and this muppet?

Originally posted by eaglecap Originally posted by hugoestr And I want you to to outline what exactly in the Obama platform you object to? Maybe, just maybe, could it be that you are just be repeating talking points without actually knowing what you are talking about? Like I said McCain is a poor choice and not a true conservative. I respect your view but some of Obama's radical changes scare me; such as: (Off hand) Hate speech law- end of free speech ( we have the right to criticize but that could be turned to hate speech) I am not totally unconivinced McCain would not back this as well.

Eaglecap,

What are your sources? Rush Limbaugh and Michael Savage? You do know that these people not only do they lie, but that they are not even smart enough to lie for themselves: they get their opinions from the Republican Party as talking points.

Also, it seems you, and apparently millions of Americans, don't understand how our constitution works. Because of its strong cultural significance, there is no chance that the second amendment will ever be nullified.

No president can abolish the 2nd amendment. You need 2/3 in both the senate and the house and a majority of states. Numerically, there are more red states than blue states. Ergo, there is no chance that it would ever happen. Ever.

And considering the conservative block of Democrats, not even if you had a Democratic majority would you have the 2/3 needed in the Senate or in the House to keep the change alive.

In other words, Rush and Savage are lying to you to get you to vote for McCain, whom you obviously don't like.

But they are counting that you will believe them and that they can scare you into voting for someone that you don't even find conservative enough. What gall do these people have.

Again, nothing radical will happen if Obama gets elected. The congressional Republicans will make sure that that won't happen. The GOP knows this, but they still believe that they can play Americans for fools with their non stopping lies.

Why would anyone let people lie to their face like this? I find this kind of lying very insulting. Doesn't it anger you to be treated with such contempt by the GOP?

Actually, voting for Obama, or if you can't bring yourself to do that, not voting for McCain may help us from stop the free fall that we have been since Bush and his pseudo conservatives took power.

McCain winning can make things worse since he is promising to use Bush's policies. And we need to send a clear message of accountability to the GOP leadership.