I have no idea what she's said. She keeps talking in circles and then contradicts herself at least 4 times in this.
We've heard a lot of speculation over whether or not Sarah Palin will be the Republican nominee for president in 2012, as well as the head of the RNC.
I hope she does both. Yes! Please. I want to hear more from Gov. Palin. More like this, please:
BLITZER: I just want to sort of footnote, was that your idea or did somebody write those lines for you?
PALIN: It was a collaborative effort there in deciding how do we start bringing up some of the associations that perhaps would be impacting on an administration, on the future of America. But again, though, Wolf, knowing that it really -- at this point, I don't want to point fingers backwards and play the blame game, certainly, on anything that took place in terms of strategy or messaging in the campaign.
Now is the time to move forward together, start progressing America.
Oh yes, let's start progressing America! America needs you Gov. Palin.
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She was asked Wednesday about speculation that she is the party's future
"I don't think it's me personally, I think it's what I represent," Palin told reporters. "Everyday hardworking American families _ a woman on the ticket perhaps represents that. It would be good for the ticket. It would be good for the party. I would be happy to get to do whatever is asked of me to help progress this nation."
"Progressing America" or "progress this nation!" Sarah is a progressor! Or is it "progressive?"
You go Sarah.
On that pesky rumor about Africa: Country or Continent?
Palin: "So we discussed what was going on in Africa. And never, ever did I talk about, well, gee, is it a country or is it a continent. I just don't know about this issue. So I don't know how they took our one discussion on Africa and turned that into what they turned it into.
"I don't know, because I remember the discussion about Africa, my concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue, as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators and the corruption of some collapsed governments on the continent, the relevance was Alaska's investment in Darfur with some of our permanent fund dollars, I wanted to make sure that that didn't happen anymore."
Classic Sarah:
Q: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
A: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundary that we have with Canada. It's funny that a comment like that was kinda mocked, I guess that's the word. Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. We have trade missions back and forth, we do. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.
And on 2012: She'll be plowing through that crack in the door:
On 2012: "I can't predict what's going to happen. I can't predict what's going to happen a day from now, much less four years from now...
"You know, I have -- faith is a very big part of my life. And putting my life in my creator's hands -- this is what I always do. I'm like, OK, God, if there is an open door for me somewhere, this is what I always pray, I'm like, don't let me miss the open door. Show me where the open door is. Even if it's cracked up a little bit, maybe I'll plow right on through that and maybe prematurely plow through it, but don't let me miss an open door. And if there is an open door in '12 or four years later, and if it is something that is going to be good for my family, for my state, for my nation, an opportunity for me, then I'll plow through that door."
Yes. Please let this woman be the face of the Republican Party, and its nominee for president in 2012.
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Yeah I'm with you. Let her be the nominee in 2012. Obama will win by 400 electoral votes in that election.
Strangely, I agree with you that she should be running in 2012. Of course, it's for the exact opposite reason you have.
I will say she needs to get polished up and bring her A game in a few years. And unlike you, I know she's capable of it.
Palin is a best choice for representative of the dying right wing party. From Harold Myerson in the form of a letter to Faux news head:
"...your work remains dangerous and disintegrative to the nation. But it is also, tactically, for now, a great gift to liberals and Democrats. You ensure the ongoing Palinization and marginalization – electorally, the terms are synonymous – of the Republican Party.
Cheers from your new fan,
Harold "
http://www.dallasnews.com/sharedcontent/dws/dn/opinion/viewpoints/stories/DN-meyerson_13edi.State.Edition1.29d9e98.html
The more she speaks the smarter I feel. Unfortunately, her base feels the opposite.
Handsome,
She's the gift that keeps on giving.
Patrick,
She's 44 years old, and about to be a granny. Has she shown one shred of evidence that she understands complex issues? No.
Does she speak in syntactically twisted sentences that meander through a swampland of unintelligible sound-bites? Yes.
Keep fooling yourself on this one. You'll get your heart broken, eventually, when you stop being dishonest with yourself about her.
Hey ruth!
Great to see you here!
John,
The more she speaks, the smarter my pet rock feels.
Run, Sarah, Run.
Palin will be taught a lot of phrases/talking points in the next four years hoping to convince voters she's 'polished' and 'able to bring her A game'.
Nope.
She has lived a remarkably incurious life and it's a little late in the day for her to change now. Some might mistake speech for thought but a trained parrot is still a...parrot.
arthurstone,
Can you or anyone please explain to me why conservatives think Palin should be either a) the head of the RNC, or b) president of the US?
Why do we (liberals/Democrats) perceive her as a non-starter; why do conservatives/Republicans see her as positively ready to be president of the United States?
How can two groups of Americans look at Palin and see two completely opposite things?
Also, Patrick thinks that by polishing her up and bringing in her A game will help her.
Excuse me, but shouldn't she have been polished and already on her A game when she accepted the nomination for vice president of the US--as the running mate of the oldest candidate to ever run for the presidency?
What on earth are you talking about?
You imply that Palin accepted this serious nomination without having her A game?
Whoa!
For some reason which completely escapes me a significant segment of voting America seems to consider whether or not a candidate is companionable enough to sit down for an enjoyable cup of coffee or a beer with as qualification enough for leader of the free world. Go figure.
Palin for President and Joe the Plumber for Congress for c****t sake!
"Can you or anyone please explain to me why conservatives think Palin should be either a) the head of the RNC, or b) president of the US?" Susan Jacoby's book 'The Age of American Unreason' sums it up.
bb-idaho,
I can't remember how many times a conservative has said that Palin has more executive experience than does Obama, as though that proves that she has the intellect to be the leader of the free world.
Running a village the size of Wasilla and being the governor of a state with the lowest population in the US does not automatically confer brilliance on Palin.
Just listen to her speak in that video.
What about this inane answer during the vp debate by Ms. Palin:
IFILL: What has this administration done right or wrong -- this is the great, lingering, unresolved issue, the Israeli-Palestinian conflict -- what have they done? And is a two-state solution the solution?
PALIN: A two-state solution is the solution. And Secretary Rice, having recently met with leaders on one side or the other there, also, still in these waning days of the Bush administration, trying to forge that peace, and that needs to be done, and that will be top of an agenda item, also, under a McCain-Palin administration.
Israel is our strongest and best ally in the Middle East. We have got to assure them that we will never allow a second Holocaust, despite, again, warnings from Iran and any other country that would seek to destroy Israel, that that is what they would like to see.
We will support Israel. A two-state solution, building our embassy, also, in Jerusalem, those things that we look forward to being able to accomplish, with this peace-seeking nation, and they have a track record of being able to forge these peace agreements.
They succeeded with Jordan. They succeeded with Egypt. I'm sure that we're going to see more success there, also.
It's got to be a commitment of the United States of America, though. And I can promise you, in a McCain-Palin administration, that commitment is there to work with our friends in Israel.
Yeah. Right. Forge that peace, no second Holocaust, two-state solution, capital in Jerusalem. It's like she's just randomly spewing every talking point she's ever uploaded on Israel. (Which I'm guessing is what happened.)
She's rather plain-spoken and easy to understand.
"Has she shown one shred of evidence that she understands complex issues? No."
Yes. She generally supports better solutions to problems than Barack Obama does.
"Has she shown one shred of evidence that she understands complex issues? No."
Yes. She generally supports better solutions to problems than Barack Obama does.--dmarks
Here is Palin in her own convoluted, imprecise words:
"In a 40-minute session with Couric that aired Wednesday and Thursday nights, the Alaska governor defended her puzzling claim that geographic proximity makes her some sort of expert on Russia; went nearly blank when queried about McCain's achievements as a big-business regulator; agreed America "may find itself" on the road to another Great Depression; and, promoting a troop surge in Afghanistan, casually suggested that it "will lead us to victory there, as it has proven to have done in Iraq."
The last statement couldn't help but conjure an image from 2003 -- President Bush beaming in that green flight suit before the infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner.
Palin's unblinking certitude gave way at other times in the interview to a striking imprecision, as when she struggled to respond to Couric's suggestion that the $700-billion bailout might be better funneled through middle-class families instead of Wall Street firms.
"That's why I say I, like every American I'm speaking with, we're ill about this position that we have been put in . . ." Palin began, before meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence.
But I'll let the governor speak for herself:
" . . . where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Um, helping, oh -- it's got to be all about job creation too. Shoring up our economy, and putting it back on the right track. So healthcare reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions, and tax relief for Americans, and trade, we've got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, um, scary thing, but 1 in 5 jobs being created in the trade sector today. We've got to look at that as more opportunity. All of those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that."
That mind-bender prompted Couric to muse, almost charitably, on "The Early Show" that Palin is "not always responsive when asked questions, and sometimes does slip back to her talking points."
"Here is Palin in her own convoluted, imprecise words:.....puzzling claim .... unblinking certitude ....infamous "Mission Accomplished" banner......meandering off in fruitless pursuit of coherence"
For "her own words", it is full of smarmy anti-Palin editorializing comments, and is obviously edited without regard. Just a bunch of mindless, partisan Palin-bashing
dmarks,
Let's put aside the attacks and counter-attacks on Palin.
Please explain to me why you think she'd be a competent president.
Please give me evidence in anything she's done that points to her ability to understand complex problems and articulate her ideas to solve them.
I still don't understand why the right thinks she's a contender. She was a mayor of a village, and a governor (18 months) of a state with the smallest population, and her educational background is not impressive at all. She laughingly called herself a former journalist in one of her most recent interviews. She was a sports reporter for a local paper.
The population of Wasilla, Alaska is about 5470. That's about 5470 people more than anything Barack Obama has governed. The state of Alaska is much much bigger than anything Barack Obama has governed. So she has does have more experience.
Obama set the bar so ridiculously low for how much experience you need to have on your resume in order to win a Presidential election, didn't he?
"She laughingly called herself a former journalist in one of her most recent interviews. She was a sports reporter for a local paper."
Definition of journalist: "a writer for newspapers and magazines". I don't see how "laughingly" applies here, unless she was giggling while she said it.
dmarks,
If you really, really believe Sarah Palin is either smarter than Obama or that her experience as a village mayor and 18 months as the governor of the least populated state in the union makes her better qualified to be president than Obama, then may I suggest you read my newest post that highlights what The Economist has to say about people like Palin and the party that supports her.
The Economist is hardly liberal and is read worldwide by leaders of business and industry.
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