Sarah's ABC interview

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Because they're taking it easy on her. Would you prefer to compare her experience to Biden's? She's not even as experienced as Hillary who's experience I also question. Pallin is the most inexperienced VP choice in modern history and it showed tonight. About the only thing one can say for her us that she did a good job spouting the canned stuff and not making any blunders a 5th grader would pick up on.

Good point.

[Chief skin]

She is a hot looking woman, no where near ready to be VP

[Oldskool]

Because they're taking it easy on her.

I doubt Gibson had any incentive to take it easy on her. If anything they were hyping this too much to do so.

Pallin is the most inexperienced VP choice in modern history .

Compared to Obama being the most inexperienced Presidential nominee in the modern history of this country?

But let's stick to apples and apples people or this is going to turn into a runaway and idiotic Palin v Obama bashfest.

[chow184]

charlie gibson wasn't even really going after her and she seemed rather timid and unsure.

she was far from the fireball she was at the RNC, even if she was spewing lies from a teleprompter.


she's going to get eaten alive once the debates start

[Predicto]

TSF you are still comparing apples and oranges. Why are we comparing the abilities of someone who is ACTUALLY running for President versus someone who MAY have a need to be called upon to perform those duties? Or is this some kind of screen for you to asses that both tickets have inexperienced candidates?

How about we compare her to the 150 million other Republicans in this country he chould have chosen as VP? Right now, she doesn't look to be in the top 10 million or so, much less No. 1.

Tell me when the last time any of this mattered? Was this a factor with Cheney? Was this a factor with Gore (who never had any experience in policy outside of the Senate)? Was this even an issue with Quayle?

What? Of course it was a factor. Cheney is evil but he is brilliant and qualified. Gore too. Quayle - hell yes it was an issue with Quayle and it should have been. Quayle never should have been near the White House. He was so bad that he almost cost Bush I my vote in 1988 (I held my nose and voted for Bush...)

[HogNose]

Useless without pics, huh

Everytime I hear Palin's whiny "Minnesota Nice" accent I think of this Fargo pic:

[Oldskool]

Wait wait wait... MCCAIN spent the last 8-9 months arguing that experience was a necessary requirement of the POTUS. Obama didn't argue that. But when McCain picks a VP he picks someone with no experience.

My point is only that Obama has consistently demonstrated that he has a grasp of all the issues in foreign affairs. He may have differences of opinions, but he has never appeared lost like this. If Obama ever sounded like that, then you could go beyond the experience argument and argue that he doesn't have the knowledge necessary to be commander-in-chief. That's how Palin came off in this answer.

Again what does this have to do with anything. Until you can give me a succinct answer to this you are speaking in circles and are making no points at all.

A PotUS candidate is not the same as a VP candidate. They top of the ticket is usually senior for a reason. It usually is only the other way around when the VP is needed to carry a certain portion of the populace (Kennedy/Johnson) or to mask the inexperience at the top (Obama/Biden).

[Predicto]

ICompared to Obama being the most inexperienced Presidential nominee in the modern history of this country?

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Obama is not very experienced, but he knows what the damn Bush Doctrine is! Hell, he could probably write a 300 page book about it.

[Predicto]

Again what does this have to do with anything. Until you can give me a succinct answer to this you are speaking in circles and are making no points at all.

A PotUS candidate is not the same as a VP candidate. They top of the ticket is usually senior for a reason. It usually is only the other way around when the VP is needed to carry a certain portion of the populace (Kennedy/Johnson) or to mask the inexperience at the top (Obama/Biden).

Yes, but there are limits to that principle.

Are you really arguing that McCain would have been ok choosing Carrottop as his VP, because he is younger than McCain?

[Zuck]

The sound bites from the interview I saw were fine. Don't know where some get that Biden will dominate the debates. He might, he might not.

You must have missed the part where she talked about going to war with Russia.

she's got a lot to learn.

[Tulane Skins Fan]

Again what does this have to do with anything. Until you can give me a succinct answer to this you are speaking in circles and are making no points at all.

A PotUS candidate is not the same as a VP candidate. They top of the ticket is usually senior for a reason. It usually is only the other way around when the VP is needed to carry a certain portion of the populace (Kennedy/Johnson) or to mask the inexperience at the top (Obama/Biden).

Actually, its an indictment of McCain's credibility on his claim that experience is necessary to be commander in chief when he picks someone with no experience to be second in line for that job. That's a point.

That point has nothing to do with comparing the two.

[Oldskool]

How about we compare her to the 150 million other Republicans in this country he chould have chosen as VP? Right now, she doesn't look to be in the top 10 million or so, much less No. 1.

This is something that no one outside of the left bloggers and the ES community is even bringing up. I suppose it has some bearing but McCain's reasons are his own for this. To suggest she is incompetent is laughable though.

What? Of course it was a factor. Cheney is evil but he is brilliant and qualified. Gore too. Quayle - hell yes it was an issue with Quayle and it should have been. Quayle never should have been near the White House. He was so bad that he almost cost Bush I my vote in 1988 (I held my nose and voted for Bush...)

It's a non factor in almost any election and the only reason that it is here is because the left believes that she will at one time take the office due to health concerns.

There is nothing other than McCain's age that would even hint that he couldn't be in office for 4 years.

[Oldskool]

Actually, its an indictment of McCain's credibility on his claim that experience is necessary to be commander in chief when he picks someone with no experience to be second in line for that job. That's a point.

That point has nothing to do with comparing the two.

You must be joking now or are so politically myopic that you can't see straight.

The point is that comparing the top of a ticket to the bottom of a ticket is a logical fallacy.

[Smoot Point Really]

Jeez, she didn't even know what the Bush doctrine was? After all the talk about preemptory war in the last 5 years? Everyone on this MESSAGE BOARD knows what the Bush doctrine is.

That is truly sad.

You must understand that there is not one single interpretation of the phrase "Bush Doctrine". Charlie Gibson should've also understood this.

Her answer and request for clarification showed a lot of poise. This post of yours makes me wonder... It's not a very legally astute observation you are making, counselor.

[PeterMP]

You must understand that there is not one single interpretation of the phrase "Bush Doctrine". Charlie Gibson should've also understood this.

Her answer and request for clarification showed a lot of poise. This post of yours makes me wonder... It's not a very legally astute observation you are making, counselor.

Going back and looking he did turn the question around on her, and ask something like 'what's your interperation?' and her answer was 'his world view.', which is a totally inappropriate answer to the question.

Gibson and Palin may have different views of what the Bush Doctrine is, but she should have been able to articulate an answer on what HER view of it is.