Parochial fools.
Posted on 09/12/2008 10:29:24 PM PDT by charles m
As we watched Sarah Palin on TV the last couple of days, we kept wondering what on earth John McCain was thinking.
If he seriously thought this first-term governor — with less than two years in office — was qualified to be president, if necessary, at such a dangerous time, it raises profound questions about his judgment. If the choice was, as we suspect, a tactical move, then it was shockingly irresponsible.
It was bad enough that Ms. Palin’s performance in the first televised interviews she has done since she joined the Republican ticket was so visibly scripted and lacking in awareness.
What made it so much worse is the strategy for which the Republicans have made Ms. Palin the frontwoman: win the White House not on ideas, but by denigrating experience, judgment and qualifications.
The idea that Americans want leaders who have none of those things — who are so blindly certain of what Ms. Palin calls “the mission” that they won’t even pause for reflection — shows a contempt for voters and raises frightening questions about how Mr. McCain and Ms. Palin plan to run this country.
One of the many bizarre moments in the questioning by ABC News’s Charles Gibson was when Ms. Palin, the governor of Alaska, excused her lack of international experience by sneering that Americans don’t want “somebody’s big fat résumé maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment where, yes, they’ve had opportunities to meet heads of state.”
The interviews made clear why Americans should worry about Ms. Palin’s thin résumé and lack of experience. Consider her befuddlement when Mr. Gibson referred to President Bush’s “doctrine” and her remark about having insight into Russia because she can see it from her state.
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I have never been so disgusted with media as right now. Never so much. I want to break something.
“I’m Keith Olbermann and I paid for this editorial.”
these disgusting media dopes are unreal
Maybe this guy needs to read about the “BUSH DOCTRINE” because even the Washington Post said it was a confusing question.
Meanwhile that big phony Obama passes the NYT smell test??? Get real, just because he’s been posing for so long doesn’t make him any more qualified.
The TONE of this is hilarious. The NYT-wits really do think they are the landed gentry, above us all, holding standards The Little People just can't comprehend.
I await their similar bashing of Obama for his total lack of experience.
didnt you love it when obwana said “running his campaign for president” gives him “executive experience” ? geesh
From the pole smokers at the New York Times.
Anyone on FR could have written an editorial more insightful.
But what to expect from an editorial board who are "NOW" hags.
And a “newsroom” full of bathhouse boys.
Befuddlement my arse! It was an obvious restraint not to kick out arrogant Gibson’s teeth!
Since Carlos Slim bought 7% in this rag, will it be printed in a Spanish only edition?
Maybe they oughta be bitch slapping Charlie Gibson instead. The editing was an abomination.
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“One of the many bizarre moments”
The only bizarre moment, EVER, comes from any moment when I catch myself reading anything that the “Editorial Board” of the NYSlimes has to say!!!
NY Times editors are puerile leftists kissing Obama’s butt without even mentioning his name. No way that any honest person could dump on Governor Palin like this without instantly rejecting Obambi as a potential PRESIDENT of the USA. Obambi has less of a resume, far less judgment and no integrity. One of the many pluses to the nomination of Governor Palin to be the VP candidate is that every honest, objective comparison makes Obambi more vulnerable to the criticisms that leftists want to throw at Palin.
It’s fun to see MSM hacks doing cartwheels to present their biased partisanship as objective thinking.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
These people are so self-absorbed that they can’t see when they are being played. Why do you think Mrs Palin, sporting a sweet and innocent-looking smile, would bring up the idea that you can see Russia from Alaska. Do these boobs really think that she considers that a credential for foreign policy experience? She was tweaking Charlie’s nose for his oh-so-stern and Princeton-esque visage.
What was McCain thinking by picking Palin? News Flash: It's called getting your liberal America hating butts kicked and keeping you snots out of the White House.
And it's working.
Next stupid question?!
It was reported that the “Bush Doctrine” was the concept that we had the right to engage in preemptive war, as we did in 2003, although Saddam Hussein had not attacked us or anyone else as he had in 1990 when he entered Kuwaite. This unfortunately pulled us away from finishing the job in Afghanistan. [And means my son will be sent back there for a second tour next year.]
It that is correct, then it is clear from her answer that she had no idea what it was.
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