Posted on 09/11/2008 5:41:16 PM PDT by Dawnsblood
Tonight, Sarah Palin sat down with Charlie Gibson for an interview, and ABC showed us Charlie’s first two segments. The first portion dealt with her readiness for leadership, and the second dealt with foreign policy. I’ll let you watch and be the judge, but I think Sarah’s ready for her closeup. Others in the blogosphere thought she didn’t do well, but seeing as Charlie had his questions prepared, Sarah did not have her answers prepared, and the fact that I do not believe these questions have ever been asked of an other V.P. candidate, I’m still pleased with her performance. And in that vein, I agree with her; what other V.P., former-governor, candidates have extensive experience in foreign relations? She’s been running a state, for God’s sake!
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I agree, but have to wonder if the Right will, at some point, give FOX a chance to do the interview with her that we all want to hear. On another hand, the Left needs to give FOX a chance to interview Biden with the same tough questions.
Who you callin a puissant?
However, she has probably not been attacked by so ruthless, enormous, and well organized a cabal as the Democrat Party Machine, which includes the Corrupt Newsmedia, entrenched Washington, et al.--a Machine whose interests she has threatened--and convincingly!
It's hard for a decent citizen, no matter how smart, to imagine such a Machine or such people.
Now that she has had the opportunity to examine these people in all their ignominity, ruthlessness, and brutality, she will know how to deal with them.
She's a quick study. She's intelligent, puissant, and courageous. She will quickly figure out how to dispatch these brutes--and it will have been a good lesson when she must deal with similar brutes in the international arena.
Governor Palin understands very well the necessity of preparation and a careful study before confronting the wolves and the winter of Alaska--but that it can be done. She and her family have done it.
Now she is confronting creatures far more cunning and brutal than wolves and the atmosphere of Washington and its power structure, which is a far more threatening atmosphere than the Alaska winter.
She'll figure it out. And--like wolves who've never encountered human intelligence and survival skills--they won't know what hit them.
Ah. Thank you for the compliment. ~S
(That's what puissance means--the knowhow to flush the pissants into the septic tank where they belong.)
After watching this again, I love how she tries to straighten him out by saying, “that’s what I meant by that Charlie.” Every time she used his name, it reminded me of when Linus finished the nativity story and said, “that’s what Christmas is all about, Charlie Brown.” Like Charlie Brown, Charlie Gibson is miserable and needed someone to set him straight on an important message that he was missing.
I think she went into the interview with that ploy. I think calling him Charlie worked well.
Ping lol
What doubts did the interview raise with you?
When a candidate grants a network an interview, there's negotiations in advance between the campaign staff and the producers of the show. Demands are made by both sides....some are met, some are not. Compromises are made. But the campaign advisers fight to insure their candidate comes off at least looking well during the interview.
Unfortunately, in her interview Sarah came off sadly lacking in the staging department. She was not seated, lighted, etc. to her advantage. Thank goodness, the force of her personality and appealing facial expressions negated a lot of the poor pre-planning by her handlers.
I think it was Trump who said that his desk and chair are higher than any other furniture in his office as it commands a position of power right off the bat to all who enter his sanctorum. Charley completely commandeered the presence in last night's interview with his seating position and he used it to his advantage against Mrs. Palin.
One would think the experts on Sarah's staff would have learned lessons from the past such as the Nixon-Kennedy televised debate where adequate safeguards were not taken to put Nixon in the best light and it proved to be a turning point in JFK's campaign.
Leni
I hope his reply was in fun as he doesn’t make a very puissant argument.
WFB=William F. Buckley
I made the same joke a few years ago here on FR, when Margaret Thatcher referred to the American people as puissant. Some people thought I didn't know the difference between puissant and pissant. I didn't bother to straighten them out.
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