Posted on 09/12/2008 12:46:34 AM PDT by Schnucki
he US Republican vice-presidential candidate, Sarah Palin, has rejected criticism that she is not experienced enough, in her first US TV interview.
Speaking to ABC News, Mrs Palin said she was "ready" to serve the US as deputy to John McCain.
On foreign affairs, the 44-year-old Alaska governor said she backed Nato membership for Ukraine and Georgia.
Mrs Palin was also quizzed on previous comments she made describing the war in Iraq as being a "task from God".
She said she was quoting the words of Abraham Lincoln: "I would never presume to know God's will or to speak God's words.
"But what Abraham Lincoln had said... was let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side."
'Lack of experience'
Observers were surprised when Republican presidential candidate John McCain picked Mrs Palin to be his running mate.
Mrs Palin has been governor of Alaska for less than two years, and many commentators said she lacked the necessary experience to be vice-president, especially in the foreign policy arena.
Nevertheless, the BBC's Kevin Connolly in Washington, says most American voters are likely to take away from the interview the same impressions they took into it.
Mrs Palin was strong and confident enough to please her Republican supporters, our correspondent says, but her sketchiness on some details will have given her Democratic opponents plenty of ammunition as well.
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Just more BBC doodoo...
Clean up on aisle seven!
"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
Mrs Palin said... whoops. V.P. nominee Palin or Sarah Palin, thank you very much.
when a reporter ask you a hypothetical a season politican would dance around it and not answer and yes or a no, because you can never know what happens in the future and answering it now will only hurt your options when it does happen. She basically answered it the same way anyone would’ve answered it. Ask Obama would he send troops into Pakistan without their permission.
Hey BBC.
Two choices.
Enter the Twit Olympics, or...
Get your facts straight. Palin didn't claim that the war in Iraq was a task from God.
Don't believe the Obamedia
I know what you mean...
I thought "Charlie's" voice was weak and condescending. And I could see Sarah's wheels turning as she listened to his questions, especially on the Bush Doctrine. She didn't have to utter an uhhhh, and an uhhhhhh to answer...she looked him in the eyes and made her comments.
This was her first so-called big interview, and her eloquence and her clear diction and her forthrightness came across like gangbusters. She was very impressive.
I think we have a winner on our hands, GO, SARAH, GO.
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