Posted on 09/13/2008 7:47:40 AM PDT by quesney
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Sarah Palin - Able to field questions Obama can’t/won’t.
This interview with Obama was after he clinched the nomination after a 12 month battle. That's not when you ask hard-hitting policy questions - Obama had his positions questioned and he explained them throughout the debates.
The Palin interview, on the other hand, was her first major interview. I don't expect "How does your mom feel about this?" type questions when she hasn't faced a single interview regarding policy.
Listen - Gibson was a d*ck and the editing was purposefully, but to compare these two interviews is a false exercise.
Questions to Palin on Experience and Foreign Policy: 37
Show me an interview of Obama by Gibson or anyone else (besides, perhaps, O’Reilly) that was anything like this.
Ping!
Spot on..!!
Great job, BTW. The only time Gibson even mentioned a foreign country to Obama was a simple question about plans to visit Iraq. But Gibson drilled Palin with questions about Russia, Georgia, Ukraine, Israel, Iran, and Pakistan.
Obama can not answer tough questions with authority or in a manner that will be accepted by the average American.
Palin on the other hand may not have exposure to international affairs as a Sen. or candidate would have, but she isn't afraid to answer or tackle tough issues this country faces.
In the attempt to marginalize Palin, they have in fact showed how intellectually weak Obama is.The fact that our media refuses to ask Obama any serious tough questions should be a wakeup call to the electorate.
Someone should go back and sum up the time Gibson was smiling or pleasant with Obama vs. Palin. That would also be telling.
Not so ironically , all Gibson’s questions to Obama seem to start from the premise that he is ALREADY President, and is for that reason, obviously a BUSY man, and that’s why Gibson starts so many questions with a clipped, “I’ll-get-out-of-your-way-in-a-second” overly-chummy “Gonna do this,gonna do that?” approach. And that is for the presumptive PRESIDENTIAL nominee. With Palin, the fact is that she had ALREADY been picked for VEEP by the REAL nominee of the Republican Party, McCain, the questions from Gibson are EXACTLY WHAT HE SHOULD HAVE ASKED OBAMA!
Yet there are more dimensions of irony to this:
It is clear now the appeal of an ObamabinBiden ticket is waning, and waning fast.
So in a sense it’s not illogical that Gibson grills her as if it’s SHE that is President or will be influential in the Administration of which she will be part. Yes, they still want to throw stones in her path, and McCain’s, and make it hard on them, and a big part of that is the resentment they feel privately that McCain/Palin will WIN!
It’s as though they’re getting in one last shot.
I am sure Gibson's intent was to jelp Obama and harm Pain. However, having practiced law for many years, I can tell you that the type of softball interview never helps sway a jury. The are great fodder to the people who are already fans of Obama, but fail to provide any opportunity for the candidate to distinguish himself or convince the most important jury of all - the undecided voter. They just go away thinking the whole event was unremarkable.
Dealing with tough questions, even imperfectly, distinguishes the candidate. Most people will not care that Palin was unfamiliar with the so-called "Bush Doctrine." What they care about is the poise exhibited while dealing with the tough question. On this count Palin passed the test and Obama was given a pass. The jury of undecideds can and will tell the difference.
The MSM is so thoroughly convinced of its own importance, it is blind to the fact that every time another hit piece is done, Palins public support increases. The leftist media has finally come full circle...damaging its own candidate by working so hard to help him. What fun to watch.
Look at the date on that Hitler speech -—almost
EXACTLY 70 years to the day.
The older you get the more amazing facts like this are;
I wasn’t even born until after WW2, but the perspective I have now makes it seem like yesterday. And “the practice of politics’ in most of the West continues rolling along on many of the same tracks.
Better yet, would be a splice of the actual interviews with just the question. First a video clip of a Gibson question to Obama followed by a clip of a question to Palin. If the actual questions are not instructive enough, the demeanor of Gibson will appear startling.
I sent to Rush, ping’d TGO and also sent to everyone on my mailing list. Let’s spread the word!
Thanks for posting this information
I think Sean Hannity got it right, 2008 is the death year of the MSM.
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