Sarah Palin - A closer look

McBeck · 09-30-08, 12:08 PM

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Originally Posted by Tchocky

Good point, GlobEx.

Looking at Thursday's debate, I'm a little worried.

I consider Palin to be an almost total disaster area. Notice her answer to the question regarding Hamas.

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Couric asked, "What happens if the goal of democracy doesn't produce the desired outcome? In Gaza, the U.S. pushed hard for elections and Hamas won."

Palin's answer, in full, was this: "Yeah, well especially in that region, though, we have to protect those who do seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Israel ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will."

It's not that she doesn't know the answer. She flat out doesn't understand the question.

However, we've seen from trail reporting that she is rather skilled at bumper-sticker politics. As long as the sentences are short and snappy, she can pull it off. Putting her up against Joe Biden will be like night and day. He will try to keep the longwindedness to a minimum, she will desperately roll out punchline after punchline.
With debate coverage being what it is, I fear that the latter will carry the evening.

Sigh

Maybe im just not that bright but I had to read 3 times to get at least some kind of understanding of what she was saying...