Quote of the Day - 9.28.08
| Sun Sep. 28, 2008 11:24 AM PDT
QUOTE OF THE DAY....From John McCain, responding to the fact that Sarah Palin repudiated his Pakistan policy in a conversation at Tony Luke's cheesesteak shop in South Philly yesterday:
"In all due respect, people going around and... sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's — that's a person's position... This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."
Got that? It's unfair for someone to "stick a microphone" in the face of a vice presidential candidate during a campaign appearance and then take her words seriously. This is no longer even low farce. It's more like we're all in the middle of a bad vaudeville skit.
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"It's more like we're all in the middle of a bad vaudeville skit." wait till we have to watch the wedding of the century: Bristol Palin, 17, and Levi Johnston, 18. They're hiring the same folks that put on Dianna/Charles wedding. Top that Obama!
Well, at the very least this particular gaffe did reveal that Sarah Palin does have an inkling of practical judgment in her. If terrorists are threatening us and then hiding in Pakistan, we reserve the right to go after them there. It makes sense and it evidently did not occur to her that McCain's position is in fact the opposite. As far as I can tell, it's that we should go after radicals in Pakistan, but not tell anyone. Or is it that we can't do it and make sure everybody knows, so that Pakistan thinks that we think that they think that we think they don't know we're going after them.
Or something.
I can almost feel sorry for him. Imagine having an underling, who either doesn't take briefing (or perhaps isn't providing briefing?), who wings anything she doesn't know. Clearly it is unfair to take anything she says as indicative of the official position.
And, well even if she was well briefed, the official position keeps changing -so it would be all too easy to be out of date.
Submitted by Roxanne (not verified) on Sun Sep. 28, 2008 1:21 PM PDT.
Word on the street is "wit wiz."
Tourist.
On the original issue of Sarah Palin's response, it seems to me incredible that she did not know the "right" answer to this question. Putting aside whether or not it is a good idea to invade Pakistan, this has been one of the most widely publicized and discussed issues in the campaign (since early this Spring!). That she can't simply state the McCain position shows not only that she hasn't studied enough in the past few weeks, but that she hasn't paid any attention to the presidential race whatsoever.
You feel sorry for him... I feel sorry for her. It's obvious that she needs way more than a few talking points from her "handlers" to make her sound like she knows what she is talking about. Why isn't spending all day "in class" being updated on what she needs to know for these sorts of events? Not that I'm exactly unhappy, of course, being an Obama voter... but it's just so... uncomfortable, like seeing somebody making fun of the slow kid, even if he is an obnoxious jerk.
