Ooops, McCain's camp forgot to brief Palin on Iraq

[Emit]

Seems to me, in a meandering sort of way, Palin confirms that the GOP has no plan for the Iraq War.

As one reader's comment reads at the Iglesias link below, "I havent (sic) been this confused since Ms Teen South Carolina answered the question about Americans having problems with geography."

:rofl:

Also, where she seems to repeat Hannity's talking point on ANWR drilling, that the GOP Energy Plan is the only way towards energy independence...

The GOP agenda to ramp up domestic supplies of energy is the only way that we are going to become energy independent, the only way that we are going to become a more secure nation.

...In the very next breath, she states, as her crowning achievement in office so far:

We have protected our state sovereignty by taking on the big oil industry interests, making sure that there is not going to be any undue influence on the oil industry, that our state administration and our state lawmakers will be making the decisions we will be making... based on sound, solid, unbiased information, not being corrupted by, in the case that I'm speaking of now, oil service company's undue influence that has corrupted some lawmakers.

Audio here, at Matt Iglesias' site: http://yglesias.thinkprogress.org/archives/2008/08/palin_on_iraq.php

Palin on Iraq»

Make of this what you will:

I, frankly, have no idea what she’s trying to say here. Apparently the McCain campaign didn’t think it was important to brief her on their Iraq policy before she did an interview with Time

UPDATE: Apologies, I misunderstood what Time was doing here — this interview actually happened a couple of weeks ago. Still, strange for someone under consideration for the VP job not to have done any preparation.

Transcript here:
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1837536,00.html

[Raven]

1. She's gone in 2 weeks. Her mouth will kill her. n/t

[Emit]

4. She's probably in the interrogation room now

being briefed on what to say and what not to say

[eshfemme]

2. LOL, she actually mentioned Miss Teen SC!!!!!!!!

[Emit]

3. No, that was one of the comments from a reader at the link

after reading/listening to her try to articulate her response. Sorry I didn't make that clear.