Video of Palin getting stumped on Bush Doctrine; seems to contradict McCain on Pakistan

[TeamJordan23]

She sounds as dumb as Bush - maybe even more so.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/11/palins-abc-interview-stum_n_125818.html

[peacebird]

1. Tweety just wet himself talking about how she was less of a hawk than Shrub, and saying she

defined the approach we should have flawlessly. Said she was better than Bush....

[Shakespeare]

2. The transcript was bad, but SEEING it--wow. She has no CLUE.

And I'm laughing my ass off. :rofl:

[Graybeard]

3. Palin failed this first test.

Trying to hide that she didn't know what it is. "In what respect, Charlie?" ...tick....tick....tick...

[myrna minx]

4. That was cringe worthy. She doesn't know what the Bush doctrine is?

It appears that the new republican and media's messiah: Sar-ah Palin, Su-per-Star, isn't all things to all people after all. :eyes:

[Beaverhausen]

5. Wow- I almost feel sorry for her. Almost...

Why didn't anyone prepare her for that one?

[blogslut]

6. Oh my

That was bad. Telling. Miz Thang ain't as clever as she wishes she were.

[ContinentalOp]

7. The crazy thing is that it's called the BUSH doctrine! Of course she supports it.

She didn't even have to know what it was, all she had to do was say "Of course I support it Charlie" and she couldn't lose. :rofl:

[chitty]

8. WOW!

What the fuck was that?

Classic deer caught in the headlights.

3am fucking phone call huh?

This needs to be broadcast 24/7.

This person simply is NOT ready to lead this country.

[RagAss]

9. How far has this country fallen ???....Jeeeezus !!!!!!!

[Meshuga]

10. Thanks! It is painful to watch.

I felt sorry for her for a tenth of a second but that was about it. Imagine this woman being sworn in as president. That would be insane!!! How irresponsible it would be for the American people to elect her VP.

[chitty]

12. I don't feel sorry for her in the least.

She should not have accepted the fucking position.

A person knows when they're not qualified to do something.

[Guaranteed]

16. Yup. I definitely cringed. nt

[Fla Dem]

22. OMG, I was going to say the same thing, but figured I'd be flamed.

Definitely at the end there was utter terror in her eyes. When Gibson said he was confused by her blizzard of words, and then saw the look on her face....I too had a fleeting sense of empathy for her. She has bitten off more than she can chew, way out of her depth.

[chill_wind]

11. Discussion here too:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x7032992

[live love laugh]

13. In the You Tube video Gibson asks if she is ready to assume the post and shake his head for her

as if he is coaching her to answer "yes."

Disgusting.

[mcg]

14. Does she understand about term limits?

I kind of wonder, given her wording:

"... There have been mistakes made, and with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better."

We need a new KIND of leadership, not more of the same.
We will have a new kind of leadership by electing Obama as our next President!

[Sanity Claws]

15. DId you see how closely she watched Charlie when he said

what the Bush doctrine was?
She's spouting learned lines, not answering questions. Even Charlie Gibson noticed it; he said he got lost in a barrage of words and wanted to know whether the barrage meant yes or no to his question.
Did you notice her eyebrows? They look like drawn in eyebrows that women did in the 1950s. Weird.

[Straight Shooter]

17. OMFG, keep reading in the Huffington Post article, this excerpt:

PALIN: We have to keep our eyes on Russia. Under the leadership there.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.

:rofl:

[mcg]

18. "... you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

PALIN: We have to keep our eyes on Russia. Under the leadership there.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.

She thinks that makes all the Alaskans who have seen the Russian coastline experts on Russian foreign policy. Hey, we don't need no stinking spies or bugs or read Russian documents or talk to them, we can see their coastline! Yes, we can discern their intentions, their very thoughts, simply by looking at their coastline.

So does she take trips to the Alaskan coast so she can see Russia?

[knitter4democracy]

19. Worse, she got upset at the question.

The way she snapped at him "In what respect, Charlie?" was just low class. It's a decent question, and she should've known the answer without getting huffy about it. Wow. She's even dumber than I thought she was.

[anigbrowl]

20. Her entry on the fail blog awaits

Meanwhile... http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2008/09/10/cats-against-palin/

[Alhena]

21. Her delivery is awful- like a robot, pronouncing each syllable

[towhee]

23. CALL CALL CALL ABC

COMPLAIN ABOUT HOW EASY GIBSON WAS ON HER

WAY TOO EASY

BELIEVE ME, THE RETHUGS ARE CALLING COMPLAINING

MORE INTERVIEWS ARE COMING UP

CALL NOW

[mcg]

24. Palin didn't know about the debate re preemptive vs preventive war.

I think she still doesn't know about it, unless someone is teaching her about it.

From 'Palin And The Bush Doctrine' by Hilzoy
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/11/politics/animal/main4442963.shtml

... The good news, I guess, is that when she's forced to make up an answer out of whole cloth, she goes with preemption, not prevention. She doesn't deny that she accepts the Bush Doctrine; she just doesn't say one way or the other. The bad news is that this makes it pretty clear that the problem isn't just that she doesn't know what the name "Bush Doctrine" refers to. She doesn't seem to know that there was a debate about preventive vs. preemptive war, in which the Bush administration came down decisively on the side of prevention. And that's a pretty important thing to be unaware of.

From
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine

... The Bush Doctrine is a phrase used to describe various related foreign policy principles of United States president George W. Bush, created in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. The phrase initially described the policy that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor or give aid to terrorist groups as terrorists themselves, which was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan. Later it came to include additional elements, including the controversial policy of preventive war, which held that the United States should depose foreign regimes that represented a threat to the security of the United States, even if that threat was not immediate (used to justify the invasion of Iraq), a policy of supporting democracy around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the spread of terrorism, and a willingness to pursue U.S. military interests in a unilateral way. Some of these policies were codified in a National Security Council text entitled the National Security Strategy of the United States published on September 20, 2002.

[yellowcanine]

25. Stumbling around trying to "find" the Bush doctrine she also managed to diss Bush. Too funny.

I believe she actually said, "There have been blunders made" and went on to imply that it is a good thing we don't have to have Bush as president after January. The Bushbots should love that. But the BIG story of the night is going to be her cavalier acceptance of the notion of going to war with Russia. Even McCain will choke on that one.