Palin details her "specific skills"..."I am prepared. I have that confidence, that readiness"

[Amerigo Vespucci]

GRAND RAPIDS, Michigan (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took questions with her running mate Wednesday night, offering at one point to play "stump the candidate" with a mostly friendly Michigan crowd.

Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."

"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve."

GOP presidential nominee John McCain stepped in, pointing out that as governor of a state that is oil and gas plentiful, Palin was familiar with energy. She knows it to be "one of our great national security challenges," he said.

He also cited her nearly two years as commander of Alaska's National Guard. "I believe she is absolutely, totally qualified to address every challenge as the next vice president of the United States," McCain said.

The Alaska governor has largely avoided national news outlets since McCain named her his running mate August 29. Mostly unknown outside her home state, she has sat for interviews with ABC, People magazine and Fox News and had not taken questions at a campaign appearance before Wednesday.

"I think because I'm a Washington outsider, that opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize, and they can kind of beat the candidate here who chose me as his partner, to try to tear down the ticket," she said Wednesday night.

Palin also took questions about her family and women's rights during the hourlong forum. Asked at one point how she would respond to people who say she can't be both a mother of five and vice president, she said, "Well, let's prove them wrong."

http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/campaign.wrap/index.html

[Curtland1015]

1. Well, no sir, I've never performed brain surgery BEFORE, but I've got confidence!

:eyes:

[last1standing]

2. And gosh darn it! People like me!

Apologies to Stewart Smalley.

[seabeyond]

3. confidence, that readiness".... how about knowledge, ability?

[Left Is Write]

4. Does she need a refresher course on what "specific" means?

[Motown_Johnny]

5. Someone should ask her to spell potato

[complain jane]

6. Good Lord

"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve."

And they don't find this mortifying that she actually has to say this?

Could you imagine if Joe Biden said something so stupid?

[yellowcanine]

7. I'll have to try that next time I go on a job interview. No need to have actual skills, just

confidence.

[DarienComp]

8. McCain-Fraulein Maria '08!!!

I have confidence in sunshine
I have confidence in rain
I have confidence that spring will come again
Besides which you see I have confidence in me

[FrenchieCat]

9. And McCain knows how to do stuff.

He knows how to win wars, although that hasn't happened yet.

Such details coming from the Beevis and Butthead team is heartening to those stupid enough to vote for that ticket! Boy.....scary!

[faithfulcitizen]

10. "You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to." lol. Okay, let's play!

what is it exactly that the VP does?...

[Middle finga]

11. No I don't no anything about the economy or Foreign Policy....

But I did stay at a Holiday Inn.