Comments on: Palin-Gibson Interview: Four Screens of Ignorance

By: The Latest…

The Latest… — Tue, 23 Sep 2008 20:28:32 +0000

[...] Sarah Palin, the Young Earth Creationist herself… well, first check out comment #5 in this discussion. Arrrrgh! Don’t you just hate it when people contaminate their minds with knowledge? Gah! [...]

By: Rose

Rose — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:14:54 +0000

That is quite the list of comparison (by Dr. Deek)…well put!
A few things come to mind…we all need to make sure that EVERYONE WE KNOW that is eligable to vote is registered and knows where to go to vote in November.
Much of the verbal retoreck we are seeing out of Palin is that she is frantic…she doesn’t know enough to say about most of what is asked of her so she is easily given to the republican party line. All that wordy stuff she does when asked a question has nothing to do with confidence, it has to do with fear of not knowing what she is talking about. This woman is flying by the seat of her pants. She is not ready for this kind of race…perhaps some day she will be but today it is premature. Often I am reminded of Joan of Arc, and I hope that Sarah isn’t going to get completely roasted when it’s all said and done.
I am satisfied with the job she has done for us as governor for the last 18 months…We are actually ahead instead of in debt.
On the side, I wish I could be confident that that baby she recently had is bonding with her. People that fight ‘anti-abortion’ and then have very little to do with daily care of what they fight for are ‘blow hards’. In my humble opinion, she should be with her children doing what parents of young children are supposed to be doing…raising them up.
Come back home Sarah and finish what you started!

By: Dr Runne

Dr Runne — Sun, 14 Sep 2008 05:35:56 +0000

The last 7.7 years have seen this country go to the dogs in so many ways (don’t ask me to elucidate, the list is so long and if you have not noticed then you are clinically dead). For the first 6 of those years the republicans were in control of the house, senate and executive – the first time for many decades. Until recently I thought all the policies enacted were simply republican policies and that everything is on track with their plan – God’s divine plan I think they call it. Anyway, I just learned that this is not so at all. Apparently all these policies were the responsibility of a maverick president and vice president and the republicans didn’t want any of it. So what we need, apparently, is a complete change in Washington – push out the old and bring in the new. What we need is to elect a new maverick republican president and vice president. Give them absolute power and everything will all be just perfect. OK – I got it.
By the way – I am emigrating as soon as possible.

By: Seven7

Seven7 — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 12:35:51 +0000

How can anyone still be supporting this woman. I’m pretty sick of all this talk about her being like the “average american” after all there is a reason that the “average american” doesn’t run for president. She has no excuse not to know what the bush doctorine is because that’s her JOB. How would you feel if in the middle of your surgery, your surgeon realized he “didn’t know” how to put you back together? This woman is ignorant and anyone who is still supporting her is just a moron. She is hot headed and arrogant, the kind of person who wouldn’t think twice about sending citizens out to die. People who are preaching “sexism” should do some research. She doesn’t support women’s rights.

By: Sigh

Sigh — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 03:55:07 +0000

No matter how incompetent she is, Americans will support her. They want someone who can act confident and in charge, no matter how inexperienced or unqualified. They want a beauty queen, and that’s what McCain/Palin are giving them. McCain will win, and this once-proud nation will continue to collapse into the hands of the rich and manipulative.

By: Florida Voter

Florida Voter — Sat, 13 Sep 2008 00:55:50 +0000

This one sums it up…

http://mccainpalinworld.com/

By: Narratives | Comments from Left Field

Narratives | Comments from Left Field — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 21:48:47 +0000

[...] the fold is a comment from reader Dr. Deek, in its entirety. It was left to this post from Kathy earlier today, and, well, it pretty much speaks for itself. Does the McCain campaign really want to make this [...]

By: Dr.Deek

Dr.Deek — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 20:29:18 +0000

Now* I understand McCain and Palin

I’m a little confused. Let me see if I have this straight…..

* If you grow up in Hawaii, raised by your grandparents, you’re “exotic, different.”

* If you grow up in Alaska eating moose burgers, you’re a quintessential American story.

* If your name is Barack, you’re a radical, unpatriotic Muslim.

* If you name your kids Willow, Trig and Track, you’re a maverick.

* If you graduate from Harvard law School, you are unstable.

* If you attend 5 different small colleges before graduating, you’re well grounded.

* If you spend 3 years as a brilliant community organizer, become the first black President of the Harvard Law Review, create a voter registration drive that registers 150,000 new voters, spend 12 years as a Constitutional Law professor, spend 8 years as a State Senator representing a district with over 750,000 people, become chairman of the state Senate’s Health and Human Services committee, spend 4 years in the United States Senate representing a state of 13 million people while sponsoring 131 bills and serving on the Foreign Affairs, Environment and Public Works and Veteran’s Affairs committees, you don’t have any real leadership experience.

* If your total resume is: local weather girl, 4 years on the city council and 6 years as the mayor of a town with less than 7,000 people, 20 months as the governor of a state with only 650,000 people, then you’re qualified to become the country’s second highest ranking executive.

* If you have been married to the same woman for 19 years while raising 2 beautiful daughters, all within Protestant churches, you’re not a real Christian.

* If you cheated on your first wife with a rich heiress, and left your disfigured wife and married the heiress the next month, you’re a Christian.

* If you teach responsible, age appropriate sex education, including the proper use of birth control, you are eroding the fiber of society.

* If, while governor, you staunchly advocate abstinence only, with no other option in sex education in your state’s school system, while your unwed teen daughter ends up pregnant , you’re very responsible.

* If your wife is a Harvard graduate lawyer who gave up a position in a prestigious law firm to work for the betterment of her inner city community, then gave that up to raise a family, your family’s values don’t represent America’s.

* If you’re husband is nicknamed “First Dude”, with at least one DWI conviction and no college education, who didn’t register to vote until age 25 and once was a member of a group that advocated the secession of Alaska from the USA, your family is extremely admirable.

OK, *much* clearer now.

By: Cheri

Cheri — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 19:27:30 +0000

People, we don’t HAVE to know what the Bush Doctrine is, we aren’t running for the 2nd highest office in the United States! Good grief, she’s a lock-step Republican! If she doesn’t know, then she’s not much of a student of recent history, let alone her own party’s hardline policies. We should have EXTREMELY high expectations of our candidates for Vice President of the United States, who, by the way, for the last 30 years at least HAVE met heads of state prior to taking office. Her coaches obviously tried to sequester her for over a week to get her up to speed, without much success considering her overt generalizations and lame attempts to bluff. Her responses were no better than you’d get from an intelligent high school senior with a good grasp of political science and world affairs.

And Charlie Gibson isn’t exactly known in journalistic circles as a hard hitting interviewer. The governor got off easy compared to a journalist with a law degree (Tim we miss you), who would have challenged her way beyond her abilities and intellect.

I like her, and I don’t want her failures to reflect badly on women in general, but her weak resume and average IQ cannot be overcome by her pit-bull rhetoric and sparkling personality. Sen. Obama’s weak resume is at least buttressed by his superior intellect. Anyone hoping to feel more comfortable about Senator McCain’s judgement should be deeply disappointed today, and if not, they aren’t being honest with themselves.

By: your idiots

your idiots — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 18:02:49 +0000

Really Who the fuck knows what the Bush Doctrine is? I will bet over 90% of you people never knew what the Bush Doctrine was prior to this interview

By: Ingrid

Ingrid — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 16:38:05 +0000

Sara Palin did answer the questions, she just didn’t answer them the way you wanted them to.

No matter how she would have answered the questions, you and those who think like you, would try to rip her apart. Let’s face it, you just plain “hate her” and nothing she could ever say or do will make a difference. You are dishonest by making it seem you are objective in your observations. This whole election has been like a “high school” exercise, by both sides. I think our two party system has reached its usefulness as or Democracy has reached it’s 300 year limit. We as country can now be destroyed from the outside, because we have butchered it from within. We can thank you, as we can thank those on the extreme right for being blind and self centered and not giving a damn about this country.

By: alan

alan — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:35:44 +0000

I am glad i returned. mare comments “Sarah should be asked if she would work as VP for 70% of the salary.”
Mare believes the rhetoric but the 70% comment was off on several counts, to wit:
A watchdog group called LegiStorm posts online the salaries for Capitol Hill staffers. “We have no political affiliations and no political purpose except to make the workings of Congress as transparent as possible,” its website explains. Parsing LegiStorm’s official data, gleaned from the Secretary of the Senate, offers a fascinating glimpse at pay equity in the World’s Greatest Deliberative Body.
On average, Obama’s female staffers earn just 83 cents for every dollar his male staffers make. This figure certainly exceeds the 77-cent threshold that Obama’s campaign website condemns. However, 83 cents do not equal $1. In spite of this 17-cent gap between Obama’s rhetoric and reality, he chose to chide GOP presidential contender John McCain on this issue.
When Alaska governor Sarah Palin was named the Republican vice-presidential nominee, Obama told voters in Toledo, Ohio, on August 31 that “she’s opposed — like John McCain is — to equal pay for equal work. That doesn’t make much sense to me.”

Obama’s criticism notwithstanding, McCain’s payment patterns are the stuff of feminist dreams.

McCain’s 17 male staffers split $916,914, thus averaging $53,936. His 25 female employees divided $1,396,958 and averaged $55,878.
So we have what, another hero gaff, a mis-fact, a collision of perception with fact? Or a politician “doing what politicians do”.

By: Fred B

Fred B — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 15:00:58 +0000

Anybody defending Palin at this point has got to be considered a national security threat — our enemies couldn’t ask for more than this…Please, all you Palin apologists just get out of the effing way…”contaminated with all of the history”?…My god, I can actually visualize Vlad Putin sitting at a computer, typing this sort of stuff into a comment box, and hitting send……

By: Debora

Debora — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 14:50:45 +0000

Governor Palin can hold her own. She is clear headed. I am grateful, frankly, that she isn’t contaminated with all of the history and current stances past leaders have initiated. Times have changed; times are changing literally every hour in our nation’s politics at this time! We need someone fresh, someone young to lead. She will not be alone, for heaven’s sake, nor would any other VP or President, for that matter. Please don’t be fooled in believing Senator Obama and Senator Biden know all there is to know to lead this country, and, of course, neither does Senator McCain. Senator Obama talks very well about making change. Senator McCain has already made change. We need to support him and Governor Palin in the best ways we can. I’m amazed that any candidate can declare what changes they are going to implement if they are not in the midst of what needs to be changed. We all can make comments looking in, but being in looking out is how change is made. Again, Senator McCain has accomplished this with wise foresight. He listened, and continues to listen. He and Governor Palin are quite capable of making decisions that will positively affect us 100 years from now, not just ten years from now.

By: Marc D

Marc D — Fri, 12 Sep 2008 09:41:18 +0000

There is no substitute for knowledge of history and foriegn affairs. She is an accomplished women but her education and experience is lacking in world affairs. A degree in journalism is
not the preparation we need for a VP or president. It makes her good on cam and with a teleprompter but we need someone with a breath of knowledge of history and a broader view of history and the world.
As a father of two daughters I am very tired of the sexism defense for a simpleton. What is lost in any sexism discussion is the policy views of John McCain who has not supported equal pay for equal work. That is sexism not in words but in deeds.
Sarah should be asked if she would work as VP for 70% of the salary.