Palin is Her Own Parody

I must say, having also seen other parts of this video, I totally agree. I don't think I've seen anyone so incoherent since high school (well, W. is pretty up there, but I don't remember even him being this pathetic.). She's not even qualified to hold the government positions she's already held. I can now only simply observe that the comedy duo of Palin and McCain have successfully turned a national campaign into a national joke.

Somebody smart is behind these words:

I'm not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world. No, I've worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had kids. I was not a part of, I guess, that culture.

Americans like this sort of talk regardless of all of the ums.

Who is this woman and just why is she running for the VP position? Unbelievable!!!

Hey #2, I agree with your assessment. Someone smart did craft her answer about not having a passport until last year. That was definitely not an unexpected question.

Watching this was not a good way to start my day. My brain is reeling from slowing down in effort to understand the nonsense coming from this woman.

"There is NO WAY this moron is qualified to do anything at all."

Don't sugar coat it like that, GS! Tell us how you really feel!

That was classic! Thanks for perking up my day.

Clearly this is early dementia. Nobody is born that stupid.

Un.be.lievable.

But wait: I can see Alaska from my Kitchen!!!!!

I'm pretty sure Governors are not allowed to execute foreign policy at the level of national security with cold war enemies or even Canadians. And she has never, ever, been on a trade mission. The governor of Minnesota goes on a trade mission every year.

A moment of silence please while Palin supporters try to clean up the mess. They have a tough job ahead.

With any luck she'll keep this up and force a few more voters to wake up and realize the danger she (and McCain) pose.

Don't bother trying to couch her, just implant a microphone in her ear and tell her what to say.

As expected, she's stupid enough to believe in good guys, stupid enough to believe that every conflict has exactly two sides, and stupid enough to believe that in every conflict one side is composed of good guys.

Evidently, McShame doesn't care whether the women he's... interested in have a functioning brain.

sara: Somebody smart is behind these words:...

I though the next bit was even more interesting:

"The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums (sic) that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world..."

She reads books? C'mon. As mayor of Wasilla, Palin made repeated inquiries into the possibility of banning books from the local library. Does she want to deprive others of opportunities to learn about the wider world in the way she allegedly did? And I'd like to see a list of books she has read in the last year, or ten years. I suspect the list wouldn't be very long. If she has read books, she doesn't seem to have learned much from them.

BTW, I've read Doctor Zhivago, so I'm an expert on Russia.

"The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums (sic) that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world..."

She needs to learn the difference between fiction and non-fiction if she thinks she understands the world through the books she has read.

* Well, it certainly does [enhance my foreign policy credentials] because our .. our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. We have trade missions back and forth. We .. we do.

* It is .. from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on thisss .. very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. ... We have trade missions back and forth. We .. we do.

* The way that I have understood the world is through education; through books, through mediums that have provided me with a lot of perspective on the world. [I've read Doctor Zhivago, so I'm an expert on Russia.]

PRICELESS!

Yes, the crafting of her lines is a feature of her emerging national public persona, as a "populist." She is not speaking to the relatively few intelligent people in the country, whether they had a foreign jaunt or not, and whether daddy paid for it nor not. She is speaking to the many out there, who are not well educated and who've never left their state or even their county, and who might think that anyone who travels outside the United States, whether born here or not, whether well educated or not, whether wealthy or not, is a "foreigners," someone not "from around here," someone "not to be trusted."

Fear won't strike out as long as Sarah's around. She's "one of us."

Not nearly as slick or crafty as BHO, that's for sure, but she's still more qualified than BHO.

Eric, you sad sack of door knobs, come right out and say it... you mean she's white, don't you?

Palin is more qualified to lead tours at the creation museum because she knows exactly where they keep the dinosaur fossil with the footprint in it. Combine that with the anti-witchcraft spell she has, and you have yourself a nice pig with shiny new lipstick.

"The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums (sic) that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world..."

Maybe she meant spiritual mediums...

/honestly, would anybody here be surprised?

Oh, Christ. For eight years I haven't been able to listen to the president talk because it's so painful, worse than when my 8th grade teacher would make one of the slow kids read something out loud. are we going to have four more years of this with Palin? Because that's how I felt watching this video. I didn't even finish it. I couldn't sit through 7 1/2 minutes of her.

I'm tired of the old "elitism" saw. Shouldn't our president be elite? Smarter, more educated, more erudite than the rest of us? And how come this logic only applies to the presidential race? You don't hear anyone bitching about how "elitist" the MLB is (for example) and how A-Rod shouldn't get to start because most Americans wouldn't want to have a beer with him. We want to be astounded by our athletes, actors and musicians. Shouldn't we want to be astounded by our leaders too? Shouldn't we choose them because they'll take good care of us and have the patience and intellect to understand the nuances of the Israeli-Palestine conflict and the economy and the rest of the shit the majority of Americans scroll by on their way to read about Clay Aiken? I think so. We let an average Joe try it for eight years and look how that worked out. Let's let someone smart give it a shot.

Coturnix nearly killed me last night with this.

"I'm tired of the old 'elitism' saw. Shouldn't our president be elite? Smarter, more educated, more erudite than the rest of us?"

I don't pray, but have to say "A-goddamn-MEN" anyway. I've been howling about this for longer than eight years ...

Thanks for articulating it better than I can. I'm too angry.

So what's so "elite" about a kid from the wrong side of the tracks deciding he/she doesn't want to live on the wrong side of the tracks all his/her life, paying attention in school, getting into college on his/her own merits, taking advantage of all the financial aid available to students whose parents don't have bottomless pockets, and coming out with the education to realize his/her ambition? That's not elitism. It's a gin-you-wine All-Amurrikin success story.

The good ole Hew-Hess-of-Hay used to look up to self-made success. Wotthehell happened?

Bet you any money that when she started waving around big words like "mediums", she was really just panicking because she'd realised just in time she'd been about to say TV.

Palin gives McCain extra boost in Kansas
I feel sad for the people of Kansas.

"I feel sad for the people of Kansas."

Don't. They get what they want and deserve.
I do feel sorry for the ones who are smart enough to know they are being led by stupid people and who cannot leave.
The rest of them? Forget 'em.
Same with any group of people who votes against their economic and social well being based on personality and talking points.
Bag of hammers stupid is what I call them.

I give you credit for taking a strong stance on a political opinion.-I notice that lot of bloggers are wary of discussing politics unless they have a political blog.
I found Palin's speech at the convention to be interesting.-Her humorous sarcasm and perky self-confidence was fun to watch.-Since then, the novelty has worn off. It is apparent that she is in over head.-There are things that I like and dislike about both political parties and the same holds true about the presidential candidates. I'm not overly impressed with Obama but I am going to vote for him because of certain issues that are important to me personally and the country as well.

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Chuck Palins says

Hard-working, perseverance, honesty. Yeah, honesty. She won't fabricate things or exaggerate things. She'll tell it the way it is.

That Chuck, what a sense of humour.

I think Gov. Palin did exceptionally well for being in a very hostile environment. The double interview with Senator McCain later helped show that difference when they corrected Ms. Couric on several misconceptions.

She's also far more articulate than Senator Obama. And I have yet to hear a reasonable explination of certain policies of his such as the 'Civilian Defense Force' that he says he wants to create that is as "powerful" and expensive as the US military. The Defense Department budget alone is 4% of our GDP, so there's a huge new tax Barry is wanting to stab us poor middle class working families with right there. I've not seen any harsh interviews with him to explain that nor several other 'misconceptions' and giant gaffees he and his running mate seem to constantly have.

If it's the McCain/Palin campaign's strategy to put Gov. Palin in front of her most hostile detractors first, ABC and then CBS being the obvious; it may prove well to make her look better the later we go together towards election day. Because as the Democratic party side of these issues have proven, particularly with this economic "crisis mode" making the headlines today; the less astute who watch such non-sensical shows such as Katie Couric's tend to forget things very quickly and often.