Charlie Gibson: Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?
Sarah Palin: In what respect, Charlie?
Charlie: What do you interpret it to be?
Palin: His worldview.
Charlie: No, No, the Bush Doctrine. He enunciated it in September 2002, before the Iraq War.
Palin: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is to rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hellbent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership--and that's the beauty of American elections and democracy--with new leadership comes the opportunity to do things better.
Charlie: The Bush Doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory defense. We have the right to preemptively strike any other country that we believe is going to attack us.
The "Bush Doctrine" is the basis for our invasion of Iraq. It's kind of a big deal. Now, maybe a McCain-Palin administration would instead have the "McCain Doctrine", which would essentially be the Bush Doctrine but with even more aggressive rhetoric, or the "Palin Doctrine", which would be that... um... spreading democracy via offshore oil drilling is good, and stuff. Or something -- it's not clear. But this "justification for war" stuff is, you know, the sort of thing that's just a wee bit important for our purported future leaders to pay a little attention to.
What's goofy is that Charlie Gibson tried so valiantly to assist, and she still faceplanted. This does not bode well for policy-based discourse on the campaign trail. After this, they're probably going to put her back in her no-press box for a while.
What's really scary is that Palin obviously did not even know what the Bush Doctrine is. Can you imagine this woman as President of our country? There is a one in six chance, you know, that McCain would die in office at his age.
Friday, September 12, 2008
The Transcript of Charlie's interview with Palin
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The first part of the interview exceeded my expectations. I expected Charlie Gibson to ask softball/non issue questions the way he did in the last Democratic Debate. But he hit pretty hard and she showed herself to be someone good at delivering talking points that she was obviously being trained to spout in her couple weeks refusing to talk to the media.
My jaw dropped quite a few times, particularly the claim that she had no doubts that she's qualified and that she had no moment of hesitation when McCain asked her to be his running mate. That told me all I needed to know about her: she's not humble.
Here's what I think about her. She knows damn well that she's not ready to be president. The reason why she didn't hestitate to accept McCain's offer is because she wants to secure her place in U.S. history as the first female Vice President and possibly first female President. And that's the reason why the rightwing has embraced her (part of it might have to do with their hatred of Hillary and not wanting her to become the first female president). If she was a man, she wouldn't have been selected. This is "affirmative action" at its worst.
"Country First" is the biggest lie of the campaign. McCain selecting her has nothing to do with putting the country first, because if he dies, he has just turned our country over to the least experienced Vice President in modern U.S. history. I'd rather have Dan Quayle again than Palin. And lest anyone accuse me of "sexism", I would not have had this reaction to Whitman or Hutchinson. Palin is Bush AND Cheney with lipstick. A scary combination for sure.
The weakesses are beginning to show. Bravado doesn't count. But are the voters beginning to see?
We have to remember that most young people (the newly registered) do not have land lines. So, they have not been polled. David and Mark on PBS both think Obama will win. The only thing that might defeat him is his race...especially in the south.
Every day the negatives seem to be building against Palin. I certainly hope so. Surely this has got to reach a breaking point soon. Humility is not one of her strengths. She reminds me of a Chihuahua trying to eat a Rottweiler.
I am disappointed in Charlie's interview as it was aired. Unless he gets to it on Nightline, he has edited out this embarrassing show of her ignorance. on the Bush Doctrine
Chihuahua with lipstick!
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