Palin's CBS Interview Part 2

I don't know what else to say. This has got to be the reason McCain is politicking the debates -- to get Palin's postponed. This is getting sad for her. She's being made a fool.

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Is she talking? New stuff at the end. Astonishing.

Palin Says War With Russia May Be Necessary

Excerpts from Charlie Gibson's interview are here. What a nightmare. She believes Russia was unprovoked. She stumbles on the Bush doctrine. Scary! I see why she was kept under wraps.
Wake up America! Don't elect someone like you. Elect brilliance and leadership. Obama demonstrated that he can work with the world. He knows world leaders. He's up on foreign policy and diplomacy. These things matter. We can't have Bobbsey twins rushing us off to another war. Obama can do better. 
What's interesting is reading the comments at ABC. People who like Ms. Mooseburger didn't care what she said. So what's the point of all of this? Is there anyone who really hasn't made up their mind? My unbiased conclusion is she clearly seemed naive and she said "Charlie" a lot.
Watch her remarks about God's war.
Video on the Bush doctrine. Ouch. I kind of feel bad for her. On second thought. Nah. I just think back to the convention.
Oh my. McCain covers for Palin, takes up vice presidential role, compares her to Obama. Hello McCain, Obama is running against you. (video)
Somewhere, Joe Biden is giggling.

The Bush doctrine

Cindy McCain is Reassured: Palin is a Mother

Update: Here's a transcript of Cindy McCain talking up Palin's foreign policy experience. It's precious. (Palin got her passport in 2007).

Cindy McCain is reassured by Palin's mother-ness. She also throws in Sarah Palin's foreign policy experience. Who are these people trying to kid?

Cindy McCain: "You know, she -- the experience that she comes from is with what she's done in the government,'' McCain added, with a certain geography lesson meant to underscore Palin's national security bearings: "Also, remember, Alaska is the closest part of our continent to Russia. So it's not as if she doesn't understand what's at stake here.

'She started out like everybody else -- a member of the PTA, small government at home, then a mayor, now the governor,'' she said. "She comes with the kind of experience behind her. And also, I might add,'' said this mother whose own son has served in Iraq: "a son who is about to deploy to Iraq.''

Cindy McCain needs to be called out for being a nitwit. This is just out of hand.

Palin Foreign Policy Experience

Alaska is next to Russia.


McCain's arrogant choice:

TNR: It may be John McCain's birthday, but it seems like he's the one giving out gifts today. The selection of Palin doesn't simply, as others have pointed out, undermine the notion that Obama is too inexperienced to be president; it gives Obama the chance to actually take the edge on national security while making John McCain's age a central issue of the campaign.

Whatever the political calculations involved in picking a veep, the most important qualification for the vice presidency is the ability to assume the presidency in a crisis. Given that of the last 12 presidents, three have either died or resigned, this is hardly a hypothetical consideration--in fact, given that McCain is 72, it is a very real consideration. Harry Truman, Lyndon Johnson, and Gerald Ford all faced multiple foreign policy crises immediately upon assuming office, whether it was the onset of the Cold War, the North's invasion of South Korea, the Vietnam War, or the withering of détente and the resulting increase in nuclear tension with the Soviet Union. The next president will have to finish the denuclearization of North Korea; prevent the nuclearization of Iran; organize a departure from Iraq that maintains some level of stability; defeat a resurgent Taliban in Afghanistan; establish, nurture, and make the most of a relationship with Pakistan's new leaders; and confront a revanchist Russia while preserving and enhancing its cooperation on nonproliferation and climate change--to say nothing of working with India, China, or our allies.

Could Sarah Palin conceivably manage this task?