Palin interview with Katie Couric

[DaBudhaStank]

I'll be the first to admit that I know little of Katie Couric or her journalistic skills. However, interviews are not hard. You answer questions honestly and with information.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z6c1oL5V_4U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQRGsZ0SN7E

She....didn't do anything. Well, except sit there and do her damnedest to not answer questions. One more reason I have no desire to vote for her team.

[Chong Version 2.0]

Caribou Barbie is an idiot. McCain is trying his damndest to keep her away from the press. You can see why.

[DaBudhaStank]

Caribou Barbie is an idiot. McCain is trying his damndest to keep her away from the press. You can see why.

Yeah dude. It was actually embarassing, and even slightly painful to watch.

[dragonrider]

It wasn't as bad as I thought it might be.

The outright evasions were about the Freddie Mac lobbyist working for McCain that she could not explain and the specific regulatory reforms by McCain that she was not able to state even one example.

The straight up BS lie was about the idea that the whole country was looking to McCain for leadership on the financial crisis and no one cares what Obama thinks. What a ding dong. I think Couric set her straight on that one.

The rest was not too bad, definitely not VP caliber, but not as bad as you might fear.

[The Figment]

I'm Sorry but this 50 Year old Ex-Streetfreak can come up with better answers than Falin....And Katy Couric Absolutely Beat the Crap outta Falin with Questions that the average 10th Grader would have answers to..........Katy Couric....The "Perkey" Fluffy Morning Person that is the First Thing you see on the Today Show after hittin the bathroom in the mornin........Could one imagine if Falin had to do an interview with a REAL Journalist like Larry King or Lou Dobbs??????

[DaBudhaStank]

I'm Sorry but this 50 Year old Ex-Streetfreak can come up with better answers than Falin....And Katy Couric Absolutely Beat the Crap outta Falin with Questions that the average 10th Grader would have answers to..........Katy Couric....The "Perkey" Fluffy Morning Person that is the First Thing you see on the Today Show after hittin the bathroom in the mornin........Could one imagine if Falin had to do an interview with a REAL Journalist like Larry King or Lou Dobbs??????

I share your sentiments, I'm just curious as to why you capitalize so many letters? Sorry, I'm a stickler for a grammar :stoned:

[The Figment]

I share your sentiments, I'm just curious as to why you capitalize so many letters? Sorry, I'm a stickler for a grammar :stoned:

My typing skills are horribly poor, If it was not for Spellcheck I would really look like an idiot,Lol....my mind moves way faster than my fingers,I'm a wonderful speaker....but my writing skills leave something to be desired!

[dragonrider]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gk8moOxzlGQ

Here is another clip with commentary from NBC. I thought the other clips were not TOO bad (bad, but not disasters), but this one seems idiotic. Putin rears his ugly head and flies into our airspace? Yikes!

[dragonrider]

I can't stop chuckling about, "Putin rears his ugly head and flies into our airspace!"

Putin is defintiely a ruthless thug with way too much power, but this quote makes it seem like he is a fire-breathing dragon who rears his ugly head and flies over Alaska scorching villages! I can see Palin standing there with a Bible in one hand and the Magical Sword of Freedom in the other, fending off the evil Putin-dragon! "Begone foul beast who rears his ugly head! I am on a mission from God to send you back to your reeking lair!"

But all joking aside, does Palin actually have any responsibility for defending Alaskan airspace from Russia? I'm not sure even what the real point is that she is trying to make here. It's some colorful imagery, but what does it even mean?

I know I don't want her as VP, but now I'm not sure I even want her as governor of Alaska! What the hell is she doing up there? "Hello, Mister President? Sorry to bother you, but I thought you should know that I scrambled some Alaska Air National Guard fighters today and had 'em shoot down a Russian spy. Yeah. I think it was Putin rearing his ugly head and coming into our airspace again! Okey-dokey, have a nice day!"

[texas grass]

its completly idiotic the way she talks, its even worse than my ass. lmao, lol

and shes a good candidate to help run the country

[The Colonel]

I think Chris Rock said it best durring his interview with Larry King...

"And every time they let her talk for more than four minutes, you actually start feeling sorry for her. It's kind of like Kim Kardashian on 'Dancing With the Stars.' All that ass and can't shake it. ... So sad."

[maladroit]

i think it would be a nice change to have a vice-president that knows absolutely nothing about foreign policy



"I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security for our nation. We can never again let them onto our soil."
- Sarah Palin

[dragonrider]

I think something is going wrong for her. I watched a bit more of these interview clips on various news channels, and it seems like she has lost her confidence. She gets kind of stammery and flumoxed. My very first impression of her was that she could speak well, even if I didn't agree with anything she said and I thought her beliefs were wacko. She still seemed to be able to deliver her remarks.

I think after the Gibson interview and the "Bush Doctrine" flub, the campaign pulled her out of the game too long, and she lost her nerve.

[maladroit]

i thought she performed well at the repub convention...i heard that her teleprompter malfunctioned temporarily and she didn't lose her composure...
we've already seen her A game

giving a prepared speech full of empty rhetoric to a friendly audience is a lot easier than an unscripted televised interview, and the tv interview is a lot easier than a confrontational debate in front of a live audience

i wonder how her debate training is going...

[dragonrider]

The debate is probably going to be embarrassing...

But maybe this is just an elaborate way of setting low expectations, and she is going to eat Biden alive.

[Psycho4Bud]

i think it would be a nice change to have a vice-president that knows absolutely nothing about foreign policy



"I think our presence in Iraq and Afghanistan will lead to further security for our nation. We can never again let them onto our soil."
- Sarah Palin

A V.P. with limited foreign affairs experience is one thing but on the other side of the aisle we're talking about the Presidential candidate have equal to less experience. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Have a good one!:s4:

[bobthenuker]

She really speaks like she's actually drunk...when I first saw her I thought boy does this lady looks smart and she's got some stuff to say, Ron Paul where are you??:rasta:

[maladroit]

i bet obama knows that iraq and afghanistan never invaded the united states!

did george bush, bill clinton, ronald reagan, jimmy carter have foreign policy experience? i remember criticism of bill clinton in his run for the presidency that being governor of arkansas was about the same as managing a convenience store...

all the experience in the world is useless if you don't have good judgement

[JakeMartinez]

I agree with you, maladroit. Hell, Saddam Hussein had 30 years experience as a leader, but he was still a corrupt and evil son of a bitch.

Right now, I think McCain is starting to look a bit childish, especially with his impulsive "campaign suspension" (he still performed campaign functions while it was supposedly suspended) and trying to postpone the debate. I think Obama's a really smart guy and will learn quickly if he gets in office.

There's another one. McCain has literally 0 executive experience, and we're hoping for him to take the most demanding executive job at the ripe old age of 72. How long is it going to take him to learn the basics?

[dragonrider]

She really speaks like she's actually drunk...

Maybe she sucked down some Mooseheads?

[Garrett]

I can't wait for VP debate, Biden will eat her alive.

[DaBudhaStank]

i bet obama knows that iraq and afghanistan never invaded the united states!

did george bush, bill clinton, ronald reagan, jimmy carter have foreign policy experience? i remember criticism of bill clinton in his run for the presidency that being governor of arkansas was about the same as managing a convenience store...

all the experience in the world is useless if you don't have good judgement


I agree with you, maladroit. Hell, Saddam Hussein had 30 years experience as a leader, but he was still a corrupt and evil son of a bitch.

Right now, I think McCain is starting to look a bit childish, especially with his impulsive "campaign suspension" (he still performed campaign functions while it was supposedly suspended) and trying to postpone the debate. I think Obama's a really smart guy and will learn quickly if he gets in office.

There's another one. McCain has literally 0 executive experience, and we're hoping for him to take the most demanding executive job at the ripe old age of 72. How long is it going to take him to learn the basics?

Both of these are win. George W. Bush was governor of Texas for years and his whole family has had political ties for decades. Looks how that turned out. Experience my ass, experience is such a moot point its laughable. Shit, I'm taking a risk with Obama. I'd rather do that than literally guarantee 4-8 more years of absolute shit. I think Palin just doesn't really care about interviews. She probably thinks she'll skate the to the whitehouse on looks alone without having to tell the American people, ya know, like.....what the HELL she's even talking about.

[DaBudhaStank]

A V.P. with limited foreign affairs experience is one thing but on the other side of the aisle we're talking about the Presidential candidate have equal to less experience. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Have a good one!:s4:

If a person's foreign policy is to bomb first, talk later, I think I'll take LESS experience.

[flyingimam]

I am going to make sure i won't miss a moment of politics history, when the time comes for VP debates:D:D gotta watch that one live

I mean, it probably won't even be near fair game... but I'm really wondering how is she gonna be able to hold up.

does any1 get a feeling if things go like the way they are going right now right now, we might actually have a landslide?? or better say with at least double digits difference in results? just an idea, I dont even think things will stay this way for too long nor i strongly think we'll have a landslide, but if mccain camp doesnt do something... it may well go bad for them


If a person's foreign policy is to bomb first, talk later, I think I'll take LESS experience.

u sir, took the words outta my mouth!:thumbsup:

[dragonrider]

Maybe she sucked down some Mooseheads?
And by "Mooseheads," I mean actual moose heads.

[khronik]

Exclusive: Sarah Palin Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4476649n)

Exclusive: Sarah Palin Part II Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4476721n)

Sarah Palin Speaks Out Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4479049n)

Palin On Foreign Policy Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4478156n)

The youtube links are down, so here is the video directly from CBS's site. Wow, Sarah Palin is painful to watch. Most of the questions she doesn't even answer, she just responds with some only marginally-related talking points. She kind of reminds me of myself, when I was interviewing for a job a while ago that I was underqualified for. "Israel is the good guys and Iran is the bad guys. If Iran was the good guys would they be saying that? No, because they're the bad guys." :wtf:


A V.P. with limited foreign affairs experience is one thing but on the other side of the aisle we're talking about the Presidential candidate have equal to less experience. Just doesn't make sense to me.
Obama at least HAS foreign policy and national experience, even if he doesn't have a lot of it. Compare Palin in these clips to Obama when he was being interviewed by O'Reilly (who was much less friendly). The difference? Obama clearly knows what he's talking about.

[The Figment]

A V.P. with limited foreign affairs experience is one thing but on the other side of the aisle we're talking about the Presidential candidate have equal to less experience. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Have a good one!:s4:
At least Obama has a Brain that functions....Unlike the mush in Falin's head.......Geez I know 6th Graders that have a better grasp of Domestic and World Affairs!!!

P4B....Remember this Thread??
http://boards.cannabis.com/politics/110643-who-can-lead-our-country.html

That Franklin is still tacked on the wall above my "puter!!!!

[khronik]

This looks way too much like the real thing:

Saturday Night Live - Couric / Palin Open - Video - NBC.com (http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/)

[BeefsMyFav]

Guess yall havent seen biden say that roosevelt got on television after the stock market crashed , which was in 1929 and hoover was pres. they both say equally dumb things and i find it ironic that a board such as this would support biden...obviously yall havent taken a look at his drug policies.... Im not saying palin is smart, obviously she dumb as a brick. But her "lack of experience" compares to obamas lack of experience so im not seeing the logic behind the argument

[flyingimam]

i find it ironic that a board such as this would support biden...obviously yall havent taken a look at his drug policies....

dude, this is a politics section and there are far more serious issues than weed to discuss around here, the rest of sections have enough room for talk about weed. btw for the record NONE of these people have any good record on marijuana or they have no record at all. even if u were to talk about mj record of these people, still obama/biden stands some chance for something to be done while mccain/palin stands 100% chance of nothing being done for it...

just do some research on candidates stances. on democratic side, just "maybe" maybe the party and obama along with some influential people can overpower biden's opinion. but on republican there is only 1 single hope thats ron paul who im going to not count as a republican cuz none of the major republicans respect him or accept him as a true republican and had he not served so long as a republican they would have probably expelled him or somethin.

Remember the house bills on mj currently in committees are gonna have more backers from democratic side than from republican side, thats at least what my exp tells me.

[happiestmferoutthere]

Guess yall havent seen biden say that roosevelt got on television after the stock market crashed , which was in 1929 and hoover was pres.
This misquote won't affect my life one way or another. Misquotes about 21st century foreign policy.... Now that makes me nervous. That can directly affect my life.
Apples and Oranges.:buzz_saw:

[dragonrider]

This looks way too much like the real thing:

Saturday Night Live - Couric / Palin Open - Video - NBC.com (http://www.nbc.com/Saturday_Night_Live/video/clips/couric-palin-open/704042/)

The reason it looks way too much like the real thing is that there is a section in the middle which is a direct transcript of the actual interview, word for word.

It's bad when they can make an SNL skit using the candidates actual words! This stuff really does write itself!

[dragonrider]

Ok, I think this is the WORST one I have seen so far!

McCain, Palin On Flak Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4487886n)

What the hell is McCain doing there?!? Oh, my God! Can this woman not speak for herself at all? This is fucking ridiculous! It looks like a girl whose Dad went down to talk to the principal about the trouble she has been getting into! Hahahahahahahaha!

I don't like Sarah Palin even one tiny fraction of a bit, but I'm feeling sorry for her --- and NOT because the press is being unfair, because her own CAMPAIGN makes her look like a simpleminded child! Whose idea was it to send in McCain for this interview? What did they think that would look like? "Dad, I'd feel a lot better if you came with me on this one. Jeeprers, they ask tough questions!"

This is so stupid! Let her stand or fail on her own! She's running for fucking Vice President of the United States! At first it was funny, but now I am getting angry!

[dragonrider]

Ok, I think this is the WORST one I have seen so far!

McCain, Palin On Flak Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4487886n)

What the hell is McCain doing there?!? Oh, my God! Can this woman not speak for herself at all? This is fucking ridiculous! It looks like a girl whose Dad went down to talk to the principal about the trouble she has been getting into! Hahahahahahahaha!

I don't like Sarah Palin even one tiny fraction of a bit, but I'm feeling sorry for her --- and NOT because the press is being unfair, because her own CAMPAIGN makes her look like a simpleminded child! Whose idea was it to send in McCain for this interview? What did they think that would look like? "Dad, I'd feel a lot better if you came with me on this one. Jeeprers, they ask tough questions!"

This is so stupid! Let her stand or fail on her own! She's running for fucking Vice President of the United States! At first it was funny, but now I am getting angry!

[dragonrider]

Ok, I think this is the WORST one I have seen so far!

McCain, Palin On Flak Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4487886n)

Another wierd thing in this one is that McCain keeps figiting with his hands and he looks like he is playing with his wedding ring! Subconsciously he wants to have sex with one of these two women! Well, shit! I hope to God it is Katie Couric, because otherwise it seems like a creepy old man lusting after his own teenage daughter Sarah!

Look out old man, because she is KEEPING the baby!

[dragonrider]

Another wierd thing in this one is that McCain keeps figiting with his hands and he looks like he is playing with his wedding ring! Subconsciously he wants to have sex with one of these two women! Well, shit! I hope to God it is Katie Couric, because otherwise it seems like a creepy old man lusting after his own teenage daughter Sarah!

Look out old man, because she is KEEPING the baby!

I would oficially like to start this malicious, unfounded internet rumor right now:

Trig Palin is McCain's illegitimate son. Palin is only on the ticket because she has blackmailed McCain into making her VP. They met at a moose burger barbeque last year and had a freaky Alaskan wife-swap 4-way with the "First Dude" and Cindy "The Robot" McCain doing it "Husky Style," and Sarah riding John like a polar bear mauliing a walrus. Right before the convention, she dropped the bombshell on him and demaded to be VP. He's been protecting her ever since.

[zeitgeist]

I am still baffled as to why Palin was chosen to be VP(besides the fact to get women votes). The day she was picked I told many of my Republican friends what a liability she would be and not a person believed me. I have no idea why Mitt Romney wasnt chosen. Especially with the financial crisis we are in right now, the Republicans could have used him greatly to their benefit that they were better at handling the economy, and possibly won the election. They have no chance now and Obama will become the President.
What a bunch of tards. Its a shame that nobody looks at long term effects

[killerweed420]

I enjoy all the badgering about people not being "qualified" or "experienced" enough to be the prez or vp. No one is experienced or qualified. It is definitely a learn as you go job. You just have to make sure the people running are reasonably intelligent and has the balls to not allow "yes men" in your cabinet. Something bush never did and McCain is encapable of doing. Obama appears to be very intelligent but I don't know if he has the cajones for the job.

[dragonrider]

Here is another Palin/Couric clip. Unfortunately it also has James Carville and Bay Buchannan blathering and yammering.

In this one, Palin cannot name a single newspaper or magazine that she reads. She says she reads "all of them." Seems like if she reads all of them, she could name one of them.

Video - Breaking News Videos from CNN.com (http://www.cnn.com/video/#/video/politics/2008/10/01/ac.palin.latest.cnn)

[stinkyattic]

Amazingly, the hilarity of real life trumps the hilarity of Saturday Night Live...
Palin is even weirder than Tina Fey parodying her! Foreign policy? "I can see Russia from my house!" "Palin rears his head and flies into our airspace!" ...
NBC Universal Zaps YouTube Uploads of SNL Skit On Sarah Palin | Threat Level from Wired.com (http://blog.wired.com/27bstroke6/2008/09/nbc-universal-z.html)

[dragonrider]

I've been watching these clips and trying to predict what next weeks SNL skit will be based on. So far I think it has to be the one where McCain decided he better go sit with her to keep her out of trouble --- that one is gold for satire! But no doubt something even better will come out of the debate!

I bet there are a lot of SNL writers who are going to vote for McCain/Palin just so they have some guaranteed material for the next 4 years! The way the polls are going now, it looks like we may only get another 5 weeks of skits before Palin has to pack up and go back to obscurity in Alaska.

[stinkyattic]

...we may only get another 5 weeks of skits before Palin has to pack up and go back to obscurity in Alaska.Naw, she's famous now lol... she'll WISH she was returning to obscurity rather than coming back smelling a bit 'off' after having been pelted with the media equivalent of rotting vegetables in the town stockade for several weeks...

[dragonrider]

Naw, she's famous now lol... she'll WISH she was returning to obscurity rather than coming back smelling a bit 'off' after having been pelted with the media equivalent of rotting vegetables in the town stockade for several weeks...

That's bear country up there --- not safe to walk around smelling like rotten vegetables.

I'm not sure how this debate will go, but I do not think it will go well, judging from how she has done in these interviews. It makes you wonder --- if she blows it big time, and it looks like she is part of the reason McCain's campaign went down in flames, how will it play in Alaska? Might she be so smelly from the rotten vegetables that it ruins her Alaska career as well? Or would that just make them like her more?

[Garrett]

A V.P. with limited foreign affairs experience is one thing but on the other side of the aisle we're talking about the Presidential candidate have equal to less experience. Just doesn't make sense to me.

Have a good one!:s4:

But atleast on the other side they actually have brains...Palin is retarded.

[dragonrider]

Here we have what I hope is the last of the horribly painful palin inteviews with Katie Couric:

Palin, Biden On Roe V. Wade Video - CBSNews.com (http://www.cbsnews.com/video/watch/?id=4493093n)

In this one, Couric has separate interviews with Joe Biden and with Palin about the Supreme Court decision Roe v. Wade. And she also asks whether there are other court decisions they disagree with. I think Biden does a good job with both questions --- whether you agree with him or not, you can tell he has thought about these things.

Palin is her ding-dong self. At one point she agrees with the principle that Roe v. Wade rests on --- the right to privacy. But she still doesn't agree with the decision --- thinks it should be left to the states. I'm not sure how you reconcile those two ideas.

And then when it comes to the question about other Court decisions, she cannot name a single Supreme Court decision she disagrees with. To be fair, most people can't name many specific Supreme Court cases, but don't you think she would at least try to talk about ISSUES before the court that she cares about? Come on! Church and state? Prayer in schools? Creationism in schools? Right to die? Right to life? Torture? Military tribunals for terrorists? Wiretapping? The court has ruled on some of John McCain's campaign finance legislation --- any opinion on that?

People want to know about the judicial philoosphy of a person who potentially could appoint Supreme Court justices and other judges --- sounds like she has no judicial philosophy whatsoever except that Roe v Wade is wrong! What a dumbass. She's the one on the McCain ticket who is supposed to be appealing to the conservative base and the religious right, and she doesn't have anything to say about the Supreme Court? That is probably their biggest issue!

[stinkyattic]

i wonder how her debate training is going...I wonder too...
Before:
After:

[texas grass]

I wonder too...
Before:
After:





lol, lmao, lol:thumbsup:

[stinkyattic]

When I found that first pic, I was so excited, because I always SUSPECTED such an icy piece of ass as Borg Queen might need a wooly-pully and hail from the Frozen North... CONFIRMED!

[dragonrider]

Ha ha! I think something has gone haywire with her nanobot inplants.

[texas grass]

When I found that first pic, I was so excited, because I always SUSPECTED such an icy piece of ass as Borg Queen might need a wooly-pully and hail from the Frozen North... CONFIRMED!




ahhhh the BORG QUEEN, hide the ladies cause shes goin to suck the life out of em. just like a succubus sucking the life outa men, lol

[dragonrider]

I think the Couric interviews are now over, so lets recap what we have learned about Sarah Palin:


McCain's record on regulation issues: "I'll try ta find ya some, and I'll bring 'em to ya!" (Not really fair to criticise, because there might not be any.)

Economic bailout: "So healthcare, and creating jobs, under the umbrella of job creation..." Blah, Blah... Rambling non-sequiters, going in circles, never arriving anywhere. Sounds like Miss South Carolina!

Her foreign policy credentials: "When Putin rears his head and flies into our airspace." She keeps an eye on him! I feel safer already!

Her preferred sources of news: "All of them, any of them that's put in front of me" But can't name one!

Naming a Supreme Court case she disagrees with other than Roe v Wade: Can't name any, even though this is probably the MOST important issue to her base!


I wonder if they will get her reprogrammed on these issues before tonight.

[fishman3811]

Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen to Barack Obama,a few of my friends are laughing at the stupidity of McCain to even ask her to be V.P what the hell is he thinking and what does that say about his own judgment?Like come on she is as smart as a fucking hammer.Palin doesnt know a bloody thing about anything and she talks about are talking points and i dont even think she knows what she is talking about then.Up here we are really looking forward to the V.P debates hell we might even get a good laugh.McCain McCain what the hell were you thinking????

[dragonrider]

Sarah Palin is the best thing to happen to Barack Obama,a few of my friends are laughing at the stupidity of McCain to even ask her to be V.P what the hell is he thinking and what does that say about his own judgment?Like come on she is as smart as a fucking hammer.Palin doesnt know a bloody thing about anything and she talks about are talking points and i dont even think she knows what she is talking about then.Up here we are really looking forward to the V.P debates hell we might even get a good laugh.McCain McCain what the hell were you thinking????

This is one of the things I worry about --- the fact that my country has become an international laughingstock. This country used to be respected around the world --- now mostly they either laugh at us for electing a moron president TWICE, or they despise us for the way that moron has treated the rest of the world.

Now McCain selects another moron as his runningmate, to the amusement of everyone. I find it amusing myself, until I stop to think how serious it really is.

Sarah Palin is a joke. The jobs of Vice President and President of the US are NOT a joke. She doesn't belong in that job.

[TheMetal1]

I'm sure others have seen this and I don't know what it means in regards to "preparedness?"... but DAMN! Couldn't even quote a specific Supreme Court decision that she disagrees with? How about.... umm... maybe... THIS ONE:
YouTube - Governor Sarah Palin's reaction to Exxon Valdez decision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34)

WTF? :wtf:

[dragonrider]

I'm sure others have seen this and I don't know what it means in regards to "preparedness?"... but DAMN! Couldn't even quote a specific Supreme Court decision that she disagrees with? How about.... umm... maybe... THIS ONE:
YouTube - Governor Sarah Palin's reaction to Exxon Valdez decision (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5H-26MOxH34)

WTF? :wtf:

Hahahahaha! What the hell is wrong with her? Maybe she is just really forgetful? She problaby was kicking herself after the interview, "Oh, dang! I shoulda mentioned that thing about Exxon! That was the Supreme Court, right? Or was it somethin' else? Aw, heck!"

[dragonrider]

Does anyone think it would be possible to replace Sarah Palin on the ticket with Tina Fey without too many people noticing? I would feel a lot more comofortable with Tina Fey as VP.

[JaySin]

Does anyone think it would be possible to replace Sarah Palin on the ticket with Tina Fey without too many people noticing? I would feel a lot more comofortable with Tina Fey as VP.

That and replace John McCain with Ron Paul. Otherwise, it would be pointless.

[dragonrider]

The Big Debate is only about 15 minutes away!

If I had to judge from these interviews I would say that Palin is doomed. But I saw some clips of her in other debates when she ran for Governor, and she seemed to do very well. So who knows? Maybe a debate is a better format for her?

I honestly don't know what to expect at all. It is possible she will just stammer in circles the whole time, or she might come out swinging. And Biden is very knowledgable, but he is a gaffe bomb that could go off unexpectedly at any second. He might eat her alive, or he might shove his own foot so far down his own throat that he spends the whole 90 minutes choking and gurgling.

This could be very exciting, or they could both be so cautious that it turns into a total snooze fest.

After the debate, we'll need a new thread to talk about it.

Does anyone have a proposed smoking game? My game for the last debate with a hit for every time McCain said "my friends" was a total bust. He only said it once! What is it McCain? Aren't we still friends?