UPDATE BELOW (ATTN., ANDREW SULLIVAN AND READERS), 11:30 PM, CST — Friday, 12SEP08…
Sarah Palin Warns Charles Gibson She, Too Is A “Hardliner”
“You mess with the USA or our allies and you get your BUTT KICKED up around your ears!” has been the mantra of both Democratic and Republican administrations alike since… well, SINCE the military-industrial complex took over and made massive death and destruction our number-one export. Pre-this era, we only sent our kids to die and kill when our nation was assaulted; today, we send our kids to die and kill whenever our “national interests” are “threatened”. Of course, the term “national interest” now encompasses every remote corner of the globe, but that’s beside the point.
ABCNews‘ Charlie Gibson, in his three-part interview with Governor Sarah Palin of my homestate and once “home”, Alaska, digs deeply enough to give comfort to each and every neoconservative in America. We will, INDEED continue exporting “war” as our number-one “cash crop” under a Señor J. Sidney McCain Para Él Presidenté administration. What a RELIEF to those fellow Americans of mine, God Bless their good hearts, who believe the ONLY way to retain freedom and our Democratic way of life is to constantly be killing people who threaten the “weakest amongst us”; that is, unless we’re talking about Sudan or other places with little or no valuable natural resources, of course.
A “snip” from the interview (Video provided at the ABCNews site):
Sarah Palin Defends Experience, Takes Hard Line Approach on National Security
Republican VP Candidate Speaks with ABC News’ Charles Gibson in Exclusive Interview
By RUSSELL GOLDMAN“… On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security and said that war with Russia may be necessary if Georgia were to join NATO and be invaded by Russia.
In her first of three interviews with ABC News‘ Charles Gibson and the only interview since being picked by Sen. John McCain as his Republican vice presidential nominee, Palin categorized the Russian invasion of Georgia as “unacceptable”…
Hey, what can you say? Sarah and her boss, Señor J. Sidney McCain of Arizona Panama are OBVIOUSLY the “diplomats” this country has long been waiting for to take the reigns from the out-of-control Bush-Cheney Administration in the name of “change“. This interview; these words; should give great comfort to anybody who had previously suspected we might be in for FOUR MORE YEARS of the deadly, yet, quite LUCRATIVE Bush-Cheney “Big Oil and Nation Buildin’ Bidness” under a McCain-Palin presidency.
Seriously though — I’d find these words rather comforting if we were talking about our 4th State of Georgia and defending Governor Sonny Purdue’s turf (As her boss, Señor McCain believes). Or, even that tiny country of Georgia if needed and IF the rest of the free world pitched in and even carried the MAJORITY of the load with the United States lending a few thousand or so troops to the cause of freedom and Democracy. But that’s NOT what the Alaska Governor and my former classmate from Wasilla, Sarah Palin seems to be saying — at all.
“Four more years of Bush”? It’s surely beginning to sound more and more like it to MOI.
UPDATE:
Andrew Sullivan of The Daily Dish has also received this cut-and-paste reaction from a commentator who goes by Lit3Bolt:
“Via Sully:
I just wanted to say thank you so much for being the only blogger (aside from Al Giordano) who gets it. While the rest of the blogosphere (especially the liberal bloggers) lose their heads you are an island of common sense. Patience and Steel. Yes, yes. yes.
It also occurs to me that in a way McCain and Rove have actually simply taken over the liberal blogosphere in some way. They are being played.
Just a few examples—yesterday Obama gave a fantastic interview at the Service Forum. Did the liberal blogs even cover this? No.
He gave a great speech on the trail. Are his town halls even posted or excerpted? No.
The liberal bloggers have become McCain central. …”
Strangely, this commentator brought to light a VERY valid question; my only question, however; is how trusted this commentator really is? While giving credit to Andrew Sullivan (i.e., “via Sully“), one must ponder how sincere and how dedicated this particular person is, going (apparently?) from blog-to-blog, giving the same response. At least, I ASSUME he/she is going from blog-to-blog, touting how “refreshing” our websites are for leaning left in this election while clinging to our independence as people and as voters.
Anyhoo — it is, INDEED a valid point and “spammer” or not, both the commentator AND his or her theory do bring up a “circular” train of thought, worthy of entertaining…
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7:48 pm on September 11th, 2008 1
Palin Takes Exactly the Same Line on Georgia/Russia As McCain, Obama, and Biden
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2008/09/palin_takes_exactly_the_same_l.asp
7:56 pm on September 11th, 2008 2
Yee-ah know, thees is preeetty funny – if it weren’t so frickin’ scary, no!? Palin is McCain’s “I’ve got a flameout!” – cry for help! *snort*
8:21 pm on September 11th, 2008 3
She’s a right-wing nutjob that goes to a church that focuses on the Book of Revelation.
God help us all.
11:07 pm on September 11th, 2008 4
Not true.
I chose my name to provide the truth as I see it in I hope a very non partisan way.
Sarah Palin is not advocating the United States attack Russia or confront Russia. Georgia and the Ukraine both were under consideration by the Nato Alliance for admittance.
However this admittance is contingent upon many things, not the least of which would be that Russia is not going to attack either of them and would most likely never do so in the future.
Barak Obama, Joe Biden, John McCain, George W. Bush and the entire Nato organization are all in favor of the admittance of Georgia and the Ukraine into the organization with caveats and conditioned upon them entering NATO without clouds hanging over their admittance.
Therefore Sarah Palin is not advocating a confrontation with Russia and neither is anyone else.
11:43 pm on September 11th, 2008 5
Sarah Palin memorizes pretty well…she hears certain buzz words and then she repeats what she’s been trained to say…you can see it in her facial expressions…she has quick mental recovery BUT Biden will SMOKE her in a debate.
11:48 pm on September 11th, 2008 6
“commontater” must be passed out by now….haha!
All of this has turned into a comedy in a very SCARY way indeed…on both sides to be honest.
12:15 am on September 12th, 2008 7
@JerrySpringerLivesinGOP – ‘Commontater’ is not ‘passed out by now’..:( Sorry to dash your hopes. I’m a night owl; every 2 hours I screeeem at the top of my lungs, “I wanna gink a wawa! I wanna gink a wawa! I’s sceeerd, mama!” She brings me warm milk and an oreo and leaves the light on to chase my feers away. I grabs me laptop and bang away all night. How’s that for passed out, SpringBoy!? ;>
You should know we’re all trying to control our shakin’ clacking knees around here what with all the saber rattling and ignorant pomposity being thrown around by the little snotty brats in grown-up clothing who still believe they’re out in the playground at recess, bloviating the might fantastic! *shudder*
Now, I’m off to file me teeth. heh heh
12:31 am on September 12th, 2008 8
“commontater”…whatever your takin I WANT SOME LOL! Btw-I already filed my teeth a while ago…don’t need can openers!
Can’t wait to see what hits the fan hours from now…
To be continued….
12:55 am on September 12th, 2008 9
Oh well…I guess I don’t have to wait till tomorrow…check this out…McCain wanted to choke this guy…lol
McCain Interview On Palin Riddled With Errors:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/11/mccain-interview-on-palin_n_125743.html
1:01 am on September 12th, 2008 10
I’ve tried filing my teeth and I’m unimpressed. I’m now pricing vampire implants for my inscissors and I’m pretty pissed at the quotes I’m getting.
Being a vampire oughtta be FREE for cryin’ out loud
1:25 am on September 12th, 2008 11
haha…I hear ya GTL! Nuthin is free these days! Maybe getting bit by a werewolf is the answer? I might try that out tonight and let you know how it goes! Full moon in 30 minutes or so…gotta get ready…gonna take a flash light with me and see what happens in the woods!
HOWL! Nite!
2:25 am on September 12th, 2008 12
If it isn’t obvious to anyone who watched the interview that her body language alone gave away the fact that she was a flopping salmon searching for water while the grizzly bear was sniffing at her (my best Alaskan allegory) then you don’t know lack of knowledge covered up by coaching when you see it.
7:35 am on September 12th, 2008 13
Q: Let ’s move on to what you say is the number one issue facing the United States in our time. And that is the challenge of addressing Islamist extremism. What credentials does Gov. Palin have — in national security, diplomacy, foreign policy — that qualify her to be your partner in that, on that issue: the fight against Islamic extremism?
This question can be asked of every one running for congress and everyone seeking the presidency of the United States.
It is a question we are asking as a nation and it is one in which we are not finding many answers. Winston Churchill was an excellent war time prime minister but once the war was concludded it did not take long for him to find himself unemployed in favor of someone more fitting for peacetime.
I suggest that none of the four candidates is qualified to fight the war on terror and that of the four perhaps only McCain has the where withall to fight such a war. Remember that Lincoln had to fire general after general in order to find Sherman.
The question has always been why? Because there were not too many politicians or generals that were qualified to run a civil war and kill fellow Americans. The same holds true today. There just arent too many people qualified to run a new type of war on terror or to nation build. It is something alien and foreign to the United States. Its why the Bush Doctrine is such a foreign instrument to the American Conscience.
8:05 am on September 12th, 2008 14
I watched the interview, and it reminded me of O’Reilly’s interview of Sen. Obama. Tough questions and follow-ups, and I thought both candidates handled themselves well.
Much to my disappointment, Gov. Palin said we would fight Russia only IF Georgia joined Nato, and IF russia attacked Georgia. Pretty weak tea. I was hoping for at least a little hint of a pre-emptive strike. Then again I was crushed to learn Sen. McCain had made up with the Vietnamese, as I was looking forward to us bombing Hanoi. The cool thing is this time they’d never see it coming.
10:02 am on September 12th, 2008 15
This is Quayle–in drag–all over again!!!!!!!!!. OMG!!! She knows Russia because she can see it from an island in Alaska?????? What in the world???!!!! I thought that was a nightmare from the past that I would not have to tell my grandchildren about, but now we have the female version of Dan Quayle????? I feel like sobbing endlessly, for the fate of this country!!!
1:17 pm on September 12th, 2008 16
Oh “poliponeso”…it get’s WORSE!
McCain’s view Pre-Palin: “Mayors And Governors Can’t Handle National Security”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/ 20…a_n_125944.html
Total Hypocrisy
1:18 pm on September 12th, 2008 17
fyi-you might need to copy and paste the link above
1:54 pm on September 12th, 2008 18
Left Coast – imho … Palin was in very unfamiliar territory during that interview, she knew the audience would be very large and that she would likely be judged very harshly by the lefties regardless of her answers (typical no-win scenario when dealing with lefties) – those issues alone account for a degree of uncomfortable-ness. There is also no baseline for her ‘typical’ behavior during such an interview. Based on these facts, it is not likely to gain much useful information from her apparent comfort level as it relates to her answers.
That being said, her facial movements seemed to reveal that she was often ‘remembering’ as opposed to ‘creating’ her answers. Her voice, eye contact, etc. indicated that she was being truthful, and was relatively confident most of the time. She was not intimidated by Charlie Gibson or his questions. (NLP 101)
Gotta disagree with Chuck on this, as much as I hate to do so. I was rather disappointed in O’Reilly and Gibson. I thought thay both wasted their entire interviews lobbing softballs.
Hey Compass, your approach is admirable. I hope I’m wrong, but you will probably find that trying to be reasonable with un-reasonable people is not very effective.
2:04 pm on September 12th, 2008 19
McCain sinks to new low on the View this morning…mind you these are women interviewing him…I’m sure they are sexist also:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/12/mccain-grilled-on-the-vie_n_125972.html
2:39 pm on September 12th, 2008 20
Springer fan; McCain did an excellent job answering the set-up “have you stopped beating your wife yet” style questions. The only “low” he may have stooped to is actually appearing on The View. Leave it to Whoopi to take the “low” road with her questions.
I especially liked Barbara’s remark in the first clip “get Palin for us and we’ll get Barack for you”… Priceless
3:45 pm on September 12th, 2008 21
John McCain is taking the bait…if he continues to argue with Obama he might get a few surprises.
4:06 pm on September 12th, 2008 22
Now I’ve “heard” reports that Karl Rove is physically running John’s Mccain instead of running in remotely. I don’t know how true this is yet. Sounds like change to me…but then again, the folks that voted for GWB/Cheney gotta love it!
4:06 pm on September 12th, 2008 23
“running it”
4:34 pm on September 12th, 2008 24
Jerry said:
“John McCain is taking the bait…if he continues to argue with Obama he might get a few surprises.”
That would be cool. Now if we could only get Sen. Obama to argue with Sen. McCain instead of Gov. Palin we might actually have a PRESIDENTIAL debate. Geez, do you AND Blue Dog wanna put a few GTL bucks up on the real debates? I got 20 on the Neo-Con Fascist BU$HITLER Lipstick Pigs.
Oh, and please post a few more links from HuffPo, DU, and MSNBC. I mean, it’s not like this a left wing site that needs the help or anything.
4:43 pm on September 12th, 2008 25
F&B
For the love of God man,You watch the view? Mohammed H. Prophet, I thought you were heterosexual. Not only that, but you care what someone named “WHOOPI” thinks? What about people named “Rainbow” or “Blossom” or “Sundance”? Are they not smart enough to merit your concern? What the hell are you thinking, you name-insensitive bastard you.
5:05 pm on September 12th, 2008 26
I only watched Springer’s clips, but you’re right Chuck… I think I need to go into rehab or take a shower or something. No, wait, I’ve got it. I’ll watch football all weekend while drinking beer, like Bud or Old Style, not that candy-ass Lite sh!t, I’ll even have a few bowls of chili. Maybe that’ll help.
8:07 pm on September 12th, 2008 27
Via Sully:
I just wanted to say thank you so much for being the only blogger (aside from Al Giordano) who gets it. While the rest of the blogosphere (especially the liberal bloggers) lose their heads you are an island of common sense. Patience and Steel. Yes, yes. yes.
It also occurs to me that in a way McCain and Rove have actually simply taken over the liberal blogosphere in some way. They are being played.
Just a few examples—yesterday Obama gave a fantastic interview at the Service Forum. Did the liberal blogs even cover this? No.
He gave a great speech on the trail. Are his town halls even posted or excerpted? No.
The liberal bloggers have become McCain central. They make people click on his ads, make the world spin around him instead of focusing on our candidate and what he is trying to do. There is ZERO coverage of what Obama is actually doing every day talking tough on the issues. There is ZERO coverage of Biden (who is on the trail but the blogs don’t seem to care or cover him unless he is doing what they think he should be doing. Sadly AFP did cover him this week and people seemed to be too busy saying he was not doing anything to include the link with his forceful comments against McCain. The one time the blogs linked to Biden—when the MSM tried to make a big deal out his answer to a question that made Hillary look bad and he defended her. That was it).
McCain and crew realized early this cycle that they did not have a visible internet presence. So what did they do? They took over the liberal presence, they are manipulating the leading liberal blogs , just as they manipulate the MSM. All to their own advantage. And the blogs have all fallen for this hook, line and sinker. Does no one realize this?
They are all being played.
And Obama, god bless him, he gets it. As does his team. while everyone whines he keeps at it every day with much much class and like a laser focused on the issues. The problem is not Obama, is that no one wants to follow his lead. Instead they are following McCain-Rove and they don’t even know it.
Pass it on.
8:24 pm on September 12th, 2008 28
Lit3Bolt…you make a very STRONG point!
8:26 pm on September 12th, 2008 29
They do this every 4 years tho…it’s the GOP Doctrine…hopefully, it doesn’t happen for a 3rd GWB term!
8:30 pm on September 12th, 2008 30
LMFAO @ FandB vs Chuck!!!!!!!! Seriously though, I DO love FandB’s weekend plans — I’m going to do the same I think
Lit3Bolt — Thank you so much for the kind words and we’re glad you found us here. As you have learned, we don’t play the “In With The Rest Of The Liberal Blogosphere” game. When they’re absolutely wrong; they’re wrong and we aren’t afraid to seperate ourselves from ‘em either. Liberalism is a “big-tent concept” and too many of our fellow liberal bloggers are echo-chambers for the Democratic talking points of the day — NOT US.
I hadn’t thought about it before, but I do believe you’re correct about Rove controlling my fellow lib bloggers — after all, as a marketer, I’m WELL aware of the concept surrounding “no such thing as bad policity”.
For example, FandB wouldn’t be here, commenting as an active voice from the Right if Rush Limbaugh hadn’t drove him here from his talk radio show. It’s a concept ANY marketer (or master
politicianfelon) like Karl Rove understands THOROUGHLY.Please stick around. I’ll take all the help I can get around here with all these awesome “Righty” friends of ours taking me to task constantly.
10:52 pm on September 12th, 2008 31
Lit3Bolt – first of all, “Ditto” to just about everything you and GTL said … except … your last comment that the antichrist Obama is not the problem. I would propose that the antichrist Obama IS the problem because if he were truly a leader then the people WOULD be following him instead of spending all their time focused mainly on the GOP VP nominee.
11:59 pm on September 12th, 2008 32
Actually, Sarah Palin should be running for President and McCain should be running for VP based on that logic.
12:06 am on September 13th, 2008 33
MCCAIN FINDS IT TOUGH WITHOUT PALIN; (PA CROWD SHUTS DOWN MCCAIN’S PRESS CONFERENCE;) DROWNS HIM OUT:
http://boards.msn.com/MSNBCboards/thread.aspx?threadid=779032
12:14 am on September 13th, 2008 34
Also, for Obama to be the son of Bush and Cheney might be a stretching it a tad bit too far…hehe
11:17 am on September 13th, 2008 35
Hey Springer fan: could be, but at least you don’t try to deny that it does apply to Obama.
Don’t forget, though, that McCain was the one who picked her as his running mate.
And Obama picked Biden … Hmmmmmm … who made the better decision??? Even Biden admits that Hillary would have been a better choice.
11:49 am on September 13th, 2008 36
Fandb…I see you didn’t deny dicknbush being the Devil…I was being sarcastic, but it looks like we agree on that point. In fact, McCain and Palin have more anti-christ tendencies more so than Obama
Biden-he’ll run circles around Sarah in the debates and I truly hope she believes his statement about Hillary.
Sarah for President and McCain for VP…seems like we agree there too. JMAC is acting like a weak nut.
Straight Talk Express…it only looks that way to most of the folks that got suckered with voting for dicknbush…heh
12:31 pm on September 13th, 2008 37
FandB
Here’s a quote from a NY Times op piece
“It was bad enough that Ms. Palin’s performance in the first televised interviews she has done since she joined the Republican ticket was so visibly scripted and lacking in awareness.”
This was my point about the body language and her answers. Whether she has a baseline or not there was incongruency (imho) between the coached projection of confidence via body language (right fist pumping away a la Clinton, fixed stare) and the answers that had no depth of actual experience behind them. In other words the whole thing came across as so “prepped” to cover lack of experience. It was like watching a badly dubbed american movie–everything seemed out of phase.
12:59 pm on September 13th, 2008 38
Talk about KARMA….the reason why Sarah Palin has gone from being confident about the Troopergate to freaking out is due to the person in
charge of it. Senate President Lyda Green, who is a Republican is an enemy of Sarah Palin…check this out:
http://www.canberratimes.com.au/news/national/national/general/palin-named-in-abuseofpower-inquiry/1271770.aspx
YouTube – GOP VP pick Sarah Palin laughs at cancer surviving …
Aug 30, 2008 … Republican Vice Presidential Nominee Sarah Palin laughs as cancer survivor Senator Lyda Green of the Alaska State Senate is called a “bitch” …
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AKkydrUnBZE
Full circle
1:06 pm on September 13th, 2008 39
At the YouTube link you provided:
“This video is no longer available due to a copyright claim by a third party.”
Hmmph. Imagine that…
1:31 pm on September 13th, 2008 40
hahaha…I’ll find it brb
1:32 pm on September 13th, 2008 41
http://www.poetv.com/video.php?vid=42568&big=2x
1:39 pm on September 13th, 2008 42
Meh… shrug. There are a helluvalot more controversial statements than those made by the lovely Ms. Palin than the ones provided there. Appreciate the new link, btw
2:22 pm on September 13th, 2008 43
I agree…it just tells me that based on the article there is some bad blood between the both of them…looking forward to USC and Ohio and the games tomorrow.
I don’t think I’ve said this but THANKS FOR YOUR SITE!
Till next time…
7:29 pm on September 13th, 2008 44
Springer fan: “dicknbush being the devil” … “McCain and Palin having anti-christ tendencies” ??? I must have missed those comments. But I don’t play the denial game or apologize for anybody, it is what it is, what you or I say doesn’t change it.
Left Coaster: Yeah, NY Times Op Ed, there’s an un-biased source for ya.
It seems like the left isolates itself by only looking to the left for information. That approach is obviously limiting and ultimately self-defeating. Worse yet is the reliance by some on YouTube for information.
After all this, the lefties are still obsessed with the fact that the Republican party is actually much more “progressive” and they walk the walk, as opposed to the democrat party that merely talks and talks.
Bring on the debates!
Have a great weekend, one and all. I have to go buy a new sump pump…
2:24 am on September 14th, 2008 45
FandB Just because the source may, by you be considered to be biased, doesn’t always make it untrue. As much as I hate to admit it even O’Reilly can make a point from time to time.
I hope the sump pump isn’t needed for a home in Galveston….
9:34 am on September 15th, 2008 46
Left Coast: First of all, it’s been a great discussion…
“…coached projection of confidence… and … answers that had no depth of actual experience …” – these seem to be assumptions that are not based on the interview but on preconceived ideas regarding Gov. Palin.
AND “…the whole thing came across as so “prepped”…” – ALL candidates are “prepped” for speeches, interviews, debates, etc. ALWAYS – why should Gov. Palin be held to a different standard?
If we’re completely honest with ourselves, I’m not sure Gov. Palin could have done anything to prevent further attacks by the left. Whatever answers she gave would have been scrutinized, dissected, and spun into some kind of criticism of her worthiness to be VP by an increasingly misogynistic left. That is why doing an interview with Charlie Gibson took courage, which Gov. Palin clearly demonstrated she has.
She may not be as slick as some politicians, but why should we elect smooth talkers (i.e. con men) instead of honest, hard-working, but less well-spoken Americans? Maybe by electing the slicker, smoother talking candidates, we guarantee ourselves an ongoing parade of people with the wrong set of priorities and a lack of character.
BTW, Thanks, not in Galveston. I’m in the midwest and it has been raining constantly for days, things are starting to flood – just a precautionary maneuver.