Certain debate topics are suddenly off-limits?
Apparently, asking too many foreign policy-related questions is going to be unfair, the McCain camp said today in a televised interview on everyone’s fair and balanced new network. Ironically, these same people did not raise a similar objection for the first presidential debate which was largely focused on…foreign policy. Now why would that be?
Now, a couple of observations:
The moderator will have questions to answer themselves if the do go so heavily foreign policy.
Really? Gwen Ifill will have to answer questions? Who’s going to be asking those questions? Because I would pay good money to see Nancy Pfotenhauer attempt to go toe-to-toe with Gwen. And I’d likely have to, given that Gwen would lay such a hurt on Nancy it’d only be available on pay-per-view.
It sounds like they’re stacking the deck against her, because…well…everyone knows that’s Joe Biden’s forte…
For crying out loud, where did all Palin’s foreign policy experience suddenly disappear to? I thought one of the main reasons she was selected as a running mate was due to her extensive foreign relations experience, what with Canada sharing a border with Alaska and Russia being a short boat ride away. Now that we’re three days out from the VP debate, however, that appears to be becoming a much harder sell. I’m guessing they’d rather the whole nation not get another taste of this:
Oh, and lets not forget that all that foreign relations experience was debunked right here anyway…as if it needed to be.
Why don’t they ask half and half?…uhhhh…the average person is more concerned with domestic stuff than the foreign stuff anyway.
Oh boy, there are so many ways to go with this one… I’m just not sure the blog system could handle the length of my post if I were to write down everything I’m thinking, so I’m just going to keep with the original subject of Governor Sarah Palin. Ok, you want to stick with the domestic stuff? Let’s stick with the domestic stuff:
Anyone know what the emoticon is for the expression of slapping both hands to the sides of your face in dumbfounded astonishment?
The fact of the matter is, Sarah Palin really doesn’t know much of anything when it comes to the issues and politics on a national scale. She’s not stupid and I’ll debate anyone who says otherwise. You don’t get to be mayor of a town (regardless of how small) and governor of a state (regardless of how remote and irrelevant) by being stupid. Sarah Palin has proven that she knows how to play the game of politics on a local/regional level. From everything I’ve read and seen, she is very adept at keeping her true beliefs and feelings suppressed and hidden until she achieves her goal and then springs them like a moose trap on her unsuspecting victims. That, and she surrounds herself with those that are loyal and see things her way. In other words, she’s a good politician…on a local level. National politics, however, are on a completely different level and that’s where Palin runs into trouble. She is so far out of her league, it’s scary. Someone needs to remind her that you cannot see Russia, nor Alaska, from Washington D.C.
Why McCain picked her in the first place is a mystery to me. She brings him down on foreign policy, which should have been his greatest strength over Obama. She brings him down on spending reform, because her reforms are almost completely inaccurate or downright false and she still requests earmarks for Alaska as if that state’s population had another zero on of the end of it. She brings him down on looks, because let’s face it, John McCain is one short, balding (please, please lose the comb over soon), weasly-looking old fart…and she’s not. Finally, she brings him down because he’s a 72-year-old who’s had cancer and she, in all her crazy, nonsensical misunderstanding of the issues, would be next in line to hold the keys to the missiles.
I read an article earlier postulating that Sarah Palin has a very good chance of exceeded expectations in the debate because she’s set the bar so low already with her limited, but devastating, TV appearances that coming even close on a question or two is going to be seen as an improvement. With a mere 36 days until the election, I’m not looking for a minor improvement at this point. If the knowledge and experience is there, it’s there. If it’s not, and you know it’s not, it’s not something anyone can teach her between now and January.
Turns out, however, that CBS has been holding back on us. Look for more “right out of an SNL skit” answers from everyone’s favorite VP-wannabe. Howard Kurtz’s column yesterday had this stuck near the end:
And the worst may be yet to come for Palin; sources say CBS has two more responses on tape that will likely prove embarrassing.
I, for one, cannot wait.
No matter how the questions are broken down during the VP debate, there’s a very good chance we’re going to witness an epic fail the likes that exceed even Dan Quayle’s worst nightmares. Regardless of what happens, I’m not sure CNN’s Jack Cafferty is going to be able to take much more. I love Jack, because he proves that even someone as passionate, opinionated and explosive about politics, such as myself, can get a job on network TV:
There’s still hope!
–Gordy
