You know a candidate is doing horribly when the only people posting quotes from her are her opponents.

The latest painful gobbledygook from the Couric interview. And again, I apologize for linking to ThinkProgress, but they have the video and the transcript.
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/...ut-healthcare/

Got that? The bailout is about... health care! And job creation! And reducing taxes and spending and.... and.... and... puppies!! Puppies for everyone!!

Good Lord.

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Well, glad she didn't include community organizers.. Those people are idiots.

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“Share everything with your brother. Do not say, ‘It is private property.’ If you share what is everlasting, you should be that much more willing to share things which do not last.”
~ The Didache

"Not to enable the poor to share in our goods is to steal from them and deprive them of life. The goods we possess are not ours, but theirs."
~St. John Chrysostom

She makes Bush sound positively lucid and expertly informed.

So, reducing taxes must be accompanied by tax reductions?

Good God!

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"If there is anyone out there who still doubts that America is a place where all things are possible, who still wonders if the dream of our founders is alive in our time, who still questions the power of our democracy, tonight is your answer."

--President-elect Barack Obama
November 5, 2008

I'll chalk this up (for now) to her being really new at this stuff. She has a lot to learn in a short time and she's not well versed enough to be good on her feet. I reserve the right to change my mind as time goes by. I gave Bush the benefit of the doubt, too. Maybe he's just not a good public speaker I thought. Turns out he was just not a bright guy. But I reserve judgment on Palin for now.

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Hmm, you may have somethin' there.
Spoze McCain snatched her to make himself look good?

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McCain on National Security
Sarah Speaks

That's extremely generous of you.

My problem is less her painfully inarticulate way of speaking, but more the fact that, once you take the time to parse it out, there's basically no substance to what she says. It's not just the wrapping; there's no product, either.

As I noted in another thread, when she was being thrown softballs by Sean Hannity, she couldn't even articulate any specifics about *her own record*.

The answers she gives are vapid generalizations that, as often as not, have very little to do with the actual question.

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I know! I don't think she knows enough of the play book right now (being generous again). In other words, there is no substance because she does not know the substance. As a VP candicate you cannot go off message. But she doesn't know the message.

I didn't see that. I hate Hannity and won't watch anything his stupid ass is on.

Not good, I agree. My opinion right now is that she may be a good choice for a Vice Presidential candidate, but she's not a good choice to actually be Vice President.

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Neither do I. But luckily other people are willing to do so, and they provide transcripts!
http://monkeycrash.com/2008/09/19/tr...ity-interview/

Hannity tossed her a softball question: give me specifics about all the great things you did in Alaska to earn the "reformer" label. It was a chance to toot her own horn. She couldn't.

How does that work? You hope she grows into the job by January 20?

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Ahhh, no. What I meant was that there are two separate things one needs to consider in a Vice Presidential candidate. The first is whether the person is a good candidate, which means is the person going to help you get elected? Elections in this country are about who people like better and connect with better, not who is actually better. And I think (right now, subject to her being stupid) that McCain picked someone that will help him get elected. Biden does nothing, good or bad, for Obama on that account. Guys like her as a person and women do, too (right now). But the question of whether she'll actually make a good Vice President is entirely different. From what I've seen, she won't. She doesn't know enough. Which is different from being stupid. Regardless, she does not have the skills to be Vice President or President.

As for the quote I'm still being generous! It was horrible. But she's not used to it.

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