“Bush Doctoring? Is that like missionary medical work?”

Let the spinning begin:

“Is it fair to ask a would-be vice president these questions? Sure. But I just don’t recall seeing anyone quiz Barack Obama on the details of any particular set of policies early on (or later). And, for the record, it just looks condescending and inappropriate for one of the great minds of the national media to sit, notebook in hand, quizzing this younger woman, as someone said, as if she were a grad student. Just physically, in those chairs, him leaning back and her leaning in, costs her the appearance of power. This is not how we usually get to know Governors. Did anyone do this to Bill Clinton when he came from the hinterland? Jimmy Carter? (That might have been helpful…)”

Harrumph! Palin’s not a dolt! I tell you, it’s sexism pure and simple.

Sarah Palin is doing her utmost to rehabilitate Dan Quayle’s reputation.

Well, everybody knows that the NYT, ABC news, and Christianity Today are “inside DC/foreign policy establishment” organizations (except me, because I apparently keep missing the memos), so it is perfectly understandable that someone needing to spend a lot of time trying to develop the perfect moosekabob baste while hiring earmark lobbyists and firing employees for not firing former in-laws could miss all that silly inside-baseball chatter…

This is just not fair!

Gov. Barbie’s scheduled interviews for next week:
Sean Hannity
Bill O’Reilly
Britt Hume
Steve Doocy
Laura Ingraham

This is not how we usually get to know Governors. Did anyone do this to Bill Clinton when he came from the hinterland? Jimmy Carter?

Yes and yes, and then some. And they gave intelligent answers, even if you didn’t agree with their viewpoint. And Jimmy looked especially good in the debate where his opponent, sitting President Gerry Ford, prematurely liberated Poland from Soviet domination.

You expect a potential POTUS to have as much knowledge of foreign policy as the average citizen, and that’s sexist! She’s just too busy driving the kids to hockey practice, cooking dinner, cleaning house, putting on makeup, field dressing moose, and firing disloyal state employees to worry about such things.

I heard some bobblebot this morning explain that the reason Sarry asked Charlie what he meant was NOT that she didn’t know what the fuck he was talking about, but rather that she is so deeply immersed in the infinite subtleties of the Bush doctrine that she needed clarification as to which of its multifaceted facets he was referring to.

Per Lisa, Gibson was a meanie because he didn’t ask the most important question about Bush – “Is Bush a great president, or the greatest ever?”*

*=Stolen from Stephen Colbert!

Shorter Dunces’ Corner:
NRO can’t afford Lexis/Nexis, so let’s just pretend, and hope those well-heeled technocrats at FDL don’t look it up.

This is just not fair! Gov. Barbie’s scheduled interviews for next week: Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly. . .

Of course it’s fair, Lori. Fair AND Balanced.

Well, it’s not like the FREAKING VICE PRESIDENCY OF THE UNITED STATES is an insider/DC job or anything …

That mean old hardballer, Charlie Gibson, obviously asked a question that was not provided to the Governor’s handlers beforehand. I’m sure that the fair and balanced folks at Fox Noise would stay within the approved guidelines.

Seriously, will you be shocked if that IS her schedule for next week?

If they want to venture outside Fox again, they might give Joe Scarborough a tough talkin’ to, and if he agrees to cooperate, give her 5 minutes with him with Pat Buchanan assisting.

Man, you’d think she could have at least guessed. It didn’t have to be an intelligent guess, the doctrine itself hardly lends itself to nuance. But, you know, a few “What? I wasn’t sleeping, I was just resting my eyes” attempts might have yielded a close enough response of “Let’s roll”, “Bring ‘em on”, “You’re either with us or you’re against us”, or even “Kill ‘em all and let God sort ‘em out”. I’d have given her at least partial credit for any of those answers, and I’m a hostile grader here.

Gibson gave a solid interview. VP Barbie knows less about foreign policy than my cats.

Based on the content at the RNC convention, maybe she’s never heard of George Bush, let alone his doctrine.

From Palin’s interview with Charlie Gibson:

When asked if Georgia joined NATO, whether the United States should go to war if the country was again invaded by Russia, Palin responded: “Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you’re going to be expected to be called upon and help.”

We spent close to sixty years avoiding war with Russia because the result would be having the large segments of the surface crust of the earth blown right off. Even Nikita Khruschev, no softy, said that after a nuclear exchange “the living will envy the dead.” Palin combines bellicosity and ignorance in ways that are absolutely terrifying.

What’s your point? None of those articles appeared in “Guns & Ammo”, “The Journal of Earmarks & Lobbying” or “Hometown Value Weekly Digest” so of course she hadn’t heard of it. Doctrine… awfully fancy word — French, perhaps?

It’s just *so* elitist to assume she knows everything about everything, and not a little sexist to put her up against a MAN against such rough and tough questions.

Nailed her, tbogg. Oops sorry.

Maybe, McCain picked the wrong woman this time to save his ass.

Wow, this is sparking Lebowski references right and left. To paraphrase:

Dude: “McCain uses sex objects like women, man.”
Walter on McCain’s lying: “Who’s the fucking nihilist anyway?”

That’s Just What I Said

Even if you take her statement as true (which I don’t), wouldn’t one expect the vice president to KNOW some foreign policy jargon?

General: “Vice President Palin, we’ve successfully bombed Russia, but there was a lot of collateral damage.”

Palin: “As long as no one got hurt and it was only the collateral that got damaged I think its ok.”

Monroe Doctrine, Bush Doctrine, Marshall Plan…these are things a Vice President should know!

Good thing they didn’t ask her about Nixon going to China and her thoughts on that. We would’ve gotten an answer about Bush also went and thoroughly enjoyed the Olympics.

After hearing her speak on these subjects, I can no longer decide if its a good thing or a bad thing that she has zero foreign policy experience. Bad in the sense that she could potentially be president, good in the sense that THANK GOD she hasn’t wielded any power in those circles or we might already be dead.

Just physically, in those chairs, him leaning back and her leaning in, costs her the appearance of power.

How did they make her lean in? Did they have a wind machine trained on her and she had to lean in to keep from being blown over? Did they have a rope around her neck pulling her toward Gibson. Was the back of her chair angled forward sharply?

Of course I know why she did that. It’s her being the super-achieving good girl who is anxious to show her unblinkingness–eager to show she studied for the test but every nerve stretched to the breaking point. If there had been time, a speaking coach have helped her learn not to send negative signals with her body language. But of course there is no time. So if she ends up having to meet with the new leader of North Korea over the next four years, she’ll put us at a slight disadvantage. I hope she’ll at least bone up on her administration’s policy on North Korea before she goes.

After watching the clips of McPOW blame Obama for making him lie, I look to the future where the campaign kicks off with accusing your opponent of pedophilia and genocide then goes downhill…. I think seriously of getting wind of the 2012 campaign from a muleskinner passing my treehouse in Costa Rica. Tico. I like the sound of that.

In CR, when someone asks you “Como estas?” the correct response is “Puravida.”

It’s also the name of the local beer.

“Pure life.” I like the sound of that, too.

This is not how we usually get to know Governors. Did anyone do this to Bill Clinton when he came from the hinterland? Jimmy Carter?

Jeebus, Lisa, now you’re just embarrassing yourself. Bill Clinton could give you 30 minutes on the Bush Doctrine, all factually correct, and at the end you’d notice your panties were missing.

They’re not even trying anymore.

“It’s her being the super-achieving good girl who is anxious to show her unblinkingness–eager to show she studied for the test but every nerve stretched to the breaking point.”

This attitude is exactly why the rethugs chose her. She is window dressing for the fundies. She would be scripted to within an inch of her life as Veep, and her life would depend on her staying in line. If McSame were to keel over in office, Preznit Palin would bring new meaning to the word “Puppet”. I guess Cheney would be back in his undisclosed location pulling the strings…. or maybe Rove…Jeebus, who knows?

That mean old hardballer, Charlie Gibson, obviously asked a question that was not provided to the Governor’s handlers beforehand. I’m sure that the fair and balanced folks at Fox Noise would stay within the approved guidelines.

Over at RumpRoast, they have a thread of suggested questions Palin will face from those media terrors at FOX …

http://rumproast.com/

Can you imagine Caribou Barbie sitting down opposite Vladimir Putin with that moose in the headlights look on her face? No poker face, that one. The big boys and girls will slice and dice her to our country’s detriment.

If she has foreign policy experience because she can see Russia from Alaska, couldn’t the Governor’s of Idaho

Maine, Michigan, Minnesota. Montana, New Hampshire, New York, North Dakota, Ohio
Pennsylvania, Vermont and Washington claim foreign policy experience because they can see Canada from their states?

Is this how George W. won? He was governor of Texas and you can definitely see Mexico from there.

Argentina for me, moondancer. I know people.

Auf wieder . . . er, um, hasta la vista!

Did Charlie ask any energy questions? A shame if he didn’t. According to John McCain, she probably knows more about energy than any other person in the US. She might be clueless on what a VP does, but she’d probably talk in tongues on the subject of energy.

When Governor Barbie was asked her opinion of the Bush Doctrine, I was sure she’s say “No Brazilians!”

SHORTER PALIN: [PAUSES, LEANS FORWARD TO DISPLAY CLEAVAGE]…How many decimal places are there in a Brazillian, Charlie?

Just physically, in those chairs, him leaning back and her leaning in, costs her the appearance of power.
SHORTER RUTHIE: “Thanks for the mammaries!”

It really is a pity that your cats aren’t at least 35 years old apiece! Otherwise they’d qualify under the Palin Standards, if they’re native-born.