Hard to understand

Sarah Palin sits down with Sean Hannity and, since she has been programed by the McCain campaign to stick to a few  stock expressions and not fuck it up by going off script, her answers have a certain Mad-Libs quality to them:

On fixing the economy:
“Through reform, absolutely.  Look at the oversight that has been lack, I believe, here at the 1930s type of regulatory regime overseeing some of these corporations.  And we’ve got to get a more coordinated and a much more stringent oversight regime…government can play a very, very appropriate role in the oversight as people are trusting these companies with their life savings, with their investments, with their insurance policies, and construction bonds, and everything else.

 On who is responsible for the failing financial institutions:
“I think the corruption on Wall Street.  That’s to blame.  And that violation of the public trust.  And that contract that should be inherent in corporations who are spending, investing other people’s money, the abuse of that is what has got to stop.

On AIG getting government bailout:
“Well, you know, first, Fannie and Freddie, different because quasi-government agencies there where government had to step in because of the adverse impacts all across our nation, especially with homeowners.”

 On reaction to Obama’s attack on McCain for saying that the “fundamentals” of the economy are strong:
“Well, it was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Senator McCain chose to use because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterwards, he means our workforce, he means the ingenuity of the American people.  And of course, that is strong and that is the foundation of our economy.”

Some excuses for the preceding:

  • Maybe it was a rush transcript from Fox and, lets face it, they’re not exactly a brain trust over there.
  • Her first language is Alaskimo
  • She was speaking to Sean Hannity and you…have… to…. speak…very…slowly…to…him. You’d start skipping words too.
  • Barely suppressed hysterical glossolalia because Jesus was Sean’s next guest and she knew He was in the Green Room eating all of the bagels.
  • She’s too mavericky for complete sentences and grammar.
  • Competing voices  in her earpiece coming from her McCain "mentor" off stage and Todd on his CB radio out in the F-350.
  • After Tucker Bounds and Carly Fiorina, anything short of an outbreak of  Tourettes symptoms would be considered a success.