watched her interview with charlie gibson last night. and i can now unequivocally say that charlie gibson is qualified to be vice president.
sarah palin? not so much.
as kirk and i watched, we kept saying that she sounded like she had been given canned answers to give based on keywords in the question. [...]
…is contained in this short post (with accompanying picture) by jake tapper:
The McCain campaign tells the media to stop intruding on the private life of the unmarried pregnant 17-year-old daughter of Gov. Sarah Palin while staging a photo op with Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and the 17-year-old’s fiance, Levi Johnston.
talk about have your cake and [...]
here’s a name you may be hearing from in days to come. i learned about her via talking points memo…she has reported on alaska politics in the past and seems to know the lay of the land.
she’s now in wasilla and has a series of posts at the washington independent. she’s doing the thing [...]
in a must-read blog post about the desperately devious inanity of the mccain campaign’s newly-started “war on the media”, joe klein neatly summarizes what’s wrong [so far] with sarah palin:
Palin raised taxes as governor, supported the Bridge to Nowhere before she opposed it, pursued pork-barrel projects as mayor, tried to ban books at the local [...]
but i’d imagine that unmarried 17-year-old high school student bristol palin, who was enough of an adult to make the decision to risk pregnancy, was not presented with a range of options and asked what her preference was.
addthis_url = ‘http%3A%2F%2Fwww.queerspace.com%2F2008%2F09%2F01%2Fim-just-guessing-here%2F’;
addthis_title = ‘i%26%238217%3Bm+just+guessing+here’;
addthis_pub [...]
