Sarah Palin's Katie Couric Interview: Beauty Pageant Answers?
Sarah Plain Falls Back on Beauty Pageant Skills During the Katie Couric Interview
Sarah Palin's Response to Katie Couric Sounds Familiar
Compare these two answers for yourself. Here is the video of Miss Carolina's response from CBS News. Now, with that in mind, watch Sarah Palin's response during the Katie Couric interview to Katie's question asking her what she meant when she said that being next door to Russia gave her foreign policy experience. The answers given by Sarah Palin in this video are eerily similar. At least, Miss Carolina didn't need the host to fill in a word for her when she got stuck.
Katie Couric's Interview of Sarah Palin Raises a New Question
Answers like this might have been good enough to win her 2nd runner up in the Miss Alaska competition, but is it really good enough to be Vice President of the United States? Maybe this is part of the reason why Sarah Palin has been largely shielded from the media with very few controlled exceptions since it was announced that she would be running alongside John McCain. Even her recent meetings with the heads of several foreign states did not allow more than a few seconds of media coverage. One is left to imagine the puzzled translator trying to convey the sense of what Sarah Palin was saying if her answers to questions were anything like her performance during the Katie Couric interview.
McCain's Performance Similar to Sarah Palin's Katie Couric Interview?
On the other hand, eyewitness reports of John McCain's performance during the White House negotiations on the banking industry bailout package seemed to paint him in the same light. In statements televised by CNN, Senator Harry Reid said of McCain during the White House bailout talks "Anyone who tried to understand what John McCain said at the meeting couldn't." In John McCain's defense, though, he has a strong track record of speaking eloquently and clearly during his years of pushing for loosening the regulatory oversight and control of the banking industry, and even more recently during the campaign when he promised to push for similar deregulation of the health care industry. In part, because she has been so heavily shielded from the media during the last month, Sarah Palin doesn't have a significant record at the national level to provide voters with much more than the Katie Couric interview with which to make an informed opinion.
Sources:
CBS News, cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/24/eveningnews/main4476173.shtml
CNN Headline News, cnn.com
YouTube, youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww
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i'm not even american. i just checked this page out to see what all the fuss was about palin.
i honestly cannot understand.
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>Palin is an insult to not only the US but the world. Her lack of education,
wikipedia states that she has got a bachelors degree.
>experience (being governor of a state with a population less that many larger cities doesn't count.)
i'm not too sure about this. all human interaction in a competitive setup is highly political - that she has managed to become the mayor and the governor of a state at her age is by itself no mean achievment. it definitely shows a level of intelligence and competency.
also is arkansaw as populated as new jersey or california?
didn't clinton make a good president?
whether you govern a million or 10 million is not the issue - it is how you have handled the issues that is.
from reading the various articles on the net it looks like she has successfully managed the politics in her st
palin is a frickin idiot who doesnt know squat and mcCain is a bigger idiot for picking her ...then again you cant expect a smart decision
to come from a old racist prick like him anyway
Sorry Queen Elle, I deleted your comment for profanity, If you can make your point in a more civil tone, I invite you to do so.
Did u hear McCain won the debate even before the debate started , u think maybe Sarah Palins rubbin off on him dumb and dumber what a team
If Palin is your card u just lost the hand this women is an idiot she has no knowledge let alone she dosen't even have much of a vocabulary can u just imagine her talking to other leaders what a flop
wow. my jaw dropped while watching this. she is unbelievably dumb for someone running for vp.
Palin is an insult to not only the US but the world. Her lack of education, experience (being governor of a state with a population less that many larger cities doesn't count.) and ability to talk in coherent sentences is scary.
Palin makes Dan Quayle look really smart. For you kids out there he was one of the dumbest VPs in American history.
McCain is a freakin idiot for selecting her. Either a) his own judgement is seriously wrong or b) he succumbed to the wishes of the GOP to select a female running mate. Either way he didn't demonstrate Presidential character in this selection.
Americans voting for Bush baffled me but If anyone votes for McCain with an unqualified bimbo (sorry but she is a bimbo..just watch some of her other videos on Youtube) then we deserve to give up Democracy and let a few elites decide our government.
I can not wait for the VP debate. That is going to be great. Palin must be crapping her pants.
O.k. well the mayor of Detroit can see canada really close from the across the river, but he sure as heck has no qualifications. Is that an endangered species clinging to her neck?????? ;)