Oh My God, Palin Might Be ... Normal?? Gasp!

Saw this YouTube at Politico - which is sounding more and more like Obama Central everyday.

Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric, the first portion of which airs tonight, won't give Republicans any reassurance that she's ready for prime time.

It will, however, reassure McCain aides that they're ollowing(sic) the right course of action by keeping her shielded.

[Ed note: Jonathan - you had a typo where you left off that f. I'd have let it slide but as I must assume you're not "normal," seems fair to hold you to a higher standard and all.]

I honestly think the media just continues to parade its elitism as regards Palin and doesn't understand her grassroots appeal at all.

Jonathan Martin:

She is what she is -- not a seasoned politician who knows how to dodge every question. 

It's bracing but it also could be spun as normal.

Yeah, it could also be that, you know, she is normal and it doesn't have to be spun. Just think! People might actually like seeing someone that's normal in Washington for a change. (insert collective media shudder here)

Another note, when you start thinking that it's a crime for someone or something to be "normal," or that it's an impossibility, ... maybe you're the one with the problem? Ya think?

Comments

[ET]

As usual, I find Palin's directness and openness refreshing. She has a better grasp of the crisis than our troll brothers and their fearful leader do, that's for sure. Couric tries repeatedly to simplify a complex issue...a typical tactic of the left. It is not a matter of "more" or "less" regulation. Rather, it is about the right regulations...something McCain fought for in 2005...to subtle for the msm to understand. Palin handles Couric's attempt to corner her with grace. What a class act.

Compare this to Oba-wanna-be. I love Palin's hand gestures...the wet finger in the air, the yadayadayada sign. She is expressing what many Americans understand about Oba-wanna-be...he is a follower, not a leader. Much less ready for prime time than she is. He is a disaster waiting to happen. American voters can sense this and will send him home in November, thank God.

[jharp]

"I honestly think the media just continues to parade its elitism as regards Palin and doesn't understand her grassroots appeal at all."

So the grassroots appeal is based on being unprepared and having little knowledge.

Good God. Our country is lost.

[Lala]

Joe Biden said this in Cincinnati

Not too smart, is he? And how long has he been doing this?

“After seven years, in which our senior diplomatic personnel were not allowed to make a single contact with Iranians, the Bush administration realized the absurdity of its own policy and sent our leading diplomat to Iran,” he said. “The Assistant Secretary of State as he went to Tehran, sat down at the instruction of the President of the United States.”

It sounds great for Obama and Biden that the president came around to something so close to their position on talks with Iran; trouble is, the event Biden described never actually happened.

In point of fact, the one “meeting” that has taken place was in Geneva, Switzerland, when Under Secretary of State William Burns sat in on a discussion between Iranian representatives and the other “P5 +1″ political directors involved in nuclear talks. The meeting, while a first, was not a negotiation; Burns was there merely as an observer, and had no formal role or talks with the Iranians.

So, point by point: Burns was not sent to Tehran; he did not go to Tehran; and there was no such instruction from the President.

Why the story from Biden? Turns out, he was taking a characteristic detour from his prepared text

http://embeds.blogs.foxnews.com/2008/09/24/biden-fact-check-no-us-diplomats-in-tehran/

[ET]

Keep mentioning experience and preparedness, jharpo. You're comparing my number 2 to your number 1...and my girl is winning.

Good God. Our Country is saved.

[SacTownMan]

Did she comment on that Fireside chat on TV from Roosevelt that Biden remembers so well?

[mj]

The McCain campaign is starting to fall apart. The polls are getting worse, McCain suspends his campaign and attempts to spin it as "putting his country first" and his VP pick can't even answer basic interview questions. The debates will be the nail in the coffin for the Republicans, which is why they don't want to have them.

[IOpian]

I think she needs to get a little more vicious towards the press. For instance when Couric brought up the issue of Rick Davis she should have said something about Obama receiving the second largest political contribution and having associations with some of those who ran these companies.

Or why are they waiting on John McCain to see what he does and not Obama. Well what legacy of reforms has Obama ? How does this explain the boost in the polls for Obama? Well we don't have the luxury of having the established media as our cheerleaders. For instance why are you not asking me about the failure of democrats in Congress who allowed this on their watch and opposed McCain's reforms in 2005?

Back them away from the plate on a pitch or two. That would get the grassroots solidly behind her. Give em hell Sarah.

[mj]

"Well we don't have the luxury of having the established media as our cheerleaders"

Quick someone call the Waaahbulance! All I hear is whining and complaining. It's not like you've had the past 8 years to do what you pleased.

[Melodie]

I think Palin has been a great addition because she isn't part of the Washington Politcal Machine. I'll take her any day over Obama. I don't trust anyone who comes out of Chicago politics. If you're supported by Richard Daley, Rod Blagojevich and Emil Jones, I want no part of what you're trying to sell. As for her interview with Couric, I found it odd that Couric is asking Palin so many questions about John McCain and his history in Congross. I wanted to point out that Palin probably wasn't even in college when McCain joined the US Senate and that she may not be aware of every time McCain has been a maverick. And as far as Rick Davis, he isn't making any money off of that firm. She keeps saying that he recused himself from his firm, but Katie won't take her answer. All it would have taken was a little research on Couric's part, but whatever....

[PatD]

Setting the standard for declaring any particular person as "normal" would seem to be a foolish endeavor.

[jaime]

"All it would have taken was a little research on Couric's part, but whatever...."

All it would have taken was a little research on Palin's part, but whatever. How DARE the woman-hating Katie Couric not show deference and attack her family like that. Palin could do anything short of dropping trou and taking a dump on stage and you'd offer an excuse. She was incoherent, unprepared, and ill informed. But that seems to be a badge of honor for Republicans nowadays.

[JohnnyRussia]

If by "normal" you mean "unqualified", then, yes, you can call her "normal".

And the media is parading its "elitism"?

No; the media would only like to ask her the questions that it's an American's right to hear the answers to.

You need a civics lesson.

Got it?

[SallyVee]

I'm so glad someone finally said Politico is in the tank. Wow, it didn't take long did it? I had some respect for the joint for several months but, just like that! they took the plunge. It's weird. There was barely a segue. Also, I heard two jerks from Politico on satellite radio (POTUS channel) last week. They really embarrassed themselves. Just dripping with condescension and self satisfaction.

[mary]

When you say "unprepared" I think of Couric who is certainly out of her league in prime time. But I digress, that is merely my opinion.

Sarah Palin in that interview was wonderful. We women loved her. Maybe our standard is different, maybe we look into your heart.

If McCain had to raise campaign money for the GOP he could raffle off lunch with Sarah Palin and make a fortune.

[jaime]

"Maybe our standard is different, "

Yeah, I'd prefer my VP candidate not to be a vapid, uninformed twit.

[DarkWolf]

You guys seem to be predicating your disappointment of her performance on the fact that she couldn't offer a concise area where McCain pushed for more regulations.

Of course Palin should of done better than her response; she should of told Couric that it's not about more regulations or less, but about the right kind of regulations.

A professional politician would of simply palmed off the question instead parrying into something they wanted to talk about a la Obama in almost every interview.

Palin instead was honest.

So you beat your chests and demand in righteous anger that as Americans you want her to be interrogated and chide her for not knowing whilst staying quiet when Obama, Biden, Clinton et al do it.

Hypocrites.

[North Dallas Thirty]

Yep, you'd rather your Presidential candidate was.

The fact that your VP candidate is an arrogant gaffe-prone lying prick who says one thing one minute and reverses himself the next is merely a nice addition.

Jaime and his fellow ( http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/24/florida-congressman-points-to-palin-to-rally-jews-to-obama/ ) racist Dems are terrified of Palin -- probably because they're not used to women who tell them to go to hell rather than falling at their feet and doing whatever they say. After all, that's why they destroyed Hillary Clinton and Geraldine Ferraro; can't have an uppity woman telling her male superiors what to do, now, can they?

[Ronsonic]

She does need to learn that she doesn't have to try to answer everything. Like the follow ups on Davis's lobbying should have been "you'll have to ask him for any more detail."

[Brian72]

You know something? Katie Couric is way over her head in this job she got just because she's cute. Katie really should be at home with her children. She has no business meddling in national affairs, with a family to take care of and all. What does this say about the judgement of CBS News? Questions are raised.

[Boomba]

>Yeah, I'd prefer my VP candidate not to be a vapid, uninformed twit.

Jaime, Herbert Hoover was president in 1929, not Franklin D. Roosevelt.

If anyone is a twit, it's Joe Biden.

Now turn around and allow me to give you the assramming you so deserve.

[xerocky]

I know that this is off topic, but to this day, I don't think I've ever seen Obama give a straight answer to any question he's been asked.

I just thought I'd say that.

[J]

JAIME - talk about twits- BIDEN thought there was TV -and- he did not KNOW it was HOOVER that was PRESIDENT. He made the comment AFTER talking about how people needed to be informed. You are hilarious. The DEMS love the STUPID they count on you. They have ruined our families and schools and you are evidence. I have hit my limit with fools like you. So bought and paid for waiting for your government to bail you out.

[Kitty]

They say "normal" like it's a bad thing.

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[Dennis D]

How McCain voted for or supported other deregulatory issues is meaningless to the current problem. Sarah should have told Katie that " We are specifically talking about mortgages not fishing regulations". John McCain did sound the alarm. McCain also supported Sarbanes Oxley which is as regulatory as it gets.

[Dan]

I am not sure why anyone does interviews with the press. When they ask you a question, the first thing you have to ask yourself is the information in the question even close to being correct. In this first question from Couric she asks about the guy in the McCain that might have a relationship with Freddie Mac and asks it twice. While you don't want to think that Couric is purposely lying, she certainly could be simply repeating an internet rumor that has no basis or little basis in fact. Like Charlie Gibson quoting her prayer to the troops and getting it all wrong.

[Paul]

Mind you, all the anti-Palin snark comes from people who support a candidate who has trouble reading off of a teleprompter. Projection is their first, middle, and last names.

[Lala]

This is how the liberal press lie -

Couric Scolds McCain for Palin's 'Great Depression' Scare -- Which Couric Proposed to Palin

by Brent Bake

Interviewing John McCain on Wednesday's CBS Evening News, Katie Couric informed him and viewers that, during an interview of Sarah Palin she conducted earlier in the day, Palin warned of a “Great Depression” if the bail out is not passed, leading Couric to scold Palin to McCain: “But isn't so much of this, Senator McCain, about consumer confidence and using rhetoric like the 'Great Depression,' is that the kind of language Americans need to hear right now?” Quite a bit of chutzpah for Couric, chutzpah CBS didn't even hide from viewers since in the subsequent excerpts from the Palin interview which viewers saw it was Couric herself who raised the ominous phrase.

Palin had not used the term when Couric asked Palin: “If this doesn't pass, do you think there's a risk of another Great Depression?” Palin's reaction, in full:

http://newsbusters.org/blogs/brent-baker/2008/09/24/couric-scolds-palin-great-depression-scare-which-couric-raised

[Bruce]

I'll take "I disagree with your answer, but at least you answered the question" over "That's above my pay grade" any day.

[Anon]

I wonder if anyone can begin to estimate the consequences of the media abandoning any pretense of objectivity? What is this going to mean for the future? Will they cheerlead anything and everything the Obama Administration says? Will the NYTimes and MSM turn into a Pravda of sorts, the unofficial mouthpiece for all things Democratic?

[Paul]

I wonder if anyone can begin to estimate the consequences of the media abandoning any pretense of objectivity? What is this going to mean for the future? Will they cheerlead anything and everything the Obama Administration says? Will the NYTimes and MSM turn into a Pravda of sorts, the unofficial mouthpiece for all things Democratic?

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Any criticism of an Obama Presidency would be deemed as racist and the person criticizing would be demonized and told to enter "re-education."

[joeb]

In high school Katie Couric was a cheerleader and Sarah Palin was a basketball player. I think that should tell you who was a doer and who is a cheerleader.
More should be made of Obama's really dumb and stupid remark that in 40 days the next President will inherit the economic crisis. Not true. The next President doesn't get that until Jan. 20,2009.
Think it over. Obama is looking more and more like a chucklehead.

[Worst President Ever]

I guess she won't be getting the witchcraft vote.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kj-on3kfWuE&

[Jim Treacher]

The McCain campaign is starting to fall apart.

You'd better hope so.

[seekeronos]

"--- Palin could do anything short of dropping trou and taking a dump on stage and you'd offer an excuse. ---"

Jaime, why are you such a potty-mouthed liberal?

Are you capable of elucidating any thoughts without resorting to toilet humour, or foul language?

Sure that Ivy-League, Classical Greek education must have been of some value to either you or your parents who footed that bill... or did you spend those years off getting stoned or drunk or chasing men or raiding test animal laboratories or whatever the devil it is you silly liberal elites do in college?

[seekeronos]

"--- I guess she won't be getting the witchcraft vote. ---"

I suppose not. Witchcraft is actually a pretty serious thing, it is as the sin of rebellion and insubordination against God.

That particular church may be a bit on the Pentecostal/Charismatic side (I am guessing it was an Assembly of God congregation, I am not familiar with Pastor Thomas Muthee or his specific teachings).

Nevertheless, there is nothing wrong with praying for God's protection against witchcraft and attacks from the devil.

More important though, is to pray that the leaders are in (that is, doing) the will of God.

[seekeronos]

"--- Yeah, I'd prefer my VP candidate not to be a vapid, uninformed twit. ---"

Yeah, I guess that means you liberals won't be voting for Obama-Biden then, since Biden seems to think that TV sets were widely available in the late 1920s/early 1930s, and that FDR was the POTUS in 1929.

Congrats, and welcome aboard the McCain Train!

[Worst President Ever]

Joe hasn't gone to church and received protection from witches. Maybe Palin's counting on that to get her across the line.

"In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every form of witchcraft is what we rebuke in the name of Jesus"

[neelynzus]

I'm a fan of Palin's for severeal reasons, but I think the campaign is blowing the prep work. They have so few opportunities to speak directly to the public that they can't afford to waste Palin on cautious rhetoric. They are squandering the possibility she is.

Examples of what might have been:

Couric - "What else besides S190 in 2006?" Palin - He supported the Administration's call for reform in 2003. What else was necessary, Katie? If the Dems hadn't blocked both those reform efforts we wouldn't be in this mess.

Couric: "Yes, but McCain's been for deregulation." Palin - "Well that's certainly one of Obama's talking points, but the measure he talks about, the Gramm bill, passed the Senate 90-0 and was signed by Pres. Clinton. Sen. Biden voted for it and Bob Rubin, Clinton's SecTreas and an Obama advisor, said just last week that it had nothing to do, ZERO, he said, with this crisis."

She also should be explaining the difference between lobbying and actually cooking the books (Raines, Johnson) or taking huge campaign contribution to look the other way (Obama, Dodd, et al) and other attempts at moral equivalence by the Dems.

[seekeronos]

And, let's not forget the Chuck Graham Standing "O" as well

http://jimtreacher.com/archives/001620.html

[Worst President Ever]

I guess that makes Palin the first VP Candidate to be officially protected from witchcraft. Maybe she can make her acceptance speech from Salem, Mass so all Americans can understand the dangers of going without Witchcraft Protection.

[seekeronos]

I don't normally sandbag over semantics, but sandbag, I shall:

"--- Joe hasn't gone to church and received protection from witches. ---"

Does this mean that Joey "Hairplugs" Biden has sought protection from a coven of witches, as in the witches have cast a spell (a demonic incantation, a curse) upon him in order to secure his victory?

Because it seems that spell really isn't working all that well -- unless of course, it is indeed a curse.

[seekeronos]

To Neelynzus:

"--- I'm a fan of Palin's for severeal reasons, but I think the campaign is blowing the prep work. They have so few opportunities to speak directly to the public that they can't afford to waste Palin on cautious rhetoric. They are squandering the possibility she is. ---"

Perhaps you are correct; but I think that the campaign is keeping her strictly to the script, whereas whenever Joey Hairplugs goes off script, he plain goes off the deep end...

[neelynzus]

To seekereonos: Yes,but what I am suggesting is that they expand the script. Peggy Noonan observed early in the Palin game that these guys who work Presidential campaigns are beltway guys who will treat a female governor in a patronizing way that will minimize her in the eyes of the public. I think that's happening and I think she needs to start swatting the mediaswine with barbs and facts. sdn
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"In the name of Jesus, in the name of Jesus, every form of witchcraft is what we rebuke in the name of Jesus" -- Worst President Ever

Why thank you, Worst! It's always edifying to be exposed to the thoughtful comments of ObotBushhaters.

[Worst President Ever]

Those were the comments of Ms Palin's pastor. Maybe she can lead us into the Middle Ages.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jl4HIc-yfgM

[seekeronos]

Thomas Muthee is *NOT* her pastor. He just happened to be preaching at a church Ms. Palin was visiting during her campaign for Alaska governor.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Muthee#Wasilla_Assembly_of_God

[jharp]

"I honestly think the media just continues to parade its elitism as regards Palin and doesn't understand her grassroots appeal at all."

Is this more of Palin's grassroots appeal? Openly displaying that you are way dumber than the folks you are trying to appeal to.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=npUMUASwaec&eurl=http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/25/palin-bailout-healthcare/

Good Lord. This is the most incompetent fool I've ever seen on a ticket.

[Worst President Ever]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wCLZHgJEF3s

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Did she comment on that Fireside chat on TV from Roosevelt that Biden remembers so well?"

Sac are you sure he was talking about FDR or Teddy? I guess it had to be FDR since TV was at least invented by the time he came around.

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Yeah, I'd prefer my VP candidate not to be a vapid, uninformed twit."

So you're not voting for Obie/Plugs either then? Ron Paul supporter?

[WAHOO WILLIE]

"Joe hasn't gone to church and received protection from witches."

Plugs doesn't need to ask for protection. His church regularly dispatches exorcists to dispell demons and such.