The problem, for Palin, is that the Couric interview is already out there, and SNL seized the advantage.

And the bigger problem for Palin may be the fact that the McCain campaign has banned MoDo from the plane.

(I think MoDo should have been banned from the Op-Ed pages years ago, but I digress).

Greg? Do you know if this Veep questions interview came before, or after, the big interview, or were they part of the big interview?

Just curious.

Didn't CBS release the raw footage of the McCain interview conducted by Couric online? Isn't that their SOP in dealing with interviews?

I wonder if McCain's next stunt will be to vote against the bailout package? Might not work for him, but then again he has to something provocative.

But it's wrongwrongwrongwrong to attack Palin, it's a mistake, America loves her, it's gonna backfire, you're all just a bunch of Oilbamabots!

Why won't anybody listen to meeeeeeee!!111!11

I don't know how this election will turnout. Finally, thanks to Gov.Palin, republicans are the ones scared, worried and on the defensive this election. Image the terror in the eyes of those formerly bullish rethugs, while we wait for the new footage with anticipation and excitment they must be shivering while they freeze.

Love it!!!

All in baby!

(Cindy honey, I need more money)

She's the Harriet Miers of the McPain campaign.

I would pay any amount to watch John McCain sing this song karaoke style to Sarah Palin. Priceless...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXUgtEe99ZY

I can't WAIT!!!!

All but one of the indies and repubs I know who were on the fence moved right into the Obama camp after those Palin interviews.

Now we're just waitin' on Mom! I think a little more Palin will do it.

This interveiw will take some of the pressure off Biden Thursday night. As long as he isn't completely gaffe free, the attention will be focused as much on the Couric interview as on that night's debate. Imagine all those warm-up shows playing that tape over and over again. If not already, the audience will be predisposed to look for more signs that Popeye's ship is taking on water.

The problem for the Republicans, McCain and Palin is that any interview,with the exception of those conducted by people like Hannity (which aren't really interviews anyway), will show her for what she is.

Beware skull-fuckery. Kurtz is a right-wing shill. By announcing it could get worse, he's helping to set the bar low so that if her answers are minimally coherent, the Right will come out and announce, "See? She's not bad at all! She's ready! It's a left-wing conspiracy to paint her as incompetent!"

The bar is set so low for the debate she can only come out looking good - right?!?!?!

>>>But it's wrongwrongwrongwrong to attack Palin, it's a mistake, America loves her, it's gonna backfire, you're all just a bunch of Oilbamabots!>>>

Despite my flaming partisanship, I've reached the point where I am no longer comfortable rooting for Palin to fail more. She will fail. She has failed. It is getting to the point where you have to feel for her. It's embarrassing and it isn't really her fault. She just doesn't know about present day issues. She just doesn't.

Granted, she shouldn't have taken the nomination. But how was she to have known that? Her worldview is very simplistic, and she was being told by the party that she was ready and that they needed her. Where was she supposed to get the information that this was almost guaranteed to be an embarrassment? She was supposed to know more than them?

It's a bad feeling. McCain, or more appropriately the Kristol crowd, should be answering for this, not this poor dim bulb they have used and embarrassed. I'm not looking forward to more of the interviews at all.

Seriously, my husband is the most non-political, fair minded person I know, and he cannot make it through a seven minute clip of this woman. He thinks she is an embarrassment and frankly, an idiot.

Face it. The debate will be watched like a SNL skip, only the horror will set in when you realize this is real life.

And BTW, I now abhor Bill Clinton. The interview yesterday did it. He should STFU. Go away.

Last week Scarborough said Couric asked Palin what the worst thing Cheney has done and she replied 'shot his friend with the gun.' This would be the type of question Couric would ask in the Vice Presidential Questions Series would it not?

I cannot wait to see this potentially embarrassing Sarah Palin, then again can't she get anymore embarrassing. footage. It will be festoon with goodies...lol

Hi,

I'm a relative newcomer (a month or so) to the Cafe, but I really enjoy everyone's comments.

I agree that Biden should refrain from attacking Palin. The only exception would be if she starts blathering that she is qualified to be VP. Then its open season on her. I have to think that Gwen Ifil will ask at least one question to Caribou Barbie about her qualifications. I think that Biden should answer in response that: "I think its up to the American people to decide that question. I will say that I think I come to this position far better prepared than Governor Palin."

http://hk.youtube.com/watch?v=oro2Yh9HoEM

Palin was on Kudlow stating she doesn't know what VP does all day, he confesses he's in the White House all the time and can assure her, the VP is very busy.

You have to listen to Kudlow's yelling questions for a few minutes and her nasal responses until he gets to the VP issue.

There is yet another of her interviews that she's more specific in her confession with added giggles....but I can't tolerate listening to the nasal twang long enough to find her extended discussion on VP's job description.

She was prompted to be on several of the GOP's talking point host shows because of the oil drilling whining . . she's got a video resume thanks to the oil issue.

Sarah Palin - The Post Turtle

While suturing a cut on the hand of a 75-year old Texas rancher whose hand was caught in a gate while working cattle, the doctor struck up a conversation with the old man. Eventually the topic got around to Sarah Palin and her bid to be a heartbeat away from being President.

The old rancher said, ' Well, ya know, Palin is a post turtle.'
Not being familiar with the term, the doctor asked him what a post turtle was.

The old rancher said, ' When you're driving down a country road and you come across a fence post with a turtle balanced on top, that's a post turtle.'

The old rancher saw a puzzled look on the doctor's face, so he continued to explain.

' You know she didn't get up there by herself, she doesn't belong up there, she doesn't know what to do while she is up there, and you just wonder what kind of dumb ass put her up there to begin with.'

The idea that anyone should go easy on Palin is really silly. Biden himself put it well on MSNBC last Friday, saying that it would be the most condescending thing he could do.

All Joe has to do is avoid:

a.) Calling her a hick
and
b.) Reacting negatively to anything she says about being supermom.

Good news for Palin!

VP Cheney has been so impressed with her defense of the GOP that he's invited her to go hunting with him!

Ok, maybe not such good news for her...

I have one question why are they hold the interviews, are they editing them like they did last time, or does the McCain campaign have to approve them first? I'm not understanding how the come out days after another.
Thank you, to whom ever clears this up for me.

Greg, there seems to be some confusion about these purported tapes. CBS told Huffington Post today that there aren't any more tapes from last week's Couric interview.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/29/cbs-theres-no-more-palin_n_130231.html

I will be as astonished as anyone if Palin does at all well on Thursday... but remember, the expectations for her are fantastically low, and those for Biden are very, very high... so, with the way things have gone recently (ie, bizarre public perception... I am astounded every day at her remaining fans, and they are legion), not setting her hair on fire may well be all she needs to do. However, what I find beautiful is the fact that a highly respected, intelligent, and articulate woman is the moderator... just think of the contrast. Katie has, in the past, struggled to not come off as "cute," but in her interview with Palin the contrast was striking. Now imagine Palin vs Ifill. I look forward to just watching that juxtaposition... for as long as I can bear to watch that lunacy at all.

If I am stupid enough to step in the ring with a heavyweight champion, I deserve to have may ass handed to me. And I also deserve to pay the medical bills. I do not deserve to say, "go easy on me, I am just a puny little shmuck".

Joe Biden knows many ways of demonstrating her incompetence without a direct attack. Particularly for 90 minutes, which gives plenty of time to try to explain away McCain's positions on the bailout, foreign policy, Alaska vs. Russia, military resources, new conflicts, global job competition, the devaluing of the dollar, Gitmo, PATRIOT Act, CIA rendition, etc., etc., She immediately contradicted him on the ONE question she did answer the other day. Then he sent her to Arizona.

Some huge things to remember: "100 years in Iraq." Alaska has less than 1 million people in it, the US has over 300 million.

For me the biggest question--Cheney became the all-time most powerful VP, and usually not for the better. What will change under Palin or Biden? Do they put it back or keep expanding? Was it legal? What will happen now?

And really, just let her spout off. She is not focused enough to avoid being completely rattled after the first good answer or two from Biden. she will be freaked out and incoherent, regardless of a good start.

All he needs to do is work his game.

Abraham Lincoln said, "Better for people to think me an idiot than for me to open my mouth and remove all doubt."

Surely you mean : On a Clear Day You can see Russia ?