FOR FUCK'S SAKE?!?!?! How the fuck are people supporting this nonsense?!

I can just imagine a notecard in her pocket.

Side A: Terrorists
Side B: Hell bent on destroying America

Un-!@#$%^&-believable

Drudge is no longer reporting the interview as a headline, meaning two things:
1. he has a reason not to report it (danger to Republicans)
2. most of the mainstreamers will ignore it.

And, voila! Everything is okay again!

besides, she is so cute. that mean old man Charlie Gibson was simply attacking her because she's a woman. Everybody knows he's a sexist librul anyway.

Good god. She's so clueless about the goings on of anything outside of Alaska that she had no idea what the Bush Doctrine was until Gibson had to prompt her. I couldn't watch the whole thing-- I was too embarrassed for her.

Will the media please do something and call McCain out for picking a clueless hockey mom to be his Veep?!?

In the future the journalist should provide Palin with the questions in advance. How's she supposed to remember what the Bush doctrine is?

"I'm clueless, Charlie, but how DARE you not show enough deference by making it obvious!"

But it doesn't matter to the idiot wingnuts. They don't care about ANY of this, all they give a shit about is she's pro-life and believes in Jezuz Chrysler. That's it, bottom line.

She's 'one of them', everything else be damned.

The Bush Doctrine:

They - BAD
We - GOOD

Gov. Palin's English is awful. It's like reading an undergraduate's writing. She changes the structure of a sentence midway. And the clichés! And the recirculating vocabulary--blink, blink, blink.

Gaaaahhh!!!

if she can make such a hash of an interview this weak, it's no wonder they want to keep her sequestered away from being asked questions by the rest of the media. and if she can't handle the media how on Earth is she going to handle foreign leaders or diplomats?

we have a winner

Not even Pat Buchanan is buying this pile of crap. He only cheered when she got the Bush Doctrine wrong, which Pat hates.

This woman is a complete neophyte, a zealot, and more dangerous than W because she lives a life based upon magic-thinking. W pretended it to get elected; she is it.

Obama supporters must give up sleep between now and November to defeat this.

Were this an upper division seminar in international relations: D

Interview for the consumption of American voters deciding on who to pick for their vice president (who love that she understands that terrorists are "hell bent"): A

Future of America and the world: F

Here's the transcript, care of msnbc's First Read:

GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?

PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?

GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?

PALIN: His world view.

GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.

PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.

GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?

My first reaction; WTF was McCain thining? I actually thought she would come off better than this just in terms of appearance.

But the first impression is strong - WTF why would we put a 10th grade civics teacher in charge of the largest army in the world. Of course she is just spouting talking points planted by McCains FP team - in other words BushIII and IV.

I'm sure Lincoln Chafee and others like him are emailing Obama right now volunteering to go on the campaign trail for him. Maybe even Rice.

New logo for the McCain campaign:

McCain in full uniform, the old sea captain, with a parrot sitting on his shoulder. The fact that the parrot might be shitting on his dress blues, no problem.

If I were Charlie Gibson, and it had become apparent to me that she didn't know what the hell I was talking about, it would take all the professional fortitude I could muster to not jerk her around for a while to see where she went with it:

"You know Sarah, the Bush Doctrine. You know, the thing...about the satellite on the MOON?.... and communicating with the WHALES?...and the RAPTURE?... What's your take on the whole thing?"

Biden must be licking his chops.

They obviously told her to avoid using the word "Bush" wherever possible

Heckuva job Sarah!

Beauty Queen - the standard answer is "world peace", not "world war".

They gotta be readying an inner ear radio transmitter implant for her as we speak. She ain't ready for this.

Somebody upthread hit the nail on the head. No one will watch the interview but like the debates, it'll all be about the spin. GOP is I'm sure already got its talking points out to its people about how she showed great American small-town values in confronting a hostile media set to embarass her...

The Dems need to get in front of this right now. A single line has to come from ever Dem who appears on a tv show or radio for the next 96 hours:

Sarah Palin showed in vivid lack of detail, in a "blurr of words" that she is too dangerous to be a heartbeat from the Presidency. She certainly has shaken up the race and excited the hard-right base, but the time has come for us to pick a team capable of governing, not just sloganeering. Sarah Plain failed that test.

(average voter) I like her, she's like me, I could be her... I'm a hockey mom/dad......
I don't know what the Bush doctrine is, why would she? She'll have advisers telling her what's what. If nothing else there's wikipedia.

...for US, if Biden shows anything close to the kind of contempt you're describing.

Forget Gibson; for the vast majority of MSM Heathers, far more important than winning the debate on the facts and the positions is winning the debate on "who looked least like an elitist."

Shaking one's head, banging the podium or (Jesus forbid) *sighing* are dead giveaways, I tellya.

Make fun of Supermom, and we Important People will feel so Sorry for her that we might just have to elect her. It's sort of like pity sex, except the recipient gets to declare war on Russia afterward.

Christopher Guest's next movie should be a parody of this election -- a la Waiting for Guffman and Best in Show -- starring Catherine O'Hara as Sarah Palin.

Or is Palin parodying Catherine O'Hara parodying a clueless in-over-her-head candidate?

McSame-Palin: MENACE TO SOCIETY.

The repeated forced use of "charlie" was simply annoying.

Wow...I don't post often, but this was just uncomfortable to watch. I'd almost feel bad for her, except she brought it on herself. I seriously hope people sat down on watch this twit and spent a good long time thinking about whether they really want Palin a heart beat away from the presidency.

"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some of the people out there in our nation that don't HAVE maps and I believe that our education like such as South Africa and the Iraq and everywhere like such as, and I believe that they should, that our education over here in the US should help South Africa, and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so people be able to build up our future, for us."

A beauty pageant answer from a beauty pageant contestant.

hmmm, I was just thinking, maybe since Palin knows so much about Russia because of it's proximity to Russia, we should be concerned in that Russia is actually closer to AK, than AK is to the rest of the US - maybe it's the US Palin doesn't know enough about?

Hmm, she seemed clueless on that one. I can just imagine the McCain camp saying "I can't believe this mothafucka asked her about the Bush Doctrine, he's off the list." We shouldn't overreact though, we have to access how the media portrays this one.

Palin is bizarre - did you see her wink at Gibson? Real cute, you betcha'.

McCain used bad judgment in choosing Palin, but what makes it worse is that his friends from over the years refuse to believe that their old buddy has lost his ability to make long range decisions. He is not the person they knew.

People with early stage Alzheimer's need support from family and friends, reassurance that things will be fine, "You are still the same good old guy, don't fret." People are instinctively reluctant to criticize a friend's fading abilities. Even democrats who had a friendly relationship with McCain are trying to blame his crazy-ugly campaign on his handlers - but this election will decide too much of the world's future! If he can't control his campaign, then what is he capable of?

The spokespeople of the Democratic party have to tell it like it is, no mushmouthing around with big words and innuendo. McCain has bad judgement, an unpredictable temper, and extremist advisors. McCain is lying. McCain is not in good enough mental health to function without a script.

Who writes that script???

Palin is bizarre - did you see her wink at Gibson? Real cute, you betcha'.

McCain used bad judgment in choosing Palin, but what makes it worse is that his friends from over the years refuse to believe that their old buddy has lost his ability to make long range decisions. He is not the person they knew.

People with early stage Alzheimer's need support from family and friends, reassurance that things will be fine, "You are still the same good old guy, don't fret." People are instinctively reluctant to criticize a friend's fading abilities. Even democrats who had a friendly relationship with McCain are trying to blame his crazy-ugly campaign on his handlers - but this election will decide too much of the world's future! If he can't control his campaign, then what is he capable of?

The spokespeople of the Democratic party have to tell it like it is, no mushmouthing around with big words and innuendo. McCain has bad judgement, an unpredictable temper, and extremist advisors. McCain is lying. McCain is not in good enough mental health to function without a script.

Who writes that script???

Josh wondered as to the whereabouts of Joe Biden

Keeping his powder dry....

Clap hands! Little Sarah made a poopie. Good girl!

I believe Mccain just made another house type gaffe. In his discussion about Mayors. He let loose a gaffe along the lines of ebign divorced from folks day to day exitence in Warrshington ...this is a meme that needs framed and hung for all to see

Good lord.

Admittedly I'm reacting off this 2.5-minute snapshot, but she speaks in cliches, and barely addresses his questions, and even Charlie's slow-go-it approach seemed to have her a bit thrown.

This is worse than George W.

"When the Senator popped the question, I said 'yup,yup'"-----Sarah Palin, 9-11-2008

Good God, I'm a senior citizen with only a couple years experience in local government and I've known what the "Bush Doctrine" is since it was first articulated several years ago.

Smarten up Republicans and MEDIA. Palin's got to stay in Alaska. She would be a disaster for America.

Like a used car salesman.

"When the Senator popped the question, I said 'yup,yup'"-----Sarah Palin, 9-11-2008

Good God, I'm a senior citizen with only a couple years experience in local government and I've known what the "Bush Doctrine" is since it was first articulated several years ago.

Smarten up Republicans and MEDIA. Palin's got to stay in Alaska. She would be a disaster for America.

You know the dems might have to be careful about not beating up on her too much over this.

In this mixed-up, muddled-up, shook-up world, the voters might take her side. She's one of us. And when you beat up on her, you're beating up on all of us.

Besides, she doesn't need to know the Bush Doctrine. This is McCain/Palin, they're reformers!

I know, it sounds bizarre...but never underestimate the republican spin machine.

Well, we've certainly lowered our expectations for Gov. Palin, but somehow she still managed to underperform them.

God help the USA.

I hear fear in her voice. Like she knows the jig is up and she's about to be exposed as a fraud.

drudge is not the main stream

expect this to play big.
Obama and Biden will ppush it for days and so will Bill Clinton.

and i will predict thAT the group of voters who will run from mccain/palin now will be the jewish voters.

florida will go Obama now.

this woman has just started her gaffes.
charley went easy on her.

What's interesting is how this is NOT being emblazoned across the front of Foxnews. It's given a second-tier story after, "McCain Blunts Palin's Jab at Obama." THAT leading story says McCain told Obama his community service was really not such a bad thing after all.

Anyway, even the Fox story isn't all that enthusiastic about her, noting that she was stepping out of her "protective bubble" for the first time.

Sadly, this isn't going to change the minds of the base one bit. On one of my momblogs, the Palinluvers are already falling all over themselves abotu how good she looked and how well she did. "I don't know what the Bush doctine is, either. So what?" That's a direct quote.

Wow. She is 'Bush League' in every sense of the term.

This is pretty pitiful although I agree with those who worry that this won't be nearly as negative as it first appears because the average person doesn't really know what the 'Bush Doctrine' is anyway! They'll hear her talking tough about killing terrorists and think it's a good thing. The problem hasn't been that Bush is or isn't tough. It's been that he hasn't been smart about being tough! There is a difference and as they say the devil is in the details. For a president and party that doesn't 'do nuance' this is a big problem.

"you can see Russia from the coast"!

I knew it.

Palin is a Flat Earther!

This was like watching a boxer who's been instructed to throw a fight discovering, to his horror, that the chump he's been matched against can't even handle pulled punches. Unreal.

Obviously the McCain campaign has made a calculation that the less qualified Palin appears, the more voters will be able to identify with her ('She's one of us', etc); and they must have some plan to bounce her out after the election if he wins . . . the 'Spend More Time With My Family' bit . . . whereupon McCain will then appoint Lieberman to replace her. I can't imagine anyone, even in that campaign, is comfortable with the prospect of her serving a day as Vice President.

I SAID he should have picked Mentum...now who's going to tell McSame the difference between a Shiite and a Sunni or that Iraq doesn't border Afghanistan?