WakeUpSheeple
09-12-2008, 04:45 AM
Well finally we get to hear from her in person. First interview was on GMA.
After hiding for two weeks with only eight left until the election, she sits down with Charlie.
For a while, I'm not sure if she gave a single straight answer. Charlie had to keep asking the same ones, over and over because she would stray into a stump speech every time instead of answering.
It began with a few softballs, but Charlie Gibson delivered.
During the first of three interviews with Sarah Palin, Gibson pressed the GOP VP candidate on national security, Russia and whether she believes U.S. soldiers are “on a task” from God.”
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Gibson began by asking Palin if she was experienced enough to be vice president - and president - and whether she was ready. Palin, of course, replied, “I’m ready.”
But it got better. Tough but respectful, Gibson pressed her on her recent remarks that “our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.”
“Are we fighting a holy war?” Gibson asked.
Palin said she was just quoting Abraham Lincoln. But Gibson noted that she went on to say “there is a plan and it is God’s plan.” He then asked, “. . . are you sending your son on a task that is from God?”
I think she replied that she hoped it was God's plan or that we were on God's side or something like that. She was squirming at this point as Charlie showed her 2 video's of herself saying these words to a large group of people.
Gibson then asked Palin if she agreed with the Bush doctrine and Palin appeared confused, and asked for clarification.
Gibson said “The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.
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The Bush Doctrine, which is likely to shape U.S. policy for decades to come, reflects the realities of American power as well as the aspirations of American political principles. The doctrine, however, includes several other terrorism-related foreign policy principles of the administration formed in reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She did not know what it was.
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.15845/pub_detail.asp
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I think these were her next 2 answers after some wrangling.
He asked if she’s ever met a foreign head of state. “I have not,” Palin said.
What insight into Russian actions “does the proximity of the state give you?”
Palin said “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”
“Ya just can’t blink, Charlie,” not when you’re looking out across the Bering Strait with your finger on the nuclear trigger.
I say, no leader should get onto national TV and speak about a war with Russia. Russia has the nuclear button just like we do. They are no Iraq or Iran or some weak country. And all of this gloom and doom delivered with a wink, smile and voice straight out of “Fargo,” on the one day that people paused to recall a nightmare and dare to imagine a better world.
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Interview continued on Nightline that evening.
Have not dissected all the answers yet.
If anyone heard it differently, we can debate it but I think this is pretty accurate. Sometimes it's hard when yes or no questions are answered without a yes or a no.
After hiding for two weeks with only eight left until the election, she sits down with Charlie.
For a while, I'm not sure if she gave a single straight answer. Charlie had to keep asking the same ones, over and over because she would stray into a stump speech every time instead of answering.
It began with a few softballs, but Charlie Gibson delivered.
During the first of three interviews with Sarah Palin, Gibson pressed the GOP VP candidate on national security, Russia and whether she believes U.S. soldiers are “on a task” from God.”
------------------------------------------------------------------------
Gibson began by asking Palin if she was experienced enough to be vice president - and president - and whether she was ready. Palin, of course, replied, “I’m ready.”
But it got better. Tough but respectful, Gibson pressed her on her recent remarks that “our national leaders are sending U.S. soldiers on a task that is from God.”
“Are we fighting a holy war?” Gibson asked.
Palin said she was just quoting Abraham Lincoln. But Gibson noted that she went on to say “there is a plan and it is God’s plan.” He then asked, “. . . are you sending your son on a task that is from God?”
I think she replied that she hoped it was God's plan or that we were on God's side or something like that. She was squirming at this point as Charlie showed her 2 video's of herself saying these words to a large group of people.
Gibson then asked Palin if she agreed with the Bush doctrine and Palin appeared confused, and asked for clarification.
Gibson said “The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense.
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The Bush Doctrine, which is likely to shape U.S. policy for decades to come, reflects the realities of American power as well as the aspirations of American political principles. The doctrine, however, includes several other terrorism-related foreign policy principles of the administration formed in reaction to the Sept. 11, 2001, terror attacks. She did not know what it was.
http://www.aei.org/publications/pubID.15845/pub_detail.asp
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I think these were her next 2 answers after some wrangling.
He asked if she’s ever met a foreign head of state. “I have not,” Palin said.
What insight into Russian actions “does the proximity of the state give you?”
Palin said “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”
“Ya just can’t blink, Charlie,” not when you’re looking out across the Bering Strait with your finger on the nuclear trigger.
I say, no leader should get onto national TV and speak about a war with Russia. Russia has the nuclear button just like we do. They are no Iraq or Iran or some weak country. And all of this gloom and doom delivered with a wink, smile and voice straight out of “Fargo,” on the one day that people paused to recall a nightmare and dare to imagine a better world.
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Interview continued on Nightline that evening.
Have not dissected all the answers yet.
If anyone heard it differently, we can debate it but I think this is pretty accurate. Sometimes it's hard when yes or no questions are answered without a yes or a no.