Politics 2008:The Caucuses and The Dem/Rep Conventions

[jitterbug13]

Gwen has made it no secret that this book is coming out. And correct me if I'm wrong, but the book is not coming out until next year. Gwen has also done interviews with the Obamas for Essence.

Whether or not Gwen's the moderator, Palin is still going to look dumb as a doorknob.

[mccoyred]

Originally Posted by jitterbug13

Whether or not Gwen's the moderator, Palin is still going to look dumb as a doorknob.

Its all about the spin They HAVE to make it look like McPalin is getting bullied because that endears her to the 'base'. They can have the 'base', Obama will take the middle (http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/1..._n_131039.html)

[Velocity_14]

They were talking about this on the view this morning and I am so sick and tired of all of the excuses that are floating around about Palin. I'm going to underestimate her and say that Joe Biden is about to talk circles around her tonight....based off of what I have seen and read...it does not matter who the moderator is...she does not know what in the hayle she is doing or talking about.

She has illustrated in her own words too many times, in the 30 days that we have even known who she was, what she can bring to the table----nothing. I don't care who may disagree and I'm not going to sugar-coat my opinion...but Palin should not be the republican VP candidate...I KNOW there are more "qualified" women in the republican party that could have been chosen if McCain was so stuck on choosing the "other minority" to make his ticket more appealing.

It just bothers me that society sometimes tend to lean more to superficial things than substance. Yeah she is cute...but that doesn't have a thing to do with my job security or my ability to keep my home, pay my bills, get a job, put gas in my car, drive to work, provide food for my home, save money, or just function as an independent member of society. My life is not a political game and I am tired of these greedy jokers who are more worried about having a title and more money than they can spend rather than understanding that the decisions and choices they make effect more people than just themselves. This is partially why this country is in the situation it is in now....

wheeeeew, I'm so sorry for kind of going off but things have gotten so out of hand and it really pisses me off. Please forgive me for any typos but I had to get that off my chest...lol. I'm sorry but McCain and his camp is a big joke to me and you don't have to be a comedian to see that...

[Honeykiss1974]

/\/\ There are plenty of people that agree with you. In fact, his choice of Palin actually should be an insult to women everywhere. It is OBVIOUS that she wasn't chosen because she is competent and can do the job. She was chosen because she is easy on the eyes, a woman, and his camp figured that women will vote for him because he has a woman on the ticket. That's the equivalent of when (as a woman) I go out to look at a new car and the first thing the salesman shows me is the driver's side visor mirror "for checking your make-up".

There are PLENTY of more capable women out there. He should have looked harder.

[SummerChild]

Ok, so I've figured it out. What Palin does during her interviews (and what she'll probably do tonight during the debate).

Here's her trick:
If anyone (Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric or even tonight, Gwen Ifill) asks her a question about anything in which she will have to be specific, she answers a different question - namely, she rearranges the question the question in her mind to one in which she can just broadly talk about the subject matter in general and then she actually answers the question that she has put together in her own mind. This is probably her and McCain's strategy b/c she is ignorant of everything of substance.

For example, when asked about the policy on preemption, I think she answered as if Charlie had asked her if America needs to defend itself IN GENERAL. She made that question up in her own mind and answered her own question - forget Charlie.

The only problem for her is that Biden is likely to push her to the wall and force her to answer the question that was asked. After all, this is a debate. Tonight, she won't be able to merely have a conversation with herself before the American people as she has been doing.

It's actually pretty swift if you think about it. If one is not listening closely enough to her answer, she uses enough of the related key words to *sound like* she's addressing the question (this flies over the head of the sloooow Americans who either are not paying attention or don't understand the issues anyway, which is many unfortunately) and it's also swift b/c she actually has to be *smart enough* to rearrange the sentence in her mind in real time and answer the new question that she has made up. I think that this is what the camp has her doing. It's actually pretty good when you think about it. Maybe she's not as dumb as everyone thinks - ok, that might be going too far. LOL.

Between Biden and Ifill, I think that she'll have to answer the questions ASKED tonight. I am almost certain that the Obama camp is on to her and her flicted strategy.

SC

[I.A.S.K.]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

It's actually pretty swift if you think about it. If one is not listening closely enough to her answer, she uses enough of the related key words to *sound like* she's addressing the question (this flies over the head of the sloooow Americans who either are not paying attention or don't understand the issues anyway, which is many unfortunately) and it's also swift b/c she actually has to be *smart enough* to rearrange the sentence in her mind in real time and answer the new question that she has made up. I think that this is what the camp has her doing. It's actually pretty good when you think about it. Maybe she's not as dumb as everyone thinks - ok, that might be going too far. LOL.

Between Biden and Ifill, I think that she'll have to answer the questions ASKED tonight. I am almost certain that the Obama camp is on to her and her flicted strategy.

SC

I agree. This is the McBush Camp's overall strategy. Look at his answers to the questions during the debate last Friday. He was clearly taking the question and finding a related question that he knew the answer to and answering the related question, but not the question that was asked. Palin will try the same thing, but it wont work against Biden because he will be less lenient on Palin than Obama was with McSame. I'm SO excited to watch this! I do think that Palin will look better comming out of the debate because she can only go up from where she is and because I think she's been playing dumb.

[KAPPAtivating]

Originally Posted by SummerChild

Ok, so I've figured it out. What Palin does during her interviews (and what she'll probably do tonight during the debate).

Here's her trick:
If anyone (Charlie Gibson, Katie Couric or even tonight, Gwen Ifill) asks her a question about anything in which she will have to be specific, she answers a different question - namely, she rearranges the question the question in her mind to one in which she can just broadly talk about the subject matter in general and then she actually answers the question that she has put together in her own mind. This is probably her and McCain's strategy b/c she is ignorant of everything of substance.

For example, when asked about the policy on preemption, I think she answered as if Charlie had asked her if America needs to defend itself IN GENERAL. She made that question up in her own mind and answered her own question - forget Charlie.

The only problem for her is that Biden is likely to push her to the wall and force her to answer the question that was asked. After all, this is a debate. Tonight, she won't be able to merely have a conversation with herself before the American people as she has been doing.

It's actually pretty swift if you think about it. If one is not listening closely enough to her answer, she uses enough of the related key words to *sound like* she's addressing the question (this flies over the head of the sloooow Americans who either are not paying attention or don't understand the issues anyway, which is many unfortunately) and it's also swift b/c she actually has to be *smart enough* to rearrange the sentence in her mind in real time and answer the new question that she has made up. I think that this is what the camp has her doing. It's actually pretty good when you think about it. Maybe she's not as dumb as everyone thinks - ok, that might be going too far. LOL.

Between Biden and Ifill, I think that she'll have to answer the questions ASKED tonight. I am almost certain that the Obama camp is on to her and her flicted strategy.

SC

You are exactly right. She has already done this when asked the first question tonight. She also makes a ploy to tug at "average" american's heart strings. She always begins with some sort of "soccer mom" comment. Nice try, but if you don't know let it go. She also asked first off if she could call Joe Biden by his first name during the debate. It implies that we should feel relaxed with her. She simply sounds decent because she fails to use political jargon that sometimes flies over the heads of Americans, but I think that's only because she doesn't know any big words...lol.

[AKA2D '91]

Who the HECK was she winking at? wtf?

SNL will be GOOD on Saturday. I know they have to provide Tina Fey with ALOT of $$$ to portray Palin.