In at least three recent (and one forthcoming) posts on Sarah Palin, I have addressed (and will consider) the amazing ignorance of Palin-haters. They deem her unfit for the White House even though they know nothing of her accomplishments in Alaska. To prove her unfitness, they return repeatedly to a few things she said in her interview with Katie Couric.
Okay, if that’s they way they want to treat the Republican vice presidential nominee, let’s hold her Democratic counterpart to the same standard.
We could just limit our evaluation of Joe Biden to the remarks he made yesterday in Seattle, lowering expectations about his running mate’s qualifications to handle a crisis should he win election next month. What kind of man accepts a place on the presidential ticket of a man whose readiness to lead he questions?
And for those who think Palin is such a clown, well, then, take a gander a Joe Biden’s gaffes. If they want to judge Sarah Palin by one bad interview, shouldn’t we judge her rival by a series of silly statements?
UPDATE:Â Tom Smith weighs in:Â Picking Biden shows bad judgment (via Glenn who has more).
It was two interviews, Gibson and Kuric, and – absolutely.
Palin HAS become more accessible to the press, and that’s a good thing. Except that the questions are softballs and the answers are still the same talking points, though more polished.
What a suckey election this is.
Is anyone keeping track of Biden’s gaffes in this election? I have come to believe that Biden is the dumbest and most arrogant Senator of the United States Senate. I just loved when Biden said that the word JOBS was a three letter word. And, I doubt if sonicfrog has heard about the crazy statement (gaffe) that Biden made last Sunday. I would suggest the sonicfrog click on the link in this link:
http://justoneminute.typepad.com/main/2008/10/a-rocky-road-fo.html
Biden is a treasure trove. He makes Quayle look like a genius.
If I were McCain’s campaign commercial maker, this would be all over the airwaves, like Hillary’s 3AM Phone Call commercial that was devastating to Obama.
One gets the feeling that Joe doesn’t want to be VP under Obama.
“lowering expectations”? Did you really try to characterize Biden’s speech as “lowering expectations”? What a laugh… well, sorry, I should say: what a standard GOP response these days.
What Biden did say, for those who don’t drink the GOP Kool-Aid anymore, is that Obama will most likely be called upon to make difficult and unpopular decisions, and that his fans today should stick with him tomorrow, even when those decisions don’t bring high poll numbers, even when those decisions don’t seem easy. “Lowering expectations” indeed. I suppose such out-and-out lying about Biden’s speech is just another sign of the current right’s current desperation, so, good on ya GPW.
And GPW, given the number of papers of record breaking decades of endorsements of Republicans in order to endorse Obama, adding that to everything from Powell’s choice to Adelman’s to dear-God Hitchen’s, all citing the Palin pick as one of the primary reasons, don’t you think it’s about time you stop pretending the Palin pick is being judged solely on a few stumbled lines to one interviewer? It’s a totality of the circumstances thing, my friend, and the poll numbers of Americans’ impression of Palin and the number of conservatives and conservative papers jumping ship over Palin bear this out.
You expect us to assume, torrentprime, that liberal pseudocons like yourself who were already in the tank for Obama from the start are judging Palin fairly.
The difference between the two VP candidates is rather stark; as just one example, Biden channels $2 million from his failed presidential campaigns to enrich his family, while Palin channels millions of dollars of oil and gas royalties to all Alaskans. Biden has spent three decades doing nothing to end political corruption and has aided and abetted it in the Democrat Party; Palin in just three years got crooked and unethical members of her own party thrown off state commissions and kicked out of office.
Finally, the funny part is that the left was correct when it accused some Republicans of misogyny; fortunately for us, all of them left and are now backing Obama, just like you. Pseudocons wanted a suitably subservient woman like Hutchinson and Snowe, and they certainly had no interest in a Republican woman who had gotten the state party chair brought up on ethics charges and had destroyed two corrupt male gubernatorial candidates.
#4: How does that even begin to address the issue, torrentprime? Biden said, “mark my words,” within six months of Obama’s Presidency, “the world” will test “the mettle of this guy” with “an international crisis, a generated crisis.” There’s no question that Biden was admitting that Obama’s youth and inexperience would INVITE some kind of international calamity just so some rogue state or terrorist group can see how he reacts and deals with it (to “test him”).
So, apparently, the “change we can believe in” is just untested inexperience that will expose our nation to international threats and peril right off the bat–peril that could have been avoided with the election of a more experienced candidate to the Presidency (if you agree with Joe Biden).
When and if Obama is called upon to make such “difficult and unpopular” decisions, they will likely be along the lines of: appeasing genocidal, imperialist dictators; deferring to anti-American international organizations; or refusing to defend and protect America and its citizens. Accordingly, I’ll stick with Obama for as long as the Left stuck with Bush when he made the “unpopular decision” to defend this country against Islamic psychopaths and mass-murdering dictators–for about a nanosecond.
Now that Biden is on the record about the six-month egg-timer he’ll be cranking on the day Obama is sworn-in, Ralph Peters of The NY Post has compiled a comprehensive (and terrifying) list of the possible/probable sources of the challenges The One may face during his first six months in office.
http://www.nypost.com/seven/10202008/postopinion/opedcolumnists/america_the_weak_134398.htm?page=0
Um, how is that any different from Obama or Biden? They answer questions with non-answers, or worse, with complete falsehoods, and get away with it utterly because it sounds polished. You are comparing Palin to others, not on her relevant abilities, accomplishments or intellect, but comparing her bullshiting abilities after 7 weeks practice to Obama who has been doing it for 2 years, and Biden and McCain who have been doing it for decades.
One is not indicative of the other.
Actually, it sounds to me like Biden just admitted President Bush has been right all along,
Which of course, he has, and he and Obama, and really, all the Democrats, have come around to Bush’s policies on everything from the surge to wiretapping to the patriot act.
Freudian confession.
So Palin gets “softball questions”. Meanwhile, Comrade Obama gets NO questions whatever. Which one is running for POTUS?
Speaking of desperation, why did the Obamunists see fit to try and destroy Joe the plumber? Why the elitist snobbery of “whoever heard of a plumber making $250,000?”, because WE ALL KNOW they’re poor proles who can’t keep their britches up, after all.
And what the hell was Comrade Obama doing in NH if the election’s a mere formality to find out who the thought criminals are?
And a big STFU to torrentprime and the other trolls:
V, like I said. It’s a sucky election.
So the only way you were able to make this work was to finangle the comparison: “Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September.” He of course has done dozens of interviews, one-one-one’s. I saw him interviewed after the Powell endorsement, he was on a FOX affiliate in Florida on Sunday, etc etc etc: but the only way you were able to make this “charge” sound good at all was to take one specific kind of a interview and back-date it “all the way” to… September? None of which changes the fact that Obama and Biden have been campaigning for much longer, and answering questions for longer, and Obama in particular has been campaigning for 2 years! Palin has been campaigning for a handful of weeks, so her campaign’s decision to hide her in a bunker for half of that time is a) a bigger problem for you and b) a bigger worry for the American people. Again, see all the conservative papers who have bailed on the McCain ticket because of her.
Based on the way you ignored my comment above, you know it’s true. Nice try, though, ND30, on the desperate appeal to sexism “Pseudocons wanted a suitably subservient woman like Hutchinson and Snowe”. I love it. So now the charge against all McCain non-backers is that the women they would have liked are too Stepford-like.
Best. Election. Ever.
Um, torrent, I’m just quoting a CBS reporter who’s “backdating” (as you put it), interview.
And before you call this the best election ever, bear in mind that people haven’t voted yet. And recall that in 2004, Democratic National Committee Chairman Terry McAuliffe called that election night the best ever, based on exit polls not actual votes.
Isn’t it funny to watch torrentprime now try to spin why Obama not talking to the press is a good thing, when before he insisted that not talking to the press proved you were an incompetent?
Nice try, though, ND30, on the desperate appeal to sexism “Pseudocons wanted a suitably subservient woman like Hutchinson and Snoweâ€. I love it. So now the charge against all McCain non-backers is that the women they would have liked are too Stepford-like.
It is sexism, and that is the problem. Palin is someone who rocked the Alaska Republican establishment, resulting in quite a few people being fined, kicked out of office, and losing elections to her, and the people who are opposed to her here are a) repulsed by a woman doing that and b) scared to death that she’ll do the same to them.
Finally, you expect us to assume, torrentprime, that liberal pseudocons like yourself who were already in the tank for Obama from the start are judging Palin fairly.
The only person anywhere who’s asked The One a tough question is Joe the Plumber.
(That includes Blowhard O’Reilly.)
#15: “The only person anywhere who’s asked The One a tough question is Joe the Plumber.”
That’s right, V the K, and thanks to a vigilant MSM and a justifiably appalled candidate, that impertinent sonofabitch got what he deserved: untold media intrusion; revocation of privacy; bitchy public ridicule in speeches from BOTH candidates, a government investigation; and a big, heaping helping of liberal personal destruction.
Obama and Biden are fu*king scumbags.