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The spectacle of Sarah in the City continues! Alaska governor Sarah Palin spent her second full day in New York meeting more foreign leaders: Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashivli, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Iraqi President Jalal Talabani and Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, who said she was "gorgeous" and that he knew "why the whole of America is crazy about you."
Still, there were bumps in the road. First Lady Laura Bush, when a CNN interviewer asked if Palin had sufficient foreign policy experience, said, "Of course she doesn't have that," but added, "You know, that's not been her role. But I think she is a very quick study, and fortunately John McCain does have that sort of experience." The First Lady added that Palin had common sense and she was excited to vote for the McCain-Palin ticket.
It's unclear whether Palin is supposed to know about McCain's voting record or stances on issues. In an interview with CBS News's Katie Couric, Palin struggled to cite examples of McCain's desire to increase oversight over financial firms. After Couric didn't accept Palin's answer, which parroted her own question, Palin offered, "I'll try to find you some [examples], and I'll bring them to you."
Palin also visited Ground Zero yesterday. She was overheard commenting about NYC before one of her meetings, "There's plenty to do here, isn't there? Plenty to see." Palin is attending the Clinton Global Initiative today.
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The more Palin speaks, the more obvious it is that she is completely unfit for any national office. You can just see Couric seething that THIS is the woman the GOP wants to put one step from the white house.
Calling her gorgeous is so sexist...haha.
VPILF
You say gorgeous - I say plain Jane.
Nice gams.
Dead from the neck-up, though.
Show us some cleavage, babe.
Asif Ali Zardari intentions were to insult her, it's our egos that imply the compliment.
I would totally do her...bet she is freaky. Thats why I am voting republican. Oh yeah and Obama sux is my second reason.
Wow, it's like speed dating. Let's cram in 5 minutes with every world leader that we can find. What a joke...
"It's not surprising, then, that Couric gets bitter ... she clings to CBS or antipathy to people who aren't like her ... "
- Barry Obama
What a lovely empty vessel. Like a vase from TJ Maxx.
Seriously? The GOP wants to go from the most conniving, puppet mastering, political strategists VP in our history to this airhead who was nearly unfit for her job as a small town mayor in Alaska to begin with? Seriously??
My hypothesis: They WANT to lose this election.
She's capable enough to get elected (and succeed on some level) to mayoral and gubernatorial positions, which seems to indicate that she's not a total fool. But you wouldn't know it from these interviews. She's got the GWB mixture of "I don't know, and screw you for asking, smartass", attitude down pat.
Her experience don't seem to have prepared her to think about any of these national and international questions beyond a set of hastily memorized, snarkily/shakily delivered talking points.
Either she's nervous and can't perform under pressure, or hates the media so much she doesn't think they (and by extension, we) deserve real answers.
DRILL BABY DRILL
speaking of gorgeous (or formerly gorgeous) Yuschenko is lookin good these days. goes to show it takes more than toxic poison to knock a ukrainian down.
"Her experience don't seem to have prepared her to think about any of these national and international questions beyond a set of hastily memorized, snarkily/shakily delivered talking points."
That's called politics.
Maybe if she starts hooking up with world leaders they'll be nicer to us?
she's not looking good, that's what happens in an election. she's aging already.
wendi murdoch looks pretty hot.
Watching that Palin interview is like watching the Mets try and land the Hindenburg on the deck of the Titanic.
Wow, I thought Bush was an idiot but Palin blew him out of the water! You know what would help her is picking up a newspaper every day and actually reading it instead of using it to diaper her son.
Palin is clearly not ready for prime time. But, Couric's effort was equally subpar. "Aside from what McCain did, tell us what else he did?" Cheap, gotcha question.
Most of these photos look like they were taken in between "So, eh, how's it going?" and "well, uh, nice...talking?.. with you? good luck in...where did you say you were from?"
Except for the one with Pakistani president, who was probably going all, "you are so wonderful looking, look at you, so beautiful, i have a son who's ready to marry, eh? eh? HAHAHAHAAHAHLOLOLOLOL!"
But who are we kidding, this is what we're going to deal with for the next four years because the idiots are still the majority in this country and still afraid of black people. end of story, god bless america LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL!
First of all, we all realize we don't really have much of a choice in politics - we vote for the 2 we're presented. But when we get a ridiculous, laughable choice like this - and 45% of Americans actually agree - it's amazing. We're doomed as a country.
shes really not all that
really
Ukraine, Georgia, Pakistan and Iraq. Leaders of these countries would do anything that W would ask of them. Why am I not surprised that they are the only one meeting with her?
P.S. Well, actually, they forgot Poland!
Yep, that should be enough foreign experience to qualify for the presidency. Palin/McCain got my vote.
Somebodys Gorgeous meter needs recalibrating.
She doesn't look bad when her hair is down, but that current look ain't gettin it done...
Wow, that CBS interview was so much worse that I thought it could possibly be. I love in the very beginning when, asked a follow-up question, she stammers out virtually the exact same sentence, complete with pseudo-spontaneous "I would hope that that's the case..."
And the "People are watching what John McCain is going to do, not Barack Obama." Yeah, you WISH. Can you make it any more obvious that the "let's suspend campaigning and get back to DC" move is just a pathetic stunt?
It's funny that such powder puff interviewers are being allowed to interview her and she stumbles and looks stupid anyway. Couric is lame, but wow she was able to twist palin up. This is just sad that we are paying attention to this person and taking the mccain-palin campaign seriously.
I work just past the Hilton on 53 St, and almost barfed when I saw the "Palin Staff" vans lined up.
Seems there's a bailout plan. Debates are ON!
Wow, this will be fun. Check out mydebates.org on myspace - that's the official debate site from the commission.
Damn it Editrixie, you beat me to it. It's nice to see she wore her come-fuck-me pumps to meet with foreign leaders. At least she's putting her best asset forward.
vpilf
you know what? she doesn't wear any hose... any woman who has the bawls to do that in front of the foreign leaders of the world... has bawls... seriously.
i would like to also point out she has the same ACL Reconstructive Surgery Scare as me... so based on that - i have to vote mc cain.
Typo - it stays.
she is an attractive woman. But to use her as a distraction to the American public is so preposterous. We are absolutely doomed as a nation if the M-P ticket gets elected simply for the fact that she is "pretty". DOOMED. Then again, i have a feeling that the flyover states (ie the who-gives-a-crap part of our country) is going nuts over her.
meh, most women don't wear hose anymore.
Doesn't anybody realize that if we keep parading Palin's 'charms' all over ..the rest of the world will REALLY want to fuck us?.
Showing Palin meeting with all of our pre-paid PUPPET foreign leaders in order to 'prove' she can deal with them is almost as PATHETIC as this Alaskan yahoo.
How come when the democrats ran governors for president, Clinton, Dukakis, Carter; nobody questioned their foreign policy experience? How much foreign experience did the governor of Arkansas have before he went to the White House?
Palin is not even the top of the ticket either. Talk about sexism.
I've never been a Katie Couric fan but you really have to love her for giving Palin that final, dismissive "I can't believe you're such a stupid bitch" look.
34: no hose and a similar surgery is all it takes to win your vote? If only the campaign knew this, they'd have saved years and millions of effort!
IDES: it's not that she's being mocked for having no experience; it's arguable that nobody since Bush 1 had any FP experience. She's being mocked (rightfully so IMO) for claiming that she DOES have experience because her state is next to Russia.
The GOP and Hillary are the ones that made this campaign about experience.
lacking in foreign policy chops? she's the definition of lack.
ides_of_march, the lack of experience accusation is only a knee-jerk reaction. the reason liberal are objecting to her candidacy is because she's batshit crazy.
she believes in jesus-lizards and said that creationism would ideally be part of the public school curriculum
she's opposed to abortion in all cases including rape and incest
she belives abstinence-only education
and that's just to name only a few issues!
Please let Palin burst into the newsroom tonight with a sheaf of paper in hand: "Katie! I got some for ya!"
Actually, the GOP attacked Clinton up and down as having no experience and only being the governor of a small state. Then they go ahead and nominate this chick. At least Clinton was a Rhodes scholar who had actually been outside of North America, instead of a yahoo U of Idaho (her fifth college) grad who never had a friggin' passport.
IDES_OF_MARCH keeps trying to defend Palin. Seriously, stop drinking from the Kool-Aid. Palin is an idiot.
if foxiness is all that matters then mccain should have picked carla bruni as a running mate. so what if she's not american. she's hands-down hotter than palin any day of the week. and dare i say it... probaly smarter about foreign topics as well.
Palin is the popular mean girl from high school grown up - good looking air head with an evil streak. Even though her name isn't Heather, I bet she has the red scrunchie tucked into her Valentino jacket.
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#41 - its a joke a JOKE.
geesh. lighten up people. stop being so scared and not take this woman seriously!!!!
"you know what? she doesn't wear any hose... "
i like her more & more.
there is NO defense for palin.
The only thing people can say about her is that she's attractive.
This is a relevant qualification for applying for a job as a Hooters waitress (maybe not even then) BUT NOT VICE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES.
i'll bet Asif Ali Zardari says that to all the girls - at least all the ones without mustaches and chest hair
how come none of the jesus dick lickers have accused this bitch of being pentecostal? bitch is a snake handler! she literally handled snakes!
What are a community organizers foreign policy bona fides? Other than a two week European vacation this summer?
How's that community he organized doing now?
If nothing else, she's working that skirt. In just her first run out there, she doubled McCain's business and she can now even afford to have her baby shipped in from Alaska.
I wear black on the outside b/c black is how I feel on the inside: Has anyone else noticed that Palin dresses like a New Yorker or Johnny Cash?
I see, so *talking* with world leaders=foreign policy experience
like receiving a syllabus the first week of class and then saying you earned an A already