Obama camp worried that bar has been set too low for Palin in veep debate
September 27th, 2008 at 09:28pm Pat Cunningham
 
Some people are saying that Sarah Palin’s pathetic performance in her infamous interview with Katie Couric portends a full-blown disaster when the Alaska governor meets Joe Biden in the vice-presidential debate Thursday night in St. Louis.
THIS GUY even suspects that the McCain camp is looking for a way to postpone or cancel the veep debate.
But the Obama people, concerned that the bar has been set too low for Palin, are TELLING THE WORLD that she’s actually “a terrific debater.” They don’t want to her to win the debate merely by barely surpassing exceedingly low expectations.
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1. Mr. Baseball | September 27th, 2008 at 9:44 pm
Pat, I believe there’s no question that part of McCain’s strategy in trying to postpone his first debate was to cancel the vice-presidential debate. I saw the Couric interview and now I understand why they have kept Palin away for the media. By the way, Couric did an excellent job, asking tough questions without being obnoxious and condescending. From what I’ve seen, if Palin has a good debate, the McCain staffers who prepare her for it should win a medal. As far as the McCain-Obama debate last night goes, I thought both did a pretty good job, but the reaction so far has definitely been in Obama’s favor. He held his own against McCain on foreign policy and apparently that’s what many undecided voters were looking at. I agree that in these types of debates, it’s style over substance.
2. swamprat | September 27th, 2008 at 10:41 pm
Would someone please send this idiot back to Alaska where she belongs. I can’t listen to her nonsense any longer.
Why are we worrying about terrorists but let her into our government?
3. swamprat | September 28th, 2008 at 9:25 am
News flash. Saturday Night Live has fired its staff of writers saying that Tina Fey reading actual transcripts of Palin interviews is funnier.
http://separate-equal.net/?p=1016
4. SNuss | September 28th, 2008 at 9:47 am
The Obama camp has only itself to blame. THEY, and their sycophants in the MSM, are the ones who continue to belittle her at every opportunity, so why do they now whine about “low expectations” for Palin?
5. swamprat | September 28th, 2008 at 10:38 am
Snuss. Seems the Republicans always have trouble picking good VP’s. Nixon, Agnew, Quayle, Bush 1, Cheney. Probably the MSM made them do it, right?
6. Pat Cunningham | September 28th, 2008 at 10:39 am
Another pearl of wisdom from SNuss: Palin’s idiotic utterances, which have become a national joke and have prompted even some conservative Republicans to worry about her intellectual fitness for high office, are all the fault of the Obama campaign. We can conclude from this that SNuss is no brighter than Palin. But then, we already knew that, didn’t we? Keep up the great work, SNuss. You’re always good for a few laughs.
7. Craig Knauss | September 28th, 2008 at 11:10 am
Has SNuss even read some of the comments from right-wingers such as George Will or Kathleen Parker? Parker was a big Palin fan until she found out that Palin was little more than a Victoria’s Secret mannequin. Probably due to Palin’s plumbs such as, “I have foreign policy experience because Alaska is close to Russia.” Wow. Insightful. And apparently she just realized that Canada is a foreign country as well. Does she even realize that a whole bunch of our states are near foreign countries (Canada, Mexico, Bahamas, Cuba, Cayman Islands, Bermuda, etc.)? Maybe Palin should be in the U.N.?
8. SNuss | September 28th, 2008 at 8:36 pm
At least she hasn’t asked a paralyzed man in a wheelchair to stand up. Isn’t that Obama’s job, as Messiah?
9. Linda W (Colorado) | September 28th, 2008 at 9:19 pm
Read this (newsweek.com). Exact exchange from Couric interview. It’s frightening.
COURIC: Why isn’t it better, Governor Palin, to spend $700 billion helping middle-class families who are struggling with health care, housing, gas and groceries; allow them to spend more and put more money into the economy instead of helping these big financial institutions that played a role in creating this mess?
PALIN: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, were ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health-care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans. And trade, we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as a competitive, scary thing. But one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today, we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity. All those things under the umbrella of job creation. This bailout is a part of that.
10. Pat Cunningham | September 28th, 2008 at 9:34 pm
Linda: Don’t you wish you were that articulate? She’s right up there with Margaret Thatcher, isn’t she?
11. swamprat | September 28th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
Snuss Give it up. Your nitpicking. Is that as bad as 20,000 old people losing their life savings in the Keating scandal? How did you like losing money in the 2000 meltdown? McCain had a “come to Jesus moment” when he knew they were closing in on the crooks. Look it up in your Wikipedia. I say he’s guilty, I don’t care if his cronies let him off.
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