Palin's First Townhall Question = FAIL

[Mr. Peabody]

From CNN -

CNN
Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin took questions with her running mate Wednesday night, offering at one point to play "stump the candidate" with a mostly friendly Michigan crowd.

Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."

"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve."

GOP presidential nominee John McCain stepped in, pointing out that as governor of a state that is oil and gas plentiful, Palin was familiar with energy. She knows it to be "one of our great national security challenges," he said.

He also cited her nearly two years as commander of Alaska's National Guard. "I believe she is absolutely, totally qualified to address every challenge as the next vice president of the United States," McCain said.

That's the type of question you'd get at a job interview and she couldn't answer it?

[Nbadan]

Scary isn't it? I mean, Palin went to 5 different colleges and universities to get a degree in Journalism...but some GOP supporters think that this qualifies her to be second in command of the U.S...

[2centsworth]

lets see, Joe Biden has earned $280,000 per year for the past 20 yrs and has a net worth of $150,000.

Sounds like an economic genius.

Obama makes Palin look good.

[Mr. Peabody]

How is asking about what skills she has playing "stump the candidate"? If anything it was a softball to get her to highlight her skills to a friendly audience.

[2centsworth]

How is asking about what skills she has playing "stump the candidate"? If anything it was a softball to get her to highlight her skills to a friendly audience.

i like what people do rather than what they say.

[baseline bum]

Wow. I never thought I'd see someone stupider than Bush running in the presidential election.

[PixelPusher]

lets see, Joe Biden has earned $280,000 per year for the past 20 yrs and has a net worth of $150,000.

Sounds like an economic genius.

Obama makes Palin look good.

Assessing a person's abilities by how much money they have. How very Republican of you.

[Mr. Peabody]

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Wednesday became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president.

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

Palin was elected governor of Alaska in 2006 and before that was the mayor of a small town.

Democrats have raised questions about Palin since Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice presidential running mate. Most national Republican officeholders have rallied to Palin's candidacy.

Palin has cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia as evidence of her international experience.

Hagel scoffed at that notion.

"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

[2centsworth]

Assessing a person's abilities by how much money they have. How very Republican of you.

you bet when considering someone to run the largest economy in the world. How very liberal of you to think otherwise.

[PixelPusher]

you bet when considering someone to run the largest economy in the world. How very liberal of you to think otherwise.

The President doesn't "run the economy". How very dumb of you think otherwise.

[2centsworth]

The President doesn't "run the economy". How very dumb of you think otherwise.

tell that to Obama. I thought I had to talk down to you from your last post.

[PixelPusher]

tell that to Obama. I thought I had to talk down to you from your last post.

So now you don't think Presidents "run the economy"...so why do you insist on using income as a basis for assessing someone's ability to act as President?

[TheMadHatter]

This woman makes Bush look like Einstein.

[PixelPusher]

you bet when considering someone to run the largest economy in the world. How very liberal of you to think otherwise.

Is the United States of America a publicly traded corporation? Does the United States of America have a profit margin that has to be maintained or exceeded every quarter? Does the President of United States have a single-minded fiduciary responsibility that it must focus on in a laser-like fashion to the exclusion to all other considerations?

[KenMcCoy]

The questioner never asked a specific...what is she supposed to do?

[KenMcCoy]

Also...CNN didn't show the clip where she was questioned on energy. WHich she did very well on.

[Bang]

She is a perky religious extremist.

BANG!!!

[td4mvp21]

Assessing a person's abilities by how much money they have. How very Republican of you.

[whottt]

I love all these libs that are the shank ass s of the largest media conglomerate in the world propping themselves for their intelligence.


She knows more on foreign policy than you guys think she does...parts of it were apparent in the Gibson edits...which is why it was edited.

I said this 3 weeks ago and I can't believe you guys are too ing stupid to look up the same things I did a day after she was named VP....


Maybe you need CNN to tell you to do it?


Ya'll are stupid.

[whottt]

Ya'll are stupid.

Or dishonest...personally I'm leaning towards brain dead...waiting for CNN to give them their cues.

[Mr. Peabody]

I love all these libs that are the shank ass s of the largest media conglomerate in the world propping themselves for their intelligence.


She knows more on foreign policy than you guys think she does...parts of it were apparent in the Gibson edits...which is why it was edited.

I said this 3 weeks ago and I can't believe you guys are too ing stupid to look up the same things I did a day after she was named VP....


Maybe you need CNN to tell you to do it?


Ya'll are stupid.

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel is stupid, huh?

WASHINGTON — Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska on Wednesday became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president.

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

Palin was elected governor of Alaska in 2006 and before that was the mayor of a small town.

Democrats have raised questions about Palin since Sen. John McCain picked her as his vice presidential running mate. Most national Republican officeholders have rallied to Palin's candidacy.

Palin has cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia as evidence of her international experience.

Hagel scoffed at that notion.

"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

[florige]

I love all these libs that are the shank ass s of the largest media conglomerate in the world propping themselves for their intelligence.


She knows more on foreign policy than you guys think she does...parts of it were apparent in the Gibson edits...which is why it was edited.

I said this 3 weeks ago and I can't believe you guys are too ing stupid to look up the same things I did a day after she was named VP....


Maybe you need CNN to tell you to do it?


Ya'll are stupid.

I don't know what McCain/Palin has done to the media, but I know last night on NBC news with Brian Williams they totally ripped into Palin with no grease....

[Viva Las Espuelas]

Wow. I never thought I'd see someone stupider than Bush running in the presidential election.

STAND UP, CHUCK!!!!!

[fyatuk]

you bet when considering someone to run the largest economy in the world. How very liberal of you to think otherwise.

Didn't the EU pass us earlier this year?

[cool hand]

Ron Paul is the only one qualified to run this country....and all you ers blew it.