Dan Gillmor defends Sarah Palin against anonymous cowards

I feel like the leftist illuminati has made a sport out of picking on sarah. It has already been discovered that the Africa comment didn't really happen. If you TRY to pick on someone and find things to criticize about anyone, it isn't hard.

@ Michel

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Where is traveller's alleged momentary lapse in memory in #71533?

Oh my. Traveller is having a senior moment.

Sarah Palin is a rough diamond and I hope to God she stays unpolished for four more years. The only "informed" presidents were Eisenhower, Nixon and Bush senior. The "holy" Kennedy was so well informed that he started his presidency with the Bay od Pigs and let Cuba slip away.
Clinton's foreign policy lead to 9/11 and the enormous expansion of Al-Quaeda.
If Palin would be president she would scare the shit out of Iran, Irak and the Taliban/Osama. She would have a thousand people telling her where exactly the target was and she would go after them, no ifs and buts. You know what? They would ask for a truce and negotiations. The West has lost the initiative and Palin would take it back.
First we will have to watch the demise of the US by the new "Messiah".

Rouet has a point. Sarah Palin was out of her depth in some interviews. There are several explanations for Palin's shortcomings however. The easy explanation is that she is a complete idiot. There are other explanations though, one being that Palin has probably never given a serious thought to national issues and that it showed when she was confronted under pressure with concepts and issues she was not at all familiar with. I remember a Belgian budget minister that performed so badly during an interview that she was allowed to start over. Does that mean Freya Vandenbossche is a complete idiot or could there be another explanation?

The idea that Palin was simply not ready is in my view a far more likely explanation. She *could* be an idiot of course, but I find it hard to believe that a popular governor would be both very stupid and unable to hide it.

So no, Sarah Palin is probably no idiot but she was definitely not ready for the federal level and that is where I find myself in agreement with A. Rouet. Mc Cain's choice was, in retrospect, a risky gamble, and therefore unserious. Palin seems to have a lot potential but she was not ready. That doesn't mean she will never be ready, however ! If I were an American liberal, I would drop the cheap sarcasm and keep an eye on the lady.

I would like to point in passing to A. Rouet that Joe Biden also displayed ignorance on some key subjects, like the role of the vice-president in the American constitution, which is quite strange for a long-term Senator. But that was not deemed as important as Palin's missteps. Could it be because he is so much better at wrapping his ignorance in intelligent-sounding blather?

@ Mr. John McCain, his staff or the GOP board,

Why a GOP-candidate for VP is, * before * nomination not tested on his/her knowledge about K12-level issues like 'the Bush doctrine', 'Nafta', 'the First Amendment' and more? A one hour chat with Mrs.Palin must have made things clear. So did you talked with her before about American politics, or not? And if you did, again, why did you underestimate and insult the American voters by accepting her?

The African country quote is indeed a rumour of which there are no direct accounts. Fox News cited the rumours coming from the McCain staff (https://www.youtube.com/watc...).

However, the Couric interview sends the African quote to the realm of irrelevance. Her ignorance on supreme court rulings, her rambling on the 700B bail-out, her ignorance about what vice presidency incurs, her being baffled when asked which newspapers she reads, ... all of these are kept for posterity in numerous fragments on the net.

What "courage" does it take to speak out for having heard Palin say Africa is a country? What repercussions would there be? It is not the same courage required for a Russian citizen to publicly accuse Putin of corruption. So treating these commentators as "cowards" is a heavy overstatement. If the Africa quote is not truthful, it won't help the image of Palin for a bit.

So, if you want to discuss the value of anonymous sources, there are much better examples than this tiny quote.

Dan Gillmor is een sukkel. "So, let's consider this: this is a campaign that did almost nothing but lie during the campaign anyway. That's an exaggeration, but the McCain campaign lied a lot."

Wat een halvegare, en het feit dat hij het nu voor Palin opneemt doet niets ter zake. Als er 1 ding is dat McCain niet genoeg gedaan heeft dan is het de waarheid naar buiten brengen. Zowel Obama's connecties met WU terrorist William Ayers, zijn doorsluizen van geld naar een PLO woordvoerder toen die organisatie nog als terroristisch geboekstaafd stond, zijn jarenlange trouwe kerkbezoek aan een racistische pastoor, zijn voorkeur voor Marxistische profs bij het uitzoeken van vrienden, zijn banden met Kenya's Odinga (een moslim opgeleid in de DDR), alsook zijn banden met Nation of Islam stichter Louis Farrakhan, zijn staalharde feiten. Om dan te zeggen dat McCain gelogen heeft, DAT is pas een leugen.

Krokodilletranen om Palin's behandeling door mensen uit haar kamp NA de verkiezingen is nog eens de dolk in het vlees ronddraaien. Als die Gillmor iets had willen zeggen had ie dat moeten doen VOOR 4 November, toen de MSM en zeker de media in Europa letterlijk ALLES hebben gedaan om Palin volledig en totaal door het slijk te sleuren.

En dat die Gillmor ook iets aan de layout van zijn blog doet. Ik ben er in slaap gevallen.

The same people who f....d up McCain's campaign are now scared shitless of the next Palin-campaign for president.
She will eat them alive after a solid Obama disaster.
The "flower people" who are now looking at "Messiah" Obama will spit him out in 4 years.