UMD Libertarians

I haven’t even watched it yet.

Enjoy.
well, found the gist…

Can’t say that I am overly surprised. Will watch vid later.

Oh, and, from that link:
"Laugh at the that make Palin ridiculous just by quoting her verbatim."

Wow, she is fucking clueless. It’s a sharp contrast with Biden in that video..who is so well informed and has great conviction.

Palin is nothing but a clown.

wow. the dnc should just show some of these long-winded rambling answers to nowhere.
I award you no points, and may god have mercy on your soul.
that is a sharp, sharp contrast there

even if you are totally pro-life you have to respect biden’s knowledge of the law that goes into it
Yep, Biden talks about talking points when he debates his Republican friends. Do you think Palin ever has serious political discussions with her friends?

LOL, obviously not.
Its not fair because Biden has more experience and is smarter.
You can tell when Palin was pulled away from her rehearsed answers and into uncharted territory.

When Katie Couric asked what decisions Palin disagreed with, I couldn’t believe that that both Miller and Cruikshank weren’t mentioned. Someone who is supposedly such a friend of the gun owners in this country should have at least heard of these decisions.
how about….oh i dunno…

madison v marbury?

ya know, when i was in 12th grade us government, our teacher ( this british chick) had this list of like 20-30 essential cases we all had to know to be good us citizens.

Of course, I have forgotten more than 1 or 2….but Im not running for anything.

can’t have a buncha elitists running our country.
What our country needs is someone with small town values.

Jesus christ

That answer was pathetic. I hope for her sake that she’s been swatting every minute of every day. Because if she gives answers like that she’s going to look like a fool in front of millions of people.
christ just when i thought it couldn’t get any worse
wow… that’s amazing…

She really didn’t know of another decision…

Now, I don’t know another decision either, off the top of my head. So, I’m not going to call her an idiot.

But, I’m not in a political career and I’m not running for VP. She just doesn’t have the knowledge for such a powerful position in this country.
Youtubes of it, longer versions, even more incoherent:

I missed the last one

This one i’m catching live. Even if i have to stay up til 6am.
It’s like watching a train wreck. Anyone catch Palin’s comment about being a Federalist?
What a dumbass…Seriously America, you’re gonna trust this woman to run our country if McCain dies?

Miranda is an easy one- that’s why cops read us our "miranda" righs

She can field dress a moose. That’s reason enough for some idiots in America and on this website to support her.
"Uh, y’know, any of them that uh, I would disagree with. I was a mayor and a Governor, y’know."
Ahh… here it is on YouTube

lulz at how easy it is for her to freeze up.

Apparently she had one answer sitting right in front of her….

One puzzling aspect of Palin’s non-response is that she was heavily involved in one of the court’s biggest cases, a decision to slash the punitive damages awarded to those whose livelihoods were affected by the 1989 Exxon Valdez oil spill in Prince William Sound. The court ended nearly two decades of legal battles by cutting the award from $2.5 billion to $500 million. Palin sided with the nearly 33,000 fishermen, native Alaskans and others who sued because of the accident — although she and her husband dropped out because of his commercial fishing business — and she denounced the court ruling afterward. But she made no mention of the case in the interview.

I thought she NEVER BLINKS?
she sounded pretty good up until the ‘think on your own’ question…

I’m gonna go ahead and say that the difference between her and Biden is 100 years of experience dealing with this stuff on a daily basis. I mean really, who in their right mind WOULDN’T expect Biden to be able to answer that question better.

I’d also be willing to wager that Bush would be able to answer the question better than both of them.

But does a day to day knowledge of supreme court decisions make you a good leader?

i lol’d

Biden passed the bar, and was a lawyer iirc. I would think that a woman who has deep religious convictions which forbid abortions would also have a well thought out response, albeit one that leftists or even centrists might not agree with.

It depends if you think american democracy is more than just a hallow platitude, or whether there is something majestic about the laws.
Might Biden have a finer appreciation for the checks and balances in the government and be more likely to respect them? Plausible imo.

Its obvious that Bush wanted to create America in his name; significantly strengthening the power of the executive. He might have some good leadership skills, but is that the best determinant of president?

if you plan to be a fucking leader of a country you had better at least keep up with important developments in jurisprudence that influence the every day lives of the very same americans you want to "lead".

now its funny you bring this up because what you saw in the biden v. palin interviews on that question was biden thinking on his feet and came up with a decision in a case HE WAS INVOLVED IN… I’m sure if he was asked to site a case from history he would have stammered and flubbed…but he knew to keep it close to home..

Palin on the other hand totally blanked thinking she was required to state a case from history when she could have stated her own personal interest.

we just witnessed the difference between a player and a poser..
Harriet Miers knew when to throw in the towel..or at least take the hint..

Miers met with senators since her nomination was first announced, and in those meetings she was ill-prepared and uninformed on the law. Senator told her privately that she "flunked" and "[was] going to have to say something next time." In mock sessions with lawyers, Miers had difficulty expressing her views and explaining basic constitutional law concepts. Miers had no experience in constitutional law, and did not have extensive litigation experience; at her Texas law firm, she had been more of a manager. Miers had rarely handled appeals and did not understand the complicated constitutional concepts senators asked of her. To White House lawyers, Miers was "less an attorney than a law firm manager and bar association president."
Early one-on-one meetings between Miers and the members of the were said to have gone poorly, and the White House considered suspending them to focus on preparation for the confirmation hearings. In an unprecedented move, Chairman and ranking Senator also requested that Miers re-do some of her answers to the questionnaire submitted to her by the Committee, noting that her responses were "inadequate," "insufficient," and "insulting" because she failed or refused to adequately answer various questions with acceptable accuracy or with sufficient detail. Miers also privately expressed a belief in the right to privacy to the pro-choice Arlen Specter, only to later deny that she had communicated that. Her answers also included an error on constitutional law where she mentioned an explicit constitutional right for proportional representation; though many court rulings have found that legislative and other districts of unequal population violate the , the right to proportional districts is not explicitly mentioned in the United States Constitution.
Sarah Palin… now THAT is a Republican leader. I bet they are all proud of her.

Ummm… Her response was ‘it should not be a federal issue, it should be a state governed responsibility’…. Were we watching the same link? And for the record here, we’re critiquing her interview, not the rest of her platform, correct? The only people who would not agree with her statement on the interview would be people who believe the federal government should manage things like abortion. I don’t see any connection to religion, forbiding abortions or anything else….

Other than that, you seem to agree that Biden would naturally havean advantage in this regard due to his day to day work in the specific field. I’m not sure that his response is anything above exactly what would be expected of him.

My mechanic might be better able to tell me what is wrong with my brakes, but that doesn’t automatically mean he’d be a good automotive designer…

I agree with what you’re saying here. Plausible… Yes. But absolute? No. Let’s not forget that it’s MUCH easier to circumvent the checks and balances of a system if you are familiar with it as well.

The Bush administration is a perfect example of this. Bush achieved his goals without compromise. Some still call him an idiot and a moran and such, but look at all he’s done. I’m pretty sure none of us agree with the majority of his decisions, but the scale and scope of his changes is pretty impressive.

It is fairly obvious that Palin is either not as knowledgable as she should be, or completely unable to think and react when put on the spot.

Is it fair to ask whether a vice president needs either of those traits? Won’t there be piles upon piles of information and cabinet members to provide her with the information she needs? Is the ability to make quick decisions something we desire in the white house?

To make it clear, at this point, i’m not voting for either major candidate. But I am listening and watching with an open mind. Both your reply to my comments and the overwhelming majority of the comments in this thread show a huge, preconcieved bias against Palin. Just trying to figure out how much of that is deserved, and how much is OT being OT…

Hey, I’m just asking questions, not making excuses. I’m curious to see how important that trait is to people. Lets pretend that what happened in that interview was a failure to be able to process and recount information on the spot, and not a complete lack of knowledge. Does it matter then? Is it more important for a leader to be able to make the correct decision, or to make a decision immediately upon being asked?

Not that I’m saying she could make the correct decision mind you.
Biden wanted to federalize a violent crime?

What an idiot.
Palin’s answer on Roe v. Wade was fine.

But the answer to ‘other court cases’ was

Different view on the role of federal government.

That I happen to strongly disagree with.
wow I like how most of you bash her and yet you people prolly don’t even have an answer for those questions…I’m taking fucking law classes at the moment yeah theres a few i disagree with but I’m not gonna write it down and study the shit out of it

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his response didn’t even include anything but a personal response which i agree with the supreme court should be held at state level
why the fuck do we want a bigger government??

At least he can form complete sentences and go into an interview with Couric without fucking notecards.

Yeah.

Because we’re all running to be vice-president of the United States

People act like she’s being fucking grilled in these interviews. Naming 1 or 2 historic cases or a goddamn newspaper is not that difficult. Couric wasn’t asking for a dissertation on past supreme court rulings, just a title or at least an allusion to something resembling something other than Roe v. Wade.

wtf? i noticed you said you are taking law classes and did not say that you are in law school, i hope im right, cause if you are in law school and plan to not "study the shit out of" things you disagree with, good luck passing the bar.

HAHAHA, idk why that made me laugh pretty hard though.

probably cause it’s true.
that lady is so fucking dumb on camera for someone with a BA in Sports JOURNALISM
sarah palin would be the kid in a group project that just sits there and bullshits her way through while the rest of the group gets the job done because they know their shit.

True.

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