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[More About Politics] Gibson: Economy ”˜Sick,’ Makes Palin Affirm Conservative Social Views: In Charles Gibson’s third interview session with Sarah Palin, conducted at her home in Wasilla and featured on Friday’s World News, Gibson asserted “we’ve got a very sick economy,” pressed her to list how she’d change Bush economic policy, insisted she concede “it’s now pretty clearly documented you supported that bridge before you opposed it” (and to defend Alaska’s continued earmark requests), all before he ran through several social issues — from abortion to guns —

 [NewsBusters.org - Exposing Liberal Media Bias] On 20/20, Gibson More Aggressive on Taxes, Abortion and Guns: On the other hand, as Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin produced massive state budget surpluses every fiscal year she was in office.  This type of prudent fiscal management is wholly foreign and bizarre to liberal democrats.  The liberal democrat fiscal policy demands that you should always spend substantially more than the tax revenue you take in each year.  If you don't, you won't have any reason to raise taxes next year.

 [Conservative Superiority] What if Palin had given Gibson Joe Biden answers?: Never mind that the Bush Doctrine, as summerized in a National Security Strategy statement released in 2002, consists of eight different principles on the Bush approach to foreign policy - champion aspirations for human dignity, strengthen alliances to defeat global terrorism and work to prevent attacks against the US and its friends, work with others to defuse regional conflicts, prevent the enemies of the US from threatening it, its allies and friends with weapons of mass destruction, ignite a new era of global economic growth through free markets and free trade, expand the circle of development by opening societies and building the infrastructure of democracy, and develop agendas for cooperative action with the other main centers of global power.

 [The Maverick Conservative] Claire McCaskill: Unqualified to be Vice President, Liar, and ...: Charles Gibson first asked whether Palin would let Georgia and Ukraine join NATO (as to which other NATO countries--those EUROPEANS that Obama and ABC like so much--have the VOTES). Palin said that she would definitely want Ukraine in NATO, and said she would like Georgia to be allowed to join NATO as well (although Palin ws clearly more emphatic about the Ukraine). 

 [The Corner] Palin's Performance-Fine, But”¦: Palin seemed weak on economic and budgetary policy too, talking in the vaguest generalities. She was much better, and positively good, on the social issues—which are dear to her and she's thought about—and anything having to do with her personally or with her record in Alaska.

 [Just Above Sunset] She Never Blinks: I’ll get criticized as sexist for saying this, but I would say the same thing about a man who sounded this ignorant: Talking to Charles Gibson tonight, Palin sometimes reminded me of poor Miss South Carolina, who, asked why many Americans can’t find the U.S. on a map, famously said: “I personally believe that U.S. Americans are unable to do so because, uh, some people out there in our nation don’t have maps. And I believe that our education, like, such as in South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere, like such as, and I believe that they should, our education over here in the U.S. should help the U.S., or should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries so we will be able to build up our future for our children.”

[TIME.com: Middle East Blog] Palin Foreign Policy: Eyes Wide Shut?: You'd expect even an ordinary hockey mom would know about that, especially if, as Palin proudly noted in the interview, that very day she was sending "my first born, my teenage son" to the war in Iraq launched under the self-same Bush Doctrine. She committed a faux pas concerning the Cold War in claiming that America had defeated Communism "without a shot fired." The prospective vice president seems unaware that the Cold War involved hot proxy wars throughout Asia, the Middle East, Africa, Europe and Latin America during a span of 45 long years.

[prawfsblawg] More Conservative Economics, Palin-Style: Notwithstanding his series of ridiculous questions for Obama in the debate that he and George Stephanopoulos "moderated" last spring, Gibson will not ask Palin about her husband's history of support for a party whose motto is "Alaska [not Country] First....Alaska Always" and which demands a vote to secede under the aegis of UN law.

 [race42008.com] Race 4 2008 Early Morning Essential Reads: Neoconservatives whose influence had been waning in Washington have hitched their colours to rising star Sarah Palin in a bid to shape US foreign policy for another decade.

 [Chrisy58's Weblog] Palin Would Support War With Russia: US Presidential Republican nominee, Arizona Senator John McCain embraces his VP running mate Sarah Palin as they campaign in Fairfax, Virginia. In a break with tradition, Republican presidential candidate McCain and Palin could spend more time together on the campaign trail than apart, a senior campaign aide said Wednesday.(AFP/Paul J.

[The Hot Blog] Still Saying No: Watched Palin with Charlie Gibson last night, though I thought it was very generous of ABC not to show the handler throwing the fish in her mouth after she evaded most questions with "but look over there." Anyone who has accused Obama of not being specific - in spite of tons of detail on most positions available from his campaign website - should be forced to watch Palin's answer to the question of what makes her and McCain's economic plans differ from Bush's... even her platitudes were off subject.

[novatownhall blog] Which Bush Doctrine ?: It is apparent that Governor Palin’s request for clarification “In what respect, Charlie?” was right on the money, given Gibson’s own inconsistent descriptions, and the multitude of descriptions enumerated here, and elsewhere.

 [The Adventures of Accordion Guy in the 21st Century : Joey deVilla's Personal Blog] What IS the Bush Doctrine, Anyway?: Here’s the part of the video in which ABC’s Charlie Gibson asks Sarah Palin about the Bush Doctrine. It gave me a sense of deja vu: it reminded me of all those times when a classmate (or hey, sometimes it was me) who didn’t do the assigned reading got called on to answer a question in front of the class.

[Politics - Sharpy News] Florida Political News For 9/08/08: is one of the reasons people should voter for the McCain-Palin ticket. That being the case, would you not agree, particularly as a conservative Christian opposed to out-of-wedlock-copulation and teen pregnancies, that you have been

[Allen L Roland's Radio Weblog] SARAH PALIN / LIES, MYTHS AND FACTS: Sarah Palin has been selected by the Republican National Committee to be a right wing stooge and heavily scripted pit bull, similar to John Bolton's role under the Bush administration, with the same objective of attacking and distracting from a failed Bush economy and Iraq occupation by spreading false myths and innuendoes ~ which are badly in need of the factual truth: Allen L Roland

[Thinking Independently] Inexperience Is One Thing, Ignorance Is Another: Gibson asked Palin whether the U.S. should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia, a question which Palin sidestepped, but she concluded her response by saying Russia was Alaska's "next door neighbors" and that Russia is "very, very important to us." Gibson then asked her what insight into Russian actions in recent weeks does the proximity of the state to Russia give her, to which Palin repeated the next door neighbor comment and proclaimed that you can actually see Russia from an island in Alaska. Gibson asked her the question again and she spewed some nonsense about "how small our world is." Maybe there are Alaskans for whom the proximity of Russia gives them some special insight on Russia but Palin clearly isn't one of them.

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