I don’t know how she passed high school. It’s a simple formula to get her flummoxed. Ask her a question and let her give a line practiced straight out of what sounds like a text book. And then pull the whole history teacher twist, ‘And give an example’. Then she just blabbers on for about a minute repeating what she just said in different words not answering the question. I’ve seen at least 3 clips where she has done this in the last week alone. She should have never sat down with Katie Couric, I’m actually starting to respect her as a journalist.

I recently interviewed Sarah Palin. Here’s how it went.

Me: What day is it today?

Sarah Palin: There are 7 days in a week. There are many days. We could choose from many different days.

Me: Yes, but what day is today?

Sarah Palin: Today could be one of 7 days. And I have a great appreciation for how beautifully the week is set up. I mean, our question might even be rephrased to ask if we haven’t lost sight of the bigger picture, where the day is just a small part of what constitutes a week, which would be yet another part of what is known as the month.

Me: I just want to know what day it is, specifically.

Sarah Palin: Any and all of them that have come and gone. I have always been comfortable with any and all of them. My point, however, is that it all comes back to the year. I am someone who believes that the voiceless can count on me to represent the calendar in an unbiased way, from within one of the highest offices of government. After all, I have always made myself clear, and I am not apologetic about who I am. There are 30 days in a month and 52 weeks in a year. I was born in the 20th century, and this might already be the 21st , who knows? Here, our sense of the space-time continuum has come to be challenged by those who insist they must know what day of the week we are presently at. And I think it needs to be addressed in concrete terms for the good of the American people. Thank you.

That clip is exactly why I think it doesn’t matter who the moderator is tonight. It also won’t matter because if I’m not mistaken there are no questions allowed from the opponent, and there are also no follow up questions allowed.

This is actually a pretty good analysis of why that clip is so jaw dropping even if you AGREE with Palin on being pro-life, etc.:

http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/archives/individual/2008_10/014982.php

I am really upset that I will have to miss this tonight. Hopefully Palin fucks things up so horribly that I’ll be able to catch a re-broadcast in Germany over the weekend.

BWAHAHAHAHAHA!

I gotta say, she’s a marvel at evading the question. She does it breezily, almost entrancingly. Something to do with the hypnotic way her hair bobs back and forth. I expected her to explode in a fiery crash, but she held up much better than I had expected… but all for naught. She didn’t increase her swiftly dwindling approval rating.

Biden did much better than I expected of him, too. Kept his replies brief, hammered away relentlessly (yet in a civil manner), and came across as a very bright guy. No feet in mouth.

I missed his little moment of emotion about his late wife and daughter. I wonder how that played out.

Oh yeah, you were outside when that happened, I think. It was crazy cause his voice just barely, almost inaudibly cracked. I’d imagine a lot of people missed it, but it was very believable.

The clips I’ve seen of her looking down at her note cards are mind boggling. And the fact that after Biden’s teary moment rather making even the slightest concession to or allusion to what he just said, she went right back into her talking points.

I normally not a fan of discounting peole for stupid or irrelavent reasons, but I would vote against her purely for the way she talks. Someone says “You betcha!” to me, all I can picture is me punching them. The thought of watching Fargo for 4 years makes me cringe.

On the way to work this morning, I heard two commuters talking about the debate and a guy said, “She actually did better than I thought she would. She didn’t come near the actual question, but she seemed to answer her own questions quite well.”