Palin Is Ready? Please. by Fareed Zakaria

[my3boyz]

Will someone please put Sarah Palin out of her agony? Is it too much to ask that she come to realize that she wants, in that wonderful phrase in American politics, "to spend more time with her family"? Having stayed in purdah for weeks, she finally agreed to a third interview. CBS's Katie Couric questioned her in her trademark sympathetic style. It didn't help. When asked how living in the state closest to Russia gave her foreign-policy experience, Palin responded thus:

"It's very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America. Where—where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to—to our state."



http://www.newsweek.com/id/161204

[Fluffdaddy]

1. Hard hitting. Looks like the press is getting a set of balls....finally

[BlooInBloo]

2. She's just plain stupid.

[mokawanis]

3. Zakaria has it right. Another quote from the article:

"This is not an isolated example. Palin has been given a set of talking points by campaign advisers, simple ideological mantras that she repeats and repeats as long as she can. ("We mustn't blink.") But if forced off those rehearsed lines, what she has to say is often, quite frankly, gibberish."

[ingac70]

4. She's an embarrassment to women everywhere...

Honestly, I have never seen anyone so stupid in my life.

[Skarbrowe]

5. If any McCain/Palin supporters are reading Fareed or that conservative

columnist that actually asked Palin to bow out, they sure don't seem to be changing their minds about Sarah Palin. Why, why, why are the polls still as close as they are between Obama and McCain. I've been around for several presidential elections. I've never seen anything like this. A once proud man and possible Republican maverick who now happens to be a mere shadow of what he once was and a young, pretty, more religiously radical than most of the country young woman who is so obviously drowning from being in over her head politically BE only a couple points behind in a presidential race and actually a couple ahead in some others with only 38 days to go until the election. Sorry for the long sentence, but MY MIND IS BLOWN. I'm beyond coherency capabilities.

The polls better start reflecting what SHOULD be happening soon or I am going to simply...no.. I won't say it. They just can't steal another one. Positive thinking. But there are times I am glad I am old..er.

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

6. If she'd had a better running mate and been able to win, "Palinisms" would have replaced Bushisms

giving us 4 more years of embarrassment to be Americans. It's good to see McCain and Palin going down in flames.

By the way, I learned a new word here. I looked up the word "purdah" mentioned in his article.