Palin's Perspicacious Pearls of Pious Perceptiveness

Every time Sarah Palin speaks, I have to wonder about the sanity or at least the intelligence level of the people who seem to think this woman has what it takes to be President of the United States. It's not like I have to really do much of anything to prove such a notion to be complete lunacy, as all one has to do is actually listen to the claptrap of senseless word salad that gushes out of her mouth every time she opens it.


Nearly a year and a half ago, Palin was interviewed by Charles Gibson and nothing I can say illustrates Palin's total lack of presidential credibility and her complete ignorance of U.S. policy better than what she says herself. Please for you to enjoy - vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin during that September 2008 interview:



Gibson "What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?"


Palin: "They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."


Gibson: "What insight does that give you into what they're doing in Georgia?"


[Keep in mind that Russia had invaded former Soviet Republic of Georgia just a month before this interview. That's Georgia - thousands of miles on the other side of Asia from "an island" in Alaska.]


Palin: "Well, I'm giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia. We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it's in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along."


Gibson: "Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?"


[If you watch this interview you can see this question immediately blew her mind. Her voice and her body language speaks volumes. She didn't have a clue.]


Palin: "In what respect, Charlie?"


Gibson: "The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?"


Palin: "His world view."


Gibson: "No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war."


Palin: "I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better."


[Check here for a quick primer on the Bush Doctrine.]


Forget the fact she didn't answer any of the questions put to her but just try to make any sense of the complete nonsense she offered as answers. Where, in that mumbo-jumbo of ignorant drivel, does anyone see anything remotely resembling presidential acumen?


Maybe a year and a half of coaching and some studying up on U.S. Policy might have polished her up a bit, so let's fast-forward to the Tea Party convention, held the weekend of February 6th of this year.


Palin takes questions from convention organizer Judson Phillips. (You can view video clips of this exchange at Smack on the Web on YouTube, Sarah Palin Tea Party Q&A Pts. I & II). One would think that after being exposed over a year ago as comletely ignorant on any aspect of U.S. policies, Palin would have been brought up to speed. If you thought that - you thought wrong.


Judson Phillips: "It goes without saying the end-game for the Tea Party movement for 2010 is a conservative House and a conservative Senate... When we are successful and we have a conservative House and a conservative Senate. As soon as that happens, what do you think are the top three things that have got to be done?"


Sarah Palin: "We've got to rein in the spending, obviously, and not, uh, you know, raise it extremely high, um, budgets and then say, 'OK, we are going to freeze a couple programs here.' That doesn't do us any good really. We've got to start reining in the spending."


[At this point she looks into her hand to read her notes reminding herself of her core conservative beliefs.]


"We have got to, uh, jump-start these energy projects, ah, that again we've heard so much about because it's ridiculous that we have just sitting warehoused under God's green earth here in the United States of America rich resources oil and gas and our coal and and all these conventional sources of resources, we have got to, um, actually walk that walk to allow them to, um, come to development."


Judson Phillips: "We hear about the Obama plan. What's the Palin plan?"


Sarah Palin: "And when it comes to national security, as I ratchet down the message on national security, it's easy to just kind of sum it up by repeating Ronald Reagan when he talked about the Cold War. And we can apply this now to our war on terrorism, you know. Bottom line, we win, they lose. We do all that we can to win."


The idea of this brainless bimbo as President of the United States is ludicrous and anyone who would actually believe she is presidential material is just as ignorant and out of touch with reality as is this woman they worship.