Comments on: Transcript: Palin And McCain Interview

More In-Depth Answers To Questions Katie Couric Asked McCain And Palin On The Broadcast

[choponic]

This woman seemingly has an inability to answer questions honestly. Katie Couric has to badger her over and over to get a straight answer, and she STILL won''t simply answer.

"Do you believe man causes global warming?" NO - that''s Palin''s answer, and it''s been her answer before. She''s just not willing to say it outright.

Will you work to make abortion illegal, regardless of the circumstances?" YES - that''s Palin''s position, and her nonsense about respecting other''s choices is just that - nonsense.

How can anyone believe a word this woman says? I think the US deserves a woman president - but I''d like to see someone who has an iota of foreign policy and economic knowledge and one who can give a straight answer to a straight question...

[choponic]

This woman seemingly has an inability to answer questions honestly. Katie Couric has to badger her over and over to get a straight answer, and she STILL won''t simply answer.

"Do you believe man causes global warming?" NO - that''s Palin''s answer, and it''s been her answer before. She''s just not willing to say it outright.

Will you work to make abortion illegal, regardless of the circumstances?" YES - that''s Palin''s position, and her nonsense about respecting other''s choices is just that - nonsense.

How can anyone believe a word this woman says? I think the US deserves a woman president - but I''d like to see someone who has an iota of foreign policy and economic knowledge and one who can give a straight answer to a straight question...

[choponic]

This woman seemingly has an inability to answer questions honestly. Katie Couric has to badger her over and over to get a straight answer, and she STILL won''t simply answer.

"Do you believe man causes global warming?" NO - that''s Palin''s answer, and it''s been her answer before. She''s just not willing to say it outright.

Will you work to make abortion illegal, regardless of the circumstances?" YES - that''s Palin''s position, and her nonsense about respecting other''s choices is just that - nonsense.

How can anyone believe a word this woman says? I think the US deserves a woman president - but I''d like to see someone who has an iota of foreign policy and economic knowledge and one who can give a straight answer to a straight question...

[choponic]

This woman seemingly has an inability to answer questions honestly. Katie Couric has to badger her over and over to get a straight answer, and she STILL won''t simply answer.

"Do you believe man causes global warming?" NO - that''s Palin''s answer, and it''s been her answer before. She''s just not willing to say it outright.

Will you work to make abortion illegal, regardless of the circumstances?" YES - that''s Palin''s position, and her nonsense about respecting other''s choices is just that - nonsense.

How can anyone believe a word this woman says? I think the US deserves a woman president - but I''d like to see someone who has an iota of foreign policy and economic knowledge and one who can give a straight answer to a straight question...

[dixiedem]

Sarah Palin''s comment about hearing Joe Biden since the 2nd grade was certainly a dig - ok. But, it was weird that rather than back up her claim with a comment like, "yea, Joe Biden is old politics" or something, she dove right in to Katie Couric''s perspective that it was a remark about his age - certainly hypocritical considering 72 year old McCain is the top of her ticket. She just doesn''t have the level of thinking on her feet that a person needs to be effective at this level of politics. Worse, she''s getting cocky and angry, and she''s blaming the press for her inability to rise to the occasion. Her reaction to her blunders are as bad or worse than the blunders themselves - if that''s even possible.

[mascarponi-2009]

Famed conservative columnist George Will told a gathering of Senate aides on Monday that Gov. Sarah Palin is "obviously" not prepared to assume the presidency if necessary.

Appearing at a Senate Press Secretaries Association reception at the Cornerstone Government Affairs office, Will offered a harsh assessment of John McCain''s running mate.

Palin is "obviously not qualified to be President," he remarked, describing her interview on CBS Evening News with Katie Couric as a "disaster."

[mascarponi-2009]

Prompted in part by the selection of Sarah Palin as the Republican vice presidential candidate, attention is focusing on McCain''s history of skin cancer and the need for more information about his medical records.

"I don''t see anything wrong with opening up the discussion," said Ronald Bronow, former chief of dermatology at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. "What we want to know is, what stage is this melanoma? Particularly with the prospect of the vice president becoming the president... If you are an objective physician, you have to be concerned about this."

With just weeks before election day, McCain''s campaign says it has released all of the information needed to make a thorough assessment of his health, and then some.

Dr. Sanjay Gupta, CNN''s medical correspondent who was one of only a handful of reporters allowed into the review, summarized :

"We were given three hours to go over 1,200 pages of records. That is a lot to go through. It was very sort of cloak and dagger and I''m sure they had their reasons. Given that I had my medical training, I was able to hone in on what it thought was important more quickly. But the pages weren''t numbered, so I had no way of knowing what was missing...

[djh36]

Katie Couric needs to remember how awful and inexperienced she was when she became the anchor for CBS Evening News. Now that she is so "experienced" she should leave behind her "gothca questions" and biased attitudes. Maybe CBS should start a new game show called "Pop Quiz" with Katie as the star.

[mascarponi-2009]

We have come to a very sorry state when the country holds its breath waiting to see if someone who could possibly be president possesses the requisite knowledge to do the job.

Recently on the Chris Matthews show, David Brooks said that Palin may be able to work up to mediocrity.

...Is this what the United States has come to that in such a complicated world we are willing to accept someone who has to work up to mediocrity? What happend to an expectation of excellence?

[elwik-o]

Britnee, your reply to Wendy was great. And Arlinej? BB is right - you need to be a little more original

[wendy386]

google - "freedom to fascism" and "restore the republic"

The results will enlighten you. Take care patriots!

[joee39]

Monroe401
He has released enough medical history plus all the drugs he takes. That assessment is easily made. Even if he was actually dying of a serious cancer at this moment is life expectancy would be 5 years or so. So, based on what we know and the tables, I estimate 92 years. 8 years would be no biggie. The point is that people make ludicrous comments about McCain''s life expectancy being so short. No one in reasonable health at 72 has a life expectancy of only 8 years. Do your own research.

[AmFuzzy]

It amazes me that people believe what they read from organizations on the internet. If you actually went to the EIA''s own website and looked up the numbers you would easily see that 263,595 (thousands) barrels were produced within the land mass of Alaska AND another 91,824 offshore in Alaska giving Alaska 19.22947% of the Crude Oil Production of the US. I think this is the ALMOST 20% of the US she was referring to that the left liberals and even FACTCHECK.ORG seem to twist into a falsehood.

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PALIN: As the governor of an energy-producing state, we''''re supplying 16, 17 percent of the U.S. domestic supply of energy coming from my state.

THIS IS FALSE. FROM FACTCHECK.ORG -

Alaska''''s share of domestic energy production was 3.5 percent, according to the official figures kept by the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
Posted by piniella at 02:10 AM : Oct 01, 2008

[rmonroe401]

JoeE39,

So McCain has released his medical history? I heard he has refused to allow the media to see it. So how can you make that statement?

[wendy386]

I am so sorry, i thought the posts would show up on the last page and not the first. SO sorry for them showing up over and over. I also appologize for misspelling a name. I have a disability in my hands and my typing is often affected. I think the entire debate and fight between the dems and republicans is irrelevant and set as a stage to divert the American publics attention. There is a huge elephant in the room. Watch "Freedom to Fascism" and visit the campaign for Liberty website, then question who is uneducated. I may misspell and hit publish like a fool, but believe me, I pray you educate yourself about the dire situation America is in and I pray you take great responsibility to fix it. ;-)

[britnee8]

Terribly sorry I don''t keep up with his birthdays. And as much as I''ve seen his mother, I''ve never seen her do anything more than wave (she might be doing more, I''m just saying I haven''t seen it) not to mention that I''m sure her life expectancy, being a woman, not being tortured for years, and not having cancer as far as I know, is longer than his. Also, Barack is in the limelight because he is a brilliant politician and the answer that our country needs, not because he''s black.

[vhs21-2009]

Britnee your fear mongering about a 72 (not 71) year old guy not likely to survive is B.S. Sorry "sweetie", but even his mother is still alive and well. If you don''t like them, that''s one thing, but stop with the ***. Palin is in the limelight as a woman in the same respect as Barack is for being black. Either way, history is going to be made this election.

[wendy386]

I am not voting for McCain, but I will tell you your interview tactics Katie were a sickening embarrassment and your attempt to belittle Paulin were blatant and obvious. You are a sickening excuse for a woman. I feel like vomiting. How jealous are you? It seems as though you are oozing with jealousy for Paulin and your power hunger is obvious as your career moves and tactics show. Your jealousy is an embarrassment for all women. You should be removed from the forefront of American journalism. You should seek forgiveness. Ugh, what an embarrassment.

[wendy386]

I am not voting for McCain, but I will tell you your interview tactics Katie were a sickening embarrassment and your attempt to belittle Paulin were blatant and obvious. You are a sickening excuse for a woman. I feel like vomiting. How jealous are you? It seems as though you are oozing with jealousy for Paulin and your power hunger is obvious as your career moves and tactics show. Your jealousy is an embarrassment for all women. You should be removed from the forefront of American journalism. You should seek forgiveness. Ugh, what an embarrassment.

[britnee8]

Um, okay, Wendy? Sweetheart? Learn to read because spelling Palin ''Paulin'' is the first signal of your alarmingly obvious ignorance. Secondly, Katie Couric would NEVER be jealous of a woman as dense as Sarah Palin, that''s a joke. As a woman, the only thing embarrassing about this interview taking place is that Palin is only in the limelight because she''s a woman and McCain was wanting to tap the female vote. Why else would he choose a woman he had met only once and only talked with on the phone for 15 minutes? It''s disgusting, and Katie Couric SHOULD BE pointing out the flaws in what a 71 year old man (who, let''s not kid ourselves, is likely to not survive a term if he is *god forbid* elected) is choosing to be his backup. It would be irresponsible not to.