Dem: Palin "Cliff-Noted" Her ABC Interview

Four Leading Female Politicos Discuss Qualifications And Media Scrutiny Of GOP Veep Nominee

(CBS)  When asked to characterize Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's qualifications to be the Republican vice presidential nominee, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla., stated flatly that Palin isn’t ready to be vice president.

"She doesn't know anything," Wasserman Schultz said on CBS' Face The Nation, responding to a charge by a fellow guest, former Mass. Gov. Jane Swift, that Palin has been forced to undergo scrutiny in the media that some would characterize as sexist.

"There shouldn't be a double standard," Swift said. "We shouldn't ask of her questions about her ability to do the job that we wouldn't ask a guy in a similar circumstance.

"But I think that we also have to acknowledge that, because we've had so few women running for these high-level offices, although this is a great year on that front, that we're also not attuned to hearing women's voices and to seeing them in these positions.

"So it may be that we have to be most attuned to not having a double standard, to not asking any female candidate of either party to clear a bar that we wouldn't ask a male candidate in the same situation to clear."

Wasserman Schultz disagreed that Palin has had to meet an unfair standard.

"All Sarah Palin is being asked to respond to is whether she's up to the task," she said. "And it is absolutely fair game. And all I've seen is her being asked about her background, her experience, what qualifies her to be vice president, and whether she knows anything.

"So the tough questions that have been asked of Sarah Palin thus far just have been about the fact that she doesn't know anything and isn't ready to be vice president. That's fair game and it has nothing to do with her gender.

"You're saying she doesn't know anything, or you're saying that's what she's been asked about?" asked host Bob Schieffer.

"Well, she's been asked what she knows," Wasserman Schultz said. "She's been asked to demonstrate her foreign policy knowledge, which she clearly has very little, based on the Charlie Gibson interview. I mean, she didn't know what the Bush doctrine was. She really had almost no grasp of America's foreign policy. She really knew very little about domestic policy.

"Quite honestly, the interview that I saw and that Americans saw on Thursday and Friday were similar to when I didn't read a book in high school and had to read the Cliff Notes and phone in my report. She's 'Cliff-Noted' her performance so far. And all of that is fair game. The American people deserve better than that."

When asked of Palin's qualifications as governor for the number two spot, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Tex,(left), said her foreign policy credentials were less important.

"I think what we're looking for and what the McCain-Palin ticket is talking about is changing the way Washington works. And she does have experience in that for sure.

"She has shaken up Alaska politics. And she has an instinct about reform and ethics that's very, very strong that people in this country are looking for.

"So I think to say that, well, she has very low depth of foreign policy experience - name one governor who has become president who has had in-depth foreign policy experience.

"The fact of the matter is, John McCain has vast foreign policy experience, and he's the candidate for president," said Hutchison.

However, another Governor, Democrat Janet Napolitano of Arizona, said that in the discussion of Palin's credentials it was John McCain's qualifications that were the issue.

"He chose Sarah Palin because she's going to support those views," Napolitano said. "And that's why she shouldn't be the vice president."

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Read the full "Face the Nation" transcript here.

By CBSNews.com producer David Morgan.

[freemanswish]

Serioulsy, Obama is so slippery

and fikle, he just bad talks

McCain which Im sick of negatives,

Bush, he would blame anyone, very

negative vibe, and very stuck up

attitude this is not what we need.

I gave up and decided Hussein

Obama is like a farse, I dont need

to be cool and cosmopolitan.

I am an independent and I will

definitely vote for the McCain

Sarah Palin ticket at least I

know what they stands for.

[iowa-jay]

Which is the bigger Palin story: Anti-American Alaska First Support, the Lies, or the Corruption?

The serial liar Palin claims she did not support sucessionist party ''Alaska First'' -- watch youtube to see her support speech at their convention. Todd Palin a member 1995-2002. She attends their conventions...

Joe Vogler, founder of the AIP once said, "The fires of Hell are glaciers compared to my hate for the American Government, and I won''t be buried under their damned flag!" Listen for yourself palintruth (dot) org.

Then there is the Palin foreign experience.

Claimed she visited Iraq. Oops, Army records show she was only in Kuwait. Same difference. Then her ''visit'' to Ireland turns out to be a refueling...

But, at least she is funny: When questioned on foreign policy experience? She says 17 times..."I won''t blink!" -- But, when pressed notes mostly that she has seen the Russian coast from Alaska. Ha, ha, ha...

Does she consider the ''lower 48'' a foreign country like the rest of the Alaska First crackpots...

Then there is the Anti-Semitism in her church (they *can* be saved)...the book banning (and lies about it)... and, ms earmark queen was for the bridge to nowhere (on video) before she was against it (and took the money)...

Read a few pages of the Republican racism and lies posted here. Not a single rational defense of the well documented Palin lies and corruption. Even Karl Rove is saying the Republican lies are too thick...

Hmmm...

[grammawhamma]

""Quite honestly, the interview that I saw and that Americans saw on Thursday and Friday were similar to when I didn''t read a book in high school and had to read the Cliff Notes and phone in my report."

So Deb W Schultz admits to cheating....why should we believe anything she says?

[rccpepper]

Am taking poll, liberals please leave your preferred answer.

Top 10 excuses why obama lost in landslide.

We know the world''s vote is - America is Racist

But, I think their are better excuses to be had from the liberals about their radical candidate.

[forthinvader]

Over a year ago I taunted my Liberal friends with my support for an insignificant junior senator, Barry Obama for the Democrat Party ticket against Hillary.
Everyone of them including the far far left laughed and knew in their hearts the first woman president would be Hillary, and Obama had no chance against the massive Clinton Machine.
I scolded the little red-diapered liberals for not supporting a Black-Leninist-Afro-Centric Rebel like Obama. They replied with shouts that it was the Age of the Woman! Hillary was the more qualified Liberal Woman who knew the complexities of how to better derail the Concrete War Machine That Crushes the Bones of the Working Class as it delivers the wealth of the world to the Secretive Select few who rule it.
Well now, Obama is the Man. But my Liberal friends are running for the high ground because of a mere house wife from Alaska. Why?
Because they know that a majority of Americans who are entitled to vote in a National election prefer a President who shot at Communists with 20 mm Colt Mk 12 cannons, than a Communist-community Activist who used a staple gun to put up posters on telephone poles to agitate the masses.
While the rest of my friends and I cling to our guns and religion, my Liberal friends cling to shared hysteria and grapple for any scandal an army of Obama lawyers can create with the all too willing mainstream media''s help. All to put a Woman from Alaska back in her place. Those uppity white women from Alaska, wow!

[balarat]

Breaking news: McCain revealed new plan for America-%u201CBridge to Nowhere%u201D See at:
http://www.authorstream.com/Presentation/aSGuest55-88147-bridge-nowhere-john-mcain-2008-president-election-mccain-sarah-palin-1-news-reports-ppt-powerpoint/

[publius77]

So...two Democratic women trash Palin, two Republican women support her, and CBS runs a cheap-shot quote from one of the Democrats as its headline.

And has anyone ever "phoned in" their book report in high school? Not sure where Wasserman-Schultz attended school on Long Island in the 80''s, but I suspect this is just another one of her whoppers.

[johnnnne]

and by the way....no one "wants to be vice president."

[johnnnne]

vismani40: Have you forgotten Geraldine Ferraro?

"you democrats will do anything to keep a woman from being president or vp." Laugh out loud funny. You think what the democrats did to Hillary was "dispicable?" What about what the Republicans did to her? Beyond the pale....how many times were she and her daughter described as "ugly" "fat" "shrill" etc. Republicans are sliding into the dust bin of history.

[johnnnne]

vismani40: Have you forgotten Geraldine Ferraro?

"you democrats will do anything to keep a woman from being president or vp." Laugh out loud funny. You think what the democrats did to Hillary was "dispicable?" What about what the Republicans did to her? Beyond the pale....how many times were she and her daughter described as "ugly" "fat" "shrill" etc. Republicans are sliding into the dust bin of history.

[johnnnne]

It''s not sexist to OUT this IDIOT. She wants to be president and can''t handle a few tough questions...just wait until McCain dies (actuarially probable in 1.7 years)...She be riddled with scars when the press corps is done with her. I NEVER vote for vice president, but this woman is downright SCARY. It''s like the sack-boy at the quicky-mart wanting to lead this country. GOD save us.

[johnnnne]

It''s not sexist to OUT this IDIOT. She wants to be president and can''t handle a few tough questions...just wait until McCain dies (actuarially probable in 1.7 years)...She be riddled with scars when the press corps is done with her. I NEVER vote for vice president, but this woman is downright SCARY. It''s like the sack-boy at the quicky-mart wanting to lead this country. GOD save us.

[misha128-2009]

I wonder if Gov Palin will be laughing when her other bridge to her hometown gets canceled before she says "Thanks but No Thanks" again.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/200
80916/ap_on_el_pr/palin_bridge_to_wasill
a;_ylt=Ah4xLanBdIhcaZdh1E3km7Jh24cA

Palin supports $600 million ''''other'''' bridge project

[grammawhamma]

You libs are really upset because you have fallen behind in the polls.

Posted by KeystoneBull at 05:37 PM : Sep 14, 2008

No, we''''re actually more concerned about putting ''''Country First''''. No way is Palin qualified to be POTUS.

Posted by ofbyfor2 at 05:40 PM : Sep 14, 2008

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Two things to note:
Sarah Palin is not the Republican nominee...she is the VP candidate. Obama is inexperienced and he IS running for the top spot.

And BTW why are you libs so worried about Palin? In your mind isn''t Obama unbeatable??

[vsmani40]

Democrats will do anything and everything not to have a woman as President or VP - evident from what they did to Hillary which is despicable. So no wonder they would throw even the kitchen sink at Sarah Palin - sheer undiluted dislike bordering on hatred. They are worried that her presence would affect Obama who has no executive experience as Sarah Palin has.

[grammawhamma]

Is this Debbie Wasserman Schultz really a female?

When I was watching Face the Nation I was thinking "I''d really hate to meet this broad in a dark alley." She looks and acts like some roller derby queen on major testosterone.

Then she mentioned she had twins...and I''m trying to picture her being a loving gentle mother. Nope...I still can''t imagine her being nurturing to anyone in any way or form.

Thank God she was not McCain''s VP pick!!

[tbweb]

When Pres. Bush took office in 2001 compared to now!!

Figures don`t lie but liars sure do figure!!

UNEMPLOYMENT RATE 2001 = 4.2%
UNEMPLOYMENT RATE NOW = 6.1%

BUDGET 2001 = $281 BILLION SURPLUS
BUDGET NOW = $357 BILLION DEFICIT

NATIONAL DEBT 2001 = $5.7 TRILLION
NATIONAL DEBT NOW = $9.7 TRILLION

NET RESULT TODAY UNDER BUSH
DOW DROPS 504 POINTS
26,000 JOBS LOST

VOTE REPUBLICAN!
THE FISCAL CONSERVATIVES!
VOTE McSame/Moose Slayer!!

[kansas1946]

NOW he has another chance. McCain is a maverick but more importantly he LOVES this country, NO QUESTION. That is what I look for in my leader...pure LOVE for COUNTRY. Obama hasn''''t proven to me that he loves this country. Has he fought for it...NO! Has he served it in any capacity...NO! (One-term senator doesn''''t count). All he does is point out it''''s flaws and he has to be told to put on "the pin". He is not ready to lead, not EXPERIENCED to lead. He is a media puppet, their pet project.
Posted by luvusa at 10:28 PM :*****************************************
He has had a funny way of showing that love for the last eight years. He has voted with Bush 90pct of the time, voted for and supported Bush policies that have been devastating to our economy and our country.
I supported him in 2000 and then he let me down for eight years. He had his nose so far up Bush''s rear end that I forgot what he looked like.

I believe strongly that Barack Obama loves this country. I think we all love our country. We all have different views of it, get mad at the goverment,
but all of us love the country which is nothing but a collection of ideas that were outrageously radical in 1776.
I also believe that Obama is the best hope and the best candidate. I know you disagree, but I am certainly not going to attack your love of this country. It is policies that we disagree on and John McCain no longer represents me.

[kellyfish3]

I concur, Schultz is a jerk. Newsflash, Schultz: not every woman wants Socialized healthcare because some of us are know what a disaster it has been in Europe. Your demeanor is atrocious & obviously you have missed your true call in life--prison warden.

[kennyb51]

Debbie Whatshername Shultz is nothing ut a jerk. The Democrats can come on camera and criticize her all they want. She''s more experienced to be President than Obama. Shultz doesn''t know what the Bush Doctirne is either. It has several different meanings and that''s why Srah Palin answered the question the way she did.