Sarah Palin Interviewed Today [Updates + a 2nd Video Update]
By SusanUnPC on October 3, 2008 at 12:45 PM in Sarah Palin
LATE UPDATE: “Thursday’s highly anticipated face-off between Alaska governor Sarah Palin and Delaware senator Joe Biden may be the most-watched debate in 16 years. … 42% higher than Friday’s [Obama/McCain debate]” – The Live Feed.
Carl Cameron, Fox News political reporter, talked today with Sarah Palin on last night’s debate, and about her previous media interviews. Update 1: Hey, I missed the earlier video of her, so am adding it at the top here. And I’ll try to catch the later videos, as they “unspool” the entire interview all day long.
Update 2: Even Politico’s Roger Simon praised Palin’s performance last night:
Update 2: Yes, even from the snide Roger Simon, there’s praise:
“You Betcha Sarah Palin Can Debate”
Sarah Palin was supposed to fall off the stage at her vice presidential debate Thursday evening. Instead, she ended up dominating it.
She not only kept Joe Biden on the defensive for much of the debate, she not only repeatedly attacked Barack Obama, but she looked like she was enjoying herself while doing it.
She smiled. She faced the camera. She was warm. She was human. Gosh and golly, she even dropped a bunch of g’s.
“John McCain doesn’t tell one thing to one group and somethin’ else to another,” she said. “Those huge tax breaks aren’t comin’ to those huge multinational corporations.”
She went out of her way to talk in everyday terms, saying things like “I betcha” and “We have a heckuva opportunity to learn” and “darn right we need tax relief.”
Biden was somber, serious and knowledgeable. And he seemed to think that debates were about facts. He had a ton of them.
Criticizing John McCain’s health care plan, Biden said that McCain would tax health care and “then you’re going to have to replace a $12,000 — that’s the average cost of the plan you get through your employer; it costs $12,000 — you’re going to have to pay — replace $12,000 plan, because 20 million of you are going to be dropped. So you’re going to have to place — replace a $12,000 plan with a $5,000 check you’ve just given to the insurance company.”
Got that?
Palin was a lot more direct in her attacks on Obama and a lot more simple. Criticizing Obama for saying he would meet with some foreign leaders who are hostile to the United States, Palin said: “Some of these dictators hate America and what we stand for. They cannot be met with. That is beyond bad judgment. That is dangerous.”
She also said: “An issue like that taken up by a presidential candidate goes beyond naivet and goes beyond poor judgment.”
Sarah Palin accusing Barack Obama of being nave? Yep. And she was unabashed about it. And so what if Joe Biden has been in the Senate approximately forever and knows a lot more about a lot more stuff than she does? She doesn’t care.
“You recently said paying taxes is patriotic,” she said to Biden. “In middle-class America, where I have been all my life, that is not considered patriotic.” …
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I anticipate there’ll be more video coming later today, and I’ll try to keep an eye out for it. Enjoy this first part for now.
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