Sarah Palin Interviewed Today [Updates + a 2nd Video Update]
By NoQuarter 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.
palin is great, fresh, and new, love it ,
she doesn’t want to give up on michigan,
me either
Obama says Pakistan used U.S. aid to prepare for war against India
http://blogs.reuters.com/pakistan/2008/09/06/obama-says-pakistan-used-us-aid-to-prepare-for-war-against-india/
Obama Will: Gut Our Military, “Deep Cuts”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a91VZUi1IN4
Obama, August 2007: We’ve got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we’re not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous problems there.
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Did Palin get it right and why has there been no mention about the above article. Here is the Daily KOS on Palin’s comments:
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2008/10/3/143222/281
PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE come to Michigan!!!!
6 years of Democratic policy is killing us. I can’t believe that McCain couldn’t take this state if he tried.
I never thought people from Florida and Michigan would vote for BO, given his support for stealing your votes during the primary, when they would have helped HRC; and only supporting counting them at the convention, when they would not matter, anyway.
I think that’s Sarah’s thinking also. McCain pulled out of Michigan. Think it has anything to do with ACORN? The court did rule in favor of McCain and Palin in Ohio, so I guess that’s one good thing. Now Brunner is acting like she’s elated the courts did this.
From the Washington Post:
http://tinyurl.com/3qx54j
It is fantastic that Palin not only held her own but out-debated Biden, given that he has 30+ years experience in the Senate.
She is a political star who is only just now beginning to come into her own.
PUMA!!
I think, too, that Sarah Palin is a rising star. Love to see a matchup between her and Hillary in 2012!
If it was so important to know what Governor Palin is reading, why don’t we have Soertoro/Obama reading list??? Palin is applying for the position of VP, Soertoro/Obama is applying for
kingpresident.Correction: the Plastic Jesus is not applying…he’s trying to stage a coup on the American democratic process by stealing, lying and cheating his way into the Oval Office.
And it looks as if is not that difficult to do. Who would have thunk it.
Well, look, it’s not like its the first time its been done!
You all keep me laughing every day, Thank God for you because otherwise I wd have gotten an ulcer by now.
Nothing may be revealed about the Chosen, you must be an Initiate to understand. Besides of which Obama doesnt need to read anything. You may have noticed that it actually kind of shows, doesnt it?
Palin was outstanding, surpassing what I expected. I could tell she was nervous, who wouldnt be? but I just kept pulling for her. Pretty soon I started feeling sorry for Biden lol.
Now I can say with full knowledge of the irony of this statement ‘Biden did pretty well!’
When Palin said the reason she wasnt real responsive in her interview with Couric because she was annoyed, it confirmed what I was thinking watching her in this interview. She looked like she was trying to contain herself in the face of what I believe was extremely rude behavior by Couric, condescending and snide. I confess I did not see the whole thing so that was my impression.
OT: House passes bailout bill.
Good luck to you tek.
Sarah is real, she’s fresh, she represents real Americans, not the left-winged elitist, arugula chomping, trust-endowed, Harvard educated overblown brainiacs who never had to seriously work for a living a day in their little lives.
It’s not about O-Bama, it’s Oh-Mama, Sarah Palin! She rocks the house!
McCain/Palin Nov 4th.
I’ll bet that a HUGE percentage of those 18 million disaffected Hillary supporters are grinning their faces off this am at Sarah “Oh-Mama’s” sterling knock-out performance at the debate last night.
Barky is dust.
You are right- and I am one of those mamas smiling this morning.
She is fresh and new and she does clean up the mess no party line in doing so either…I say her and McCain can’t get to Washington fast enough.
Here’s a good article on why some women hate Sarah Palin. We really are our own worst enemy.
http://www.time.com/time/politics/article/0,8599,1846832,00.html
You can tell that was written by a man. Time is in the tank with Obama.
No, this was definitely not written by a man. As a woman, I know that women behave like this towards other women. I had already written on my blog weeks ago that feminists were foaming at the mouth against Palin because she was pretty.
I have seen some of the stupidest stuff written about her…how everything she does is against women…stupid stupid stuff.
Did you actually read the article I linked? It is not insulting to Palin whatsoever. It calls women out on their jealousy and hypocrisy.
This is why 1 woman should not try to speak for all women.
Are you a woman? I have been under the impression you were not. I am telling you that many women can relate to this statement as it is very much true in many respects. This is why Hillary is not our presidential candidate. If women stood up for other women instead of tearing them down, the world would be a lot different. But it’s a lot of self-loathing.
We have been fighting the “oh they are voting for Palin because they are mad about Hillary” and the “they are racist”
This woman just gave them something to use against us…How does saying we are weapons-grade haters,women get their hate on, they don’t just dislike, They loathe — deeply, richly, sustainingly..help us women?
Is that why you aren’t voting for Obama?
Are you voting out of anger?
I am not voting for him because he is wrong, his beliefs, the way he wants to turn us into a welfare country, no experience, his associates…it has nothing to do with anger towards him.
Hillary can fight her own battles and she did. She lost and yes I know Obama cheated in the caucus states and what the DNC did was wrong but she didn’t stand up to them now did she? She didn’t have to let that vote on the floor go the way it did. If I am angry I am angry at Clinton for not fighting. She let her voters down for not standing up for the truth and what was right.
McCain was always my #2 of the 3..who in there right mind thinks a freshman senator from Chicago can run this country? Look at all the things the president is going to have to deal with. Oh and Biden is going to hold his hand…what a bunch of crap.
Yes we don’t need women writing about how angry women are…and if they are going to don’t label us all.
I think you have completely and totally missed the point of the article. It was NOT saying that women are voting against Obama because they are angry. It is saying that when women decide they don’t like a woman, they are very vicious about it.
I LIKE what you say 30 yr dem… I LIKE what you say and am in full agreement. I LOVE Hillary. LOVE her, but I can not understand why she stood down… I trust her and her reasons though I will NEVER follow her coerced “suggestions” to vote for obama…
Women have got to stop this ridiculous, childish loathing of one another. You don’t have to like the woman who runs, you have to vote for the woman who runs.
Men have been running this country for 250 years. Need I say more? Can you imagine what this country would have been like run by women? You and I both know it would be a lot different than it is today. If woman don’t get a little more savy, we deserve whatever those good ol’ boys hand out.
Get a grip ladies and vote for Sarah.
Think about it. Don’t you agree that realistically the Congress should be half and half. Men think there aren’t enough intelligent women out there to be elected to fulfill that idea. Ladies, who has given them that impression? Start using your noodles!
Well I don’t vote for the bottom of the ticket but I am voting McCain/Palin and it is not out of anger it is out of trust. I wouldn’t trust Obama with my dog much less my country. I love them both.
I do like Palin and I think what she has done is very impressive. Show me any other woman in office, a gov. or senator who has took on the boys and won the way she has.
“I am voting McCain/Palin and it is not out of anger it is out of trust.”
You missed the point entirely. That is NOT what the article is saying whatsoever.
YES, YES, YES!! We make up over 50% of the population, 50% of the labor force (=pay taxes)so we should be properly represented and we’re not.
Queen Victoria - great leader…..
WOMEN WANT TO BE PART OF THE WOMENS MOVEMENT WHEN IT SUITS THEM.
I WONDER WHAT THE SUFFRAGETS WOULD
THINK OF WOMEN WHO … INSTEAD OF APPLAUDING ANY WOMENS RISE .. THEY PULL
THEM DOWN AND IN HE PROCESS MAKE T ALL WOMEN LOOK LIKE CATS.
THE NEGATIVE REACTION TO PALIN HAS MANY SOURCES…HOW COULD SHE BE A WOMAN AND NOT SUPORT ABORIONS…HOW COULD SHE BE A GOV. SHE WAS IN A BEAUTY PAGEANT…5 CHILDREN…THERE HAS GOT TO BE SOMETHING WRONG WITH HER…ETC. ETC. ETC.
UNTIL WOMEN STOP PIBLICLY TEARING
WOMEN THERE WILL BE NO PROGRESS
FOR WOMEN….MEOW!
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Kind of what Margaret Mead pointed out many years ago. Women as heads of state would be vicious. Threaten them, their country or family and women will fight back immediately, with overwhelming force and no mercy. Wonderfully refreshing. Mead saw women’s viciousness as a way to end war. Who would want a second match? I would love to see Senator Clinton or Gov. Palin and the Iranian Theocracy have tea. Speaker Pelosi on the other hand would only fawn.
Last week when Pelosi got in front of the mic and showed her ass like she did she hurt women in politics…today she is all smiles…it hurt women again…she has no in between. She is a disgrace.
You know about an hour ago a designer stopped by my studio with his asst. 30 yr.female O-Bot.
He is republican and funny and both of us are in our mid 40’s. In this primary season He ( a former Hillary hater ) has turned around and was impressed by her grit and performance in the primaries. He was totally surprised and gained respect for her while acknowledging Clinton’s accomplishments with the economy. He was one of the few sympathetic ears I could find outside this and a few other sites. I was grinning as we discussed Palin. I told him No Wonder you guys like her she like a combo Truman/Reagan. The asst. became really uncomfortable and said she HATED Palin. I asked her why…All she could say was Roe v Wade. I said that Palin would not force her beliefs on people. So what else…Why the Hate? She couldn’t answer me. I said you know…You sound just as blindly bigoted as and Rightwinger who HATED Clinton and could’nt tell you why…It was clearly that sad mix of FEAR/ENVY…Fear that True Equality means Responsibility…and Envy at a Woman who has it all…Utter Hypocrisy!
WhyPeach that we can have it all..and then Shoot Down those that do…sheeeesh!
Sorry about the man it was a woman…
True that…Women can be venomous towards other women…Remember the “feminist” BS Backlash at Hillary cause she chose to stay married to Bill? As if that was anybody’s business!
Puritanism is not only tedious but suffocating And Feminist (Purists) have shown their HYPOCRISY….only supporting women who agree with them & adopting the tactics of their opponents…It’s all tyrannical and extremist…
George Orwell and some other great British essayists wrote wonderful essays on the dangers of ” Puritanism ” which was their description of Ideological Extremism Intolerant of Criticism or Dissent….and therefore Totalitarian
No surprise. Women are cannibals. We eat our own. I’ve been saying that for years.
This is the most PATHETIC article…! I am a woman and I am appalled and insulted by the statements made here. The author not only succombs and belittles women, stereotypes ignorance, whines, but broadcasts quite loudly her OWN conscience.
I am 55 and a former democrat… And I find this article about on the same level as the nit-wits on the ‘View’ and the mush brained youth who lift their shirts up on tv to show their tits.
I think many women don;t like Sarah Palin for the same reason men don;t… SHE is STRONG, CONFIDENT, and INTELLIGENT and she DOES NOT and WILL NOT back down!
ALL power to her!
Sorry, but I agree with this article. It is an ugly truth I have seen time and again. Maybe because you are 55 you do not know how younger women eat each other alive these days. It is brutal out there. I have gone through so many female friends because far too many of them are backstabbing and vicious. Women are often jealous and want to bring you down if they perceive you to be prettier/smarter. Sad but true.
That would be the younger group, yes they do do that..I am not so old myself that I can’t remember the girls who would have a fat friend to stand beside just so she would look thinner…
They are jealous,and immature to do such things to there friends, but then were they ever really friends?
Well maybe that is why we need to have a more MATURE attitude about who and why we vote… and exactly WHY barky has NO business in the WH!
I always say as woman we should help each other out, raise each other up and respect each other. oh and keep your hands off of someone else’s husband. Call me old fashioned.
The DOW was dropping while dems were on Bush comes on and it starts going up…
Wait for the Hollywood Has -Beens Sarah Blow Back!
Can I say that?
Barky and Snarky are done. It’s October and Bombs Away time. I’m sure that everyone was focused on this bailout. Now that it’s passed, let’s get started on telling the TRUTH about Obama and his campaign of fear, terror, fascism, etc. He’s not going to run this country. We’re smarter than that.
GO ‘CUDA
Say No this NOvember 4th to Obama and his elitist (Hollywood) snobs! Let’s bring America back to it’s people! God save America from Commie Barack Hussein Obama! Spread the word people! Spread the word!
You Betcha
Palin won over the Working Class…She & McCain make a great team…lol…
Did anyone see Biden giving Palin the once over during the debate? Look at this video, about 10 seconds in. She turns to him & says her pleasantries, he smiles & the looks her up & down, right? I didn’t see it when I watched the debate last night because I watched on PBS & there wasn’t the split screen like that. I wonder how many other times he couldn’t keep his eyes off her backside?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WBdzbSOLtcM&feature=related
While Palin and Biden were talking after the debate, Biden was rubbing his hand up and down Palin’s upper arm.
She kept talking, but moved away from him.
Biden is so scummy!
I knew ahead of time he’d want to bone her.
Biden’s been referred to here and on other blog’s as everybody’s crazy Uncle Joe. And I have to confess, living not too far from Uncle, we’ve gotten used to him and his, ahem - “ways”. There is some affection for him across the DE state line.
He’s a Beltway guy, trying to act like “one of us”, and he’s not always successful at that bit of stagecraft.
It’s just a shame his running mate is a crook.
Palin is terrific.
Eeeeeeeeuuuuuuuuwwwww!
Oh I can’t wait to hear more from the brilliant orator, McFailin. Please let her speak.Like a moose caught in the headlights, I miss those deft run-on sentences complete with a host of syntax errors, topped off with the word filibusters and incomprehensible fragment sentences.
Can’t wait to hear, though, how she finally decided to pick up a newspaper and read one after 44 years. Although literature such as “how to kill a moose from 800 feet in the air”, and “Moose-hunting Today” are not exactly considered prime publications to inform onesself about the issues of the day…lol.
But, its comforting to know that she does read something.
Roxanne…SOETEROBAMA…ISN’T LIKABLE ENOUGH….lol
Roxanna- why don’t you go back to your kitchen and finish the birthday cake you forgot to finish. And add a little bit of koolaid to go along with it.
Don’t hate Rox Arse, it’s so unbecoming:-)
Stop the hate, hater!
Did you read Simon’s piece above re Biden going on and on round and around misprepresenting McCain health policy with all his numbers and factoids??
Do you think people can grasp something THAT obtuse watching a debate — you think that was better?
You still don’t get the audience that she is speaking to — clearly, you are not it.
This is why Kerry didn’t ‘win’ the debates either — no matter how much he may have technically scored points or looked like the capitain of the debate team. People smell elitists and don’t like them.
Politico is clearly in the tank for Obama and has been for months — if even they can manage to compliment Palin, clearly she was doing something right and they are forced to acknowledge it — however grudgingly.
Roxanne - apparently all you read is NObama’s website.
ouch!
If Sarah isn’t reading any newspapers, there are growing numbers along with her who don’t either. The newspapers are laying off by the boatload, subscriber numbers are dropping at higher rates every quarter.
http://cancelthebee.blogspot.com/
http://angryjournalist.com/
The newspapers say it’s ALL because of the economy, but the poetic part of that is that they’ve been talking down the economy for years and now they have to drink from the well that they poisoned.
Couldn’t possibly be because ummm people have realized they’re not getting unbiased news reporting and their having to pay for that biased news reporting could it? That’s why I canceled my LA Times subscription. I wasn’t about to continue paying for one sided news. I could get that on the MSM channels.
Have some arugula you’ll be fine.
ROFLMAO….Aaaand wash it down with a double latte no foam cup o bullshit!….too funny hadenough
Can you explain, Roxanne, why you believe it is necessary to come in here and belittle and denigrate Sarah Palin? Is it because you are one of the women in the above post? One would think that due to your obvious dislike of her, you would feel more comfortable at a pro-obama site. No?
Roxanne,
Gov. Palin has a degree in journalism. I am quite certain that she has read a newspaper in the last 44 years.
Good grief!
Have you?
It’s an endless battle. Clearly Palin won the debate. But most of the media reports Biden won it hands down. It’s rediculous.
I would like to see an analysis on No Quarter of the bailout bill and I would especially like to know if there is any help for homeowners on Main Street so they don’t lose their homes. We know there are big tax cuts for corporations, included by Republicans.
I really can’t stomach reading that people think Bush did a great job with the economy and the whole meltdown is the fault of the Democrats. yes, they have blame, but when you start thinking that George W. Bush ran a great economy, you need to get to the phone and call your therapist for an emergency appointment.
Roxanne…you left your red light on!
I love this woman and I love McCain for his courage in choosing her. Dynamite!
McCain…chuckle…has outdemocrated the Democrats…Aaaaand I say More Power To Him!
YOU BETCHA!
roxanne you are a retard. Nothing in your stement is based on truth. Nothing.
I would love it if you applied the ame standard to Joe and O. But you do not. Joe lied all debate on every answer he told a lie. Obama has said some of the dumbest things possible but no one in the MSM reports it.
Also, she went to college for political science and journalism. So “she doesn’t read” your an idot and it is sad you think what latenight talkshow host say is true.
No one in alaska kills moose “800 feet in the air” but again i would not expect such a low information voter as yourself and the rest of the mindless spineless obamabots to tell the truth about anything or speak factually about anything because Obama/Biden cannot do that themselves.
Have fun spacecase Roxanne. One more reason that democrats are killing our country. You are so stupified it is beyond repair.
Hey roxanne… guess what’s for supper…?
obamoose!
OT - Limbaugh just mentioned breaking news at Chicago Tribune - about the arrest of Obama supporter and friend.
But I can’t find anything on it.
Go over here:
http://chicagoagainstobama.wordpress.com/2008/10/03/another-obama-friend-and-machine-associate-being-investigated-by-the-feds/
It’s probably about this guy.
Please send this to Sean Hannity .
Roxanne…You should be posting more. When David Axelnimrod gives you your paid Troll paycheck, at the rate you are going, that penny a post isn’t going to buy you much more Crack and Kool-Aid.
LOL…THAT’S OFFICIAL US GOVT. CRACK…WRIIIIGHT?
Sorry off-topic but important
http://www.nwi.com/articles/2008/10/02/news/lake_county/doc5399904569d23a75862574d600010e55.txt
County rejects LARGE NUMBER of INVALID voter registrations
Oct. 2, 2008
it looks like they have turned off the phones and left town…
dum de dum dum….thanks for the link! WoooHooo ACORN is going to jail! yeah! One can hope, right?
ACORN runs into the same scandal every single election! How is it they are not disbanded?
I am so proud, grateful and thrilled. The McCain/Palin ticket is going to blow the Osama Biden Laden creeps out of the water. Everyone, start picketing the MSM and write to the heads of the networks. Their lies and bias have become detrimental to America.
any e-mail addresses to share?
I reside in an area where it has been extremely independent and quite frankly, leaning either or- but, since last night- without a doubt, the McCain campaign picked up the votes of at least 300 people on my block and community. We thank Sarah Palin for keeping our spirits alive. I usually do not respond to trolls like Roxanne, but, my area of residence would beg to differ. We’re upper midwest peninsula people and if you think that basic survival skills do not count, guess again.
I gotta believe Palin gives McCain a chance in Michigan! I betcha she scores big with a lot of folks up there. She and Todd oughta go up there and visit.
Palin is extremely likeable and relate-able to folks in small town Missouri.
The best thing about Sarah is that she really, really wants to find corruption and get it the hell out of Washington. I am so behind her. When you hire people from Washington, you don’t get much. We need someone with no ties to the crooks. I believe she can do it.
No ties to crooks!…that is true and a major selling point.
Just got these from the losers who call themselves the Democratic party in Florida … now that they are over run with 0mama’s people …
Dear :::::::
Last night’s debate was striking.
Sarah Palin channeled President Bush when defending John McCain’s foreign policy agenda, saying they hate us for our freedom.
She continued defending John McCain’s belief that “the fundamentals of our economy are strong.”
During the debate, Gov. Palin gave a spirited defense of George W. Bush’s failed policies that we’ve had for the last eight years, yet she didn’t point to a single way in which the McCain-Palin ticket is offering anything except more of the same.
Floridians can’t afford more of the same! Our nation needs change.
I know these are hard economic times, but we need your help. Your donation of $25, $50 or $100 will make the difference in this election. Click here to donate today:
https://secure.fladems.com/page/contribute/
The Republican Party is worried because Democrats, Independents and Republican voters across Florida are backing Barack Obama’s efforts to bring change so we can get our nation back on track and jump start our economy.
A few nights ago the Republicans had an emergency meeting in the McCain Campaign’s Florida headquarters at the George Bush Republican Center.
The Republicans see that we have continued registering a record number of new Democrats, they’ve watched as we have built the largest campaign effort in Florida’s history, and they noticed the tens of thousands of volunteers working every day to elect Democrats up and down the ticket.
With only 32 days left until Election Day, the Republican Party leadership is just now waking up to the fact that Floridians don’t want more of the same.
If you have $25, $50 or $100 to spare, please contribute today to the Florida Democratic Party’s campaign to elect Democrats up and down the ballot.
We’re stretching every dollar and doing everything we can with what we have. But every day we see firsthand how much more we could do and how far your donation will go.
Over the next few days, we will be making critical strategic decisions on our efforts to elect Barack Obama and Democrats up and down the ticket. We will be deciding how best to use the resources we have.
The money you donate today will go directly into expanding our Get Out The Vote program and supporting our Election Protection efforts.
Help us expand our campaign to elect Democrats up and down the ballot by donating $25, $50 or $100 today.
Thank you for your support!
Sincerely,
Congresswoman Karen L. Thurman
Chair, Florida Democratic Party
Hmmmm…I smell