Friday, September 12, 2008

Why the Flub Matters

Sarah Palin's utter cluelessness about the Bush Doctrine analyzed by Josh Marshall and James Fallows.

By the way, if you haven't already seen the whole interview (the first half, I mean -- the second half airs tonight), here it is on YouTube, broken into two sections: Part 1 | Part 2.

2 comments:

bjkeefe said...

KK responds via email:

The lack of knowledge of The Bush Doctrine didn't prove anything to me - I mean,who paid any attention to his proclamations for the past six or five years or remembered earlier ones? But what surprised me is the lack of knowledge on the Veep question about meeting foreign dignitaries. She said, if you didn't watch it, that "Most vice-presidents had never met a foreign leader when they were elected." Not true for Cheney, Gore, Bush I,Quayle, Humprey, Mondale, Ford, Rockefeller, How far back shall we go? Her lack of foreign experience made it seem to be such an obvious question or at least area of questions that she would have been drilled in all trivia of the Veep office and foreign dignitaries...

I imagine Jake Tapper will be happy to hear that KK backs him up.

bjkeefe said...

(Just to be clear, the Tapper line at the end was added by me.)

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