Ok, I'm Sure this has been aksed but I gotta know. After seeing the Sarah Palin Interview?

Personally I find it staggering. People are actually saying that they are confident in her to head this country. I mean as if it goes way beyond someone being smart enough but more into whether or not they can provide an American Idol image of themselves enough to get people to vote for them. It puzzles me and I have tried seriously. I kept my ideals reserved and watched her speeches, watched how she carried herself, listened to her vp nomination speech, listened and watched her interviews and I cannot put my fingers on it. Something is just wrong there. Her answers are similar to what a young college student fresh in college would maybe give because of the lack of depth and details in what she says. She speaks increasingly vauge and obsecure with no theme line basis other than we need to change something. I tried to give her some serious chances to earn my vote, she failed man. So yea no more of that one.

Thte end of the clip does leave that bad taste in my mouth- except-

here is what she did

She answered in a way that redirects others, does not give up too much information, supports her running mate 100%, and is diplomatic enough to say, "I don't know, but I will find out", admitting momentary defeat, but ending on a positive note.

That shows great character when on the spot.

I don't agree with her personal choices, I am pro-choice, etc.

but I respect that she is strong enough to stick to her guns and side 100% with McCain.

This is the way we must represent ourselves to the world, as opposed to the rifts stirring between Obama and Biden even before election.

A united front is more effective than a divided one, no matter what direction the front may choose.

I disagree some.

She is intelligent, but inexperienced. She needs to learn two things and quick.

One, foreign experience. Now in fairness, very few go into the job of President or VP with that much foreign experience. If McCain wins, I would immediately advise him to start sending Palin out on foreign policy situations--things like going to the UN, tough negotiations with allies, etc.

In this way, she can rapidly gain the experience that breeds confidence in dealing with less-than-friendly world leaders. She has shown talent for foreign policy, but she needs to gain confidence; experience will help her greatly in that matter.

Her second and more immediate problem is that she doesn't seem to know any of McCain's positions or past history. The interviewers are constantly asking her how McCain can handle the job, and she is giving out platitudes. When they press her for specifics, she breaks down and just says she'll get back to them on that.

That suggests to me that she is afraid she is going to stick her foot in McCain's mouth because she doesn't actually know where McCain stands on pretty much any issue. McCain needs to lay off training her to handle the media, and start training her on what he thinks on the issues so she can confidently back him up without worry that she'll contradict him in public.

She shows talent for handling the media, but no confidence. She shows no confidence, because she doesn't know what she should and should not say. She doesn't know that, because she doesn't know McCain's positions on anything yet; nor his history so that she can back up those positions with past examples.

John McCain = Archie Bunker

Sarah Palin = Edith

So you think that she is unfit because she answered like you or I would have answered? That's what I love about her!! She is an ordinary person. She is REAL!! Why would you continue to elect the same BULLCRAP? Do you have confidence in Joe Biden? You think Palin's not intelligent. I didn't hear her say FDR appeared on t.v in 1929, did you?

So are you a cocktail waitress? Perhaps you know a thing or two to judge. Frankly, with the current crop of over-educated douche bags we have in office now. It might be refreshing to have someone who is not an insider in Washington.

As to her responses, the MSM are tools of the DNC and have helped to cause this current climate of fear. Oh yeah, and Alaska is being harrassed by Russian bombers. So she does happen to have some idea of the magnitude of the threats we face.

Leave her the F alone and go vote for your wooden Obama.

Her brilliance was a shining example to the younger females of the nation to strive for an education.

Like Bush's C's let under achievers know they have hope to become President.

Hurrah for Sarah!

I don't think she's qualified at all.

McCain just chose her because she's a woman, and he did what Obama didn't.

It is absolutely ridiculous. If something happens to McCain and she's our president...God help us.

I love when the Palin supporters scream about how it was all "edited" to make her look bad...can they seriously believe a LIVE interview, with no edits could yield a better result? I would WELCOME a live interview, but people, you know that ain't happening....

Now we ALL KNOW why they've kept her hidden. Guess they were hoping a little experience would fill that head with something.

Be as p*ssed at Healther Mallick as you want, but she had her downpacked!