Did Palin Really Say That?

Sarah Palin is new to the media interview routine. McCain handlers shielded her from interviews for weeks after her VP announcement. Just last week, I asked readers "Why?"

Palin seems like she could speak for herself. Her speech at the RNC was a success according to her supporters. Yet, she wasn't hitting the interview circuit to pump up the McCain campaign.

Well, now we know why. Her train wreck interview with Charlie Gibson should have been the signal of the trouble to come. But I thought that was just because it was her first big interview.

Katie Couric's interview with Palin is filled with memorable moments, just not the kind for someone suited for high office:

• When Couric asked Palin for examples of McCain supporting financial regulation, Palin seemed flustered because she can't think of any. Couric: "I'm just going to ask you one more time, not to belabor the point. Specific examples in his 26 years of pushing for more regulation. Palin:  "I'll try to find some and bring them to you." (See video clip below.)
• When Couric asked Palin about the state of our economy, Palin says we "might be headed for another Great Depression." (So comforting to hear from a future leader.)
• When asked about the conflict in Gaza and what will happen if the goal of democracy doesn't produce the desired outcome? It's one of the vexing foreign policy qestions of the day that even freshman congressman know how to answer. Palin's answer was so strange that I'm not sure if Palin even knows where Gaza is or what happened in Gaza? Palin tells Couric, "Yeah, well especially in that region, though, we have to protect those who seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Isreal ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, expecially there in the Mideast, then nothing will." Hmmm. I'm not sure I know what she meant there... This interview doesn't say much for her foreign policy insight. But, at least she can see Russia from her backyard.

Bristol's Decision: She Had a Choice

Semantics  matters...

I don't always get bogged down with semantics, but some quotes are just so telling. We are still getting to know Sarah Palin and recently she said a lot about her views without really saying much. She got me thinking, what is the deal with "choice?" Do you still have a choice if you are anti-choice? 

Here's the deal: I'm still trying to figure out why Republican vice-presidential running mate Sarah Palin said in the statement she released on Monday: "We're proud of Bristol's decision to have her baby and even prouder to become grandparents."

Her decision?

Since Sarah Palin said her daughter Bristol made the decision to keep the baby doesn't that mean she believed that Bristol actually had the right to make a "choice" in the matter?

Since Sarah Palin is Anti-Choice (or Pro-Life) then why did her seventeen-year-old daughter have a choice?

Just like McCain, Sarah Palin opposes a woman's right to choose. Palin has also stated that she opposes abortion even in cases of rape or incest. Palin is a member of the anti-choice group Feminists for Life.