Reply To: Political Statements
I’m not trying to explain; I’m just commenting.
What type of news sources she turns to for information
Maybe she didn’t want to admit to getting most of her news from The Daily Show? I know a lot of people in that category.
Which Supreme Court decisions she disagreed with
The easy cop-out answer is Plessy; there hasn’t been a candidate defending Plessy since George Wallace. My least favorite recent decision is Eldred.
Why Alaska’s proximity to Russia gave her foreign policy experience
In theory, she was given an opportunity to clarify something she’d said earlier. She can hardly be surprised at this; at the very least, she should have been considering how she could have phrased her answer differently.
Her opinion of the bailout package for Wall Street
IMHO this is the fattest softball question of the lot. Everyone seems to have an opinion on it. In the last week it’s been a more popular topic of conversation in this country than the weather and the recent performance of local sports teams.
Where she thought Vice President Dick Cheney erred
One might argue that she’s not really prepared to criticize other Republicans, but she ought to recognize the need to differentiate her ticket from the status quo. On that basis, I would expect her handlers to want her to answer, “He’s not enough of a maverick,” and they seemed to get that answer foremost in her mind before the debate. I’m not entirely surprised at her answer, though; it was one of the first thoughts to pop into my head as well.