Re: Will Palin's use of the mute card work?
by
middleview
10/05/2008, 10:01 PM #
Dick Cheney's attempt to claim to be part of the legislative branch was a try at avoiding oversight. You'd like to try to minimize the issue, but is all part and parcel of the administration's method of ruling our country in violation of the constitution. It is part of the secret meetings, the warrantless wiretaps, the legal manuvers to keep the Bush appointees from going to jail. Can you actually defend that the White House fought the request for records on the number of times that Abramoff visited Bush? Like that is a matter of national security.
Now look through the questions from Ifill and the answers from Palin.
IFILL: Governor, please if you want to respond to what he said about Sen. McCain's comments about health care?
PALIN: I would like to respond about the tax increases.
IFILL: Would you like to have an opportunity to answer that before we move on? (health care)
PALIN: I'm still on the tax thing because I want to correct you on that again.
IFILL: What promises -- given the events of the week, the bailout plan, all of this, what promises have you and your campaigns made to the American people that you're not going to be able to keep?
PALIN: Well, the nice thing about running with John McCain is I can assure you he doesn't tell one thing to one group and then turns around and tells something else to another group, including his plans that will make this bailout plan, this rescue plan, even better. I want to go back to the energy plan, though, because this is -- this is an important one that Barack Obama, he voted for in '05.
IFILL: Governor, on another issue, interventionism, nuclear weapons. What should be the trigger, or should there be a trigger, when nuclear weapons use is ever put into play?
PALIN: Nuclear weaponry, of course, would be the be all, end all of just too many people in too many parts of our planet, so those dangerous regimes, again, cannot be allowed to acquire nuclear weapons, period. Our nuclear weaponry here in the U.S. is used as a deterrent. And that's a safe, stable way to use nuclear weaponry. But for those countries -- North Korea, also, under Kim Jong Il -- we have got to make sure that we're putting the economic sanctions on these countries and that we have friends and allies supporting us in this to make sure that leaders like Kim Jong Il and Ahmadinejad are not allowed to acquire, to proliferate, or to use those nuclear weapons. It is that important.
The last two just astounded me. Was she stoned or what? May be she didn't understand "intervention".
