Blackburn on Palin: 'She Keeps Up With Things'
Our favorite feminist hero has swung into action again to defend Sarah Palin on television. But as usual with Marsha Blackburn, the words just didn’t come out quite right.
Asked by Bill O’Reilly to explain why Palin wouldn’t take reporters’ questions yesterday about her meetings with Hamid Karzai and other foreign leaders, Blackburn essentially admitted John McCain’s running mate won’t be ready on day one.
“What they’re doing is giving her time to kind of establish her credentials in foreign policy and to prepare herself to be vice president. What she’s having the opportunity to do is prepare for the meetings, go in ask some questions, begin to build some relationships and then move away from that and more or less put that information to work in preparing for the role of vice president.”
Even O’Reilly seemed a little taken aback: “OK,” he said, “but we’re only six more weeks from the vote … “
Next, Blackburn listed Palin’s foreign-policy credentials. Let’s see, she was commander in chief of the Alaska National Guard, “her neighbors are Russia and Canada” and, oh yes, “she has a son who is a member of the U.S. military.”
“She keeps up with things,” Blackburn assured us.
OK, so Blackburn was a little shaky at first in this interview, but she ended with a haymaker. “I don’t think it’s necessary to study at an elite institution to understand some of the workings of the world,” she said.
Attacking eggheads--it works everytime. The big question: Will Blackburn campaign for Rosalind Kurita?
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Marsha Blackburn is a very conservative Republican and Rosalind Kurita is a progressive Democrat. That would make very strange bedfellows but that's the stuff of politics.
Posted 09/24/2008 at 09:55:50 AMThen again, Marsha Blackburn is proof that you can study at some non-elite institution and be shockingly ignorant of the world.
Posted 09/24/2008 at 10:59:39 AMEvery governor is commander of their own state's national guard, Marsha. And she has never issued a single order to the Alaska version related to their activities on foreign soil. Maybe not ever.
Posted 09/24/2008 at 03:20:35 PMThe wheels fell off the straight talk express some time ago and it's getting harder and harder to push it down the road. Now McCain looks at his poll numbers and decides he has to high tail it to Washington to save the economy, suspending his campaign, in a transparent, desperate attempt to get Obama off the trail too. Will Palin continue to avoid any questions as she continues the campaign alone?
Blackburn on Palin... that sounds hot. Then maybe Palin on Blackburn awhile... with Ann Coulter watching...Oh yeah...
Posted 09/24/2008 at 06:03:31 PM"You can observe a lot just by watching." Y.B.
Palin, on energy policy...
“Oil and coal? Of course, it’s a fungible commodity and they don’t flag, you know, the molecules, where it’s going and where it’s not. But in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very, very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first,” Palin said. “So, I believe that what Congress is going to do, also, is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it’s Americans that get stuck to holding the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here. It’s got to flow into our domestic markets first.”
http://thinkprogress.org/2008/09/18/palin-energy-nonsense/
How's that from the person whom McCain calls one of the foremost energy experts in the country?
Sarah's facing some pretty forminable competition in the word salad arena. Here's Miss Teen South Carolina, for instance, who's even prettier than Tina Fey, I mean Sarah Palin...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WALIARHHLII
Posted 09/24/2008 at 08:37:17 PM