(From HuffingtonPost.com, 9/18/08)
Vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin says she’s ready for her world affairs quiz.
At her first town hall meeting since being chosen for the GOP ticket, Palin said that if elected, she will be ready by Inauguration Day to serve. Asked about her credentials, she said skeptics are free to quiz her.
“If you want specifics with specific policies or countries go ahead and you can ask me. You can even play stump-the-candidate if you want to,” she said Wednesday evening.
She did not offer the questioner the chance to pose a follow-up question so the quiz show will have to wait.
One vote, that’s all they lost here. The articulation of the question suggests this individual is probably intelligent enough to leave the event disgusted and prObama. I’m happy that there’s plenty of entities calling all this BS. Unfortunately the white Christian zombie base they aimed for with the Palin stunt just doesn’t give a damn about an acceptable, or even suggestable resume.
I think the northern exposure exposure is catching on pretty quickly - see WSJ, Hagel, et al. She really can’t keep talking in circles for long and it’s like she’s getting a little battle fatigued - and that’s almost like military experience.
I believe she did get a question asked to her by a voter while she was out getting a philly cheese steak sandwich. She got stumped and suddenly McCain and his campain are complaining that the media posed gotcha questions. This was a college kid asking a question from across a sandwich shop, not any reporter from the media….