CBS's interview of Palin

[PapaG]

You're right, she's awesome and clearly well prepared to be interviewed, and has lots of really insightful things to say.

I'm not saying Obama/Biden is the answer to all that ails this country, but if you can sit and watch that Palin interview and not be at least a little concerned about her overall fitness to assume the role of president, should the unthinkable happen and McCain die in office, then I don't even know what to think.

I have honestly never seen Obama questioned that thoroughly in this campaign. If you have an interview with something other than softballs, please post it.

 

[Nikolokolus]

Me too. How about that FDR statement by Biden?

LOL! Biden is pretty famous for having diarrhea of the mouth, and flubbing stuff up. If he really did think FDR was on TV back in '29 then, yeah I question his mental faculties too.

 

[Nikolokolus]

I have honestly never seen Obama questioned that thoroughly in this campaign. If you have an interview with something other than softballs, please post it.

I'll have to search for it, but he was interviewd by Chris Wallace from Fox News a short while ago, and as I recall it wasn't a puff piece where he sucked him off.

Stay tuned.

Here's the transcript at least: http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,352785,00.html

 

[julius]

I think it's more forgivable to make mistakes on historical events that were almost 80 years ago (although truth be told, it's a little sad that he said FDR when it was Hoover, and mentioned TV).

TV was around in 29, although it was incredibly rare.

My guess is that maybe Biden was talking about something (maybe) FDR did as Governor of NY. I don't know. I would have hoped they wouldn't make a mistake like that though (but at the same time, I would hope someone would know that Czechoslovakia is not a country anymore).

Something a little more pertinent to the modern day issues at hand, you know.

 

[PapaG]

I'll have to search for it, but he was interviewd by Chris Wallace from Fox News a short while ago, and as I recall it wasn't a puff piece where he sucked him off.

Stay tuned.

Cool. Love to see it. I want hardball questions.

 

[Stepping Razor]

I'm not in a "right-wing echo chamber", but I do know that Obama traveled into Pakistan in 1981 when it was not legal to do so on a US passport.

I'm not "alleging" anything. I am relaying information that is clearly not as important as Sarah Palin's latest white-trash escapade.

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Because of the way you linked two seemingly unrelated facts (going to Pakistan and transferring to Columbia) together, I presumed that someone out there has been making a case that there is some connection between the two. I hadn't heard anything about it, and was hoping for a juicy conspiracy theory or something. Apparently there isn't one. Maybe we should make one up

SR

 

[PapaG]

I think it's more forgivable to make mistakes on historical events that were almost 80 years ago (although truth be told, it's a little sad that he said FDR when it was Hoover, and mentioned TV).

TV was around in 29, although it was incredibly rare.

My guess is that maybe Biden was talking about something (maybe) FDR did as Governor of NY. I don't know. I would have hoped they wouldn't make a mistake like that though (but at the same time, I would hope someone would know that Czechoslovakia is not a country anymore).

Something a little more pertinent to the modern day issues at hand, you know.

Televsion wasn't available to US consumers until 1954. FDR was dead at that point for nearly 10 years.

That said, a non-issue other than to show what a doofus Joe Biden is, but if we are piling on Palin for a hardball interview, let's compare Biden's gaffe in a softball interview.

 

[julius]

Sorry, didn't mean to offend. Because of the way you linked two seemingly unrelated facts (going to Pakistan and transferring to Columbia) together, I presumed that someone out there has been making a case that there is some connection between the two. I hadn't heard anything about it, and was hoping for a juicy conspiracy theory or something. Apparently there isn't one. Maybe we should make one up

SR

Both sides are guilty of that one. Both mainstream and behind the scenes.

 

[Stepping Razor]

As a historian, I definitely think that Biden's FDR/1929/TV comment was pretty idiotic, in about three different ways at once.

If it had occurred on an issue of more substance to the current campaign, I'd rate it as a major gaffe. Considering it was just a botched historical analogy, I'm not sure it was too significant. But I definitely had a laugh at Joe's expense.

SR

 

[Nikolokolus]

Cool. Love to see it. I want hardball questions.

Edited post #33 to include the URL for the trasncript of that interview.

 

[julius]

Televsion wasn't available to US consumers until 1954. FDR was dead at that point for nearly 10 years.

thanks grandpa. now tell us about the cold war again..

I think had he mentioned the Fire-side chats, and radio, it wouldn't have been an issue.

That said, a non-issue other than to show what a doofus Joe Biden is, but if we are piling on Palin for a hardball interview, let's compare Biden's gaffe in a softball interview.

Again, I think not knowing about your own campaign's issues is worse than screwing up on a "ah ha!" fact that really seemed pointless to make. But if you're going to evoke something like this, I would hope you get it right.

However, I'd rather have a candidate get some random minute fact wrong, over answering the same question twice, by repeating it again, when you've been given new information about it that flies in the face of what you just said.

Well, I'd rather they don't get either wrong.

 

[MARIS61]

That said, a non-issue other than to show what a doofus Joe Biden is, but if we are piling on Palin for a hardball interview, let's compare Biden's gaffe in a softball interview.

Hardball interview?

Apparently you've never witnessed one.

 

[MARIS61]

It's not like she said "FDR" went on "television" when the Great Depression hit in 1929, right?

I'd say she did much worse than that.

It was like a parody of a Valley Girl.

 

[Denny Crane]

As a historian, I definitely think that Biden's FDR/1929/TV comment was pretty idiotic, in about three different ways at once.

If it had occurred on an issue of more substance to the current campaign, I'd rate it as a major gaffe. Considering it was just a botched historical analogy, I'm not sure it was too significant. But I definitely had a laugh at Joe's expense.

SR

This is all good until he meets Putin and talks about the Russian revolution of 1927.

But I generally agree with your post.