Ultrabrown nails the latest McCain-Palin tactics to the wall:
… Her fractured syntax actually reminds me of George Bush Sr., only his problem was more about verbal stumbling and haziness than actually knowing the issues. In interview after interview, Palin speaks in nonsensical, incomplete sentences. It’s painful, like listening to a novice debater during cross ex, or some auntie called up to some interview and not allowed to say the words, ˜I don’t know. This isn’t my field.“ She doesn’t even have the basic political skill to bullshit plausibly.
Watching these cringeworthy clips, I actually feel bad for her. Interviewers Charlie Gibson and Couric have been wearing the pursed lips of a schoolmarm. Palin“s flailing, clearly in over her head. But it’s not completely her fault. Were this were a hiring interview, not only would she get the boot, you“d call in the screeners and chew them out for wasting your time.
The McCain campaign knew the interview was a train wreck. So they canceled on David Letterman in favor of McCain doing an impromptu, damage control sit-down with Couric. Boy, was Letterman pissed. And they told the press they wanted to delay the debate between Palin and Biden.
There is no postponing the first presidential debate so McCain can paratroop into the Wall Street mess and save the economy when others, in his own party, are on the job and state they don’t need his help. There is only rescheduling the Biden-Palin debate “for a date yet to be determined,” by which time another crisis will crop up that keeps Palin from … talking. There was no canceling his appearance on Letterman to take the financial crisis by its horns. There was only being caught in makeup before appearing on Katie Couric’s show. Do YOUR job, McCain, which is to get up there and debate Barack Obama tomorrow and, for the love of democracy, quit shielding YOUR choice of VP from the tough questions or picking up after her. She’s got to learn how to run with the big dogs some day.
Just when you think the nation hasn’t seen a larger goat rodeo. This is embarrassing.
