Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

What was his “Freudian slip” from yesterday? I'll judge it on it's own merit.

The issue in this thread is Palin... If you can demonstrate in any way that Palin probably knew better and this was just poor wording, let me know.

She lacks the background on national issues. It's not surprising that she's not well versed on topics that don't deal directly with Alaska. It's probably why the press is being locked out from her. She's doing some intense cramming between now and the VP debates. Hopefully for her, she memorizes the correct answers.



p.s. you're keeping a file on me? Wow, I feel special.

Originally Posted by Danny

No wonder she is in hiding and the media not allowed to speak to her. Just wait til the honeymoon is over folks. And wait for Biden to rip her a new one.

Originally Posted by Imperator

And I answered you, regards our fiduciary interests already enacted, we have been on the hook for their losses since July..........if you want to pretend that every day those fat cats at fannie and Freddie were in charge was not costing us money , well go ahead, but that’s not the reality and it appears to me you’re making a very tenuous reach here…..

Look, its like giving your daughter a credit card, in her name but co- signed by you, who’s a shopoholic, knowing full well you’re gonna pick up the tab at some point in time.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

I understand the mortgage mess.... and the lending practices that caused it.

The reason that the Government bailed out the 2 GSE's is the potential large scale economic fallout. The result is that now the taxpayer will foot the bill.

Palin had it exactly backwards...... This is not like the Sunni/Shia mixup that McCain had.... that could be forgiven because he had dealings and it could be written off the same way a grandpa calls his grandson Jimmy, "Mike" by mistake.

This is different. Palin has had no dealings in the mortgage crisis on a national level. To say that she really knew better and just had a brain fart is based on nothing.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

This is different. Palin has had no dealings in the mortgage crisis on a national level. To say that she really knew better and just had a brain fart is based on nothing.

Originally Posted by MattLarson

This is different - it's not Obama making a mistake, so it's earth-shatteringly important and complete disqualifies for office.

Such partisan nonsense.

Matt

Originally Posted by Si modo

And the racism that Biden shows certainly is a different story, too. That was no gaffe of his when he was talking about employees at 7/11s. I mean, wow. Talk about inexcusable gaffes.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

At least that gaffe was factual. (If you can't excuse the non-PC nature of the comment, then I guess that's just a value judgement).

I think it's telling that most of the counter-arguments on Palin's gaffe (if you can call it that) immediately stray to pointing out the gaffes of others.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

Upon recent developments that saw Sallie May and Freddie Mac get taken over by the government, Sara Palin thought she would weigh in on the matter:

Housing Policy Trips Up Palin, By Steve Benen - CBS News



This is more than a mistake.... there's no two ways to parse this... Sara Palin believed that Fannie and Freddie have been government run this whole time.

No....Sara.... this is a situation where private companies failed and were getting a government bailout as a result.

Fannie and Freddie weren't costing taxpayers a dime directly... but now that we are bailing them out.... taxpayers will largely be footing the bill.

This woman isn't ready to be our Vice President, let alone our President.

We can now see why the McCain campaign is keeping Palin bottled up..... they should also make sure she sticks to the script completely on the campaign trail. Just recite and read.... don't think.

Originally Posted by Si modo

Somehow I just knew the partisan relativism would reveal itself.

Oh, and for the record - I give no importance to Palin's gaffe, Biden's gaffes, nor to BHO's gaffes.

Originally Posted by Si modo

And the racism that Biden shows certainly is a different story, too. .

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

Obama has made retractions/clarifications when he's screwed up.

I'll be interested to see if Palin does the same. If her (the McCain camp's)explanation in defense of her gaffe is similar to the one's in this thread I wonder how people will receive it.

My guess is that there will be no response at all.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

Hey, I wear my partisan relativism on my sleeve.

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

....
But if you place no importance on gaffes then why did you claim that Biden was a racist based on his?



Just being facetious?

Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout

Upon recent developments that saw Sallie May and Freddie Mac get taken over by the government, Sara Palin thought she would weigh in on the matter:

Housing Policy Trips Up Palin, By Steve Benen - CBS News



This is more than a mistake.... there's no two ways to parse this... Sara Palin believed that Fannie and Freddie have been government run this whole time.

No....Sara.... this is a situation where private companies failed and were getting a government bailout as a result.

Fannie and Freddie weren't costing taxpayers a dime directly... but now that we are bailing them out.... taxpayers will largely be footing the bill.

This woman isn't ready to be our Vice President, let alone our President.

We can now see why the McCain campaign is keeping Palin bottled up..... they should also make sure she sticks to the script completely on the campaign trail. Just recite and read.... don't think.