Seriously, everybody. The guy walked into a place, into a situation, where everybody expecting him to blunder his way through the talk. But he actually did rather well.
No! Not that old fart! I'm talking about Charles Gibson!
I know what most of us were thinking. Especially after the softball, inane questions from that infamous debate that ABC held, I think everybody had it on our minds that they were going to let Palin fly. I think that McCain's people even expected that.
It wasn't all that softball, now was it? She got herself sucked into the jet engines of her own unsold plane with the "Bush Doctrine" question. If she could have had an out of body experience she'd have blown her own head off, because she looked like a moose caught in the headlights.
But Charlie did himself good this time. He wasn't going to let her go with that, "That's the beauty of our democracy," bullshit. Her body language, leaning forward, hands quickly clasping into her lap, told you that even she hadn't the faintest idea of what the hell the "Bush Doctrine" is. I'm dead serious - watch her body language.
(I guess I should be the VP 'cause I know what it is.)
And her little answer to whether she'd ever met any heads of state? Had she ever been out of the country? (Canada and Mexico? Skiing and Spring Break?) My god! At that point my wife thought I was channeling Tom Cruise 'cause I was jumping on and off the couch, cackling like a mad man.
(I guess I should the VP 'cause I once met the ex-Minister of Education while living in Japan. Oh, and my professor had once met the Emperor. So, you know... Six degrees of Kevin Bacon...)
Her answer about going toe_to_toe with the Ruskies. Well that reminded me of this:
I think we were all laughing...
I think that McCain's people were smacking themselves upside their heads...
I think Charlie did himself proud...