Link and video
http://www.cbsnews.com/...
On Afghanistan
Katie Couric: Why is it much more challenging there? Can you explain that?
Sarah Palin: The logistics that we are already suggesting here, not having enough troops in the area right now. The... things like the terrain even in Afghanistan and that border between Pakistan and Afghanistan, where, you know, we believe that-- Bin Laden is-- is hiding out right now and... and is still such a leader of this terrorist movement. There... there are many more challenges there. So, again, I believe that... a surge in Afghanistan also will lead us to victory there as it has proven to have done in Iraq. And as I say, Katie, that we cannot afford to retreat, to withdraw in Iraq. That's not gonna get us any better off in Afghanistan either. And as our leaders are telling us in our military, we do need to ramp it up in Afghanistan, counting on our friends and allies to assist with us there because these terrorists who hate America, they hate what we stand for with the... the freedoms, the democracy, the... the women's rights, the tolerance, they hate what it is that we represent and our allies, too, and our friends, what they represent. If we were... were to allow a stronghold to be captured by these terrorists then the world is in even greater peril than it is today. We cannot afford to lose in Afghanistan.
Another Clip that will air tonight
There is way too much to transcript at this point and I do not have the time right now so please forgive me for that but I have a job interview I have to get ready for.
As for Katie, I think she had to be careful. If she came off as too confrontational the Right would be able to say she was part of that damn liberal press. I think her body language and facial expression is enough to know she is well aware she is hearing a bunch of crap.
Now, Sarah.
Everytime I hear her speak my stomach turns and yet I cannot help but watch. The old train wreck thing. You cannot help but watch.
It is like she sat in some meetings while half listening while she was using her trusty Blackberry and picked up some key phrases and thinks if she throws them out people will buy what she is selling.
She may have been able to do this in a smaller media market in Alaska but it just is not going to fly on the national front.
She is shallow. In personality (really how far does she think a nose wrinkle is going to get her with Putin), in depth and breadth of knowledge and her much personally stated readiness.
She scares me.
As a working woman I have no respect for anyone, male of female who did not earn their rank. She has not. She is all show and no substance.
I think between this and the Davis ties McCain called the time-out. If they could call for a do-over I think they would do that as well.