Now to your other point, first, I didn’t know Bill O Reilly was now the gold standard for intellectual prowess but that’s okay if that works for you. O Reilly has a slight independent streak which means he kisses conservative tush whenever possible but at least he doesn’t have his entire head up there like Rush. If you buy this trick question argument and I don’t, then Sarah should have challenged Charlie on the definition rather than trying to wiggle her way out of responding to the question. And why didn’t she do that? Because she got caught cramming for her exam, it was so obvious.

I’m sorry we just had eight years of an intellectually challenged president that said he didn’t read the papers and who went entirely with his gut and just look at the end result: a five year old war in Iraq and the Muslim fundamentalists threatening to take over Afghanistan, Pakistan with Bin Laden still alive and free in a cave somewhere. Am I asking too much to have a president that is at least as smart as the bad guys?

So just watch the interview again, her facial response is very enlightening. She’s as light as a feather, lighter than Obama. That’s great for a Buddhist but lousy for a leader. Anyway, I am writing a blog on this argument so thanks for your contribution.

It was explained that it was a “trick” question since the Bush Doctrine is not written anywhere. Charles Gibson was only referring to “preemptive strike”. The fact is that it consists of 4 components:

1) Democracy as being the only option
2) Pre-emptive Strike
3) Any nations that harbor terrorists will be considered terrorists
4) Rid the world of terrorists

Charles Gibson wanted to hear #2 as an answer and she answered #4.

About those of you who think Hillary supporters will not support the McCain ticket… Well, I have 2 friends of mine that were Hillary supporters who will now vote for the McCain / Palin ticket. They are liberal conservatives (will go either way). They simply feel they cannot trust Obama. Hillary vs Sarah is not only about pro-life, pro-gun. Most woman surveyed put the Economy and National Security way above their lists of priorities. Pro-Choice was rated just 3% on a list of priorities.

Please learn to read before referencing Wikipedia otherwise you’re gonna hurt yourself. Fact, Alaska has a population of 670,000 and my local town has just as many occupants. Maybe they do things differently in Alaska, maybe they count trees and moose however, if I remember my elementary social studies correctly, population is definitely not the same demographic statistic as acreage but hey you just proved my point about the mentality of Sarah’s supporters. Secondly, the Bush Doctrine is not that esoteric and damn if you want to be within a heartbeat of the presidency the least you can do is to do your homework! She’s a lightweight like Bush albeit a more attractive one.

“The fact that she has been governor for less than two years for a state that has a smaller population than my local town doesn’t matter I guess. ”

Response: The state of Alaska is twice the size of Texas. Study your geography.

Also the debate on Sarah Palin response to the George Bush doctrine – it is Washington lingo–even the newspaper reporters defended her as they never heard it before.

Please go to Wickipedia the free encyclopedia to get the FACTS.

Thank you.

I don’t know about the rest of the readers of this blog but I smell more Swiftboating from the Republicans. Are you one of the many Republican operatives that are seeding seeds of discontent among the Hilary supporters wherever you can?

Anyway, Hilary can put this to rest with several sharp comments about Palin, you know along the lines of the famous comment about Dan Qyuale from Bentsen that went “Senator, you’re no Jack Kennedy”

“Governor, you’re no Hilary!”

Will she?

Bummer of a last name and worse you probably watched the Beijing Olympics!

Erik John Bertel