Sarah Palin's first and ONLY interview

Bman wrote:I actually heard Andrea Mitchell last night say that her take from Sarah's interview with Charlie Gibson was:

"NOT READY FOR PRIMETIME"

Funny ... if we elect Palin/McCain we deserve our fate.

Bman wrote:if we elect Palin/McCain we deserve our fate.

Markwes wrote:I had heard the unbiased Ms. Mitchell had made that comment. How did I know it would end up here?

Bman wrote:

Markwes wrote:I had heard the unbiased Ms. Mitchell had made that comment. How did I know it would end up here?

You gotta admit that is going to make for a great commercial come the end of October. Pretty damning chit there about Palin. Glad it was said about her and not Obama or Biden by some one as respectable as Andrea Mitchell.

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:

Bman wrote:

Markwes wrote:I had heard the unbiased Ms. Mitchell had made that comment. How did I know it would end up here?

You gotta admit that is going to make for a great commercial come the end of October. Pretty damning chit there about Palin. Glad it was said about her and not Obama or Biden by some one as respectable as Andrea Mitchell.

I'm waiting for the commercial of Biden saying the other day that Hillary is more qualified to be VP than he is. From his mouth to God's ears...LOL

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Gotta disagree Bman (shocking!)...Andrea Mitchell works for the Democratic New Network (aka NBC)...so just like Bill O'Reilly on the Republican New Network (aka FOX News Channel), her credibility is questionable, at best.

Oliver's Army wrote:...

Jugomugo wrote:

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Gotta disagree Bman (shocking!)...Andrea Mitchell works for the Democratic New Network (aka NBC)...so just like Bill O'Reilly on the Republican New Network (aka FOX News Channel), her credibility is questionable, at best.

Word.

Bman wrote:

Jugomugo wrote:

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Gotta disagree Bman (shocking!)...Andrea Mitchell works for the Democratic New Network (aka NBC)...so just like Bill O'Reilly on the Republican New Network (aka FOX News Channel), her credibility is questionable, at best.

Word.

SORRY ... Andrea Mitchell is NOT even closely comparable to Bill-OOOOOO. Bill-OOOOO only comparable character on MSNBC (NOT NBC) is Keith Olberman.

Oliver's Army wrote:Charlie stopped talking because Palin was shocking him with her non-answers.

The Bush Doctrine is to kill all fore'ners and rape the poor.

God Bless 'merikkka.

Cincy Fan 44 wrote:Then Shepherd Smith. Is that better for you? At any rate, she is NOT somebody I hold as a highly credible source.

cardinal5150 wrote:

Oliver's Army wrote:Charlie stopped talking because Palin was shocking him with her non-answers.

The Bush Doctrine is to kill all fore'ners and rape the poor.

God Bless 'merikkka.

I've always thought we should annex Mexico and Canada and just get it over with.. can that be a doctrine?

Vis wrote:So has Obama just completely given up even the pretense of change?

EXCLUSIVE: GOV. SARAH PALIN WARNS WAR MAY BE NECESSARY IF RUSSIA INVADES ANOTHER COUNTRY

From the unedited transcript it is astonishing the length to which ABC went to get to that hawkish headline. The bold text represents passages that were originally edited out:

GIBSON: Let me ask you about some specific national security situations.

PALIN: Sure.

GIBSON: Let's start, because we are near Russia, let's start with Russia and Georgia.

The administration has said we've got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?

PALIN: First off, we're going to continue good relations with Saakashvili there. I was able to speak with him the other day and giving him my commitment, as John McCain's running mate, that we will be committed to Georgia. And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable and we have to keep…

GIBSON: You believe unprovoked.

PALIN: I do believe unprovoked and we have got to keep our eyes on Russia, under the leadership there. I think it was unfortunate. That manifestation that we saw with that invasion of Georgia shows us some steps backwards that Russia has recently taken away from the race toward a more democratic nation with democratic ideals. That's why we have to keep an eye on Russia.

And, Charlie, you're in Alaska. We have that very narrow maritime border between the United States, and the 49th state, Alaska, and Russia. They are our next door neighbors.We need to have a good relationship with them. They're very, very important to us and they are our next door neighbor.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions, particularly in the last couple of weeks, does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They're our next door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska.

GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they're doing in Georgia?

PALIN: Well, I'm giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relation with all of these countries, especially Russia. We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it's in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along.

We also see from Palin's following remark, which was also edited out, that she is far from some sort of latter day Cold Warrior which the edited interview made her seem to be:

We cannot repeat the Cold War. We are thankful that, under Reagan, we won the Cold War, without a shot fired, also. We've learned lessons from that in our relationship with Russia, previously the Soviet Union.

We will not repeat a Cold War. We must have good relationship with our allies, pressuring, also, helping us to remind Russia that it's in their benefit, also, a mutually beneficial relationship for us all to be getting along.

Palin's extended remarks about defending our NATO allies were edited out to make it seem that she was ready to go to war with Russia.

GIBSON: And under the NATO treaty, wouldn't we then have to go to war if Russia went into Georgia?

PALIN: Perhaps so. I mean, that is the agreement when you are a NATO ally, is if another country is attacked, you're going to be expected to be called upon and help.

But NATO, I think, should include Ukraine, definitely, at this point and I think that we need to - especially with new leadership coming in on January 20, being sworn on, on either ticket, we have got to make sure that we strengthen our allies, our ties with each one of those NATO members.

We have got to make sure that that is the group that can be counted upon to defend one another in a very dangerous world today.

GIBSON: And you think it would be worth it to the United States, Georgia is worth it to the United States to go to war if Russia were to invade.

PALIN: What I think is that smaller democratic countries that are invaded by a larger power is something for us to be vigilant against. We have got to be cognizant of what the consequences are if a larger power is able to take over smaller democratic countries.

And we have got to be vigilant. We have got to show the support, in this case, for Georgia. The support that we can show is economic sanctions perhaps against Russia, if this is what it leads to.

It doesn't have to lead to war and it doesn't have to lead, as I said, to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again, counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to control much more than smaller democratic countries.

His mission, if it is to control energy supplies, also, coming from and through Russia, that's a dangerous position for our world to be in, if we were to allow that to happen.