Caroline Kennedy makes Sarah look like a rocket scientest. As for the duties of the VP Jag, I said what I said because every president does more or less with the role. The consititution basically means you are to stay informed and sit tight if anything happens to the big guy.....but as a VP you don't really do anything if the President doesn't want you to.....
So far, unlike former VP Dick Cheney, Sarah Palin has not shot anyone, although she may have felt like it.
The Alfalfa Dinner was last night. Some funny quotes and happenings are on Politico. Sarah Palin wanted a word with Obama. Looks like she got it:
Another funny one, this time directed at Smokin' Joe Lieberman:Quote:
To Palin, Obama expressed surprise to see her with such members of the Washington elite she railed against during the campaign. Or, as he termed it in language Palin is familiar with, "palling around with this crew."
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Looking to Joe Lieberman, the Democrat-turned-independent-turned McCain supporter, Obama told the Connecticut senator he had no hard feelings.
"The door is always open," Obama assured Lieberman, who observes the Sabbath, "so feel to drop by -- any Saturday afternoon."
Sarah had a few WTF moments when faced with questions about this. As I mentioned before, she should have known the basic answer. But surely to goodness someone in the McCain camp could/should have helped her with something as basic and fundamental as this. Maybe it didn't come up at first, because they figured she knew. But after the second or third time?!Quote:
Originally Posted by Mark in Oshawa
By the Constitution, Sarah was correct that the Veep is (technically) the "President of the Senate." But when a 3rd grader asked her what the job entailed, here's what Sarah said:
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Q: Brandon Garcia wants to know, “What does the Vice President do?”
PALIN: That’s something that Piper would ask me! They’re in charge of the U.S. Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom.
If Brandon gave that answer on his Civics test, he probably failed. She could have just done what the news sites did and asked the Senior Assistant Parliamentarian of the Senate, Peter Robinson, and he would have told her the correct answer, if none of the McCain people would give up the info:
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The Vice President of the United States shall be President of the Senate, but shall have no vote, unless they're equally divided.
In modern practice the Vice President doesn’t really control the Senate.
If anyone has a responsibility to try to govern the Senate, it’s the responsibility of the two leaders.
President of the Senate. Right..oh well I didn't learn US civics in my Canadian civics...lol. She knew she would lead the senate anyhow....
I would lay you even money there is many a politician of both stripes in Washington that would fail that line of questioning Jag. Just like there are parliamentarians in Canada who don't understand how our system here is supposed to work. I saw evidence of that when the Conservative minority gov't here was under threat of losing the confidence of Parliament by a coalition of the opposition and many here thought it would be an automatic election. It isn't. It is a judgement call by the governor general who has actual real power to make that call. Many MP's here outraged a non elected head of state had that power, but that is our system. Well if THEY didn't know, I have to know in the US there are Congressmen who don't understand all the fine points and duties of the VP. You can lay money on it pal......so I wont dispute Sarah sounded awful dumb on that one but she wouldn't be the only one. Furthermore, lets not kid ourselves, if she runs again, I suspect you wont catch her that easily on something simple like that. She was a deer caught in the headlights because she wasn't ready for the assault on her values and intellect that running for VP or President entails......
What you're saying may be true, Mark: that there are others in Congress who are shaky on the policies and procedures of our government. Hopefully there aren't too many of them. And what few there are, they would be, by definition, unexceptional representatives. There were other things besides that which blew me away though. When asked about the Bush Doctrine, for her to say that she was for it, against it or preferred the Reagan Doctrine over it, would have been one thing. But she didn't even know what it was! She did not have the faintest clue. That was utterly amazing to me! Had she never wondered by what basis we went to war with Afghanistan? I almost fell out of my chair. I went from thinking that John McCain had brought in a ringer, and he was going to take a big chunk of the Hillary vote, to a true "WTF! Where did McCain find this woman?!" moment. :eek:
Sarah likely did learn some things from this experience - both good and bad. And she may take those lessons, look in the mirror (instead of making herself out to be totally a victim of the gotcha media and meanies in the McCain camp) and improve her knowledge of the Constitution, the federal government, macro economics and global politics, among other things. She very well may return to the national stage at some point. And if so, maybe as a stronger, more capable candidate.
But IMO, more important to her future is the battle that is shaping up within the GOP. I really think people are underestimating how vicious this is going to be. There are already leaks coming out about the depth of the hurt feelings over the election of Michael Steele to head the RNC. Get out the popcorn. This is just getting started. And like most intra-party battles, futures often get determined based on who wins and whether you're on that side or not.
David Letterman stays.
Sarah Palin goes.
Sarah Palin has resigned as the Governor of Alaska, effective July 26, 2009.
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Hey, what if (big "what if") she and Sanford did a joint press conference next week and professed their undying love for one another? Yeah, see there's a ménage à trois that none of us knew about: Sarah, Markie-Mark and Maria. They're all going to move to Argentina and live together on a compound (once owned by Allen Stanford!).
Help me. Somebody help me... I can't stop laughing!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rotflmao:
Opps i wuz mourning elswhere, well here's to you
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She's told some of her close friends that she's not only stepping down as Governor of Alaska, but she's also leaving public life. If true, this is yet more evidence that this flakey woman had no business being on the national ticket. Imagine McCain sick in bed, Sarah with her finger on the button... and this whack job takes a powder and locks herself in the bathroom.
She couldn't take the heat! She broke. All show and no go. Exactly what I've said all along about this nutjob.
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"We've seen a lot of nutty behavior from governors and Republican leaders in the last three months, but this one is at the top of that," said John Weaver, a longtime friend and confidant of Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the party's presidential nominee in 2008 whose of selection of Palin catapulted the first-term Alaska governor to national prominence.