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  • Posted By: Scott D @ 09/28/2008 6:56:44 AM

    So Palin flubbed one interview? Obama flubbed many before he improved his skills. It was only weeks ago that Obama said there are 57 states. The MSM ignored this, and many other, Obama flubs because they are pro-Obama and it is potically incorrect to imply that he is stupid. Palin has more common sense, grit, and intelligence in one finger than the affirmative action Obama has in his whole body. MSM are happy they found an achilles heel in one interview but the real American people are not buying it. The interview looks perfectly fine to them. Besides, it is the experienced McCain who is the top of the ticket, not Palin.

    • Posted By: bwlear @ 09/28/2008 10:20:23 AM

      You must not have the sense you claim to give Gov Palin. How can you look at the two resumes and even try to compair what she has done to his? Affirmitive action does not make you graduate from the Ivy league with a magna *** laude. Maybe you can explain how the current President got into Harvard business and graduated with any type of degree business and yet he has lead the country into its current state. You must hate it that this man has more intellegence then the two canidates you support combined? Keep making excuses for the party that has done everything to make the United States a third world debtor nation. Now imagine the journalism major as President?

  • Posted By: Karenn1 @ 09/28/2008 10:12:39 AM

    McCain not all their .Don't care what you call it,Push the Button Jonh is what he was train for.Don't know what happen in vietnam,but I would not trust him with the Button. Still calls them Gooks,irrational campagin,V P pick dangerous,and a liar or Senoir moments.To much baggage.

  • Posted By: Larry Linn @ 09/28/2008 10:11:56 AM

    It's not McCain's fault that he ended up with Palin. He wanted Gracie Allen, but his staff broke it to him that she had been dead a while. So it came down to a choice between Palin and Kathie Lee Gifford. Palin answered the phone first.

  • Posted By: Wetzelfam @ 09/28/2008 7:49:25 AM

    Hmmm... the press hounds are baying for a woman to drop out of the race. Deja vu all over again.

    I'm still in the undecided voter category, and the recent debate did not help me. I am concerned and extremely worried for the future of our planet given how very hawkish both of our candidates appeared in the debate. Why does "foreign policy" have to consist only of threatening and/or attacking other countries?

    • Posted By: Joseph1969 @ 09/28/2008 10:11:28 AM

      What does it say about a country that spends nearly 1 trillion dollars per year in military expenses? I wonder what is our revenue in weapons we sell to other countries. The vast majority of Americans is against illigal drugs because they are so destructive to Americans, however, when it comes to pushing weapons to other countries we don't seem to mind how destructive they could be other people.

  • Posted By: kathy845 @ 09/28/2008 10:11:12 AM

    Help!!!!!!!!! I am terrified that someone will actually vote for this airhead. John McCain has only one interest in this world and it is John McCain. If he reminds us again of what a "hero" he is I may scream. I am a Viet Nam widow and find his constant patting himself on the back very offensive. Please people, This man's judgement is about as poor as it gets.

  • Posted By: kathy845 @ 09/28/2008 10:08:32 AM

    I am terrified that someone may actually VOTE for this person!!!!!!!!! I am trying to awaken everyone who will listen. Thank you for speaking out.

  • Posted By: MacLean Carson @ 09/28/2008 10:04:31 AM

    Very scary. In the unlikely event McCain is elected, and if he can't finish his term, obviously this woman will not be able to run the country. What network will step in and attempt to take over? This is a huge risk for our Country. This election gimmick certainly does not demonstrate country first.

  • Posted By: vic w @ 09/28/2008 9:42:11 AM

    The author is correct:

    MCCAIN PICKING PALIN IS A SIGN OF IRRESPONSIBILITY.

    You want more such examples from McCain?

    Look at his career. Look at last week, the week before a few months back.

    McCain yells with conviction "FIRE COX!" one day, and the very next day he says: "DOING A HECK OF A JOB COX!". Huh?

    McCain states over and over on Monday "ECONOMY IS SOUND", and Tuesday /Wed 4 financial institutions fail and rock the stock market (let alone the fact that we already lost 600,00 jobs in 2008). On Thursday McCain reverses course and yells "THIS IS AN ECONOMIC CRISIS!"

    But you would expect these sorts of confused statements from a man who often admitted he knows little about economics and the economy.

    You want him for president?

    You want Palin as his backup plan?

    God help America.

  • Posted By: C. MacLean @ 09/28/2008 9:40:36 AM

    "you don't blink" is not an effective crisis management strategy, it is something a teenager says when he plays chicken with his parent's station wagon. Can you imagine this woman with access to atomic weapons?

    And although I normally agree with Mr. Zakaria, urging Palin to "stay home with her family" is a cheap, dare I say, sexist comment. John McCain, however, is not sexist when he keeps Palin away from the cameras, he is instead behaving in a prudent manner - and saying prudent and McCain in the same sentence is a stretch.

    I truly believe that McCain would keep a completely incompetent MALE candidate away from the cameras, too.

  • Posted By: PAC65 @ 09/28/2008 9:26:01 AM

    Sarah Palin's lack of ability to speak a coherent sentence is very troubling. I fear for our country if she and McCain are elected - Lord help us!!

  • Posted By: steve1111 @ 09/28/2008 7:36:51 AM

    Good for you for calling a spade a spade. It's badly needed -- I find the idea of a possible Palin
    presidency really scary.

  • Posted By: pmentonelli @ 09/28/2008 5:26:35 AM

    Fareed, thank you for your insightful commentary and analysis. Living in Switzerland I don't have much exposure to the US media anymore, but I do set aside time to watch GPS each and every week on CNN International. In a world full of empty suit politicians (and journalists to match) your interviews are reassuring. All is not lost!

    • Posted By: Jack Avramoff @ 09/28/2008 7:26:40 AM

      Good for you!! I would consider moving to Switzerland to get away from the US newsmedia as well. The idiocy of the media in general, and the conservative talk radio in particular is just baffling. It very much explains how W got elected twice and how democracy just doesn't work. Democracy without better newsmedia and educated populace is a disaster; just watch illiterate Indians electing their leaders.

  • Posted By: Deeva @ 09/28/2008 6:47:53 AM

    Even though most of the world judged Friday's debate to be a tie or a perhaps a tip of the scales to Obama, the right-wing "lemmings" who watch Fox News Network texted in their votes, giving McCain an 83% to 16% win.

    Come Thursday, Sarah Palin could do the entire VP debate speaking in tongues and the Fox audience would still give her the nod.

  • Posted By: Jack Avramoff @ 09/28/2008 6:46:09 AM

    There are admirable reasons for McCain's selection of Palin. For example, Palin is the only one on McCain's list of potential VPs without much Rove connection. He wanted a break from the Bush/Rove group for the same reasons Obama wanted to stay away from the Clinton group. However, that should not have been the top of the list of qualifications. Even though we all would like to see an end to the Rovian politics, we all like to have candidates with merits even more. McCain should have done a better job of compiling a list with people he would have really liked to have around, with people like Lindsey Graham or Elisabeth Dole or the like. There is still time for a change. But, it wouldn't help his already lost cause, unless if it is someone like John Roberts saving day after Harriet Miers nomination.

  • Posted By: post-hoc @ 09/28/2008 5:55:43 AM

    McCain knows that he cannot win against Obama in a substantial honest way for no fault of his own- the tide is against him. Race and gender and right to life chasms hold his only hopes to survive. He is has a tough balancing act to pander to the right that he taunted in the past. He has his senior moments and his arms can not let him juggle too well. So in comes Palin, right on the eve of a tour-de-force election event on the final day of the Democartic convention. McCain won the day but lost the election. If the tortured facial expression of Ms.Palin's face reflect her true comfort on election day, if her brickwalling of troopergate investigation, if her back and forth on yearmark, and links with Ted Steven will come to the fore, she will be the McCain's Bridge to Nowhere!

  • Posted By: Danvk @ 09/28/2008 4:58:12 AM

    Canada is doing fine, id worry about your country and your irresponsible politicians. Ill enjoy my good economy and healthcare and you can worry about your house being repossessed.

  • Posted By: Danvk @ 09/28/2008 4:57:36 AM

    Canada is doing fine, id worry about your country and your irresponsible politicians. Ill enjoy my good economy and healthcare and you can worry about your house being repossessed.

  • Posted By: american idiot @ 09/28/2008 4:55:55 AM

    Hey kids. Let's compare and contrast VP candidates for a minute K?

    Here's my guy:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JRiWazVoNQ&feature=related

    Here's you pig in lipstick:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gj6KviFGzng

    Prepare to get PWNED on Thursday republitards. PS that means we are going to win.

  • Posted By: Concerned Canadian @ 09/28/2008 2:02:49 AM

    And Barack Obama says in his debates he doesn't know how to answer the question because its "above his pay grade "....yah please...Barack Hussein Obama lost every debate versus Hillary because he doesn't know what he's doing which I predicted about a year ago...so Fareed Zakaria when you are educated as much as me which will never be the case...I suggest you stop writing childish columns knocking a politician if they're not a left-wing nut bar like you. Its people like you thats bringing America down...you must be a Muslim too !!

    • Posted By: marksgershenson @ 09/28/2008 2:10:31 AM

      Oh the fake Canadian comes roaring in with his bs. The repub living in the US tries to rattle everyone on the blogs, and somehow disappears for weeks on end, and now is back. Too bad.

      • Posted By: canadianobserver @ 09/28/2008 4:37:14 AM

        I agree that "Concerned Canadian" is a fake Canadian. I'm a real one and I know we wouldn't make a big deal about Obama's middle name. We are so multi-cultural that we don't care where a person is from and we definitely wouldn't be criticizing someone for being a Muslim. We just don't think that way. And for the record, most Canadians love Obama and we're wanting you to elect him. When you have a war-monger for a president or an air head who could become president (Palin) it endangers us.

    • Posted By: PanosQ @ 09/28/2008 2:07:16 AM

      What's your education? Your comment does not exactly make you sound like a professor!

  • Posted By: atsvegas @ 09/28/2008 4:36:58 AM

    "So if you think Couric was hard, what is she going to do when she has her face-off with Biden?"

    Joe Biden? Isn't he the guy that convincingly told Couric that FDR was president in 1929 during the stock market crash, and reacted correctly by going on television to reassure the American people? I'm pretty sure that when it comes to saying dumb things in interviews, Joe Biden can hold his own. I'm looking really forward to the to the VP debate. It should be very entertaining!

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