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Charlie Gibson Bursts the Palin Bubble

Charlie Gibson takes his network neckerchief off and asks (and asks and asks) relatively to truly good, hard questions of Mrs. America:

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“ Can you look the country in the eye and say “I have the experience and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?…Am I ready? Do I know enough about international affairs? Do I — will I feel comfortable enough on the national stage to do this?”

Her answers are soft-headed, equivocal, programmatic. He pushes her, and her answers are palid and leave a cold spot in the pit of my stomach. Does she believe she is qualified? I don’t think so.

“Do you believe in the Bush Doctrine?” Gibson asks. (“Bush Doctrine”=pre-emptive attacks when ‘intellligence points to imminent attack on US). He has to ask three times before she answers. The answer? In essence, she does.

“Is the Iraq war a mission from God?” She’s said as much on video. Gibson presses her, and she makes a shamefaced reach to the words of Abraham Lincoln: “My concern is not whether God is on our side; my greatest concern is to be on God’s side.”

But Lincoln’s meaning – the meaning of our greatest, humblest, hardest-pressed, most learned, philosophical, and soul-searching president and leader – was something she can’t lay claim to, especially by way of disengenous spin.

She views the “war against the terrorists” (anybody in a cave with a gun in Afghanistan or Pakistan) as a rather Holy endeavor. And you can bet that it won’t bother many, many people to view it the same way.

The geo-politics of it are more baffling, and I can not figure out myself what approach will yield an increase in stability. The Holy war approach has been tried before and before and before. Will it work this time?

Unless it’s not meant to work. Unless some things are never-ending.

But she’s certainly got a strong jaw. (And legs? Yes, yes, nice legs. Yes, she does. Maybe that’s an asset).

That is, Palin will make points with anyone looking for her to be tough. She’s more than tenacious – you can feel her jaw look for flesh and dig in. Pit bull on display, “Baraccuda,” for sure.

Critics will find her slightly insane – certainly not nuanced – and a thousand miles from “deep as a well.” She’s got a short list of beliefs, and will put them on display in short sentences, and she’ll repeat them firmly. And then she’ll get the gun.

She’s no Caesar, and she’s no Octavian. And she’s no Maggie Thatcher. She is tough, and not terribly complicated in apparent philosophy.

Sounds very American, don’t it though?

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Note: Other possible blog titles: “Gibson Pumps Palin”, “Gibson Man-handles Palin”, “Gibson Pounds Palin.”

(Everything becomes a double entendre, when an attractive woman enters the room. Maybe this is how she’ll protect America – by making us self-conscious!)