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ORIGINAL: kittinSol

She sounded like a not very bright but forceful first year college student.

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ORIGINAL: corysub

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"I know there is already a thread discussing her interview but I wanted to get specific reaction to Governor Palin seeming not to understand what the Bush Doctrine entails. "

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Gosh... and Barack did not know the Jerimiah Wright doctrine afte 20 years of listening!
I'm more interested in the future, in the "McCain doctrine" and how he intends to lead our country as President...

I wonder if Barack will be asked some of the same questions.  He can't make time for Town Meetings to share his views with the country but he can make the Letterman Show and Saturday Night Live this weekend.  He truly is in "showbusiness" instead of "our business"...

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ORIGINAL: corysub

I apologize to the OP for not addressing the specifics of the thread.

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ORIGINAL: cloudboy

Then maybe they'll let her out of the box.

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ORIGINAL: Archer

OK to reverse some of the spin, the question was not asked the way it was described above.

Palin was asked about the Bush Doctrine she saw it as exactly what it was an attempt to tie McCain Palin to the Bush Doctrine.
Figureing out how to navigate through such a snare set by a reporter is not easy. She did what they teach you to do, when you need time to collect and think ask for clarification of the question.

So the question from a political standpoint is tell us what change you will represent in relation to the Bush Doctrine.
Clarified after she asked for clarification to include: Pre emptive action, spread of democracy by force, and the policy that if you are harboring or materially suppoting terrorists you are going to be treated as an enemy.

Had Palin not touched on each and every one of the points then it's a gotcha moment.

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ORIGINAL: rulemylife


That was an AP summary of the interview.  I couldn't find anything that quoted the exact text of the interview any better at the time I posted.

But if you watched the interview, or even some of the clips on today's news, it seemed she was genuinely confused by the question.  The story above only gives her initial answer.  When pressed further, she still didn't seem to understand and Gibson then went on to explain to her what it was.

You could be right, she may have been trying to buy time, but I thought it was a pretty straightforward question, not designed to be a "gotcha" question. 

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GIBSON: We talk on the anniversary of 9/11. Why do you think those hijackers attacked? Why did they want to hurt us?
PALIN: You know, there is a very small percentage of Islamic believers who are extreme and they are violent and they do not believe in American ideals, and they attacked us and now we are at a point here seven years later, on the anniversary, in this post-9/11 world, where we're able to commit to never again. They see that the only option for them is to become a suicide bomber, to get caught up in this evil, in this terror. They need to be provided the hope that all Americans have instilled in us, because we're a democratic, we are a free, and we are a free-thinking society.
GIBSON: Do you agree with the Bush doctrine?
PALIN: In what respect, Charlie?
GIBSON: The Bush -- well, what do you -- what do you interpret it to be?
PALIN: His world view.
GIBSON: No, the Bush doctrine, enunciated September 2002, before the Iraq war.
PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that's the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
PALIN: I agree that a president's job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America.
I know that John McCain will do that and I, as his vice president, families we are blessed with that vote of the American people and are elected to serve and are sworn in on January 20, that will be our top priority is to defend the American people.
GIBSON: Do we have a right to anticipatory self-defense? Do we have a right to make a preemptive strike again another country if we feel that country might strike us?
PALIN: Charlie, if there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people, we have every right to defend our country. In fact, the president has the obligation, the duty to defend.
GIBSON: Do we have the right to be making cross-border attacks into Pakistan from Afghanistan, with or without the approval of the Pakistani government?
PALIN: Now, as for our right to invade, we're going to work with these countries, building new relationships, working with existing allies, but forging new, also, in order to, Charlie, get to a point in this world where war is not going to be a first option. In fact, war has got to be, a military strike, a last option.
GIBSON: But, Governor, I'm asking you: We have the right, in your mind, to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government.
PALIN: In order to stop Islamic extremists, those terrorists who would seek to destroy America and our allies, we must do whatever it takes and we must not blink, Charlie, in making those tough decisions of where we go and even who we target.
GIBSON: And let me finish with this. I got lost in a blizzard of words there. Is that a yes? That you think we have the right to go across the border with or without the approval of the Pakistani government, to go after terrorists who are in the Waziristan area?
PALIN: I believe that America has to exercise all options in order to stop the terrorists who are hell bent on destroying America and our allies. We have got to have all options out there on the table.