Palin’s interviews with Couric are making her look increasingly ridiculous. Still, if they help her to see how completely unqualified she is for the vice presidency, I suppose that could be viewed as a positive effect.

Jim
Reno, Nevada

those interviews are not helping Sarah but they are helping the American people because they are assuring that Sarah will never hold national office.

No they definitely are not. And woefully so! Katie Couric is a ’soft shoe’ as far as political reporting goes . . . and she is unmasking her even more than Gibson did?! How bad do you have to be when the gibson interview went better than the Couric one!?

I seriously doubt they’re helping, but it’s helpful to the democrats, I wonder if she’s a secret democrat sent to destroy the McCain campaign. This is the second time she has agreed with Obama, but the McCain campaign had to recant her statement. LOL…this election is nuts.

Jack, is that a trick question?

They’re helping all right, helping Obama and Biden to win the general election come November 4th. Everytime Caribou Barbie is let loose, she demonstrates how inept she is, and how poor John McSame’s judgment was to pick her in the first place.

Come November 5th, she’ll quickly become a trivia answer that I hope I don’t remember the answer to.

I DON’T KNOW, HAFT THE TIME I CAN’T UNDERSTAND WHAT SHE IS TALKING ABOUT, THE OTHER HAFT DON’T MAKE ANY SENCE

She isn’t helping herself get elected, but she sure is helping the voters see how ill-equipped she is to speak without a script.

If you saw the interview you know the answer is NO.

Then last night she had to bring McCain with her to answer the questions because she obviously doesn’t have near enough experience to give an intelligent answer.

I can’t wait until she debates Joe Biden on Thursday!

Well they’re probably helping Couric’s ratings, but certainly not Palin’s. And heck, Tina Fey really drove the point home when the SNL skit she did used actual transcripts from the Couric interviews. I think that really says it all: Plain is her own worst enemy - and that’s saying a lot.

Will she have her 15 minutes of fame and then become obscure. Nah, I don’t think so. She’s feisty in a Bill Clinton around interns sort of way. Four years from now she could become the First Babe and her husband would be the First Dude. All America could see her on cable giving classes in extreme weather survival and how to dress a moose. That’s the kind of president I want! (sic!)

Don’t know if it’s helping her or not, but it sure makes for great comic relief.

Jack in Sarah’s interviews with Katie, it has shown me that she has the same I.Q. as G.W. Bush, which means next to none.

To answer your question. No.

She is making Dan Quale look like a genius.

Oh yes, they have made SNL funny again. SNL does not need writers for new material. They can just copy Palin’s statements word for word.

I saw the interview with Katie Couric, and then the spoof of it on Saturday Night Live, and they were almost the same. A cold shiver went through me. The last time somebody that ignorant and that far to the right got next to some real power, the headline read, “Hitler named Chancellor of Germany.”

No…… but then what would we look forward to for a good laugh. In these times , not job, no rent money, standing in line at the food pantries….while hiding from the repo-guy…. we all need a good laugh. Sorry Katie… take two aspirin and get ready for the next sit down.

If she stopped, her critics would say she is afraid to continue; if she continues they will pick out everything she says and attack her with it. The media are continuing their single minded agenda to install Obama in the White House even though he is really no more qualified than Palin - he just has hundreds of journalists as protectors.

What I would like to see would be Obama replaced by Hillary, and Palin replaced by Giuiliani, and then we would at least have two tickets without unready neophytes. As it is, we have the equivalents of Dan Quayle on both sides!

Enough of Katie Curic!! She has received enough of Sarah’s time!

Tina\Houston TX

YES, It is helping her to get sent BACK 2 Alaska!

My God, that’s like asking “How did you like the play, Mrs. Lincoln?”
Answer is NO, NO, NO!!!

I’ve yet to see her string a coherent pair of sentences together. How on God’s green Earth can that help? I am tempted to feel sorry for her, but she has no one to blame but herself for being in this position.

When I was 7, I played football with the teenagers and came home with a bloody lip. All my father could say was “Well what did you expect?”

She should have politely declined. And for his part, McCain, the supposed Maverick, should have had the guts to choose someone like Tom Ridge; but instead he cowered when threatened by the party’s right wing because Ridge is pro-choice. So much for the Maverick BS. They’re getting pounded now, and they’re getting exactly what they deserve.

Mike Walsh
Westchester, IL

No, she is like Alaska Fools Gold, just a flash in the pan, but under examination….worthless.

Jack,
Stick a fork in her, she’s done! Bert and Ernie could interview her and she would still look like what she is, CLUELESS!! And now McCain is saying Palin is like Clinton and Reagan, a dark horse governor that will win….LMAO…..I don’t know what kind of drugs they are on, but they must be really good ones. At least Reagan didn’t lose his mind until after he was president, and he had an excuse, he was ill. McCain is just nuts!!!

well Jack… I mean she is just so nervous… It gotta be about job creation and reform… I mean all of that plus that other thing… You know what jack, as soon as I can get some info, I’ll get back to ya!

Yes; Jack I believe if she keeps on having interviews with Katie Couric

by the end of October she should be well back into her own back yard

looking at Russia.

As the saying goes when you find yourself in a hole stop digging. Palin and McBush have to learn that.

Helping? Sure, if she likes being buried alive.

No she is not but she is certainly helping Tina Fey’s. At first it was funny, now I am actually sad for Palin. It is embarassing to watch. Keep up the good work Sarah Palin, Katie Couric, and Tina Fey! We Democrats really appreciate it.

Arkansas

No! She is not helping her party…and I can’t wait until Ms. Palin and Mr. Biden debate on Thurs. As far as the last debate, did anyone catch the comment that John McCain made about the Koreans height being the only way to tell them a part from the North & South regions? Please tell me you caught that one Jack!

Jack.
Having viewed the last two interviews Couric did with her, it’s so hard to find evidence of anything, Sarah Palin could possibly benifit from.

This pittbull turned out to be a puppy, way out of its league.

Dear Jack, I sincerely believe that anyone with any serious evaluation of Sarah Palin’s answers during the Couric interview cannot help but conclude this woman has no clue about national, international or even local affairs. Mc Cain should be spanked for this one!!!

Birmingham, AL

It helps Saturday Night Live!

If anything she seems to be hurting her chances by continuing these interviews. I just watched the clip of Katie Couric interview Sarah Palin on the 700 billion dollar bailout, and Palin had absolutely no idea what she was talking about. She thought the money was for bailing out TAXPAYERS, not MORTGAGE COMPANIES. I’m less than half as old as she is, and I probably know more about government than she ever will, having taken, oh, I don’t know, A CIVICS CLASS.

Paliin’s interviews are helping only one person.. Barack Obama1 People are beginning to realize that John McCain will do anything to get elected. That icludes putting his own wants ahead of the country. Poor Sarah is being manipulated by the Rove team running McCain’s campaign. She is give little phrases on each topic to memorize and when she gets flustered(like she did with Katie Couric)she just strings them together in a desparate attempt save face.She has been hidden from the media for a month and now on her first run out of the gate she stumbles.She’s in this way over her head.

YES..Sara made Katie look like a east coast liberal bitch…WE love socker moms…and dont want them picked on by the elit snobs.
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I didn’t see anything last night that encouraged me. Interesting to note that John was there to rescue her though. Frightening to think we need a veep or potentially a prez who needs to be rescued.

As an American voter that has traditionally voted republican since I turned 18 I can honestly say that Bush cured me of voting republican, and hearing Gov. Sarah Palin’s interview with Katie Couric have pretty much made me loose any and all faith that there is an intelligent member of the republican party. Why on earth would they put this lady in such an important role.

palin’s is the same as bush & chaney she refuses to honor a court order.no more of the same crooks.

No Jack. It’s telling us that if she doesn’t understand whats going on outside of Alaska, How can she become the leader of the free world. What she need to do is drop out and take McCain with her. She has swallowed too much of the McCain prune juice and it is not working in her favor.

Jack,

she is only enhancing her chances of appearing in person on SNL as and when Tina Fey decides she is tired of impersonating Palin. Palin can then be the next Tina Fey. As regards her chances of being the next VP - the more she is exposed by journalists like Couric the more we will see that she is not qualified to represent the United States on any forum to do with National or Foreign Policy issues.

Jack I am no rocket scientist, but when Katie Couric interviewed both John McCain and Sarah Palin about questions that they should obviously know about concerning our nation welfare, they tried to spent it as if journalist are always asking them the I “gotcha question’s “is outrageously laughable. This is the kind of responds that we have come to expect from the not so bright crew, that don’t know the answer to the questions that they are being asked about concerning this nation. Jack, it appears that we have shipped integrity, honestly and reasoning overseas along with everything else. This is simply morally devastating to our nation future, along with our standing around the world.

This is a closely related question. We heard this morning that the McCain campaign wants to limit debate points for the VP candidates to sound bites. Does this bunch of troglodytes give a damn about the US at all? We need to know what makes this woman tick. C’mon John if upstaging dad and grandpa is what you’re all about maybe somebody could give you an honorary presidential plaque for your mantle & be done with this charade.

YES..Sara made Katie look like a east coast liberal SNOB…WE love socker moms…and dont want them picked on by the elit snobs.
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So our Sarah snitched on that evil, bully Couric and brought her Grampa to Couric’s house to have a “talk” with her. It is a good thing little Sarah had her Grampa there to keep the big, mean “gotcha monsters” away. That Couric beast! Everyone knows she lives deep in the land of the ultra-liberal-socialist elite (that is, those who choose to ignore any other interview she has ever done with a politician). She was still a little scared, but with Grampa John by her side she got up the courage to say the magic right-wing words (given to her by the wizard Rove) and take away the Couric’s power.
We should all be so very proud of our little Sarah. She sure showed those gotcha monsters and the world is now a more snugly safe place. Now it is her beddy-bye time (for the next 2.5 days). We need to leave her alone so she can sleep and dream of more magic words so she can fight the Biden. Sweet dreams pretty Sarah.

Bethesda MD

Absolutely not, but that might be a very good thing. If she continues to make an ass of herself, there won’t be any chance for McCain to win. All these interviews do is help Obama. The problem is that they can’t prepare her enough for this kind of interview, because she does not have any experience in foreign policy.

I can see the ocean from my house, I’ve got Marine Biology experience!

Wake up, America. This woman cannot lead your country.

Her interviews with Couric are making her look worse. At the same time, Couric is coddling her, giving her much easier questions than the men in the campaign are getting. This Palin woman comes across as uneducated and uninformed. She needs to drop out of the campaign. Personally I would love to see Wolf or Campbell Brown interview her. If she can’t take the heat, get out of the kitchen!

OBAMA 08

Sarah Palin is clueless if she really believes that she deserves to be running for VP - of anything except maybe the PTA. And shame on McCain for convincing her to do this, which also explains where I think McCain stands as a possible future President. I am unfortunately a registered republican and am disgusted by what I’ve seen and heard from both of them. So, if she doesn’t get elected, do you think she’ll see it as God’s will? It is absolutely scary that this has gotten this far.

Jack: No. She is just continually hurting herself. I think the Katie Couric interview shows that she needs to be briefed more on certain aspects. She continues to be viewed very positively by the base of the party, but she needs to demonstrate that she’s got the knowledge and ability to be president should the need arise. Polling suggests that the number of Americans who think she is not fit to be president has increased since her introduction to the country last month and the recent Couric interview. A number of conservative columnists and thinkers have publicly turned against her, or criticized Mr. McCain for choosing her, including George Will, David Brooks and Kathleen Parker, who wrote a column entitled “She’s Out of Her League” for the National Review Online.

Ms. Palin is getting ready for the debate at a time of enormous uncertainty about a highly complicated issue, the unfolding crisis on Wall Street, which makes preparing for the debate face off especially hard……..Good Luck Governor……..you are going to need all the luck you can gather.

The old addage that ” it’s better to keep your mouth shut and have half the people think you’re an idiot rather than open it and remove all doubt” certainly applies to Palin. Unfortunately, as a VP candidate, she has to talk to the media or get back on her Alaska porch.

Jack, you asked the other day if McCain should ask Palin to step aside. Linda from Torrence, CA responded:

“Sarah Palin possesses George W. Bush’s worst quality… a person of deep conviction who is not a deep thinker.

They have a point of view based on limited information and they’re going to “fight for it” regardless of what other information might come into play. They call it conviction, but I call it shallowness.

What we saw in the Couric interview was someone who could only go one question deep on a topic. Once Couric asked the second question, Palin was unable to form a new thought on her own. OUCH!!”

This was the most insightful summation I’ve read in anything posted about Sarah Palin. Now you ask-are Palin’s interviews with Couric helping her? Yes, they’re helping her-helping her get on SNL on a weekly basis!!!!

yes they are jack, they are helping her right back to alaska where she need to be so she can see russia everyday

NO! Katie Couric’s interviews are KILLING Sarah Palin. Sarah Palin is a GIFT to the Obama campaign at this point. As a believer in the democratic process, however, I wish McCain has chosen a competent running mate so that there would be a CHOICE in whom to vote for. Palin, before you embarras yourself any further, make things worse for women and Americans everywhere, STEP THE HECK DOWN. Bow out gracefully.
Victoria
Norman, Oklahoma

No, Jack, its not helping. The interview Palin and McCain did together with Katie Couric looked like she was a ‘little girl’ next to her Daddy. McCain even got defensive when Couric asked Palin ‘if she had learned anything’ from her gaffe on Pakistan. McCain said “its gotcha journalism” and Couric, said “the question was asked by a voter”.

Good grief! I do not agree with Palin’s politics, nor her parenting ’style’ (a mother of an infant, especially one with special needs, is needed at home, call me old fashion). I do not agree with her, at all. And I believe that everyone including conservative journalist calling for her to step-down is right!

As a former-Republican, now Independent, I can tell you that I have lost ALL respect for McCain. His choice of a running mate clearly was about boosting his campaign……..NOT about what IS best for our Nation.

No Jack they are not. The scary thing is that she is going off to one of McCain’s many homes to practice for the debate – to most this reads – “I’ll be out of town with my handlers ~ they’ll be teaching me what to say, how to respond, my facial expression and of course my pretty smile When can I practice how to wave? Can I do it now? Can I? ”

Jack, you know the old saying: Any publicity is good publicity. I’ve never seen a case of someone with less to offer getting such a huge following, so it must be true.

Of course not, this is starting to look more and more like an ex trying to show that she’s “changed” and “different” - but really, it just looks desperate. I’m tired of cringing while I watch her try to form an intelligent sentence.

This scares the heck out of me to think this person will represent the United States even if she never has to assume the role of the presidency. What must other countries think if this is the best we can do?

What they are doing is - keeping her in the limelight. Since she is an unknown entity, this gives her much needed publicity. Whether it helps her or not, remains to be seen, but it does give us the American public, much comedy material. Good laughs ain’t cheap, you know.

Until she can answer questions with real information and not ramble, she’s better off staying quiet. But if a VP candidate has to keep quiet, then what are they worth?

This is a very silly question, Jack. A first for you. If you are talking about intelligient people, Yes it hurts her….I know 20 yr. old college kids that could handle it better.

Give her all the rope she needs…have you noticed how nervous McCain looks whenever she starts to talk…a gotcha moment!

Oh!! With granpa sitting next to her?

That was pathetic. McCain should be ashamed of himself. He described a simple question from an ordinary American citizen(voter)
as “gotcha” question.

I wonder, was McCain looking for a running mate or a playmate?

Sarah Palin is absolutely NOT qualified to run this country. It scares me that there is a chance this woman maybe President of the United States. As painful as it is, I think it is extremely important that she continues to do these interviews so that the entire country can continue to see how unfit she is to be President. I am a registered Republican but I am voting for Obama.

Must you ask the obvious? With each appearance, voters’ confidence in her weakens even more.

Although the interviews I have seen so far are hilarious, pathetic and scary at the same time, I think they may help her in some bizarre way. Our expectation of her performance has lowered to such an extent that even if she can complete a coherent sentence during her debate, it will amount to her victory.

If Palin had any love for this country she would step aside and not run at all, forget the interviews SHE SHOULD QUIT. McCain was concerned with getting votes and not concerned for our country when he chose her, and because of this he has handed over the presidency to the antichrist. His pride got in the way of the reason why he was running for president.

No of course not. She was doing just fine when she was out the media’s spotlight. Now shes doing interviews with John McCain to make sure she doesnt say anything stupid and you want me to believe she is ready to be my country’s VP or even President. Give me a break. The United States is going to fall like a ton of bricks if the voters dont make better decisions of who the choose to run this country. IM SCARED!

Palin is not helping her chances by engaging a hostile press. She is no less vapid and ignorent of good public policy than McCain, Obama, or Biden, but making her lack of qualifications more visible can’t help. McCain has his war hero status to hide behind and the Obama\Biden team will get a pass from media cheerleaders, but Palin has nothing to look forward to except public mocking.

Pliny,
St. Louis

Jack,
So long as she dose not say anything,holds her breath for more than 10 minutes,shoots her self in the head six times,She will have my vote!

The only thing her interviews are doing is helping her back home to Alaska so she can watch the Russians from her back yard and improve her foreign policy experience. I am deeply concerned about this country’s future if John McCain is elected. Until Sarah Palin came onto the scene I was a stauch McCain supporter. Now not so. Everytime she is interviewed she shows just how unquailified she is and makes me question Senator McCain’s judgement.

If she’s trying to demonstrate that she shouldn’t hold ANY public office, she’s helping herself immensely. Otherwise, no, of course not. She’s an insult, not only to the the intelligence of every American citizen, but to the intelligence of all the world’s foreign leaders.

Short answer: No!

Although she didn’t make any huge gaffes with her latest interview along side Senator McCain, it reminded me of a parent / teacher conference after his daughter failed a test, and it was laughable in that regard. If she needs hand holding to even answer legitimate questions, she shouldn’t be insulting the American people with her presence on the ticket.

While Palin has done wonders for our state.. she is not qualified to run as VP. Her interviews make her look like a political weakling.. and believe me, she is as cutthroat as they come, politically. Couric makes her look like a mental midget. But keeping her hidden from public view and scrutiny is plain idiotic of McCain….but then idiotic covers McCain totally…..If Palin wants a political future higher than our governor, she needs to learn how to give an honest answer and go back to being the Alaska Baracuda we like here in the last frontier

Franki
North Pole, Alaska

The more she talks, the more she helps Obama. But my question is this, Why is it politically incorrect to mention the amount of time she spends with her special needs infant? That child will undoubtedly be properly cared for, but not by his MOTHER.

Yes - the interviews are helping her realize her limitations. Then again, I believe she knew her limitations long ago and failed to honestly address them. As the song goes “I’ll get on my knees and pray we don’t get fooled again”.

Helpful, as in explaining to the world exactly why an evangelical should NEVER be in office? Sure, that’s helping.

It’s keeping her in the spotlight…that’s it. She needs to do more interviews to keep up her ratings, though.

The unfortunate reality of the situation is that she doesn’t seem to be hurting their campaign all that much with these interviews and that above all is the most terrifying part. I will have lost all faith in the American public if McCain and Palin get into the White House. Wake up America, duty calls, do your research, listen to the candidates and make the smart choice. Do not choose because a candidate is good looking, or charming, or likeable. Choose a candidate that is capable, and has the best interest of these United States in mind.

The latest interview was surreal. I mean really Jack, is McCain going to stand next to her and hold her hand at the debate Thursday? If he doesn’t have the confidence to let her speak in public, how can he honestly say she is the best choice for VP?

Jeff DuShane
Flint, MI

Yes. The interviews have helped lower expectations for her debate with Joe Biden.

Jack; I watched the interview she had with Katie couric; McCain was there coaching her; it was like watching Dum and Dummer.

Yes, Jack, only to the extent that voters will just get used to the inanity. If she’s redeemable as a candidate, it will show in the debate.

How dare Palin say “I remember Biden’s speeches from when I was like 12.” How can she call him old when McCain is 72? It is pathetic that McCain had to go do an additional interview with Katie Couric to redeem their campaign. It looks like father protecting daughter. He wouldn’t even let her speak for herself. Katie Couric asked “Are you sorry that you said that” (about answering the Grad student’s question) McCain stepped in and said “How can you ask her if she’s sorry?” The grad student is a voter, how dare the McCain/Palin campaign blame it on journalism. Truth is…you can’t protect her. They don’t agree on all issues and they can only cover it up so much.

Absolutely NOT!!! She is not helping her chances, however, she is finally opening the eyes of her own party, as well as, of the constituants in regard to clearly being out of her league and the negligent decision of John McCain to nominate her. During one of her interviews she mentioned how scary it would be to see someone like Biden be elected. Well personally, I think she is the scariest of all four candidates. God help this nation is they should be blessed enough to take office come January.

You are right Cafferty…the interview did not answer the question…but I believe that you would have done a worse job than her. Quit while you still can.

As far as politics go…you never get a second chance to make a first impression.

She has no choice but to try. Imagine if she ceased doing these interviews, essentially giving up. The resulting speculation would, and I know this is hard to believe, be even more negative. Besides, the resulting comedy is the most entertaining thing around now days

Dave in Minneapolis, MN

McShame pick a women not for the of the country , but for the good of his interest . That goes to show those Republicans will do anything to win . Can you imagine Sarah Palin as President if something happens to McShame. That is one scary thought.

Since she and McCain now accuse *voters* of engaging in “Gotcha journalism” it probably doesn’t matter who asks the questions.

someone sent me this text. Please read it.

I’m against the $85 BILLION bailout of AIG. Instead, I’m in favor of giving $85,000,000,000 to America in a ‘We Deserve It’ dividend. To make the math simple, let’s assume there are 200,000,000 bona fide U.S. citizens, aged 18+.
Our population is about 301 million counting every man, woman and child. So, 200,000,000 might be a fair stab at adults 18 and up. Now, divide 200 million, 18+ adults into $85 billion - that equals $425,000.00 each! Yes, my plan is to give that $425,000 to every adult as a ‘We Deserve It’ dividend.
Of course, it would NOT be tax free. So, let’s assume a tax rate of 30%. Everyone would pay $127,500.00 in taxes. That sends $25.5 billion right back to Uncle Sam! It also means that every adult 18+ has $297,500.00 in their pocket. A husband and wife would have $595,000.00!
What would you do with $297,500.00 to $595,000.00?

* Pay off your mortgage - housing crisis solved.
* Repay college loans - what a great boost to new grads.
* Put away money for college - it’ll really be there.
* Save in a bank - create money to loan to entrepreneurs.
* Buy a new car - create jobs .
* Invest in the market - capital drives growth.
* Pay for your parent’s medical insurance - health care improves.
* Enable deadbeat parents to come clean - or else.

Remember this is for every adult U.S. citizen, 18 and older (including the folks who lost their jobs at Lehmann Brothers and every other company that is cutting back) and of course, for those serving in our Armed Forces.
If we’re going to re-distribute wealth let’s really do it! Instead of trickling out a puny $1,000.00 ‘economic incentive’.
If we’re going to do an $85 billion bailout, let’s bail out every adult U.S. citizen!
As for AIG - liquidate it.

* Sell off its parts.
* Let American General go back to being American General.
* Sell off the real estate.
* Let the private sector bargain hunters cut it up and clean it up.

We deserve the money and AIG doesn’t. Sure it’s a crazy idea, but can you imagine the coast-to-coast block party?!
How do you spell Economic Boom? W-e D-e-s-e-r-v-e I-t d-i-v-i-d-e-n-d! I trust my fellow adult Americans to know how to use the $85 Billion ‘We Deserve It’ dividend more than do the ‘geniuses’ at AIG or in Washington, D.C..
And remember, my plan only really costs $59.5 billion because $25.5 billion is returned instantly in taxes to Uncle Sam. Good idea? I think so.

Jack, After you vote for BO retirement might not be a bad thing. I’ve watched you for awhile and you are 62 it might just be time to go fishing.

Sarah Palin’s continued interviews with Katie Couric dosen’t help her at all, however, it helps the public to learn just how critically unqualified this woman is to hold any office, it certainly clears the lipstick from the pit-bull, pig or whatever terminology she wishes to use to define herself. If Obama loses the election, WE ARE ALL IN TROUBLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Sara Palin hurts McCain every time she opens her mouth. If they win than it proves Americans are dumber than I thought. I could have answered those question better than her. I would hate to see someone who is as educated as I am in economics , world history, and foreign affairs be the 2nd most powerful person in our government. I don’t belong in politics and neither does she.

I think the Couric interviews just are allowing John McCain to puff up his feathers in defense of “the little lady from Alaska”. She says nothing of substance.

No, the interviews between Palin and Couric aren’t helping Sarah Palin unless it means sending her home to Alaska sooner than later. Her latest, with John McCain beside her, still didn’t keep her from making an oh-oh- when she said she didn’t know Joe Biden but had heard of him since about 2nd grade. Can you just imagine what an unscripted Palin would be like in Washington?

I would feel sorry for Sarah, except that she accepted the offer to run on McCain’s ticket knowing very well that she is totally unqualified. I am only hoping someone…her…John ..others will recognize how ridiculous his campaign is looking as she becomes more and more “exposed” and that she will step down soon….”for personal reasons”. Then maybe he can get Romney to join the team and lend some credibility to John;s “vast ” knowledge of economic issues. Increasingly, it is beoming clearer every day that McCain is nothing but a politician like all the rest.YUK!

Jack,

No, they are not helping her. Palin is just reinforcing McCains “do anything to win, lack of judgement” mentality. Last night McCain and Palin looked like “Daddy protecting his daughter from the school principal.” Palin was McCains political gimmick, a political pander. I almost feel sorry for her, “almost” being the operative word.

Jack, I saw the first interviews with my brother for the first time yesterday, and my jaw was wide open during the entire thing. It was embarrassing and very very sad. I think Palin has basically overturned not only opinion about her, but also opinion on women in office in general. She was the very image of a hick bimbo that people have maliciously(yet, apparently, accurately) pinned on her. She was a living, breathing stereotype, right before our eyes.

The only way the McCain/Palin camp could recover from this is if Obama suddenly started waving an AK-47 around with a bottle of malt liquor in his hands and shouting he’s gonna “pop some caps in some niggaz’ asses.” In other words, that Obama became the stereotype of blacks everyone fears. Palin is already the stereotype of backwoods, uneducated beauty pageant winners.

No, of course not, and they’re hurting Sen. McCain. Voters are too concerned about the economy and the financial system right now to support a candidate (that’s one 72-year-old heartbeat away from the presidency) and one who doesn’t even come close to remotely understanding the economic ramifications of failed banks, the mortgage crisis, or the proposed ‘bailout’. Between her inability to answer intelligently and McCain’s judgment that ‘the fundamentals of our economy are strong’, it’s not wonder Sen. Obama’s poll numbers have jumped past McCain and broken the dead heat.

Atlanta, Georgia

Are the Three Stooges running this campaign?

Definitely not, especially while her grandfather is holding her hand. Or is she a puppet, maybe he is pulling strings.

Well Jack we know you don’t think so! First Hillary now Sarah you ever met a female politician you liked Jack?

They aren’t helping her in the least little bit, and quite frankly, they are scaring the hell out of me and I wish she’d just stop talking!

Jack, I don’t have any examples of how it’s helping her but I’ll find some and bring them to ya!

I would really have to question a persons’ sanity if they can truthfully say Mrs. Palin’s interview with Katie Couric helped her in any way.
I can’t believe John McCain still has her on the ticket after that
nonsense.

Dear OLDEWOK,

It’s a HOCKEY mom and “socker” is spelled SOCCER. No wonder you support McCain/Pailin.

Someone with IQ
Las Vegas

I only saw the first one; it was so painful, I couldn’t make myself watch the second one.

While I’m sure she is a nice enough hockey mom and probably a good neighbor (as long as you don’t make her mad), she is woefully lacking in knowledge that we expect from a candidate for federal public office at any level. I know high school students with a better understanding of world affairs. And if she is having this much difficulty with a soft reporter like Katie Couric, I cannot imagine what a true political analyst/reporter could do to her. McCain did her no favors in putting her in a position where she is so obviously in over her head.

However, she will make a great fall guy for a failed campaign.

ms palin has invented her own language, it is “repulicanese”, it is filled with nonsense and gibberish which only a very few can comprehend.

WOW couldn’t beleive my ears, she answered some of the questions as if she was on a beauty pageant, oh that’s right she was on a beauty pagant. Come on folks, is this for real. This woman is a heart beat away from becoming the President of the USA. And I will bet that’s a one in five chance, given McCain’s age.

I’d bet Sarah Palin voted for Mike Huckabee in the Alaska caucus because she knows nothing about John McCain’s policy positions. Even after weeks of coaching, her only topics of interest are religion, guns and gas.

No! The only person she’s helping is Obama.

In a word—NO!! Additionally, doing these interviews along with a glaring, uncomfortable John McCain makes matters even worse. It appears that her Dad didn’t trust her to answer appropriately so he came along to kick her or squirm in his seat if she goes off base. What a joke and such poor judgement by McCain to select her in the first place.

Hey Jack,

do you think Tina Fey might show up to the debate on Thursday instead ? Will we be able to tell the difference ? I doubt it.

They’re hurting her, but they’re surely helping the American voters. I can’t imagine she would sway any undecideds to vote for the McCain/Palin ticket. Furthermore, it highlights the poor judgment of McCain and his campaign. Incidentally, since she thought Joe Biden’s age was such a hoot, has anyone told her the age of her running mate?

Clermont, FL

I would like to be reassured that they are not helping her, but I don’t think that’s true. Just look at how many people are still gushing about her looks, her great family, and what a great addition she is to McCain’s ticket. This woman really believes she’s VP material. Even worse, Mc Cain thinks so too!!! It’s like watching a movie where all the inmates are running the mental institution. Katie Couric should get some kind of award for keeping a straight face throughout that interview. I would give money to see you interview Palin.

Jack,
Sarah Palin is doing both her family and this great country a dishonor when she continues to place herself in these interviews. She is like a cubic zirconia. She has the appearance of a diamond but once placed under a microscope, all of her flaws are left exposed.

No, the interviews are not helping at all. Those McCain Train riders need to get out the fork, stick it in cause McCain is done.

Talk about being different from Bush, please that is so misleading to the general public. I think we all see that Sarah Palin and Bush are very much indeed alike, they are both morons!!

Anita Nashville TN

just tina

Why does Jack love trick questions? my head hurts, don’t know the answer =(

They’re definitely helping Kaite Couric. I had forgotten that she sill had a job at CBS.

No! In fact, the joint Couric interview with both Palin and McCain made her look even worse. In my opinion, it looked like a desperate spin job by McCain to refute Palin’s comments. By the way, why didn’t your body language expert analyze McCain’s rapid eye movement( blinking) and failure to make eye contact. He should read 11 Ways To Tell If Someone Is Lying.
Thanks, Jack.
Molly Albuquerque, NM

Oops! From an international point of view, its quite bad for America to field a “Vice Presidential-candidate” to the world who has no sence of understanding and comprehending the question before she gives a logical answer. Curic made it such an elementary level TWICE: “How does that enhance your foreign policy?” I wonder if she took a class anywhere in her schooling called “logical thinking”!!
Dallas, Texas

Yes, like totally.

Ed Reed
Port Aransas, TX

Jack- The real issue is, that John McCain, by not vetting her properly put our country in danger with this total incompetent running mate a potential heartbeat away from the most powerful position on earth. If McCain wins with Palin, we should all pray that he stays in office until the next election. Palin & her “first dude” husband need to be sent back to Alaska ASAP By plane or dogsled. !!! MUSH!!!
David, Las Vegas

Jack, it’s obvious even to the blind and deaf that she doesn’t understand the question or else she will not be giving such nonsensical answers.

My mother use to tell me sometime its better to keep your mouth shut as not to show your ignorance. One her favorite saying was most people who have to tell how smart they are really not smart. Also if someone has to tell how religious they are also pulling the wool over your eyes. They call a man a empty suit. I guess Palin is a empty dress.

Palin’s interview’s with Katie Couric are gaining her sympathy with the simple minded voters, who favourably judge her by such populist criteria as ..”She’s just a hockey mom”, …She just like the average joe”,instead of asking themselves intelligent questions like, Does she have the foreign affairs & economics experience to possibly run the country in a exceptionally challenging time like this?. Unfortunately, my theory has always been that the biggest problem with all American elections, is that a much higher percentage of these intellectually challenged people show up to vote in elections, than the intelligent ones, where there is more voter apathy, so once again the world media may be asking the question…How could so many people have been so STUPID??

No, she’s showing that she hasn’t even watched the 6:00 news in years or she would do better. Of course with John McCain flipping and flopping on ever topic maybe she’s confused as to what today’s policy is specifically. The debate on Thursday should be the final straw. on this camel’s back.

Between the Palin interviews and the “return to Washington to rescue the bail out “, Senator McCain’s campaign is looking more and more like Custer’s campaign on the Little Big Horn…..

Jack,

She makes women look bad. My grandmother could not read and she was far more intelligent than Palin. I actually feel sorry for her. To be quite honest, she’s just out of her league.Someone needs to show her the exit door. The one near Russia.

Let Kucinich write the bill and it will go right through !!!!!!!!

obama & biden need to get this bankruptcy thing fixed !!!!

NO! NO! NO! NO! NO bailouts, give them a $700 billion mortgage, the first payment is due in a month and if they miss ONE we will foreclose on the FED and throw their ass out of the country !!! They are the major problem anyway. Until we start printing our own money and take this country back by getting rid of the illegal and corrupt entities that are taking over our lives, get constitutional, and real, the next step is slavery !!!!!!!!

Look at the polls.

They’re helping the democrats win across the board.

Maybe helping her move back to Alaska

Oh, and don’t forget Biden’s gaffes with Couric… what a dolt! You know, this is funny, Katie Couric has actually been succeeding getting her name in the news, rather than reporting it, for once.

Sarah Palin is showing her inexperience even with all her mad lines and bluster. Katie Couric is showing Sarah how unprepared and illogical Sarah is. How hard that must be, to look at yourself in a TV clip and know the middle class knows more than the Alaskan governor. I’m sorry Alaska.

Governor Palin’s interviews with anyone are not doing her much good, but the question is how many people are seeing these interviews. It is appearant from watching these interviews, that she is woefully unprepared to be a leader of this country (eithere VP or the big chair), but the republican base keeps pushing her as qualified.

What I would like someone in the media to question, is the statment that she WILL be ready. What does that mean, does she need more training, how will she be ready. That statement should scare the bejeebers out of anyone who hears it.

No. It’s not helping her at all. But, I do have a little respect for McCain now. He knows that he allowed his strategist to back him into a corner that he shouldn’t be in. Rather than dumping her, he is being a man and sticking with her. If the Repulicans dump her now, they would be destroying a family. They are already parading her children and the poor boyfriend around un-necessarly. The Republicans owe it to the Palin family to allow her to continue running as VP. Although it’s helping my party, the Dems, big time, I still fill sorry for the Palin family.

Yes, it’s helping Palin she’s getting tons of free practice time.

It seems as if Ms. Palin need to get out more. John McCain keeps such tight reins on her. She’s scared to death of him. Did you see him come to her defense on Katie’s interview. Like a daddy protecting the honor of his daughter. And oh - did you catch him LOOKING AT Sarah when she was speaking? Looking at and smiling at? Can you be a more obvious racist?

I think it helps all of the idiots that are still stuck in the ideas of the past America lets make this a country for EVERYONE

Keep going, girl! Those eight toss-up States just tossed their cookies and will be voting for Obama! ….. ‘kay, Serah?

No. She is only revealing how much of a Mccain puppet she is and proving her inexperience.

She is not helping her chances by interviewing with Katie Couric.
She is helping us Democrats A LOT !!

Jack,
What astounded me on the interview, last night, is McCain’ answer to Katie’s question on Pakistan. He told her that it didn’t really matter, that there wasn’t any press there–hello, there was a video on TV–his total answer was besides there wasn’t any press there, that it was just ONE VOTER that it pertained to. What world is he from? How do people get elected–gee, could it be from voters? That one voter answer will cost him quite a bit more than just ONE VOTE. I think that he has caught that dreaded disease–the Sarah Palinitis–open mouth, and insert foot, then try to make it good again!

If Palin was interviewing for a job with Katie Couric she’s not helping her chances. It appears to me Katie Couric has taken on John McCain’s lack of responsibility of doing the job he should have done on day one.

It seems pretty clear that Palin is basically harmless as these interviews have pretty much confirmed. America would have more reason to be concerned if she had a brain then she would be dangerous.

She has singlehandedly elevated Tina Fey career, I would not be surprise if she is making 20 million a movie next year, with a Oscar in a movie, she’ s so good. She should give Palin some money for she probably won’t have a job after this.

NO!!!!!!

Come on Oldewok,

Katie is a SNOB for asking questions that Palin should know but didn’t have the intelligence to answer? Come on - get real! If you truly believe that then you are one of those who still thinks there are weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. When will you people admit that Palin is the poorest excuse for a VP nominee to ever grace this planet? Anytime the woman opens her mouth it brings forth stupidity.

I am a soccer mom - an intelligent one!! I don’t need Palin embarrassing me!

Her interviews are not helping McCain but their are entertaining to watch. I cannot wait to for her debate with Biden on thursday, I wonder if McCain will be standing next to her. WOW I never thought there will be another politician more clueless than Bush.

This is what you get when you try to bring down the accomplishments of Obama who worked his way through Harvard and graduated in the top of his class with someone who has had everything given to them including their (talking points and thought processes via Rove, McCain etc…)

Republicans are still trying to blame the reporters for Palin’s ineptness but the more she talks unscripted the more ridiculous she and those that try to defend many of the statments that she’s made, appear.

SHE’S CERTAINLY HELPING THE DEMOCRATS. THE ENTERTAINMENT FACTOR IS PRETTY COOL, TOO.

It’s a 99% certainty that Sarah Palin will not become VP. What this has done for her has given her the opportunity to write a book about her experiences on the campaign. Imagine the sales!

She isn’t helping herself or her party, But the American Public is sure getting a heck of an education on the merits of “Maverick” decision making.

Jack -

They are hurting her in a very bad way. She needs to come up with some sort of excuse to “drop out” so he can select someone else with some sense of knowledge of the world, at least some sense.

Jack,
It’s just not helping her. She royally messed up the first one then has McCain come in with her to be her protector to try and fool the American people into believing that it’s all the media’s fault. Shame on them! You can’t blame others for your own mistake. And who is McCain fooling anyway?! He made it appear as if he was her father there to make it all better. When will the insanity end?!

They aren’t helping her but they are helping SNL give America a good laugh every Saturday. Heaven knows we need one right now! Hopefully they are also helping voters realize that as bad as things are now, if we make the wrong decision in November they can absolutely get worse!

nothiing can help her or McCain

NO, but it sure is helping the American voters!!! “)

Jack,
I honestly don’t think anything can help Palin. The last interview she had that McCain was sitting by her side was disgusting. When he has that three A.M.heart attack who is going to pull her strings then!?!
J.K. in Boise. Idaho

Hi Jack,

No way he should’ve picked Tom Ridge or Mike Huckabee, it’s come back to haunt them picking her

Every word that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth makes her look more clueless and McCain looks more reckless. We can all agree we need more women in politics. Hopefully in November we can also all agree we need leaders who are competent and qualified for the offices they seek.

Why do you think that John McCain has her in seclusion.? It is too late to dump her, so he is stuck with her for worse, or worser. He would be seen as incompedent for all of those who know that he made a gigantic mistake, and that he did it as a stunt to get Hillarys voters. Hillary’s votes aren’t as dumb as he is.

Jack
From what I have seen of that interview, I’d have to say not by a dam site! The woman is either hopelessly confused or, more likely, dumb as a stump.
Pablo

Jack, In my opinion Palin is not helping herself in this followup interviews with Couric. Yesterday, It appeared that she brought her older brother back to a conflict she had lost a few days before. It appeared to me that McCain was there to shield her from any difficult questions.

But the real problem to me is that, Mrs. Palin has difficulty putting together a proper and complete sentence.

Every word that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth makes her look more clueless and McCain looks more reckless. We can all agree we need more women in politics. Hopefully in November we can also all agree we need leaders who are competent and qualified for the offices they seek.

It certainly keeps the media’s attention. You are going to TUNE in just to look for any and all mis-steps that she might have arn’t cha? As for curic - what a dumb blonde ! She’s looking to HOLD on to her job! She had her 15 minutes. Time will tell who’s on FIRST.

At first it appeared that Palin was just some sort of distraction, and an attempt to bring over the Hillary folks. Now it seems that this really is what McCain’s judgement is about. Her “interviews” with Gibson and now Couric have been more than a joke, they are an embarrassment to all women, all Republicans, and even to the rest of us. To think that McCain thought we would all fall for this.—Turn out the lights, this party will be over Thursday night.

Katie Couric’s interview is helping Sarah Palin set the bar so low for the debate that Americans will be impressed if she is able to talk in coherent and complete sentences…well maybe just complete sentences.

Oh Jack, she’s doing just fine!!!
Didn’t you hear, the Republicans made the awful mistake of “over preparing” her for these very difficult interviews.

Don’t be surprised if she shows up for Thursdays debate in a Burka, with a bad cold… sounding suspiciously like Karl Rove!!

Every word that comes out of Sarah Palin’s mouth makes her look more clueless and McCain looks more reckless. We can all agree we need more women in politics. Hopefully in November we can also all agree we need leaders who are competent and qualified for the offices they seek..

no , its helping us to see McCain for what he is a liar and a sneak. and he’ll do anything to try to win ..ity all about him , botox Barbie , and the moosehunter

As a Canadian I find this somewhat humorous, the questions clearly went over her head. Mccain shouldnt be there to dig her out of the mistakes she makes. I wouldnt want her running my country.

The question should be: Are Couric’s interviews with Palin helping her? Just a note: Palin is beyond help.

Jinny Lee
Melrose FL

Jack,

It gets more and more scary, each and everytime. It is painfully obvious Gov. Palin can’t talk on her own. The rollout of Sen. McCain as her mouthpiece, Is just plain insulting. As the hockey teams employ an enforcer. She took to McCain. If she were able to respond on her own, he should have let her. His “gotcha journalism” point was both comical and frightening at the same time. I am certain the Dems were loving it. He would have been wiser to place the Gov. on his lap, and officially announce: The Edgar Bergen / Charlie McCarthy revue is here. We will answer all your questions. Heaven help us.

Pete
Cranford, NJ

I think she should stick with Sean Hannity. He asks easier questions like, “what’s your favorite sport?” or “are you a good person?”