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09.25.2008 8:38am EDT
(New York City) Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin says that the United States could be headed for another Great Depression if Congress doesn’t act on the financial crisis. Palin made the comment in an interview with CBS evening news anchor Katie Couric while visiting New York to meet foreign leaders for the first time in her political career.
As Palin sought to establish her credentials in world affairs, first lady Laura Bush said that Palin lacked sufficient foreign policy experience but was “a quick study.”Recent surveys have shown that Palin’s popularity, while still strong, has begun to fade.
Earlier this month, an Associated Press-Yahoo News poll showed more people viewing Palin favorably than unfavorably, 47 percent to 28 percent. But an ABC News-Washington Post poll released Wednesday showed that in a two-week period, the number seeing Palin positively dropped 6 percentage points while 10 points more see her unfavorably. On Monday, a CNN-Opinion Research Corp. poll said her favorable rating dropped 4 points and her unfavorable rating rose 8 points over two weeks.
Palin has been in New York this week for a series of meetings with foreign leaders, part of an effort by Republican John McCain’s presidential campaign to counter criticism that the former small-town mayor lacks the experience to be vice president, let alone president in an emergency.
The CBS interview was just her third major interview in nearly four weeks on the GOP presidential ticket. Asked whether there’s a risk of another Great Depression if Congress doesn’t approve a $700 billion bailout package, Palin said, “Unfortunately, that is the road that America may find itself on.”
Palin said the answer to the financial crisis doesn’t necessarily have to be the bailout plan that the Bush administration has proposed, but that it should be some form of bipartisan action to reform Wall Street.
Laura Bush told CNN that she thought Palin had “a lot of really good common sense” and commended her executive experience. Asked if she thought Palin had sufficient foreign policy experience, the first lady said: “Of course she doesn’t have that. You know, that’s not been her role, but I think she is a very quick study, and fortunately John McCain does have that sort of experience.”
Palin got a glimpse of ground zero for the Sept. 11 terror attacks in New York as her motorcade made its way downtown to a private meeting with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani. She did not respond to a reporter’s question about what she thought when she passed by the 16-acre site.
Her motorcade was stuck in traffic for a few minutes along its western border, where passers-by can see cranes jutting into the sky from the base of the deep pit that once was the World Trade Center basement. Crews are building a memorial to the attacks and a 1,776-foot-tall building to replace the destroyed twin towers.
Palin met with Talabani and then with Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari before preparing to join McCain for an evening session with Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh. Earlier Wednesday, Palin and McCain met jointly with Georgian President Mikhail Saakashvili and Ukrainian President Viktor Yuschenko.
The McCain campaign set up the sessions with the leaders, who were among those in town for the United Nations General Assembly.
Meanwhile, Palin’s infant son and two youngest daughters headed home to Alaska after a day of quintessential New York sightseeing with their father, Todd Palin. He took the children to the tip of Manhattan to see the Statue of Liberty. The family also visited ground zero, and then ate hot dogs and soft pretzels in Central Park.
They stopped at the toy store FAO Schwarz, where daughter Piper tried on princess dresses, the campaign said.
At the start of her meeting with Talabani at a downtown hotel, the governor was overheard saying: “There’s plenty to do here, isn’t there? Plenty to see.”
Just before the meeting with Zardari, a reporter asked Palin how her day was going. “It’s going great. The meetings are very informative and helpful. A lot of good people share an appreciation for America,” she said.
Zardari, upon shaking Palin’s hand, said he now understood why so many in the U.S. “are crazy about you.”
It’s clear that Palin is WAY out of her league, even when you set aside all the reasons we should be crazy scared of her philosophies. It was unfair of McCain to bring her forward as the best candidate for the VP job when she’s not even barely qualified, much less the most qualified. It’s sexist for them to assume she could get by on looks and charm, and thin “bridge to nowhere killer” credentials. It’s sexist, as CNN’s Cambell Brown aptly pointed out, to protect her from the media. This is the person qualified to be president, but not qualified to take a few questions? Every time she does talk, she makes air-headed, broad brushed statements that mean nothing, and reveal little about how she will govern if McCain is elected and kicks the bucket. Clearly, they are hoping to run out the clock before red state Americans realize that this moose-killing scared-o-nuttin’ hockey mom is just that. And just that.
Jeez, this bimbo makes a bowl of Jello look smart.
(Jello and Jello Brand Products are exclusive tradmarks of the Jello Brand Company. Any resemblance between Sarah Palin and an actual Bowl of Jello is sheer coincidence)
Never mind the economy. I will be in a Great Depression if Palin wins.
I like Sarah – she has experence required – More than Bill Clinton, Jimmy Carter to name a couple – If she becomes commander in chief she will not readily go to war since she also has a son in the NG who is in harms way – More so than LBJs in-law during the Viet Nam conflict.
Because Palin can see the moon from Alaska, does that also make her an expert astronomer or cosmologist (though she may be a cosmetologist)?
Because Alaska has beaches and an ocean view, does that make her an expert oceanographer?
Because she uses a computer, does that make her a hardware or software engineer?
She sure blew the interview with Couric. What an airhead she showed herself to be! We do not need anymore evangelical airheads in Washington, the Senate or the White House. They have already ruined the U.S.
I fear they are trying to make the government fail so they can call a permanent state of emergency. They may be trying to hurry the North American Union and replacing the dollar with the Amero.
Vietnam = One word
I think even Sarah Palin would know that
that was joke
Did you see on TV what I call an ‘exorcism’ of witchcraft performed on Ms Palin by some African right wing minister?
This woman is an extremist religious freak who appeals the most to those who would turn America into a Christian version of Saudi Arabia.
And then, too late, she would find out that these ultra right wing Christians are little different then their Islamic counterparts re women.
It just shows how nutty, tragically so, that the repubs have become.
I think the economy needs to be left alone for reason that things are well out-of-control at the moment. This 700 Billion doesn’t guarantee that the economy will be fixed. Bush, Paulson, and the Fed. Reserve have been saying for the past few years that the economy is doing fine and look at it now. Why should we trust them that the bailout will help the economy? I think it’s just another way of giving the CEO’s big paychecks for the mess they caused “welfare checks to the CEO’s”
Gary aka dee said:”she has experence required”
She DOES??? Sorry but the Wassila town council ain’t no Congress. Likewise ‘governing’ a state with fewer citizens than Tulsa OK for not yet even one full term doesn’t cut it.
Could one Palin supporter please elaborae on her vast “experience” that qualifies her to be Preside/Comander in Chief? Pretty please.
“If she becomes commander in chief she will not readily go to war since she also has a son in the NG who is in harms way”
What drugs are you taking that could possibly cause such cognitive dissonance? Palin advocated the accession of Georgia and Ukraine into NATO, meaning that if attacked again in the future, the United States would be bound to go to war.
As for her son, Palin has already demonstrated her willingness to use her chldren as polital pawns – dragging her pregnant, unmarried teenaged daughter onto the national stage. Her water broke during a conference she was attending in Texas but she stayed and gave a 30-minute speech before boarding a plane and flying 3,000 miles home to deliver the baby. These sound like the actions of a woman who would definitely sacrifice her fambly for power – nevermind a mother concerned for the welfare of her soon-to-be-born child.