What is "preemptive war," Alex?

[shunn]

Sarah Palin doesn't know what the Bush Doctrine is, and her embarrassing attempts to weasel a clue out of Charles Gibson are not even worthy of a high-school forensics student:

Yes, Mrs. Palin, obviously you're ready to be President. I will sleep without nightmares knowing you will answer that three a.m. phone call with that blank deer-in-headlights stare. You make me pine for Dan Quayle.

(With thanks to ajodasso for a ready link to this video when I went looking for it.)

Comments

[karen-w-newton.livejournal.com]

What gets me is the HR manager-type of mentality that says, "Keep calling him by his name to show that you're listening to him."

"Charlie"

[(Anonymous)]

That *really* bothered me, almost more than her unwillingness to admit she didn't know what he was talking about.

I can see the "HR Manager" label applying to it (I was thinking more "Used Car Salesman," however), but I thought long and hard about why it annoyed me so.

I think I know why. You call someone by their first name (or in this case, going one step further and using the affectionate nickname "Charlie") to build a rapport. Okay, I get that.

Problem is, she's working really hard to build a rapport with the interviewer, NOT THE AUDIENCE. We sit on the outside, looking in. In a case like this, it's all too easy to see the inherent falseness her tactic.

[ellen-datlow.livejournal.com]

oy.

[shunn.livejournal.com]

Indeed.