Jay Allen's Blog

Shirley, thanks for your feedback.  I am watching the interview on Nightline as I type - their chairs are the same height.

How he be condescending?  He isn't asking for a chilly recipe he is trying to learn what she knows about the United States it policies in the past and today.  Come on this has to be the biggest scam since Millie Vanillie

How he be condescending?  He isn't asking for a chilly recipe he is trying to learn what she knows about the United States it policies in the past and today.  Come on this has to be the biggest scam since Millie Vanillie

Jay - She is without a doubt one of the worst picks for a VP  in a long time. Even after more than a week of intensive coaching she managed to not be prepared for a fluff interview.

Wow I thought it was 100% totally informing. Like say totally like you can um like see Russia from like land in um Alaska.  Good freaking god. If Bush made me want to move to Canada, Palin makes me want to move to Antarctica. Perhaps the polar bears and I can form an Anti Palin coallition.  That is of course if she doesn't send low flying planes to shoot us because we might pose a threat to national security.

Do you think you know about Bush Doctrine? Does Charlie Gibson know about Bush Doctrine? Apparently not. According to wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bush_Doctrine "The first usage of the term may have been when conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer used the term in February 2001 to refer to the president's unilateral approach to national missile defense well before September 11th" See Charles Krauthammers article about the interview here: http://townhall.com/columnists/CharlesKrauthammer/2008/09/13/charlie_gibsons_gaffee

Whether Gibson knew the meaning of Bush's Doctrine is not what's important. He is handed a script of questions to ask by the show's writers/producers or whoever. What is important here, and I am Not an Obama fan, IS that Palin had No idea what it is and that is Scary. I agree with Belinda's point about Palin's statement (paraphrased) that she is qualified to deal with Russian because they are her neighbor and she can SEE Russia out her back door. SCARY. And I agree with Jay. "This is the best she could do after they hid her from the press for a week and coached her on the answers she "could" quote?????" You may want this woman in office because she is pro choice, against stem cell research, or fights the "big boys" BUT if this party is elected and, God forbid anything happen to McCain, the moral issues such as abortion WON"T MATTER because with Terrorism, War and Nuclear Threat there may not be many people left in America to need an abortion or stem cell research or drilling in Alaska or any of the other "Few Issues" she does know how to deal with. I LOVE my 20 year old granddaughter and know she is cute and sassy, can handle the 'big boys" and is Pro-life but I wouldn't want her to be President.

As the Palin aura fades and the public comes to understand why the party bosses picked her she will be held to account for her embarrasing record and countless lies !

Her answer was Dead On Jay...   She had the right answer, and Charlie did not know what he was talking about..

The Bush Doctrine is a term used to describe the foreign policy doctrine of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It may be viewed as a set of several related foreign policy principles, including stress on ending terrorism, spreading democracy, increased unilateralism in foreign policy and an expanded view of American national security interests. Foreign policy experts argue over the meaning of the term "Bush Doctrine," and some scholars have suggested that there is no one unified theory underlying Bush's foreign policy. Jacob Weisberg identifies six successive "Bush Doctrines" in his book The Bush Tragedy,^[1] while former Bush staffer Peter D. Feaver has counted seven.^[2] Other foreign policy experts have taken the term to mean Bush's doctrine of preventive war, first articulated in 2002, which holds that the United States government should depose foreign regimes that represent a threat to the security of the United States, even if such threats are not immediate and no attack is imminent. This policy was used to justify the invasion of Iraq in March 2003.

Certain elements of the Bush Doctrine were evident in the first months of Bush's presidency. Conservative commentator Charles Krauthammer used the term in February 2001 to refer to the president's increased unilateralism in foreign policy, specifically regarding the presidents deciscion to withdraw from the ABM treaty.^[3][4] However, the doctrine was articulated more fully in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks, when President Bush declared that the United States had the right to treat countries that harbor terrorist groups as terrorist states themselves. This policy was used to justify the invasion of Afghanistan in October 2001^[5] and has since been applied to American military action against Al Qaeda camps in Pakistan.

In a series of speeches in late 2001 and 2002, President Bush expanded on his view of American foreign policy and global intervention, declaring that the United States should actively support democratic governments around the world, especially in the Middle East, as a strategy for combating the threat of terrorism, and that the United States had the right to act unilaterally in its own security interests, without the approval of international bodies such as the United Nations.^[6][7][8] This represented a departure from the Cold War policies of deterrence and containment under the Truman Doctrine and post-Cold War philosophies such as the Powell Doctrine and the Clinton Doctrine.

The main elements of the Bush Doctrine were delineated in a National Security Council document, the National Security Strategy of the United States, published on September 20, 2002.^[9] This document is often cited as the definitive statement of the doctrine.^[10][11][12] It was updated in 2006

ad ON Jay..

She was irritated, hesitant, and vague. She had never heard of the Bush Doctrine or any definition of it.  You could argue that every question asked in any interview needs clarification.

Let's consider if Gibson asked the question "Do you agree with abortion?" In short, Palin would say "No" However, Palin supports abortions if the mother's life is in danger.  Therefore, she would have clarified Gibson's question to her liking, not stare at him like a deer in headlights.

Gibson did say, "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?" In short, if Palin had any clue about any variation of the doctrine, she would have said "Yes, Charlie except for..." or "No, Charlie except for..."

Shouldn't our VP be smarter than some "liberal" network anchor.  Palin could have taken the moment to educate Gibson, instead she answered with a canned, vague response that could apply to virtually any question.

WE'LL PERSONALLY, I THINK SHE SHOULD HAVE SAID THAT WAS ...

"ABOVE HER PAYGRADE TO ANSWER"

On September 11th 2008, ABC news was able to boost their dismal ratings by landing the first interview with Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin. Charlie Gibson, the talking head and all around “nice guy” of ABC World News was the interrogator who displayed his lack of knowledge on NATO treaties along with pressing Governor Palin on a so called “Bush Doctrine” a made up list of four different policies created, pieced together and named by the media and which have never been statements of official government policy. Of course Palin was confused as to which set of policies Gibson was asking about. The old “gotcha” technique clearly failed so Gibson then started his ludicrous questioning about Palin’s support of what he characterized a U.S. holy war in Iraq. His misinterpretation of a speech given at her church started a liberal media smear-fest. The actual words spoken by Governor Palin are as follows: "Pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what is right. Also, for this country, that our leaders, our national leaders, are sending them out on a task that is from God. That's what we have to make sure that we're praying for, that there is a plan and that that plan is God's plan." Palin is clearly praying that we're doing the right thing in Iraq but Palin’s response was not good enough for Gibson and continued pressing her reference to God seemingly emulating Detective Robert Goren (Vincent D'Onofrio) of Law and Order Criminal Intent with side winding head movements and convulsive body movements. Charlie Gibson is no expert on God nor did he study theology but does hold a graduate degree from Princeton University. At one time Princeton had close ties to the Presbyterian Church but that was way before his attendance. So what gives him the authority to question Sarah Palin’s belief that God controls not only her actions but our countries actions? I surely can't find any credentials. Mr. Gibson should review the following political excerpts from the Presidential inaugural addresses below and tell us all why having faith in God overseeing and supporting our personal and nation's actions disturbs him so much. “The world is very different now. For man holds in his mortal hands the power to abolish all forms of human poverty and all forms of human life. And yet the same revolutionary beliefs for which our forebears fought are still at issue around the globe—the belief that the rights of man come not from the generosity of the state, but from the hand of God”. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Inaugural address, Jan 20, 1945 “The American people stand firm in the faith which has inspired this Nation from the beginning. We believe that all men have a right to equal justice under law and equal opportunity to share in the common good. We believe that all men have a right to freedom of thought and expression. We believe that all men are created equal because they are created in the image of God”. Harry S. Truman inaugural address, January 20, 1949 “The American belief under this covenant of justice, liberty, and union we have become a nation, prosperous, great, and mighty. And we have kept our freedom. But we have no promise from God that our greatness will endure. We have been allowed by him to seek greatness with the sweat of our hands and the strength of our spirit”. Lyndon B. Johnson inaugural address, January 20, 1965 “We have the chance today to do more than ever before in our history to make life better in America--to ensure better education, better health, better housing, better transportation, a cleaner environment-to restore respect for law, to make our communities more livable--and to ensure the God-given right of every American to full and equal opportunity”. Richard Nixon inaugural address January 20, 1973 “I'm told that tens of thousands of prayer meetings are being held on this day, and for that I'm deeply grateful. We are a nation under God, and I believe God intended for us to be free. It would be fitting and good, I think, if on each Inaugural Day in future years it should be declared a day of prayer”. Ronald Reagan inaugural address January 20, 1981 “There's no story more heartening in our history than the progress that we've made toward the brotherhood of man that God intended for us”. Ronald Reagan inaugural address January 21, 1985 “We have heard the trumpets. We have changed the guard. And now, each in our own way and with God's help, we must answer the call”. William J. Clinton inaugural address January 20, 1993 “We go forward with complete confidence in the eventual triumph of freedom, not because history runs on the wheels of inevitability - it is human choices that move events; not because we consider ourselves a chosen nation - God moves and chooses as He wills”. George W. Bush January 20, 2005

EXCELLENT Jacqueline!!!  Every movement to remove God from anything in our great country is one step closer to ruining this country. 

A President needs to say "If you don't love this country...then please leave it"