But I can't. I can't even fake it. I don't want to be her friend. I want her to mount her Jesus Horse and ride off into the sunset.

Why on earth wouldn't you answer this question? Anybody with an IQ over 70 could say "Time", "Newsweek", "The New York Times", etc., etc. And there'd be no way that anybody could prove her wrong.

What the hell is the downside of saying something, anything, here?

I keep thinking that my cringe reflex is broken, then I watch another Palin/Couric clip.

How does she get her information? Why couldn't she name just one of the "vast variety" she peruses every day to stay informed and enlightened? Too busy looking for Putin? Hitting on the First Dude? Thinking up names for the grandbaby?

The upcoming debate will be both fascinating and repulsive, like a slug.

and by the way alaskans can be very well read. before our village got tv it was the vcr, movies in the school gym, and lots and lots of books.

what are some other attributes of alaskan-ness?

Honestly, the only bigger softball Couric could have tossed was, "How do you spell 'cat'?"

"Well, Katie, some people might think that folks in Alaska spell 'cat' real different than other Americans, or that we might spell it like Russians because that country, Russia, is so near to the state - that is Alaska - of which I am the governor of. But that is simply not true. Folks in Alaska like to spell 'cat' in the same way that we care about job creation and healthcare reform and invading the Pakistan."

"The TV interviews, done by liberal talking heads, were done in such a way as to purposely make her look bad."

"So she should bow out because she's been made to look bad after a concerted smear campaign? Please...."

"30+ dem. paid lawyers working very hard in Alaska for two weeks now to discredit her, and this was the very best they could do.

The libs are praying she bows out."

"She was interviewed by people who are registered Democrats
She was interviewed by people who have regularly made derrogatory and desparaging remarks about every Republican candidate since this election cycle began.
She was asked a question regarding a doctorine which does not even begin. What was her response? "What are you referring to exactly?" So, now she is stupid. Typical left-wing one sided BS.

I would be more concered that Obama was talked down from a 30% capital gains tax to a 20% in less than two minutes by BILL O'RIELLY if I were you. He could neither identify his reasoning, nor could he defend it. On national TV."

p.s. She might be illiterate. After all she thinks dinosaurs and man lived together like in the Flintstones. That doesn't strike me as very edu-ma-cated. If she couldn't name the 'Anchorage Daily News' or 'The Juneau Empire' from her home state or at the very least the 'MAT-SU Valley Frontiersman' from her own hometown, what makes you think she reads at all?

Oh, wait, nope, meant High Times.

I also have a vision of her ending the debate by sitting on a tall stool in a corner wearing a conical dunce cap.

Maybe I should go lie down...

"What is this???? A school for ants?!"

Instead of a debate tomorrow I would settle for 90 minutes of civic trivia. That would be pure gold.

b)cry

c)laugh til I pee my pants
In reality, the voice alone is going to put me over the edge. I cannot wait for Tina Fey's skit on Saturday night.

that would have been a perfect answer

But maybe she gets that from her husband.

Palin was born in Feb, 1964. If she started school at the usual age, she'd start the second grade in Sept, 1971. Biden took office in January, 1973, after winning the election in November, 1972.

Was she left back or something?

By the way, interesting quote from Wikipedia: "C-SPAN first went on the air on March 19, 1979." Prior to that, it wasn't that easy to see routine speeches by freshman senators, or even press releases about them outside of their home state.

OMG, that's right, she does. Holy shit.

I mean, clearly the woman doesn't read the news. I get 85% of my news from the Daily Show and the Slog, and I'm much more informed than she is.

But I think she didn't just make some shit up because she was afraid she'd make the WRONG shit up and accidentally claim to be reading some liberal propaganda.

Hilarious. Well, scary now. Hilarious on November 5th.

She is as dumb as a box of hammers.