No thanks. Any clip from a pageant will ruin my week.

Well, obviously as a concert flautist she is amply qualified to be VP. After all, isn't Condi Rice's main qualification the fact that she's a concert painist?

I think that performance really added to her foreign policy credentials.

Is that Shelley Long as the emcee?

how dare that trumpet upstage her! she'll have them fired for this..

SLOG recommendation: The first commenter to make a "This one time at band camp" joke gets banned.

Just sayin'.

is it me or does she look crosseyed through most of that?

That was just so .... sad. Her talent is junior high level. The expression on her face as she plays is absolutely retarded. Her hair is huge. And it looks like they're holding the pagent at the Ramada Inn.

i'm no flute expert and the sound was kinda crappy, but did anyone else think that was really bad?

It sucks and it blows.

This a insult to the James Galway and the Irish race.

I don't want to jinx anything, but as we learned in this AmEx commercial, TINA FEY CAN PLAY THE FLUTE.

I'll bet she plays that tune on Todd's flute all the time.

Sad performance, but the dress looks so economical!

@2,

im mos def not a fan of hers, or any neo con, but condi is a phd, stanford prof, an expert and scholar on eastern europe and the former soviet union and has frankly kept bush and dick from doing more crazy shit than they would have done in the mid east. thats not to say she is not a bush footsoldier, but palin cant shine her neo con boots.

if palin had half the experience and eloquence(sp?) of condi, i, and im sure our candidates would be worried, and this race would be a hell of a lot closer.

I'm really waiting for the essay competition.

Can I say she sucks as a flutist. The piece she chose to play is a piece any 8th or 9th grade flutist can play. It's not technical in any way, shape or form. Hell, I did a talent show competition my senior year of high school and played Grieg's In The Hall of the Mountain King on a brass instrument and that was a difficult piece.

@15
Absolutely right. No comparison between Condi and Palin.

@15:

It's called sarcasm dollface... Did you seriously miss that?

@13
I doubt it. Playing the skin flute makes Jesus cry.

Even if she, did, premature Todd would blow after the 2nd note.

If it had been flaming baton twirling, I would have been impressed. As a flautist, she sucks.

Clinton was qualified because he was Gov and played the Sax; Palin is qualified for the same reasons cept she plays the flute. See how easy that is.

jesus, she looks about 35 and she was 20, right?

17 - I agree, this was hardly a challenging piece. And SHE'S OUT OF TUNE!!!!!!!

I'm cleaning the blood coming out of my ears from this.

I haven't seen her do anything well yet. Can anyone vouch for her field-dressing-of-moose talents?

This is a middle school level piece, if that. It's bland, cheesy, her intonation is poor, there's no attempt at musicality. Oh, but doesn't she look charming while playing the flute?

Anyone know how she fared in this portion of the competition?

I never understood why beauty pageant contestants were required to have any talent in the first place. Aren't they supposed to be judged on who's the hottest? Who gives a fcuk if some hot chick can play a flute or twirl a baton, just sit there and look pretty sweetheart... and try not to talk too much either.

I'll address this on behalf of all Canadians.

Haygood Hardy's "The Homecoming" is our secret national shame. Greater then "Seasons in the Sun", greater than, oh, the whole Loverboy oeuvre, it reminds us that our early Can-con era recordings just can't be buried deeply enough.

For the love of God, Palin! This embarasses us all!