DISQUS

Chris · 1 year ago

"[Palin] knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States."
O_o
??

What. planet. is. this. walking. corpse. from.

eas · 1 year ago

Yeah.

BTW, our biggest foreign supplier of oil is... CANADA!

dave · 1 year ago

Which leads me to wonder why we invaded Iraq. Why didn't we just blame Canada for 9/11 and take them over? (It's a joke, btw.)

Ken Goyette · 1 year ago

I was going to post the same thing, is he insane, he has to be.

Derek · 1 year ago

Great. If Sarah Palin knows more about energy than anyone else in the United States of America, we are in a very sorry state.

Stephen C. Johnson · 1 year ago

I am having a very hard time making this clip not "stutter".

gayle delmar · 1 year ago

OMG!

Let's hope Obama's handlers study this one. There are so many holes in his answers - if you can describe them as such. He changes the subject nearly each time the reporter asks a hard question

Mark A. Hershberger · 1 year ago

Go look at almost *any* interview with a politician. Only n00bs answer the question asked. Pros answer the question they wish had been asked

Edwin Khodabakchian · 1 year ago

Yes. this is refreshing!

JMac · 1 year ago

Stunning!

McCain on Palin's experience, "Having been a governor is one of the important aspects."

Really?

And "Her state is very close to Russia, so she knows about Russia."

Really (2X)?

MIke Desjardins · 1 year ago

I'm from Portland, Maine. Rob Caldwell is my hero.

eas · 1 year ago

I wonder if her popularity as governor might have something to do with the money she extracts from oil companies (which the rest of us pay for at the pump) and redistribute to Alaskans.

dave · 1 year ago

Pretty likely it would -- I've heard it said that Alaska is basically part of OPEC, their economy functions pretty much the same way.

therichbrooks · 1 year ago

That local Maine guy is Rob Caldwell, and I've had the pleasure of being interviewed by him several times. He's a really good interview, and we always have even better conversations after the cameras are off.

Shelley · 1 year ago

Oh my god. Stepford Republican.

He completely blew off the questions, but it did it in such on obvious script like manner. He was wooden, and unprepared, and phony.

Agree: Charles Gibson needs to watch this guy, he's good.

But McCain...jaw dropped. Awful answers. Do not want this man as president.

Dan Lewis · 1 year ago

Maybe Caldwell should have said "foreign policy credentials" instead of national security experience. That nails down the issue a bit more firmly, instead of allowing McCain to talk about energy and pipelines, which are only tangentially related.

Nice to see a reporter driving at the heart of the issues with Palin and McCain's campaign. I think he really got somewhere just by asking questions and repeating them when they weren't answered.

justcorbly · 1 year ago

Thanks for running this. I heard it earlier on radio. The more the merrier, although the hardcore right-wing are predisposed to avoid reality.

McCain didn't answer the question. And the notion that Palin is the nation's leading energy expert is a lie.

Palin is a threat to America and McCain no longer deserves our respect. Vote accordingly.

Frank Miller · 1 year ago

I guess you are stunned by his attempt to sidestep the question on foreign policy. While he clearly needs to polish his sidestepping, my question is this. Sure, Palin is green on foreign policy, she's been a governor which has no foreign policy element to it. Obama on the other hand, also has very little foreign policy experience, except of course for his rock start tour of Europe and the Middle East recently. With Obama at the top of the ticket and Palin in the runner up position, which should we be more concerned about? The guy who would be responsible for foreign policy right away or the woman who might be responsible for foreign policy in the near future. Its my opinion that one of the things that's happening here is that she is being prepped for a top slot run in 2012. What better way to get her the foreign policy experience she needs for that job than to put her in the #2 position now?

Drew Kime · 1 year ago

Let's see if I understood this correctly. Her national security experience *is* her energy policy experience. The *reason* that's true is that we need to stop sending all that money to countries who don't like us very much.

So, our own behavior and policies are supporting terrorism? Yup, McCain just said it.

Remember when some people suggested that maybe the people who attacked the WTC had a legitimate grievance with the U.S.? Or that our own behavior was contributing to the problem? They were *immediately* shouted down as traitors who hate America.

Now McCain is saying the exact same thing.