VP Debate - Weakest Trait: What is your weakest trait?...

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GOV. PALIN: My experience as an executive will be put to good
use as a mayor and business owner and oil and gas regulator and then
as governor of a huge state, a huge energy-producing state that is
accounting for much progress towards getting our nation energy
independence and that's extremely important.
But it wasn't just that experience tapped into, it was my
connection to the heartland of America: being a mom, being a -- one
who is very concerned about a son in the war, about a special-needs
child, about kids heading off to college -- how are we going to pay
those tuition bills? -- about times and Todd and our marriage and our
past where we didn't have health insurance. And we know what other
Americans are going through as they sit around the kitchen table and
try to figure out how are they going to pay out-of-pocket for health
care. We've been there also. So that connection was important.
But even more important is that world view that I share with John
McCain, that world view that says that America is a nation of
exceptionalism and we are to be that shining city on a hill, as
President Reagan so beautifully said, that we are a beacon of hope and
that we are unapologetic, here. We are not perfect as a nation, but
together we represent a perfect ideal, and that is democracy and
tolerance and freedom and equal rights, those things that we stand for
that we can be put to good use as a force for good in this world.
John McCain and I share that. And you combine all that with
being a team with the only track record of making a -- really, a
difference in where we've been and r

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