Griffin on Palin: CNN 10/21/08 (part 2)

Drew Griffin Interviews Sarah Palin
The Situation Room 5:15pm
Interview

TRANSCRIPT:
GRIFFIN: Youve been mocked in the press, some conservatives have been pretty hard on you as well. The National Review had a story saying that you know, I cant tell if Sarah Palin is incompetent, stupid, unqualified, corrupt or all of the above.

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GRIFFIN: But they were talking about the fact that your experience as Governor is not getting out. DO you feel trapped in this campaign? Like your message is not getting out? So who do you blame?

PALIN: No Im getting my message out right now,

GRIFFIN: Was it a mistake to let your husband use your office to try to pressure the troopers to fire Mr. Wooten?

PALIN: Not at all. Because A: the trooper who had tazered his kid and had made death threats against my family, said he was gong to bring the Governor down and all that. My husband did, exactly what, I think what any sensible, reasonable father, husband would do who was concerned about their familys safety.

GRIFFIN: Was it a mistake to allow him to use the Governors Office to that extent?

PALIN: Not when you look at other Governors track records when they had their spouse as, for example Governor Mercousky had his spouse as his top advisor and she was in meetings, she was in the office, you know kind of a double standard here, but what Todd did was what any reasonable husband and father would do. He followed the instruction of the department of public safetys own personal security detail that is our personal protection. They asked Todd, you have a problem with a state trooper, he is a threat, you need to take that to the commissioner of the Department of Public Safety. Todd did exactly that, and then of course he got clobbered for it now in the media. Because there is a misunderstanding of what he has done. So no I do not think it was an abuse of power of my office and I was very thankful that that report cleared me of any illegal dealings

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GRIFFIN:




DREW GRIFFIN: Governor, If in two weeks youre not elected, do you come back at the top of the ticket in 2012.

SARAH PALIN: Im concerned about and focused on just the next two weeks, Drew, and getting that message out there to the American public, thankfully too, the American public is seeing clearer and clearer what the choices are in these tickets. I think some revelation just occurred, not just with Joe the Plumber, but revelation occurred with Joe Bidens comment the other night that he, telling his democrat, financial donors saying that, he said Mark my word there will be economic, and, or INTERNATIONAL crisis he said if Barack Obama is elected, because he will be tested and he said there are four or five scenarios that will result in an international crisis with this untested presidential candidate in Barack Obama and first I think we need to thank Joe for the warning there, but Joes words there, I think, can shed some light to, in terms of the contrast you have in the tickets, John McCain is a tested leader, he has gone through great adversity, he has the scars to prove it, he has shown his true leadership, it hasnt just been all talk and Joe Bidens comments there about an untested, as he has said in the primary, unprepared candidate to be president, I think was very telling.

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PALIN: Well who knows what Joe Biden was talking about. You know all you have to do though is look back at Obamas foreign policy agenda and you can assume what some of those scenarios may be. As he considers sitting down and talking to Ahmadinejad or Castro or Kim Jung Il, some of these dictators without preconditions being met, essentially validating some of what those dictators have been engaged in that could be one of the scenarios that Joe Biden is talking about is as a result of that that proclamation that he would meet without preconditions being met first, that could be a scenario that results in a testing of our country and the 4 or 5 other scenarios that he is talking about. I dont know, I hope that Joe Biden will explain it.

GRIFFIN: Does Joe Biden get a pass?

PALIN: [...] If I would have said that, you guys would have clobbered me.

GRIFFIN: Youre right. [] Youve talked about America, and certain parts of America that are maybe more American than other parts of America?

PALIN: I dont want that misunderstood, you know and I go to these rallies and we see the patriotism just shinning through these peoples faces and the Vietnam veterans wearing their hats so proudly and they have tears in their eyes as we sing our national anthem and it is so inspiring and I say this is true America, you get it, you understand how important it is that in the next four years we have a leader who will fight for you. I certainly dont want that interpreted as one area being more patriotic or more American than another. .. I apologize.

LABEL: SP CNN 10-21-08 17.15 (KF#225) GIVU part2

Category:

News & Politics

Tags:

• TRACKING
• Palin
• Troopergate
• anti-American
• unamerican
• patriotic
• Wooten

[sjcpal]

Thank God we weren't so Blessed.......LOL

[packagewarren]

you can tell when she's lying, her lips move. she doesn't even know what she's talking about. american people this, american people that, shut the hell up, loser.

[helyahelya101]

sarah palin is such a fucking idiot!

[sydders03]

she was aske if she would return in 2012 if she didnt win this time, she spoke for 3 minutes and didnt answer the question wtf. wonder why they didnt win lmao

[jasonme2u]

i just realized she kept on going around the bush.

[richardhawke]

How many were hoping this was KATHY Griffin? Lame. :(

[billyboylb]

Damn she's stupid.

[CelebrityStyle]

@sjcpal

even here in germany people hate her...

[kitt75]

That's been her forte. She was refudiating even back then.

[Isospinsymmetries]

What the hell is she talking about ?

[wealthmaster71]

It's like a parrot that has learned to talk. It knows how to say the words, but has NO FUCKING CLUE WHAT THEY MEAN!

[Mi37591]

Is this Tina Fey or Palin? I can't figure it out.