Palin Doesn't Know What The Bush Doctrine

Could someone show me the Bush Doctrine? I think Obama would like to see it too, because nobody really knows what the fuck it is

@500millionamericans -

You are exactly right. This is exactly what Gibson did. The "Bush Doctrine" is a fairly meaningless term and is subjective on many levels.

Actually, Palin asking "In what respect, Charlie?" was a perfectly appropriate response. Gibson asking "Well... what do YOU think it means?" was a "gotcha journalism" move. He was trying to set her up to fail, not get an informative answer out of her.

On the contrary, the "Bush Doctrine" is not subjective at all. It is basically, "preemptive action instead of action". And while it is true that it is rather general, this lack of specification from Gibson gave Palin the opportunity to give her opinion to all aspects of it.

And I seriously believe that any politician aspiring to be the United States VP should at least know the United States' foreign policies.

Furthermore, while i believe that Gibson did quite deliberately bait Palin, I believe that it was "a perfectly appropriate response" on his part. I mean, he didn't want her to fail. Why?? He only wanted to make sure that Palin actually knew about US foreign policy, to test her knowledge about the country she wants to lead, because it seemed that the moment he asked that question she was stumped.

@QaFeRo - Yes, he absolutely did try to bait her. At least we can agree on that point. And yes, he did want her to fail. He and most of the rest of the media rarely ask Obama "baiting" questions like this.
Her answer was perfectly appropriate for the reasons I laid out earlier. Not knowing exactly what a liberal is referring to when they say "Bush Doctrine" is hardly being stumped.

@QaFeRo... actually, you are wrong. "Bush Doctrine" means a lot of different things to a lot of different people. It is a term used mostly by those who didn't/don't agree with many of George W. Bush's foreign relation policies... thus the reason for Palin not being as intimately familiar with the liberal "code" (term) as Gibson was. It is a concept that is made of of an amalgamation of various specific foreign policies that Bush's opposition uses to lump all of them together. It is a fluid term.

Also her "interpretation" of the BD, disregarding the fact that the doctrine as a whole was quite clear and left no room for mindless interpretation by mindless airheads, was quite vague. After Gibson helped her out by giving her a timeframe ("September 2002, before the Iraq war"), she was able to bullshit this response about terrorism and muslim extremists. And while the BD is about that, her response gave no indication that she actually knew, much less understood the gist of it.

hahahaha
im 14 and i dont know what the bush doctorine is
but a vp candidate should

It's scary that the regular voter didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was, let alone the Vice Presidential candidate. fuck.

Oh and Charlie, what do you think about Acorn..... oh, I don't know what you are talking about. Gibson is so uninformed. And you have it right about the Obama doctrine --- supporting his buddies, the socialist dictators. Very sad and scary.