On Fri, 10 Oct 2008 11:26:26 -0400, "Wayne Harrison"
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On Thu, 09 Oct 2008 20:01:50 -0400, JR wrote:

Sarah Palin finally took questions on Tuesday from her traveling
press corps on her campaign plane. Asked if she thought Senator
Obama was dishonest (about Ayers, apparently, but who knows?),

"I'm not saying he's dishonest, but in terms of judgment, in
terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two
different parts to this. The judgment and the truthfulness and
just being able to answer very candidly a simple question about
when did you know him, how did you know him, is there still - has
there been an association continued since '02 or '05, I know I've
read a couple different stories. I think it's relevant."

g

- JR

Um, OK. So what, in your opinion, is particularly amusing or wrong with
her answer?

TC,
R

richard, i swear, you just won't do. your response just tickles the hell
out of me (as they say down in rowan county).

truth is, if you could collect a similar statement from sen. obama, you
would be dismantling the damn thing on roff for a minimum of three hours,
daily, ad infinitum.

I disagree. I've defended both Dems and GOPers for gaffs that were
blown WAY out of proportion by the media and/or the opposition. Is her
statement as eloquent as it could be? Nope. Do I understand what she
is trying to communicate? Yes. Do I think that you and others
understand what she is trying to communicate? Yes. And besides, nobody
has been able to get an answer, eloquent or otherwise, out of Obama
about Ayers to dismantle, anyway...

politics aside, the lady is simply an utter failure in her efforts to use
the english language as a method of communication.

Well, granted, she isn't a lawyer or used-car salesman or Alan Greenspan
or something...yeah, yeah, yeah, I know - it depends on what the meaning
of "isn't," isn't...

yfitons
wayno


And I know you've read enough depos to know that often, a transcript of
the depo of a generally-eloquent person often does not eloquently convey
what those present clearly understood as being conveyed.

Here's the answer:

"I expected that at some stage we'd have to give it. Now, I'm not sure
that we expected that it would come up in the way that it did. But it
was unrealistic to anticipate that, during the course of this campaign,
if not now then certainly in the general election, that this was not
going to be an issue that had to be addressed.

But it's nothing that's going to be unique to the next presidency.
It's been something that presidents throughout our history have or have
not dealt with, but it's always been there. "

Guess the question and the person being questioned - was it Palin on the
economy or McCain on "The Keating 5?" NOTE- the next presidency was
substituted for a word that would provide a clue to the identity of the
speaker

YFCITGS,
R






























....or was neither, but rather, Obama when asked if Rev. Wright and his
race was going to be an issue in the campaign