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O'Reilly to Palin on why no one questioned Biden's experience during campaign: "Well, he's got a lot of experience"

November 20, 2009 8:18 pm ET

From the November 20 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:

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    • Author by Be Responsible (November 20, 2009 8:23 pm ET)
         
      Nice come back by Bill, and as for the rest of the interview. Heres the train and therrrrres the wreck.
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    • Author by btrue10280 (November 20, 2009 8:25 pm ET)
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      I don't think she could get relected as mayor of Wasilla again much less POTUS.
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      • Author by Bad News (November 20, 2009 9:04 pm ET)
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        Sarah Palin, Why do i always feel like i need a Translation every time you Speak?
        That was some Angry Crowd outside your Bus Sarah, you should have more "Empathy" for the Meek?
        You Quit your Job as Governor, Now you Quit on a Book Signing Gig?
        Trying to find out what you really stand for Sarah is like putting Lipstick on a Pig.

        Speak truth to power.


        Mr. News
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    • Author by IRONY 101 (November 20, 2009 8:34 pm ET)
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      Her face looks different... I guess she's preparing for that new talk show she's auditioning for.

      BTW, Sarah, when a politician talks about her "hard-work" and "common sense", and then derides an Ivy League education, that's nothing but an excuse for lack of her own intelligence and education.
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      • Author by drempala (November 20, 2009 8:36 pm ET)
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        Yeah, when did people get stuck on the idea of "I want someone just like me running the country." I want someone ten times smarter than we running the country! I want Noam freakin' Chomsky running the country!
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        • Author by DellDolly (November 21, 2009 1:08 am ET)
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          There are a lot of people who aren't really smart who don't understand/appreciate the value of having a smart person in charge. Too many people have too high opinions of themselves and when they get 'told' by a smart person, rather than accepting that lesson and learning from it, they feel resentful. Learning is a wonderful thing, and being wrong is nothing to be ashamed of. Making the same mistake over and over? That's bad, but making a lot of new mistakes, being human, is not shameful. But for some people, they reject people who are smarter than they are, and it's those kinds of people who think Sarah Palin is wondrous.

          Like that girl and her 'online friends' from the Palin book signing. She still thinks that she was taken advantage of, and that Palin didn't really support TARP, and that she held her own against Norah O'Donnell (she didn't) and that she represented conservatives well. She didn't do any of those things, but she has to hold on to the fantasy that she did well.
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      • Author by Yocasta (November 20, 2009 8:40 pm ET)
           
        She had work done.
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    • Author by Publius39 (November 20, 2009 9:18 pm ET)
         
      She is really playing this "lame duck" term as governor up to explain away her failures and legitimize her decision to quit before she was embarrassed in another election.

      I don't understand why she thinks that her bungled term as a governor gives her the experience to be President when we saw all the executive experience that W brought to the White House. It truly is a joke to think that she can translate all that folksy charm into something of substance that she can bring to the White House as president.
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    • Author by thebigsheister (November 20, 2009 10:01 pm ET)
         
      Classic Sarah Palin at 1:40... not as good as the Katie Couric interview where she blathered on about it being, "all about job creation" but close.
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    • Author by oustudent11 (November 20, 2009 10:07 pm ET)
         
      ahhhh someones asking questions that are out of line
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    • Author by rms (November 20, 2009 10:18 pm ET)
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      Well, she said that she had common sense and the values that reflect America - and something indecipherable about spinelessness and Ivy league educations. Bill-O asked if she had the intelligence and insight. She didn't speak to that... I guess that is not important.

      I'm convinced....

      /sarcasm/

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    • Author by papa bear3 (November 20, 2009 10:25 pm ET)
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      Every time I get caught up in her "Beck-speak" my head hurts. But it's the collective effect, she, Beck et al will help swing the 2010 midterms.

      If I'm cozied down watching my sports channel and suddenly her face shows up selling her book or an ad for a FOX news special about UFOs and Obama, I am going to have to put chicken wire in front of my own TV to deflect my empties.

      Guys, this is about the 2010 midterms, think local, Tip O'Niel was right!!!!
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    • Author by christopher howard (November 20, 2009 10:47 pm ET)
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      Wow, Bill asked her if she was smart, incisive and intellectual enough to be president, and she replies that yes, because she has "common sense" and "American values," oh and Obama is worthless because he has an Ivy League education, which requires no work. Damn, this country dodged a bullet when McCain/Palin lost.
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      • Author by Jollymon (November 20, 2009 10:59 pm ET)
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        I don't know about dodging a bullet. After all, it was a LOT of fun when Dan Quayle was VP. Oh so many jokes and funny moments from that dimwit. And he was mostly harmless. Mostly. Then again, I get the impression Palin would welcome the "Rapture" with open arms and maybe even nudge the planet in that direction if she had access to "the button." Now THAT is scary!
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    • Author by open_mind (November 20, 2009 10:58 pm ET)
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      Did you hear this exchange (at the 1:29 mark)?

      O'Reilly: Do you believe that you are smart enough, incisive enough, intellectual enough to handle the most powerful job in the world?

      Palin: I believe I am, because I have common sense and I have I believe the values that are reflective of so many other American values and I believe that what Americans are seeking is not the elitism the umm the uhhh kind of a - a spineless - a spinelessness that perhaps is made up for that with some kind of elite Ivy League education and and a fat resume that's based on anything but hard work and private sector free-enterprise principles Americans are - could be seeking something like that in positive change in their leadership. I'm not saying that that has to be me.
      Exactly how much Kool Aid do I have to drink before that becomes coherent?
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      • Author by open_mind (November 20, 2009 11:34 pm ET)
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        Oops. I missed a period after "free-enterprise principles" and before "Americans are". Sorry 'bout that.
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        • Author by dmhack (November 20, 2009 11:55 pm ET)
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          Don't worry about it. Sarah's not a big proponent of punctuation. Those darn commas and periods are what elitists use.
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      • Author by kalentros (November 21, 2009 12:17 am ET)
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        I don't think it's the Kool Aid you should be wondering about, but rather how much Jack Daniels you'll have to spike it with.
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      • Author by rtwmd1230 (November 21, 2009 12:29 am ET)
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        Open Mind:

        Thank you! I was about to offer $100 for someone to transcribe this (I couldn't face doing it myself).
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      • Author by marco21 (November 21, 2009 2:17 am ET)
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        Seriously, people think this idiot could run the country?
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      • Author by akr (November 21, 2009 2:47 am ET)
           
        Hmm. If Obama is spineless, maybe it is because he is a deadly scorpion or pufferfish. Oh wait, I think pufferfish have spines. There's that pesky evolution thing again.
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      • Author by Brabantio (November 21, 2009 8:07 am ET)
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        If you can't coherently answer a question about how smart you are, then that provides a pretty clear answer to the question, in fact.

        I love the reaction to words like "smart", "incisive" and "intellectual" with "common sense", "values" and the dismissal of the "elite Ivy League education". That pretty much sums her up.
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        • Author by Brabantio (November 21, 2009 8:17 am ET)
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          It should also be noted that she was being asked about her intellectual capabilities to handle the job. Her response was about "what Americans are seeking", which has absolutely nothing to do with the question.

          It reminds me of the scenes with Dan Hedaya in Joe vs. the Volcano where he says over and over again on the phone "I know he can get the job...but can he do the job?"
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    • Author by rsh724896 (November 20, 2009 10:58 pm ET)
         
      Aaand she's back to the word salad answers.
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    • Author by jjava501 (November 21, 2009 1:20 am ET)
         
      the part that really hut out to me and i'm suprised no one has hut out on this soo far was that she actually stringed this sentence together and didn't seem to think twice about it:

      "You have to remember i wasn't running for President"

      OMFG how retarded can you be to say that out loud.

      Bill was right on to point out that McCain was right up there in years and that she would actually have to be qualified to be President.

      A the very least conservative or Democrat you have to take this as an admission of guilt that she was not ready for VP or POTUS positions. If she isn't ready now will she ever be ready?
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    • Author by pilotx (November 21, 2009 2:19 am ET)
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      LMAO! Did you guys see the look Billo gave her at 1:50 and 2:16? "Holy crap is this woman stupid"! is what I got from that look. Anyone else?
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      • Author by rms (November 21, 2009 7:10 am ET)
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        I wasn't able to watch Bill. My eyes were doing funny things inside my head because I was trying to figure out what Palin was trying to say.

        I would think that the proper response to anyone who asks over the next three years why you think Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President would be to show them her answer to O'Reilly' "intelligence and insight" question. That really ought to do it.
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        • Author by Brabantio (November 21, 2009 8:32 am ET)
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          I would think that the proper response to anyone who asks over the next three years why you think Sarah Palin is unqualified to be President would be to show them her answer to O'Reilly' "intelligence and insight" question.
          I think the part highlighted in the headline is a great response as well. How dumb was that (and with that smug look on her face, like she thought she was making a great point)? Oh, that biased liberal media, never questioning the experience of someone who's been in the Senate since Nixon was in office and "American Pie" was a new song. I like how the "smart enough" question immediately followed this remarkable bit of idiocy.

          I think an even better answer to that question is to point out that Palin strongly implied that she was not qualified for the Presidency. She draws the distinction herself between running for President and VP, and says that her experience could have been useful in a VP "ticket". It's pretty easy to conclude that someone who felt they were ready for the Presidency wouldn't be making that distinction.
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      • Author by Marker (November 21, 2009 7:17 am ET)
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        No question about it, Bill-O is dense but Palin is in a whole new category. Every time Palin opens her mouth you know there is a 2 minute mishmash coming out of it that confuses everybody, Bill-O included.
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      • Author by jeffro (November 22, 2009 1:15 am ET)
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        The look on BillO's face. Priceless!
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    • Author by goatcheese82 (November 21, 2009 2:59 am ET)
         
      Where do you people come from? Are there anti-intelligence bots posting here or are there really people that have nothing better to do than sit around complaining about someone that only affects them because they spend most of their time searching for that person's faults?
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    • Author by machomaas (November 21, 2009 5:54 am ET)
         
      As an academic, I'm really offended when she says that being an intellectual and not working in the private sector isn't hard work. FYI Sarah, being a professor at a university or research institute is often a lot like running a small business. You may not sell products but you constantly have to produce ideas and constantly fight for funding sources or book deals. And I guess, according to her we should all be bold, reckless cavemen since intellectualism is just a cover for "spinelessness".
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    • Author by New Frontier (November 21, 2009 9:03 am ET)
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      For someone who touts non-elitist "common sense" as an advantage over elitists, she clearly is trying (desperately and unsuccessfully) to sound like she is an intellectual. Short, direct answers are not for her. You get the sense she seems to think long, drawn-out, indecipherable replies = smarts. An exception being her "We have to remember, too, I wasn't running for President"--which isn't so much plain talk as it is plain stupid.
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    • Author by Justalittleluck (November 21, 2009 10:37 am ET)
         
      Her Lame Duck excuse is pathetic!

      Commonsense where?
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    • Author by PhuckPHOX (November 21, 2009 11:55 am ET)
         
      The fact that this woman has any support at all is beyond scary. Even if I were a hardcore conservative republican I would have voted for Obama just to keep this ditz out of the White House.

      I think btrue10280 was hilarious and correct in saying "I don't think she could get relected as mayor of Wasilla again much less POTUS."
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    • Author by Sharpe (November 23, 2009 1:39 am ET)
         
      I would never even try to question whether obama worked hard to get where he is. He may be considered some ivy league elite guy now but he was hardly raised in that kind of environment and he himself (unlike bUSH) had to work his tail off to get into an ivy league school and of course, become the first black president of a country that still has racism well established within it.
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    • Author by shaggles (November 23, 2009 11:53 am ET)
         
      What? Sorry but I can't watch this video. Was Palin actually asking why no one questioned Biden's experience during the campaign?
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