How Many SCOTUS Cases Should a VP Know?
Sarah Palin's interview with Katie Couric last week made me ... happy. But the McCain-Palin campaign appears nonplussed with the post-interview spin.
Maybe the campaign feels pressured by the latest "global electoral college poll."
Regardless, the campaign is set to "re-introduce" Sarah Palin. Palin, and McCain this time, sat down with Katie Couric again. (I guess Mel B was unavailable.) The new interview that will air sometime after the debate.
The McCain-Palin ticket is apparently pumped about how the new interview went. They want CBS to air the full interview, unedited. But the campaign is mad that CBS leaked a snippet of last week's Couric interview that did not air:
Of concern to McCain's campaign, however, is a remaining and still-undisclosed clip from Palin's interview with Couric last week that has the political world buzzing.The Palin aide, after first noting how "infuriating" it was for CBS to purportedly leak word about the gaffe, revealed that it came in response to a question about Supreme Court decisions.
After noting Roe vs. Wade, Palin was apparently unable to discuss any major court cases.
There was no verbal fumbling with this particular question as there was with some others, the aide said, but rather silence.
I'll pause for criticisms about the liberal media, northeastern elites, and my mother.
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