This is an old interview of Sarah Palin from February 2008, before she became McCain’s VP candidate. It was on C-Span.
She sounds like an engaged governor! She knows how many doctors are in Alaska, and she says she’s working to make the number higher. She gives an intelligent answer to a caller’s question on taxes, saying that the cost of living in Alaska is quite high and so a person making $80,000 a year can use a tax cut. When a caller says that the sailor of the Exxon-Valdez oil spill was exonerated, she offers additional information that demonstrates his culpability. She didn’t have that deer-in-the-headlights look, but she responded with facts to an unexpected question. Even when she uses cliches and talking points, she does so glibly and intelligently–it’s not like she’s resorting to them because she doesn’t know what to say. She even knows how Juneau became the state’s capitol!
I wish we saw this Sarah Palin more in her interviews as a VP candidate!
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 1
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 2
SARAH PALIN CSPAN INTERVIEW 2/28/08 / PART 3
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