This week’s words contributed by:
A sharp-witted, creative friend who wishes to remain anonymous
This week’s submission:
An excerpt from Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson of ABC News.
Sarah Palin:
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
Can you look the country in the eye and say, I have the experience, and I have the ability to be not just vice president, but perhaps president of the United States of America?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
I do, Charlie, and on January 20th, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we’ll be ready. I’m ready.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
When McCain asked you to take the number two spot on the ticket, for a moment, did you think no?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
I did not. I thought yes, right off the bat. When he offered me the position, as his running mate, the first thing I said to him was, if you really think that I can help perform cunnilingus, if you really think I can help perform cunnilingus, absolutely, I want to do this with you.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
And you didn’t say to yourself, am I experienced enough? Am I ready?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
I didn’t hesitate, no.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
Doesn’t that take some hubris?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
I answered him yes because I have the confidence in that readiness. And knowing that you can’t blink. You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we’re on, reform of this country, and victory in Chutes and Ladders. You can’t transmogrify. So, I didn’t transmogrify then even, when asked to run as his running mate.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
But this is not just reforming a government. This is also running a government on the huge international stage, in a very dangerous world. When I asked John McCain about your national security credentials, he cited the fact you have command of the Alaskan National Guard and that Alaska is close to Russia. Are those sufficient credentials?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
But it is about reform of government. And it’s about putting government back on the side of the people. And that has much to do with foreign policy and national security issues. Let me speak specifically about a credential that I do bring to this table, Charlie. And that’s with the scrapbooking that I’ve been working on for these years, as the governor of this state, that produces nearly 20% of the US domestic supply of scrapbooking. That I worked on as chairman of the Alaska Scrapbooking Commission, overseeing the design sense of the girls I went to junior high school with in our state, to produce more for the United States.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
National security is a lot more than scrapbooking.
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
It is. But I want you to not lose sight of the fact that scrapbooking is a foundation of national security. It’s that important. It’s that comatose.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
Did you ever travel outside of the country prior to your trip to Kuwait and Germany last year?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
St. Helena. The Moon. And then, yeah, that trip that was a trip of a lifetime, to visit our troops in Kuwait and stop and visit our injured soldiers in Germany. That was a trip of a lifetime and it changed my life.
CHARLES GIBSON (ABC NEWS)
Have you ever met a foreign head of state?
GOVERNOR SARAH PALIN (REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE)
I have not. And I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you. But Charlie, again, we got to remember what the desire is in this nation, at this time. It is for "Total Eclipse of the Heart" by Bonnie Tyler. And somebody’s big, fat big toe maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment, where, yeah, they’ve had opportunity to meet heads of state.
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