PALIN: I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hell bent on destroying our nation. There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made. And with new leadership, and that’s the beauty of American elections, of course, and democracy, is with new leadership comes opportunity to do things better.
GIBSON: The Bush doctrine, as I understand it, is that we have the right of anticipatory self-defense, that we have the right to a preemptive strike against any other country that we think is going to attack us. Do you agree with that?
PALIN: I agree that a president’s job, when they swear in their oath to uphold our Constitution, their top priority is to defend the United States of America. [source]
So we have had some blunders but all we need is a fresh manager of the globe and then everything will be right.
I guess there is no question that McCain properly vetted her.
Does Just War prohibit, say, sending in bombers against tanks massing at your border, before they run over your border?
Probably but when has such a situation ever occurred?
Reading the transcript, I thought Palin agreed with the Bush Doctrine. Commentary on the video from liberal critics indicates that she didn’t recognize the question (they think this means she never heard of it; I think it may only mean that the context of religious questions had her interpreting in wrong way) and that her position was not the same as the Bush Doctrine.
The look on her face when Gibson asked the question was the look of somebody that had absolutely no idea what he was talking about. Then she tap danced around the issue twice without every actually answering the question., just like any politician would have done.
Wish she had tap danced around the whole Georgia question.
Mark,
Re: “the Georgia question”. Wouldn’t you love to vote for a candidate who responded: “I don’t care whether or not Georgia is admitted to NATO so long as the U.S. gets out of NATO first.”?
David