Palin talks to reporters

I suppose those covering Gov. Palin were thankful that they got to do something besides travel from place to place listening to her stump speech. They didn't learn much from this rare opportunity to ask her questions. She did provide further evidence of an inability to construct intelligible, syntactically correct sentences, raising the question of how she got a college degree in anything, let alone in journalism.

clipped from www.cbsnews.com Asked why she has been focusing her remarks over the last few days on the questionable connection between Barack Obama and 1960s radical William Ayers, rather than on the tanking economy, Palin defended her tactic. “Well, Americans are caring about the problems in the economy, of course, and wanting to know what those long-term solutions are that our ticket can provide and what the other ticket is proposing,” Palin said. “So when you talk though about what it is that we are proposing and what it is that Barack Obama is proposing, again it is relevant to connect that association that he has with Ayers, not so much he as a person—Ayers—but the whole situation and the truthfulness and the judgment there that you must question if again he's not being forthright in all of his answers as to how did you know him, when did you know him, why would you continue to be associated with him?” When asked directly by a reporter, Palin denied that she was suggesting Obama was dishonest.

Then again, maybe the journalists involved should be embarrassed. They had fifteen minutes with her, the first time she was available to them, and they asked her about Tina Fey, they asked her if they could babysit her 7 year old daughter, and one of them showed her a picture of him in his hockey uniform with his mother. Sure, because they'd asked all the important questions in the first ten minutes.