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OK, of course that's not her actual position, but take a look at this somewhat overlooked Q & A from the Katie Couric interview:
The author of the cited article correctly points out that the problem here isn't so much her "answer" (using that term in the loosest possible sense), but the fact that she seems to not get the significance of the question at all. Surely she understands what Hamas is, right? And that Ahmadinejad was elected by the people, too? The whole point of the question is that sometimes democracy results in the people electing leaders that don't help the US in the big picture, but that seems completely lost on her.
It would be one thing if there was some sort of pivot at the beginning of the response, but there wasn't at all, quite the contrary. We have to protect those who seek democracy? Like Hamas and Iran? What the hell is she even talking about?
It's sorta like beating a dead horse to talk about how grossly unprepared Sarah Palin is to be VP (or, God forbid, president), but it really does ultimately come back around to McCain's judgment in selecting her in the first place. "Country First?" My ass. Your election first, trying to blow this nincompoop by the American public hoping we won't notice that she makes Dan Quayle look like a brilliant political mind.
Q: "What happens if the goal of democracy doesn't produce the desired outcome? In Gaza, the U.S. pushed hard for elections and Hamas won."
A: "Yeah, well especially in that region, though, we have to protect those who do seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Israel ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will."
A: "Yeah, well especially in that region, though, we have to protect those who do seek democracy and support those who seek protections for the people who live there. What we're seeing in the last couple of days here in New York is a President of Iran, Ahmadinejad, who would come on our soil and express such disdain for one of our closest allies and friends, Israel ... and we're hearing the evil that he speaks and if hearing him doesn't allow Americans to commit more solidly to protecting the friends and allies that we need, especially there in the Mideast, then nothing will."
The author of the cited article correctly points out that the problem here isn't so much her "answer" (using that term in the loosest possible sense), but the fact that she seems to not get the significance of the question at all. Surely she understands what Hamas is, right? And that Ahmadinejad was elected by the people, too? The whole point of the question is that sometimes democracy results in the people electing leaders that don't help the US in the big picture, but that seems completely lost on her.
It would be one thing if there was some sort of pivot at the beginning of the response, but there wasn't at all, quite the contrary. We have to protect those who seek democracy? Like Hamas and Iran? What the hell is she even talking about?
It's sorta like beating a dead horse to talk about how grossly unprepared Sarah Palin is to be VP (or, God forbid, president), but it really does ultimately come back around to McCain's judgment in selecting her in the first place. "Country First?" My ass. Your election first, trying to blow this nincompoop by the American public hoping we won't notice that she makes Dan Quayle look like a brilliant political mind.
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