Whatever. I think the definition of hack is defending your candidate whatever they do. But this aint my candidate and aint my problem.
If you read the last few pages of this thread, you'll see that I have NOT defended her whatever she has done and have been very critical of her brain freeze during these interviews. And it IS in the definition of a hack to accuse others, like you just did with me, without knowing what you're talking about.
You're absolutely not being a hack. I do think there's a valid criticism of Palin for her answer to the Hamas issue--the tension between democracy and the fact that Palestinians took that chance to vote out Fatah in favor of Hamas is a serious problem. Fatah was corrupt and undemocratic, people needed a choice, unfortunately the only choice at hand was a terrorist organization and the democratic vote ended up setting things back quite severely. I think the Bush Administration tried to do the right thing and it all ended up very badly, and her response is a throwback to the 2005 idea that if we promote democracy, that's the solution, without recognition of what really happened and why that makes the view problematic.
We, and I in particular, have piled on Palin for so many interview problems that it seems churlish to complain about her flubbing an answer to a question that is moderately more difficult than the Supreme Court or newspaper ones. It's something a VP should know, but we're so far past the point of judging by that standard. It is a question she got wrong in missing the main point of what happened, though.
