I have not been fooled--I like Palin. She still made herself look stupid by giving the MSM a big blunder to chew on. Obama does not give run-on, unintelligible responses to new reporters. Sure, he rarely gives anything of substance and sometimes says the odd dumb thing, but even you should be able to see that Palin's Couric interviews were huge bombs (and they were fair interviews, too).
Big mess-ups and small mess-ups are not on par. Big blunders can sink a candidate. Many, many, many small ones cannot.
Oh, so now it's not the NUMBER of blunders but the SIZE?
We could have the same contest and I'd be still here, typing Obama's BIG blunders long after you finished with Palin's.
Dependent as you are on the cultural elite to tell you what to think about Palin, you probably think that she "made a BIG blunder" when she answered "all of them" to Couric's "Do you read newspapers?" set-up question, right? That was a set-up for a "gotcha question". It would have trapped a lesser politician. Apparently, only journalism grads like Palin (and me) could see what Couric was doing and what her next question would have been if, as she demanded, Palin named a "specific" publication.
Go review the tape of that question. Watch Couric's body language. As she forms the question, she's not making eye-contact, she's looking at the ground, but she's speaking very carefully, making sure to ask the set-up question exactly the right way. She was furious when Palin side-stepped the trap by saying "all of them"! You can see as she keeps demanding that Palin for the NAME of a SPECIFIC newspaper.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9go38MgZ4w8
(Actually, I notice that she didn't say "all of them". She said, "Most of them" and then when Couric demanded specificity, Palin said "all of them -- any of them that have been placed in front of me".)
Palin's mistake was that she was too polite. She knew what Couric was doing and she should've called her on it: "Why would you ask me that question, Katie? Have you ever asked any other politician that question in your whole life?"
[modify] Of course, the MSM gave Katie a big award for that botched "gotcha" moment -- but not for her interview of Biden in which he said, insanely, that FDR gave a televised address to the nation in the wake of the 1929 stock market crash! http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0Jf17Yo7hBM
LOL-- did you even see that? Or did you just hear the "all of them" answer repeated 500 times in the media with claims that it proved Palin was "stupid"?
WhyteRain, how is it you can alienate conservatives as well as liberals?
I would add though that the media coverage of the Obama campaign was shameful. He was effectively eelcted on the back of glowing praise from the media. When he let slip uber-gaffes like "people out here cling to guns and religion", silence.
