Sarah Palin's Incoherent Answer on Energy during Townhall Q&A

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Sarah Palin fielded a few questions during a Townhall yesterday for the first time since being chosen as John McCain's running mate.

One of her responses left many stumped.

<a href="http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/09/17/campaign.wrap/index.html?eref=rss_topstories">Via CNN:</a>

<blockquote>Asked for "specific skills" she could cite to rebut critics who question her grasp of international affairs, she replied, "I am prepared."

"I have that confidence. I have that readiness," Palin said. "And if you want specifics with specific policies or countries, you can go ahead and ask me. You can play 'stump the candidate' if you want to. But we are ready to serve.</blockquote>

Another one of Palin's answers which happened to be on Energy, an area McCain has said Palin is "one of the leading experts in the world" on, left many baffled as you can see by the video above.

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"domestic process" means getting it into a domestic pipeline before it goes to China.

We're in deep shit.

Which is why we are in deep shit.

to hit her in the head so her brain would resume regurgitating talking points properly

McCain looks like Palin's bitch now, can you imagine what would happen if they get into the White House and Palin uses her fundie base to force what she wants, despite what McCain wants?

and now I have a headache....damn!

WHAT THE FUCK WAS SHE SAYING?....good grief, this has to be the dumbest repub ticket ever....at least Cheney had brains (even though he is Mr. Evil).

As another commmentor said.

to think she can just throw out some bullshit answer and get away with it. You can tell this is the way it's been with her all her political career.

it's easy to see how she can just vomit a response such as this one.

It's really depressing, but I think some dimwits would deem that a good response

is that people have been letting Ms Half Baked Alaska get away with this stuff all her life.

Lying is 2nd nature to her, which tells me she is not a good person to allow near any sort of power.

If she ever did become President, she would be the last President this country ever had.

Yeah, we're really in deep, deep shit

Maybe it's because their too fucking stupid to understand that it's bullshit. Yea, that's it.

..my new favorite word!!!!

A cross between "fungus" and "bible." :-)

I can't imagine she'd even heard it before her handlers taught it to her. "Say 'fungible' a lot; Don Rumsfeld used to say it a lot, and look how well he did..." :rofl:

... no controls, free market - and then implies - there will be significant restrictions (or not, depending on what fungible means lol) that will prevent oil from leaving the US - she can't have it both ways.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hKw9V7NAfn8

I know, preaching to the choir here.

She's "confident" that Congress will require the oil to be sold domestically. Yet when an amendment was introduced by Democrats to require just that, the Republicans blocked it!

You got a site/link on that? This will be good counter info. Free trade will object but I do NOT want to be left holding THIS BAG, meaning Palin or her promises. We wont know until 2018 anyway.

Actually I find the statement quite coherent. This 'Incoherent' bit seems to be the media grasping at a straws or not knowing what the word fungible means? The question they asked her is if she supports banning the export of US domestically pumped Oil. Because we are an importer most Oil pumped in the US is in fact burn here but their might be a few cases ware its more convenient to transport oil to another country because of proximity it minimizes the expense of moving it (remember to move oil across the ocean you have to burn oil so the shorter the trips the more oil will actually arrive at everyones ports and points of use), I'm thinking some of the oil from Alaska might go to Japan for this reason. Pailin's right that the oil is just 'pooled' aka fungible and no one cares ware each molecule actually goes because the price is going to be set by the world market based on total supply and demand, so long as we are an importer it makes no difference, only an exporter can effect domestic price by banning exports (though this inevitably results in smuggling if the world price is higher then the domestic one). So as much as I dislike it I'm agreeing with their position that export bans are not only useless but actually counter-productive, the market price wouldn't drop because supply hasn't changed but longer transport and extra logistics would add costs. The last sentence about Americans 'holding the bag' is odd though and I can't see the meaning on it, dose she expect retaliatory measures from exporters?

I *think* she's attempting to say the same thing you are, but it sounds to me like someone gave this to her as a talking point, she attempted to memorize it and it came out completely incoherently.

how about oil?!?!

I personally believe that U.S. Americans...

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lj3iNxZ8Dww

Oh the poor dear. The neo-conartists certainly got more than they bargained for with this one.

are looking around at each other wondering what the fact she's saying and applaud a the end like good little moonies even though they had no idea what the hell she's talking about!

"Congress" is not going to leave us holding the bag. The crude oil will go to domestic areas in the US first before the consideration of being sent out to other countries like China. Basically in a situation where we the US citizens are investing our tax dollars in Alaska and new drilling, we will be the first to get the crude oil (domestic use first). That is as long as Alaska separatists in 2018 when this will actually be accomplished dont then claim Alaska as a soveriegn nation and take all the wealth for themselves, leaving us holding the bill.... LOL. Hmmm....

fungibley fun! Flag those molecules. Let's have a party! Pffft.

A fungible flagged molecule!

"Clumsy"? is what Wolfie called it?

The U.S. has treaties that seriously restrict ability to impose import/ export bans.

Most of our imported oil comes from Canada and Mexico. That's also where most of our exports go. NAFTA rules.

http://www.eia.doe.gov/pub/oil_gas/petroleum/data_publications/petroleum_supply_monthly/current/pdf/table50.pdf

Wow, I thought only the elitist of elites used the word 'fungible'!

Three times. Like she has in the last few days.

And since I think what she is saying is that any oil produced here in the uSA should be sold here to us first, I cannot disagree with the statement.

Problem is, she says one thing one moment and the exact opposite the very next.

I have worked as an elder care provider for the last twenty years, and have learned to
"translate" statements made by those with dementia!!

PALIN: "Oil and coal, of course, its a fungible commodity and they don't flag the molecules where it's goin' and where it's not but in the sense of the Congress today, they know that there are very hungry domestic markets that need that oil first so I believe that what Congress is gonna do also is not to allow the export bans to such a degree that it's Americans that get stuck holdin' the bag without the energy source that is produced here, pumped here, it's gotta flow into our domestic markets first."

Translating English into English can be a real challenge at times.

The whole point of drilling is for oil companies to get rich. it isn't as if this is being done for the benefit of Americans. If this was for our good, we should nationalize those oil fields and hire Exxon or whomever to drill it for us at a fair price for their labor and WE TAXPAYERS KEEP THE PROFITS.

But nobody is ever proposing that, are they?

Embarrassing, Sad and Scary.

Fungible?

Nobody even knows what that means, I'm sure.

:shrug:

and that is what happens when you try to pump a jillion talking points into a mortal like herself -- she is not ready for prime time, and i'm convinced this is WHY they've cancelled so many of her appearances recently, so they can try and get her at least somewhat fucking coherent for the debate.

Or.. they're hoping she drops out to focus on her "family", so they can get someone who knows shit from Shinola.

in this respect.

Oil may be the one topic on which she's prepared to do her own thinking and exposit off the cuff. Her best subject, one might say. So I'm afraid that in this clip we are seeing her at the zenith of her intellectual prowess.

And not as well as some undocumented aliens.

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"We've got to make sure we're not limiting exports... because we need to have that energy here...." HUH????

Wait a minute. This persone doesn't have a clue.... What utter bullshit winging it type answer was that?


Case Closed...