I found this comment on a CBS video clip during which Katie Couric asked Biden and Palin about Roe v. Wade, and whether or not there were other SCOTUS decisions with which they disagreed. Biden did well, and answered the second question with the fact that he believes (and indeed put it before SCOTUS) that abused women should have the right to sue their abusers in Federal court if they can prove the abuse. He thought they should, SCOTUS said not. I don’t know enough about it to agree or disagree with his position, but then the Palinator came on and babbled a bunch of nonsense that clearly showed she hasn’t got a fucking clue. She did okay on Roe v. Wade, because she’d been prepped for that one, but she could not even name one other SCOTUS decision, let alone one with which she disagreed. As usual, when confronted with a question she can’t answer (which is the vast majority of them, and means “any question to which she has not already been coached for an answer”), she went into babbling generalities, talking for several minutes without saying anything at all. All politicians do that to some extent, but most are not so bad at it that it is an insult to the intelligence of someone with an IQ hovering around room temperature. She is that bad…and worse. Well, at least she hasn’t got poor old Putin “rearing his head” this time and isn’t claiming to have read every newspaper and magazine ever published in her lifetime. Jesus wept. Anyway, someone left a comment below the video that nicely summed up Hockey Mom Barbie; it’s spot-on and I wish I’d written it myself. Christ…how does Couric manage to interview that blithering fucking idiot with a straight face?!

“I recently interviewed Sarah Palin. Here’s how it went.

Me: What day is it today?

Sarah Palin: There are 7 days in a week. There are many days. We could choose from many different days.

Me: Yes, but what day is today?

Sarah Palin: Today could be one of 7 days. And I have a great appreciation for how beautifully the week is set up. I mean, our question might even be rephrased to ask if we haven’t lost sight of the bigger picture, where the day is just a small part of what constitutes a week, which would be yet another part of what is known as the month.

Me: I just want to know what day it is, specifically.

Sarah Palin: Any and all of them that have come and gone. I have always been comfortable with any and all of them. My point, however, is that it all comes back to the year. I am someone who believes that the voiceless can count on me to represent the calendar in an unbiased way, from within one of the highest offices of government. After all, I have always made myself clear, and I am not apologetic about who I am. There are 30 days in a month and 52 weeks in a year. I was born in the 20th century, and this might already be the 21st , who knows? Here, our sense of the space-time continuum has come to be challenged by those who insist they must know what day of the week we are presently at. And I think it needs to be addressed in concrete terms for the good of the American people. Thank you.”

EDIT: Best Palin-name, ever: Caribou Barbie 😆