{"id":3306,"date":"2008-09-14T10:20:01","date_gmt":"2008-09-14T15:20:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3306"},"modified":"2008-09-14T14:36:14","modified_gmt":"2008-09-14T19:36:14","slug":"pardon-my-french-but-charlie%e2%80%a6","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3306","title":{"rendered":"Pardon my French, but Charlie\u2026"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charlie Gibson, spectacles dripping off the end of his nose, asked Governor Sarah Palin to offer an opinion on the \u201cBush Doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

In my interchanges with some of the most politically articulate people I know, Sarah Palin’s response to the question has come far<\/em> less into question than the existence of a “Bush Doctrine” and the wisdom of Gibson’s attempt to trip up the Governor.<\/p>\n

The consensus? There is no singular<\/em> \u201cBush Doctrine.\u201d Clearly, President Bush has articulated (admittedly a poor choice of words for G.W. Bush) America’s response to the attacks of 9\/11 as a desire to secure America\u2019s safety through the promotion and support of democracy throughout the world. This is an element of his neoconservative roots. He has also asserted that America now retains the unilateral right and responsibility to strike terrorists and hostile regimes before they strike us; but no one has consistently used the phrase \u201cThe Bush Doctrine.\u201d<\/p>\n

That is, until now.<\/p>\n

From Wikipedia<\/a> (emphasis mine)<\/p>\n

The Bush Doctrine is a term used to describe the foreign policy doctrine of United States president George W. Bush, enunciated in the wake of the September 11, 2001 attacks. It may be viewed as a set of several related foreign policy principles, including stress on ending terrorism, spreading democracy, increased unilateralism in foreign policy and an expanded view of American national security interests. Foreign policy experts argue over the meaning of the term “Bush Doctrine<\/strong>,” and some scholars have suggested that there is no one unified theory underlying Bush’s foreign policy<\/strong>. Jacob Weisberg identifies six<\/strong> successive “Bush Doctrines” in his book The Bush Tragedy<\/em>, while former Bush staffer Peter D. Feaver has counted seven<\/strong>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Set back on their heels, Democrats on the talk show circuit are saying Charlie Gibson wasn\u2019t tough enough<\/em>.<\/p>\n

The rest of America is putting themselves in that chair across from Charlie Gibson and saying (or at least thinking):<\/p>\n

\u201cCharlie, you\u2019re an a**hole.\u201d<\/p>\n

We expect the media to conduct hard-hitting interviews and do their part in the \u201cvetting\u201d process. But to intentionally attempt to trip up Sarah Palin with a contrivance only serves to elevate the contempt the voter has for the media.<\/p>\n

And it surely doesn\u2019t help the Obama campaign because everyone is still talking about Sarah Palin. They are rooting for her because so many Americans are like her.<\/p>\n

The Gibson interview is a bad omen for Obama. The Democrats are quickly realizing that there is no way to take down Sarah Palin without severe blowback. She is rubber, they are glue.<\/p>\n

…and the best is yet to come!<\/p>\n

The confluence of Joe Biden\u2019s inability to control his diction and the strengthening warm front that is Sarah Palin\u2019s candidacy portends The Perfect Storm for the Obama campaign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charlie Gibson, spectacles dripping off the end of his nose, asked Governor Sarah Palin to offer an opinion on the \u201cBush Doctrine.\u201d In my interchanges with some of the most politically articulate people I know, Sarah Palin’s response to the question has come far less into question than the existence of a “Bush Doctrine” and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3306","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-media"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3306"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3306\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3306"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3306"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3306"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}