{"id":8,"date":"2008-09-11T20:45:13","date_gmt":"2008-09-12T04:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/?p=8"},"modified":"2008-09-26T19:40:03","modified_gmt":"2008-09-27T03:40:03","slug":"sarah-smalltown","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/sarah-smalltown\/","title":{"rendered":"Sarah Smalltown"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I was watching the ABC interview with Vice Presidential Candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin. An observant listener may have noticed that Gov. Palin couldn&#8217;t answer any of Charlie Gibson&#8217;s questions. Furthermore, at times it seemed she didn&#8217;t even know what Mr. Gibson was talking about. For example, &#8220;Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?&#8221; Amazingly, even after Mr. Gibson spelled out the Bush Doctrine for Gov. Palin, she still offered no opinion.<\/p>\n<p>Gov. Palin presents herself as being just an ordinary, small town American. Having been raised in a small town myself, I am quite familiar with the no-nonsense attitudes of my friends and neighbors. One thing that I can say about my small town is that everybody is able to offer a genuine, unequivocal opinion. Gov. Palin wasn&#8217;t able to offer an opinion on any of the foreign policy questions asked by Mr. Gibson.\u00a0 It makes me wonder if she&#8217;s ever really considered any issue that, while affecting the rest of the world, didn&#8217;t cross her executive desk.<\/p>\n<p>Sarah Smalltown would have been passionate and direct. <em>Who is Sarah Palin?<\/em><\/p>\n<p>P.S. Ankles crossed, knees together, sit up straight, look him in the eyes &#8211; grace and poise. <em>Grace and poise!<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight, I was watching the ABC interview with Vice Presidential Candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin. An observant listener may have noticed that Gov. Palin couldn&#8217;t answer any of Charlie Gibson&#8217;s questions. Furthermore, at times it seemed she didn&#8217;t even know what Mr. Gibson was talking about. For example, &#8220;Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?&#8221; Amazingly, &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/2008\/09\/11\/sarah-smalltown\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Sarah Smalltown&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-8","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-2008-presidential-election"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jodi.cooleysekula.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}