Biden gets veep role wrong. What an idiot. Executive branch? Article I?

Americans were fooled into a dumb President once, I don't think they are about to make that same mistake anytime soon. Palin, as I said the day she was picked, simply does not have the gravitas to be President or Vice President. I was just being harsh when I called her dumb as a stump. She is probably of average intelligence, but a far cry from what I would like to see in the Oval Office.

 

@NPT he stated it was executive, you're wrong move on.

Just once Americans were fooled?

 

Northpoint appears to be saying the same thing as me for the most part, we just had a different method of explaining it. You said you could see it since I pointed it out.

If that's the case we all should be in agreement?

 

I saw the tail end of that debate. That question and Palin's answer totally stumped me. She said NOTHING specific to the question. She was asked about the VP's role and referenced her being a governor, mayor, oil and gas regulator and business person.

What a joke.

Cheney proposed this concept immediately after being ordered to make some papers available to the public with regard to laws that require the executive branch to make some papers public.

Remember Cheney revealed NOTHING during his eight year term. Then his office advanced the theory that the office of the VP was not part of the executive but was either part of the legislature, or both...in either case his theory was proposed to so as not to have to obey the law.

It was so absurd. The Bush administration immediately acknowledged that the concept was flawed and not accurate. It wasn't anything more than an attempt to violate laws.

Constitutional lawyers and newspapers across the country quickly laughed at the concept. On top of the absurdity, folks recognized the attempt by Cheney for what it was.

Biden addressed the question. Palin was so wierdly all over the place without addressing the specifics....and then compounded the wierdness by winding off on her past experiences.

Did she even understand the question? Don't know. Did she want to avoid the question? Don't know.

The only thing I could tell was that she didn't get close to answering specifics.

And evidently, without any knowledge of the background of the issue she seemed to agree with the concept of the VP that his own administration quickly backed off of.

I think it was evidence of a question wherein it showed her lack of knowledge about the position and a variety of issues with which she could be confronted.