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9.5 minutes of interview time between Katie Couric and Governor Palin is available on CBSNews.com. Watching this candid interview is exhausting, particularly for a Democrat, but more so as a voter. Couric did a splendid job in fighting a good fight for clear answers to her questions, but ended up doing so in vain.

Sarah Palin pretends she is a maverick and not big Washington, and yet she answers questions like the worst politician. Answering without answering. Talking longer than she needs to as means of completely avoiding a clear and precise answer. Couric had to ask Palin numerous times to clarify her answers. It is painful to watch her thinking so hard to create an answer that avoids answering a question.

Sarah Palin’s views, listed below, are rather disturbing from a figure attempting to hold the country’s second highest position. Her positions become increasingly frightening for a candidate trying to become Vice President. Lest we forget, the Vice President can be the deciding vote in a tie within Senate. Should a vote on gay hate crime legislation or equality, reproductive rights or climate change come to a tie in Senate, Palin would be the tie breaker should she become Vice President.

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Here are some rather concerning roundabout answers Sarah Palin gave:

1) Global warming is in part caused by humans, but also caused dominantly by natural weather cycles. She says, “Doesn’t matter at this point as what caused it, it’s real and we have to do something about it.” Palin contradicts herself, for it doesn’t matter what caused it, how can it be fixed. If it is a natural weather cycle, how do you correct nature? Essentially, she sounds as though she knows global warming is caused by humans, but does not want to admit.

2) Abortions should never be done and the Morning After Pill counts as abortion. (On a side note, Palin does believe in contraception, some beacon of light).

3) Palin says, “I am not going to judge Americans and the decisions they make in their adult made relationships… She [her friend] made a choice and happens to be a choice I have not made.” In one sentence, Palin says twice that gay Americans have CHOSEN to be gay or rather have DECIDED to live gay lifestyles, to put words in her mouth. Words that aren’t put in her mouth are “decisions” and “choice” in her statement about homosexuality.

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