Wow. - Jim Norris from Bookmarklet

Wow....if she IS elected will the GOP PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE give her diction and poise lessons? If I'm going to have to listen to her crap I'd like to at least not be distracted by a million and nine ums. Also big <3 to the reporter's expression - even she can't believe this shit. - Soup in a TARDIS

1000009? ;-) - j1m

Memorised her lines? - vimoh

omg - i can't stand listening to her. - iTad

hello bird. pretty bird. poor ole bird. - iTad

Ouch, this is not a smart person, or a prepared speaker. - j1m

wait, you expect the vice president to walk, talk and think at the same time? what kind of country is this!!? - Nathan Eckenrode

did i see Palin looking down at notes in her lap? - MikeAmundsen

what's great about this is that as an observer, you just... you just.. don't need to say a thing. it's all right there in the video. god save us. - Anthony Citrano

huh, CBS web site has another version of this interview [http://www.cbsnews.com/video...] check out @ 2:15. sure looks to me she is checking out notes on her lap. am i nuts? - MikeAmundsen

ok, i can't resist. Palin: ".. go back and look at track records and see who's more apt to just be talkin' about solutions and .. who's actually done it?" Couric: "can you give us any examples of him leading the charge for more oversight?" Palin: "...he's known as the maverick though.. takin' shots from his own party..." [uh, is he running for American Idol or President?] Couric persists. Palin: "I'll try ta find some and I'll bring 'em to ya." [Well alright, then...] - Anthony Citrano

Uhm...dude..seriously. This *IS* like a f*ckin Disney movie. Matt Damon was right - Rahsheen?

btw, Lawrence Lessig just compared Sarah Palin to every vice president in U.S. history http://scienceblogs.com/clock... - ~C4Chaos

@C4: yep, Agnew - ha! also interesting to note VPs Nixon, Quayle, and Gore (among others) were younger than Palin. very diff backgrounds than hers. [sigh]. - MikeAmundsen

that...was painful to watch - cjmart

PLEASE circulate this video to as many people as you can. wow. hopefully the 50% approval rate she's getting will dip. wow (again) - Jeremy Toeman

Ever since people managed to vote for George W. Bush and then even re-elect him for a second term, I don't believe in the deterring effects of such documents of lacking capability. By now I have come to the conclusion that voters just won't care to understand & go with their gut feeling. The U.S. has to improve the quality and reach of its public education system and hope that in the ten to twenty years that it takes for the fruits of such work to trickle through society, nobody takes advantage of its lack. - Mustafa K. Isik

My god, she's brainless. And brazenly so. Our forefathers were right: the masses cannot be trusted to govern themselves if we're seriously considering candidates this outlandishly uninformed and uneducated. Le sigh. - Mila (Jake Stetser)

I think most word-based videos will have a much smaller effect to a mainstream audience than stories told in pictures. Words can be endlessly debated by media which makes it look as if non-subtle points are subtle, but it would be harder to argue with, say, a politician strangling a kitten on live TV. TV does not target our ratio most of the time, and on the surface, that Palin video shows a woman with an energetic walk who talks about important issues in front of lots of flags, but she's also looking down to earth so that you can imagine her to be your friendly neighbor etc. - Philipp Lenssen

Palin's responses in this interview are really pathetic. She is sooo not qualified to run as VP of this country - Susan Beebe

Did it seem like she boned up on the word 'multifaceted' or is it just me? - AJ Kohn

Does she have any understanding of major current events at all?? - felix

@Jim Norris Wow is right. - Aaron Krug

I feel like I just heard some soccer mom who still loves her massive SUV tell me how she thinks McCain is the right choice based on what the media and the GOP has told her she should think and what the other soccer moms have convinced her of. - Brett Cannon

I'd never, ever vote for her, but watching it after reading the comments I was expecting worse. She wasn't that well prepared, but to me it looked like her real problem was that she was really, really nervous. - Nick Lothian

If they win the election I think I might leave the country, this scares me. US is going down the drain. - Anamarie

I think my feelings about the upcoming election just went from excitement to fear. - Clare Dibble