Christine O'Donnell Grants Interview To CNN, Dodges Question About Palin's Presidential Qualifications

Delaware Senate candidate Christine O'Donnell lifted her personal embargo on the national media Thursday in order to grant a 10-minute interview to CNN. During her conversation with CNN reporter Jim Acosta, O'Donnell appeared to dodge a direct question about Sarah Palin's presidential qualifications.

Here's the transcript:

ACOSTA: Is Sarah Palin qualified to be president?

O'DONNELL: Is she running for president? Well again, hypotheticals.

ACOSTA: Does she give you advice?:

O'DONNELL: She gives me 'You go, girl' advice." Don't listen to them.

ACOSTA:Did she really tell you to speak through Fox News?

O'DONNELL: She didn't tell me personally, but I heard her say something like that on 'O'Reilly.' If anybody knows about the politics of personal destruction, it's women candidates, women politicians like Sarah Palin.

O'Donnell won a shocking primary victory over establishment candidate Mike Castle last month thanks, in part, to powerful endorsements from the former Alaska Governor and the Tea Party Express.

The GOP upstart's lack of enthusiasm about her surrogate's presidential aspirations comes just a day after Palin announced, with gusto, that she would "absolutely" be going to Delaware to campaign for O'Donnell.

This marks the second time in a week that a Palin-backed candidate has been markedly cool on answering questions about her potential presidential competence.

A fellow Tea Party-backed Senate candidate, Alaska's Joe Miller, gave an evasive answer regarding the Palin-for-President scenario on Fox news last month, which drew an irate email from Palin's husband, Todd, uncovered this week.

After the snafu, Miller sought to make amends and speak in a little clearer terms about Palin's executive aptitude, but in the end could apparently only muster the reasoning that she filled the "constitutional requirement" necessary to run for president.

Watch the interview, Palin comments start right before the nine minute mark:

Comments

[richardgordon]

11:28 PM on 10/16/2010

Actually, I find her quite articulate and intelligent. But she is deluded, she has obviously drunk the tea party kool-aid.

[AmyTales]

01:52 PM on 11/30/2010

Have you heard or read anything other than her most coherent facebook posts (likely not written by Palin herself)? She can hardly get a fully grammatical sentence out.

[Deltalk]

11:02 AM on 10/13/2010

Sarah Palin
Wednesday October 13, 2010 (Tonight)
The Vancouver Club (Bon Mot Book Club)
Vancouver Club, 915 West Hastings St, Vancouver, B.C. V6C 1C6 Canada
6:00 pm

Be There....

[AAAProgressive]

05:18 PM on 10/12/2010

Palin Warns of ‘Armageddon,' 'Third World War' in Exclusive Newsmax Broadcast
Video
http://barracudabrigade.blogspot.com/2010/10/palin-warns-of-armageddon-third-world.html

Plus:
Sarah Palin's speech in San Diego: Sarah, the Demagogue, comes unglued - Exclusive recording
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/10/sarah-palins-speech-in-san-diego-sarah.html
A must listen - also transcribed.

[AAAProgressive]

12:41 PM on 10/11/2010

Sarah Palin in Montgomery, Alabama: Says she hid pregnancy with Trig for 7 months, gave birth at 7 1/2 months, adds new details to pregnancy story
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/10/sarah-palin-in-montgomery-alabama-says.html

And lookee here:
Is Joe Miller "palling around with terrorists"? Alan Stein, one of Miller's advisors, was an activist in the SDS, Students for a Democratic Society. What will the Palinbots say about this ?
http://www.anchoragedailyplanet.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=1305:steinmiller-10810&catid=34:editorials

Joe Miller's militia pals -
http://open.salon.com/blog/steve_klingaman/2010/09/29/joe_millers_alaska_militia_palsare_they_dangerous

It's time to expose this WGE in all her glory. She lies continuously and MSM continues to ignore it. She is bad for women in America, bad for citizens and bad for this country. It's time we let the MSM know, we're tired of her and we're tired of them ignoring all her lies.

Please...help expose one of the biggest Hoax's ever pulled on the American public. SP's faked birth of TriG.

[AAAProgressive]

05:28 PM on 10/10/2010

Please Huffers, help us expose Palin's big lie about TriG's birth. Send this to every contact you have. I'm not kidding. This woman now is being introduced as the next POTUS!! To great applause from the audience too! Her Faked Pregnancy is not a conspiracy theory! She pulled the biggest hoax on the American public EVER! Please spread this link around. She lied again to that crowd....a crowd that contained Rove, Cheney and the rest. They will do anything to put her in the WH...anything!

http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/10/sarah-palin-in-montgomery-alabama-says.html

Please....mail it to everyone you know.

[AAAProgressive]

03:26 PM on 10/10/2010

New Revealing Post Up:

Sarah Palin in Montgomery, Alabama: Says she hid pregnancy with Trig for 7 months, gave birth at 7 1/2 months, adds new details to pregnancy story
http://palingates.blogspot.com/2010/10/sarah-palin-in-montgomery-alabama-says.html

[alterego55]

12:19 PM on 10/10/2010

I wonder if Tina Fey could do a good Christine O'Donnell? Lest we forget that Tina used Sarah's exact words for a large part of the parody.

Wow, guess what? I went to youtube and watched the interview, then I went to CBS to copy parts of the interview text. CBS has scrubbed (censored) the entire rambling of : "Ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy helping a uh, its gotta be all about job creation ...". It doesn't exist in the transcript.

Forget "Being John Malkovich", I want to see Quentin Tarantino do a movie on "Being Sarah Palin". Imagine how bizarre that would be.

[gottanuf]

10:06 AM on 10/10/2010

She dabbles but does'nt diddle!

[SonyaInTx]

05:28 AM on 10/10/2010

Hate Palin? Hate the teabaggers? Hate Chistine O'Donnell? Hate John Boehner?

THEN VOTE DEMOCRATIC IN NOVEMBER!!!!!!! SEND THESE BUMS HOME MINUS THEIR A$$E$!!!!


NO EXCUSES!!!!!

[Metamofoosis]

12:57 AM on 10/10/2010

Just like all bear cubs, they grow up and want to go their own way. While mama grizzly is busy storing fat for the winter.

[rotorhead1871]

12:49 AM on 10/10/2010

pailin is not qualified to (fill in with passive verb) with a (fill in noun) (add adverb phrase) ever!!!!

[Subversive]

12:43 AM on 10/10/2010

Apparently Christine didn't read the Joe Miller memo.

*Ding!*

"You've Got Mail!"

It's Todd, Christine, and he wants his Old Lady's endorsement back!

Can you say "refudiate?"

[Ken Maddox]

11:49 PM on 10/09/2010

O'Donnell ducked the question, because she doesn't have any idea what the qualifications to be president are.
Like she said on Greta Van Sustererereren last night "Afghanistan is right there, you know, close to India, and Pakistan has nuclear weapons."
I don't know what Greta asked her, but she should have ducked that one too.

[harmonikasavingsbonds]

11:33 PM on 10/09/2010

Can we now expect a nasty email from Todd for not supporting Sarah?

Wait for it...

[sunnyskiesinyuma]

11:12 PM on 10/09/2010

I hope I live long enough to see her karma run over her dogma.

[rotorhead1871]

12:44 AM on 10/10/2010

i hope i live long enough to read her obit...