Migeru: ... why do you need to cram talking points into her? Because the MCCain campaign knows she's an airhead or - worse - a dangerous right-wing fundagelical wacko and don't want her to speak her mind?

I am guessing their response to this would be that what counts more is aptitude, not knowledge, and they would point back to Bill Clinton who had little foreign policy experience coming into office, and took many months to get up to speed.  One conservative journalist I heard on the radio pointed out that "There is nothing wrong with saying, 'I don't know,' but Palin made the mistake of trying to fudge her way out of her ignorance, which just blew up in her face."  This might be because her handlers focused too much on getting her to be able to give "good answers".

Did you see the "name a couple newspapers or magazines" segment of the Kouric interview?

No, I didn't.  And just thinking about it, I am already cringing.  (Wow, I guess I am starting to feel sorry for her.)

Truth unfolds in time through a communal process.

Because the MCCain campaign knows she's an airhead or - worse - a dangerous right-wing fundagelical wacko and don't want her to speak her mind?

er, both?

and more, she's an unvetted time bomb with a fuse length as yet uncertain.

'The history of public debt is full of irony. It rarely follows our ideas of order and justice.' Thomas Piketty