Interview attitude? We are 'ENTITLED' Mrs. Palin, and we'll NEVER CARE FOR YOU, as one of us

International Herald Tribune (NYT/WaPo) on Gibson's interview:

Gibson, who sat back in his chair and wriggled his foot impatiently, had the skeptical, annoyed tone of a university president who agrees to interview the daughter of a trustee, but doesn't believe she merits admission.

When he asked her, slowly and solemnly to "look the country in the eye" and say whether she truly felt qualified to be vice president and possibly commander in chief, Gibson seemed to expect Palin to express at least a moment of humility and self-doubt.

Charlie, did you, in a one on one, national interview ask the ONE this same kind of question when he began his run (has he ever been to Canada or Mexico)?
How about Bill Clinton, an insular governor, from what some would think a cracker state, whose only foreign experience was a scholarship? Did you ask him?
Or Mr. Bush, gov of a wild west state?
Or J Carter, the peanut farmer?
But for a SARAH PALIN it's valid?

Are you getting it?

Palin said she had no doubts whatsoever when asked to be Senator John McCain's running mate. ("I answered him yes because I have the confidence in that readiness and knowing that you can't blink. You have to be wired in a way of being so committed to the mission, the mission that we're on, reform of this country and victory in the war, you can't blink.") Gibson suggested that her brash, unwavering confidence sounded like "hubris."

Anyone self confident enough, and seeking that kind of office and power HAD BETTER sound like that Mr. Gibson.

That's a bit past skepticism.

All of these people miss the obvious answer that readiness for the presidency is a function of character. John Kennedy, LBJ and Richard Nixon, the last men to be senators who became presidents have mixed records to say the least. Kennedy's fiasco in Vienna with Khrushchev, and Nixon's crimes indicate very little to us how 'foreign' experience aids in the office. LBJ...OY

Nixon turned out to be an extremely successfully president as a foreign policy leader, but his character destroyed any good works. John Kennedy's record included Vienna, the Cuban Missile Crisis and starting the Vietnam catastrophe which has created the modern democratic party.

I have a feeling that Mrs. Palin's experience out maneuvering, and out gutting with confidence the multinationals of ExxonMobil, ConocoPhillips and BP are a hint of her inner self.