Sarah Palin: "What does a VP do?"

[qwerty]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oro2Yh9HoEM


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[constitutional]

You could see the interviewer cracking up at the last few seconds of the video. "pretty cool job...". LOL

[teamrican1]

She was posting a rhetorical question. And from a Constitutional standpoint, she is absolutely correct. The Vice President's only Constitutionally sanctioned task is presiding over the Senate to cast tie breaking votes, and since that isn't likely to come up at all given the large Democratic majority, all you have left is waiting for the President to die. Thomas Jefferson spent most of his Vice Presidency back in Virginia writing anonymous attacks against the President's Alien and Sedition Act and promoting the concept of nullification. If only Dick Cheney had followed Jefferson's lead.

[Vote Waterman 2028]

She was posting a rhetorical question. And from a Constitutional standpoint, she is absolutely correct. The Vice President's only Constitutionally sanctioned task is presiding over the Senate to cast tie breaking votes, and since that isn't likely to come up at all given the large Democratic majority, all you have left is waiting for the President to die. Thomas Jefferson spent most of his Vice Presidency back in Virginia writing anonymous attacks against the President's Alien and Sedition Act and promoting the concept of nullification. If only Dick Cheney had followed Jefferson's lead.

Cheney has been to busy actually being president :eek::D

[MGreen]

She was posting a rhetorical question. And from a Constitutional standpoint, she is absolutely correct. The Vice President's only Constitutionally sanctioned task is presiding over the Senate to cast tie breaking votes, and since that isn't likely to come up at all given the large Democratic majority, all you have left is waiting for the President to die. Thomas Jefferson spent most of his Vice Presidency back in Virginia writing anonymous attacks against the President's Alien and Sedition Act and promoting the concept of nullification. If only Dick Cheney had followed Jefferson's lead.

Any time someone bashes her for that, I ask, "so, what does a VP do?"

[Alawn]

Well the answer is NOTHING. The one and only duty of a VP is to cast the tie breaking vote if the senate votes 50/50. Unless that happens they sit on their ass and do nothing. And it is rare that they are ever needed to do that. They can give advise to the president but he can just tell the VP to go to hell. It makes no difference at all who the VP is. The VP is really only symbolic.

[jbuttell]

She was posting a rhetorical question. And from a Constitutional standpoint, she is absolutely correct. The Vice President's only Constitutionally sanctioned task is presiding over the Senate to cast tie breaking votes, and since that isn't likely to come up at all given the large Democratic majority, all you have left is waiting for the President to die. Thomas Jefferson spent most of his Vice Presidency back in Virginia writing anonymous attacks against the President's Alien and Sedition Act and promoting the concept of nullification. If only Dick Cheney had followed Jefferson's lead.

Thank you for pointing this out. Even though I find it a shame that someone like her is supporting McCain and moving in lockstep with his policies - I interpreted her question as rhetorical as well, for the reasons you've just described.

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[DAFTEK]

:)

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[Truth Warrior]

Well Sarah, VPOTUS is pretty much just another well paying "brain dead" job.<IMHO> ;) If Dan Quayle and Al Gore can do it, no sweat. After all, how smart does a "vice sock puppet" really need to be?

[Knightskye]

Warm bucket of piss?