Cafferty on Palin

I'm a little behind lately, but I just saw this reaction from Jack Cafferty to the answer that vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin gave to a question about the $700 billion bailout package.

Now I try to leave politics out of this blog, but this is definitely a cross-roads between politics and and finance (and there's been a lot of that lately). I really can't add too much to what Cafferty said, the answer that she gave is really pretty pathetic and to an issue that will be one of the biggest facing the new administration -- whomever that will be.

Actually, it's kind of funny in a way. Watching her fumbling answer I was reminded of the investment banking interviews I did coming out of college. I studied economics in college and I didn't stray too far in my studies into finance, so I wasn't nearly as prepared as the business undergrads from my school. Being young, I also wasn't all that good at interviewing and didn't have the whole "if you don't know it, don't try and fake it" thing down.

Anyway, while watching Palin muddle through whatever the heck she was talking about, I literally could feel the nerves and stress that I got the few times that I did try to fake my way through an interview answer. Needless to say, the times that I faked it, it didn't work out well for me, and this catastraphic answer certainly hasn't worked well for Palin. I guess I'm just counfounded that her people didn't have her so, so, so ready for this question -- it's not like it came out of the blue.

I guess at least we got an absolutely hilarious SNL skit out of it...

-AvgJoe