Sarah Palin: “I’m the new energy”

Perhaps topping the presumptuousness many see in the actions and words of the Obama campaign, Sarah Palin has coined a new catchphrase to describe herself and her impact on Washington as McCain’s running mate: “The new energy.”

CBS released more of the awkward interview between Katie Couric and the McCain-Palin ticket, now showing new clips of Couric and Palin one-on-one.In the excerpt, Palin is asked about her recent comment about Joe Biden and his long history on Capitol Hill, telling campaign crowds that she was a fresh face but that Biden had been a Senator since she “was, like, in second grade.” That quip had gotten some flack from Democrats and the Obama campaign as a mean and unnecessary dig at Biden’s age (the Obama campaign decrying ageism?)

Couric asked Palin point blank about the comment in the interview. Palin brushed off the controversy as irrelevant because her remark on Biden was “nothing negative at all.” But what raised eyebrows was how Palin described herself in fairly uplifting and glowing tones as “the new energy, the new face, the new ideas” ready to take on the Washington establishment.

Can’t you just see the huge banner (or should it be a seal…) for Palin to use on the campaign trail for the next month? “Sarah Palin: The New Energy.”

And is it our imagination or is the Tina Fey impersonation of Palin looking more and more dead-on every day? Watch the walk-and-talk with Couric below and you’ll just be amazed…

Katie Couric: You made a funny comment, you’ve said you have been listening to Joe Biden’s speeches since you were in second grade, something like that.

Sarah Palin: It’s been since like ‘72, yah.

Couric: You have a 72-year-old running mate - is that kind of a risky thing to say, insinuating that Joe Biden’s been around a while?

Palin: Oh no, it’s nothing negative at all. He’s got a lot of experience and just stating the fact there, that we’ve been hearing his speeches for all these years. So he’s got a tremendous amount of experience and, you know, I’m the new energy, the new face, the new ideas and he’s got the experience based on many many years in the Senate. And voters are gonna have a choice there of what it is that they want in these next four years.

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