First, I thought Barack Obama did submit to a long interview with Bill O'Reilly on Fox News a couple of weeks ago. O'Reilly was tough, as you would expect him to be. I listened to it and thought it was pretty good.

Secondly, after watching both parts of the Couric-Palin interview I don't agree that Katie Couric tried to "set up" Governor Palin. If anything on the news reports of the interview that has been unfair, it's been the short sound bites extracted from the interview that have proliferated for over 24 hours now. Those were chosen to highlight gaffes that Palin made in her answers. Frankly, I thought Palin did a pretty good job for someone with her level of inexperience in foreign affairs. She was obviously coached with the questions and answers, but I thought she did pretty well under a whole lot of pressure.

I remain unconvinced that someone with Palin's level of experience and naiveté should be a heartbeat away from being the President. But at least she is far from being the slick, devious, almost evil person that currently sits in the VP chair. If I had only two choices for VP, Sarah Palin or Dick Cheney, I'd opt for the fresh, enthisiastic and obviously smart candidate over the person who has repeatedly demonstrated duplicitous and deceitful behavior in furthering his personal ideaology.

In a heartbeat!