Lynne Cheney on Palin, 'Dark Side'
Posted: Monday, October 06, 2008 11:47 AM by Carrie DannWhite House , Sarah Palin
From NBC's Carrie Dann
At a time when the race for the vice presidency is at the top of many voters' minds, NEWSWEEK's Tammy Haddad sat down with the wife of the man who currently holds the job. Haddad asked
Lynne Cheney about her thoughts on
Sarah Palin , her husband's love for fishing, and the tough new book about his role in the war on terror.
"I was really stunned when
John McCain picked her," Cheney said of Palin, who she says she has met once. "But then I saw her at the convention. That speech she delivered, honestly, I've seen a lot of politicians, I've seen a lot of people who are very polished, who do their thing just right. But what she has is that air of 'This is who I am.' The authenticity comes through."
The Second Lady added that the immediate flurry of criticism about Palin galvanized supporters who rushed to her defense. "I think there's a great core of good common sense in the American people," she said. "When that attack was so vicious and so over-the-top it's almost as though it insulated her, because everybody said, 'You're saying what?' So people gathered around her." The Dark Side: The Inside Story of How The War on Terror Turned into a War on American Ideals ," Mayer paints Dick Cheney as one of the main masterminds of "a policy of deliberate cruelty that would've been unthinkable on Sept. 10." TamCam to view more of the interview online.
