October 22, 2008 08:56 PM UTC

Sarah Palin vs. 3rd-Grader

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• by: ColoRabble

(But she might be smarter than a 1st grader – promoted by Colorado Pols)

During a televised interview on NBC 9, Gov. Sarah Palin was presented with a simple question from a 3rd-Grader:

“What does the Vice President do?”

Her answer (provided by DailyKos):

In her cutest (or most irritating, depending on how you view it) voice, she explains:

[A] Vice President has a really great job, because not only are they there to support the President’s agenda, they’re like the team member – the team mate to that President, but also they’re in charge of the United States Senate, so if they want to they can really get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom and its a great job and I look forward to having that job.

No Sarah, you don’t get to be “in charge” and you won’t be able to “get in there with the Senators and make a lot of good policy changes.”  

All it takes is Googling “Vice President” and looking at the Wikipedia entry to know that:

As President of the Senate, the Vice President has two primary duties: to cast a vote in the event of a Senate deadlock and to preside over and certify the official vote count of the U.S. Electoral College…

It also mentions:

There is a strong convention within the U.S. Senate that the vice president not use his or her position as President of the Senate to influence the passage of legislation or act in a partisan manner, except in the case of breaking tie votes.

Call me crazy, but if someone asked me to take on a job, be it Vice President of the United States or head janitor in a cafeteria, the very first thing I’d do is learn exactly what that job entails. That way, should a 9-year-old ever ask me what my job entails, I’d be prepared.