[cnn-photo-caption image= http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2008/images/10/01/art.cbs.cnn.jpg caption="Couric interviewed Palin last week."](CNN) - Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin had difficulty naming a specific Supreme Court case she disagreed with besides Roe v. Wade in a long-awaited clip CBS News aired Wednesday night.
The comments, first reported by Politico, came in an interview with CBS News anchor Katie Couric taped last week.
"Well, let's see. There's –of course –in the great history of American rulings there have been rulings, that's never going to be absolute consensus by every American," Palin said. "And there are–those issues, again, like Roe v Wade, where I believe are best held on a state level and addressed there. So you know–going through the history of America, there would be others but–"
"Can you think of any?" Couric interjected.
"Well, I could think of–of any again, that could be best dealt with on a more local level, maybe I would take issue with," Palin responded. "But you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I'm so privileged to serve, wouldn't be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today."
Palin's comments came in the same interview during which she gave a widely-panned answer on the economic bailout bill and had trouble describing John McCain's record on regulation of the financial industry.
The interview later became the subject of Saturday Night Live's opening sketch last weekend.
Cafferty Blog: Are Palin’s interviews with Couric helping her?
When Couric posed the same question to Joe Biden, the Democratic VP candidate and longtime member of the Senate Judiciary Committee said he disagreed with a ruling that invalidated a portion of the Violence Against Women Act.
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ST. LOUIS, Missouri (CNN)- In a tavern/restaurant here that is designed to attract sports fans– it has more than 25 flat-screen television sets mounted on its walls– a fellow on his lunch hour pulled a stool up to the bar at the beginning of this week, glanced at one of the screens that was showing football highlights, and said something to the bartender.
Who immediately picked up a remote-control clicker and, at the customer’s request, changed the channel to one showing live news from Wall Street.
Most of the TV sets in this place on this day were, in fact, tuned to national channels whose reporters were delivering business news. Sports? This week no athletic contest, regardless of how dramatic, can compete with the stomach-cramping ups and downs of the financial markets. Last-second touchdowns and ninth-inning runs-batted-in may be momentarily exciting. But when a ballgame is over, a spectator’s life and future are unchanged. “Everything is riding on this” is a sports-announcer sentence that loses its punch when compared with what an anxious family, and its lifetime savings, have riding on Wall Street economic forces over which they have no control.
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