We really need to see the full interview tomorrow night, but here are a few quick observations about Sarah Palin's interview with ABC News:

• Unfortunately, she did not bring her A game. She really needs to relax. It's understandable that she'd be nervous, but the next outing better show a lot of improvement. She was trying too hard to sound tough or forceful, not sounding natural, calm, and in control.
• There was too much boilerplate or canned sounding answers.
• Gibson's misquoting and misrepresentation of Palin's prior statement about praying that we do God's will was shameful. It was shoddy journalism. He's supposed to be a professional journalist, not some nutroots blogger.
• Anyone running for high office needs to be pretty vague when answering a hypothetical about foreign policy or national security matters. Palin needed to basically wave off questions about war with Russia and incursions into Pakistan.
• It wasn't a disaster, especially given that this was her first outing and the hype the interview has received all week. It was just less than necessary.

Update: AP offers the Democratic rebuttal.