Posted on 03/19/2011 3:58:40 AM PDT by techno
We are within hours of Sarah Palin's speeech to the Indian conclave. I thought it would be interesting to look back at where Palin has come from and what the pundits, pollsters and history have said about her foreign affairs/national security qualifications or lack of qualifications:
The top 10 quotes or events regarding Sarah Palin's foreign affairs experience:
1)Charles Krauthammer July 2009
"...She is NOT a serious candidate for the presidency. She had to go home and study and spend a lot of time on issues in which she was not adept last year and she hasn't. She has to stop speaking in cliches and platitudes."
2)ABC News
(From the 2008 campaign):
"Palin would be the first Vice President in 32 years who had not met a foreign head of state."
3)Rasmussen polling July 2009 and Gallup polling February 2011:
Of the top 4 candidates, Sarah Palin places first among those GOP primary voters who consider foreign affairs/national security as their #1 priority.
4)Sarah Palin calls for a no-fly zone around Libya 3 weeks before it is seriously considered by Obama and "Palin Doctrine" emerges
5)Sarah Palin writes a Facebook post on June 30, 2010 dissecting Obama's foreign policy
http://www.facebook.com.note.php?note_id=403777543434
6)Sarah Palin speaks in Hong Kong in Sept 2009
http://www.facebook.com/note.php?note_id+139069028434
7)"I can see Russia from my house" said by Tina Fey on SNL which Palin never uttered.
Instead in an interview with Charles Gibson she mentioned that from parts of Alaska you can see Russia in the distance (which is true).
8)From Cindy McCain to George Stephanopoulos Aug 31, 2008
Palin has national security experience because Alaska is in close proximity to Russia (paraphrased).
9)Sarah Palin didn't know Africa was a continent
Of course this is a lie. Alaska talked about Darfur several months before she was chosen by McCain. And the last time I checked Darfur was in the continent of Africa.
10)The Bush Doctrine
Ironically Charles K who coined the phrase defended Palin citing that there are several versions of the Bush Doctrine and Palin was quite correct in asking Charles Gibson which one he was referring to.
http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/08257/911872-109.stm?cmpid=news.xml
Krauthammer is a fawning RomneyBOT.
No one cares what the misogynist backstabbing ‘shrink’
for the malignant carpetbagger RomneyCARE “thinks”
about Madame President.
I find myself caring less and less what Krauthammer has to say about anything. The man is an eastern elitist ass.
I may be in a minority but in 2008 Sarah Palin was NOT as conversant in foreign affairs and national security issues as she is now. She has come a long, long way since then.
Main reason: Ironically, she did bone up and did study as CK suggested and simply got better.
Having said that Palin does not have to show her stuff until Jan 20, 2013, 22 month from now.
She can still get better and I know she will.
Why I despise the Left and Palin haters the most is they act like once a person is pigeonholed into a certain level of skill or knowledge that he or she cannot improve. That simply is anti-American and anti-human.
I wonder how many football teams feel that way about players they draft, that they will never improve over their time as a NFL player. If a football general manager paid millions of dollars a raw rookie and then in the next breath claimed he would never get better, he would be fired on the spot. That is how ridiculous this logic is.
That's one of the few areas in which we disagree (and I suspect you actually agree with me). Palin has to show before the first primary that she is conversant with all of the foreign and domestic policy issues under the president's purview. The good news there is that expectations among those who do not already support her are extremely low. If she gives a speech in which she indicates some basic knowledge of geography and history, any swing voters who showed up just for entertainment will be surprised and impressed. If she demonstrates leadership, vision, and most important a genuine knowledge of our interests in Asia, North Africa, Europe, and South America, an understanding of how our military works and its limitations, an understanding of economics deeper than Obama's pathetic appeal to Keynes and Marx, and intelligent patriotism, she will hit the ball out of the park. Voters who are expecting a Little League reject and instead see a Barry Bonds performance with no hint of steroids will feel like we do and flock to follow her as she restores constitutional government.
I was not referring to what comes out her of mouth but what she has to do when President.
Obviously she has to and will “show her stuff” on the campaign trail during the primaries but Rasmussen and Gallup already say she is #1 in the area of national security and foreign affairs.
And she will continue to bask in the afterglow of her visits to India and Israel.
I apologize for not making myself clearer.
Born February 11, 1964 (Meets the 35 years Minimum age Requirement)
in Sandpointe, ID (Meets the Jus Soli Requirement)
Parents were
Charles R Heath, born in ID
Sarah Sheeran, born in WI
Both parents were US Citizens at the time of her birth (Meets the Jus Sanguninis Requirement)
Sarah Palin is a NATURAL BORN CITIZEN unlike Comrade Barry.
I always give Krauthammer a pass. He’s my favorite political analyst on FOX. He always whacks Obama so eloquently.
Don’t forget. Sarah live from India, starts around 10AM EST.
Thanks for these threads Techno. I hope she does run. If nothing else she will help focus the debate on real priorities.
LLS
Go to the archives and watch krauthammer and fred barnes fellate obama on election night. He is a pos dim... registered as a dim... momma and daddy were dims... and he worked for carter and mondull, writing liberal leftist speeches... end of story.
LLS
Heh.You said “bone”
And that doctrine is what again?
To be fair, that is ALWAYS the knock on former governors, regardless of party, gender, state, etc. Our political system does not support such things, as state governors are limited to matters of trade with foreign nations. And only under the glaring eye of the federal gov’t. They can visit foreign countries, of course, but if it doesn’t involve state matters, such as trade, they are routinely lambasted by the press as wasting taxpayer resources.
If the nomination is romney, then bummer will win.
We’ve seen this crap all before.
You can’t out-democrat the democrats.
I plan on watching...I suspect there will be the traditional 'live thread'.
Has she said she’s running? I suspect she’s simply running interference for others who will. It’s working.
I would take the Palin critics more seriously if they would actually bring up an issue with which disagree with her. All I’ve heard and read from these people are snarky comments and insinuations that she’s not smart enough for the job. I think that’s their real objection. I have doubts about every candidate for high office, including Palin, but I weigh them against what I think are a particular canddate’s strong points. Palin has a lot of strong points. I know she has the backbone do the right things once she got elected.
He’s a Democrat who was a speechwriter for Walter Mondale and worked for Jimmy Carter. Look up his Wiki bio.
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