Well you are entitled to your opinion, but I don’t agree with you at all. I don’t THINK we’re in trouble, I know we are. Ya’ll can beat me up here we need someone with a lot more int’l experience than Sarah Palin. She was a great govenor because she grew up there and new the players and could get her agenda done.
She doesn’t know all the players on the world stage and she’s gonna have a big problem with being sexually harassed and if she doesn’t go with it - guess what? They’ll get their revenge on America.
That has to be one of the top three most absurd statements I've seen in my twelve years as a FReeper...
Is that Chicago Winter already getting to you?
Just wondering...
Who was the last President "with a lot of international experience"?
Was it Sen. Barack Obama, Illinois State Senator?
Was it George W. Bush, governor of Texas?
Was it Bill Clinton, governor of Arkansas?
Probably, it was George H.W. Bush, past Vice-President, CIA Director and oil businessman.
Before that, was it Ronald Reagan, governor of California?
Was it Jimmy Carter, governor of Georgia?
Was it Gerald Ford?
How about Richard Nixon, another past VP?
Fact is, we could go on-and-on. Because we tend to favor governors for the Presidency, we also tend to choose people without a lot of international experience.
Even those Senators who have served on the Foreign Relations committee can't be said to have "a lot of international experience"...beyond junketing. Would you call John Kerry and Joe Biden foreign affairs mavens?
Accordingly, a lack of international experience isn't a disqualifier for the position of President of the USA. Almost none of our Presidents can be said to have had "a lot of international experience".
Ironically, though, as governor of Texas, George W. Bush was one of our most experienced Presidents in international affairs. He had direct relations with the government of Mexico.
And, similarly, Sarah Palin also has successful experience in negotiating with a foreign power -- Canada. She's got a helluva lot more international experience right now than Barack Obama had when he became President. Or Bill Clinton -- whose only international experience was being booted out of Oxford and asked to leave the UK.
"International experience" seems like it should be important. But it's not. And it's a straw man argument when it comes to picking a President.
We had a President through the Great Depression and WW2 in a wheelchair.
Do you think he knew everything there was to know about the world when he took office ? He didn’t want anything to do with the war in Europe and it was NOT on his mind when he won is 32. I am sure he never dreamed about being a war President.
Lets hold Sarah Palin to the same standard that we held for past Presidents. If men were held to that same standard, Bill Clinton, Barack Obama, and John F. Kennedy would have never won an election.