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Palin adviser worked for foreign governments
Toronto Sun ^ | 10/4/10 | Mark Hosenball

Posted on 10/04/2010 6:24:19 PM PDT by pissant

WASHINGTON - Sarah Palin, seen as a possible Republican presidential candidate, has paid tens of thousands of dollars for foreign policy advice to a U.S. firm that represents three overseas governments, campaign finance documents show.

While legal, the adviser’s work as an agent for other countries raises questions about whether Palin is receiving impartial information about foreign relations and could be become a subject of debate if she runs for president or another elected office.

Financial reports filed by the former Alaska governor’s fundraising committee known as SarahPAC, show that between December 2009 and the end of May 2010, it made seven payments to Orion Strategies.

The firm is a Washington consulting firm founded and led by Randy Scheunemann, a lobbyist who served as a senior foreign policy adviser to John McCain in his 2008 U.S. presidential bid and to Palin when she became McCain’s Republican running mate.

Controversy over campaign advisers who work as lobbyists for foreign or domestic interests can often blight national political campaigns. At least five of McCain’s aides quit his presidential campaign because of their lobbying activities.

(Excerpt) Read more at torontosun.com ...


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KEYWORDS: advisers; foreignpolicy; johnmccain; nationalgreatness; neocons; orionstrategies; palin; palinisproamnesty; randyscheunemann; sarahpalin; scheunemann
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To: pissant
blaming Obama for helping to kill his amnesty bill

You lie.

81 posted on 10/04/2010 7:40:07 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: SaraJohnson
Who advised Obama on American policies?

"So if Obammy did it, it’s okay for Palin to do it? You are an ethical mess."

It's called sarcasm. Obama needed a foreign policy adviser for the US Get it? Think before you shoot from the lip. And especially before you call ANTBODY a mess.

82 posted on 10/04/2010 7:40:18 PM PDT by jessduntno (9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
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To: SaraJohnson
Who advised Obama on American policies?

"So if Obammy did it, it’s okay for Palin to do it? You are an ethical mess."

It's called sarcasm. Obama needed a foreign policy adviser for the US Get it? Think before you shoot from the lip. And especially before you call ANYBODY a mess.

83 posted on 10/04/2010 7:41:21 PM PDT by jessduntno (9/24/10, FBI raids home of appropriately named AAAN leader Hatem Abudayyeh, a friend of Obama.)
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To: piytar

Only one reason she would do that.

SHE’S GONNA RUN!


84 posted on 10/04/2010 7:42:54 PM PDT by Freddd (CNN is down to Three Hundred Thousand viewers. But they worked for it.)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

Arguing with cultists is like stealing candy from a baby.

http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=75654


85 posted on 10/04/2010 7:43:54 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant
World Nut Daily???

You are stupid too.

86 posted on 10/04/2010 7:44:42 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: pissant
Pissant sandwich
Twisted truth between two slices of lies.
87 posted on 10/04/2010 7:45:58 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: pissant
How do you solve the illegal alien problem easily at once..
MAKE THEM LEGAL..

Thats what amnesty does.. teenage girl logic..
Legalize millions of brand new democrats..
Was GW Bush logic too... cheap answers..

Sarah Palin does seem to be having trouble getting the stink of John McQueeq off her..
I like the girl but hoo boy... shes ripe... on this issue..

88 posted on 10/04/2010 7:46:11 PM PDT by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole....)
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To: Jean S; pissant

I hope you know better yhan be lead a stray by pissant.


This is from a transcript of Sarah on Greta.

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,592942,00.html

VAN SUSTEREN: All right, now, I know that your past as governor of Alaska didn’t — was not the same time that Governor Jan Brewer of Arizona has gotten into office, but I assume that sort of governor to governor...
PALIN: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: What’s your thought on the heat that she’s taking over this statute?
PALIN: I’m proud of Jan Brewer for standing up for the constituents in her state, sending a message to Washington, sending a message to President Obama saying, Hey, you need to do your job, sir. And if you’re not going to do it, OK, then we are compelled to do the job for you until you get it right.
President Obama has been suspiciously silent on this issue, hasn’t he? We don’t even know where he stands on immigration reform or securing our borders. He doesn’t talk about it. He gets to punt on that one. And that’s unfortunate because this is a big issue. It’s all about national security. It’s about our sister border states that are inundated with violence and with crime because people illegally crossing the border, engaging in illegal activities for too long now. And some of these border states are saying, Now we’ve had enough. I admire Jan Brewer for taking a stand.
VAN SUSTEREN: Why do you think — I mean, for 20-some years, maybe even longer, even going back to President Reagan — everyone has always said, We’re going to secure the borders.
PALIN: Yes.
VAN SUSTEREN: Nobody has done anything. I mean, or almost nothing.
PALIN: Because they’ve made it political and they haven’t understood that unsecure borders isn’t fair to anybody. It’s not fair to American citizens who ware here legally, paying taxes, following the rules, doing all the things that an American citizen is expected to do. It’s not fair to them. But it’s not fair to the illegal aliens, either, here. They want to come pursue an American dream. Some of them do want to be here to work. But they’re forever going to have to hide because, you know, government’s going to crack down on them when (INAUDIBLE)
So they need to follow that path of legal citizenship, obviously. But these politicians, presidents in the past who have not secured the border, they’ve made it a political issue. They haven’t wanted to tick off a potential base of Hispanic voters, so they haven’t made the tough decisions. And that’s no way to solve the problem. That’s no way to solve any challenge in America, by ducking and hiding and creating division and making these partisan issues out of it.
(END VIDEOTAPE)
VAN SUSTEREN: Well, we have still more with Governor Sarah Palin. Governor Palin is blunt about what she would do about illegal immigration. She’s going to tell you.

VAN SUSTEREN: Continuing with former governor Sarah Palin on illegal immigration.

VAN SUSTEREN: Both parties have made promises. I mean, we pull up sound bites where, you know, both sides, you know, Democrat, Republicans, say, you know, Secure the border, secure the border. And then once in office, we certainly don’t see a whole lot of action. Had the election gone another way, or even if you were president, what would you do about immigration?
PALIN: The very first thing is literally secure the border!
VAN SUSTEREN: How?
PALIN: People mock the idea of a fence. What’s wrong with building a fence? Yes, let’s physically secure the border. Let’s ramp up border control. Let’s provide the tools for those who are putting their lives on the line in order to stop illegal immigration of these aliens. Those are a couple of things.
And then you don’t start talking about amnesty, either, kind of as this last-minute, Oh, anybody who’s here in the country right now, we’re going to provide you amnesty, and even though you’ve broken the law and we are a nation of laws, you’ve broken that, we’ll still give you — because then there’s going to be a huge influx of those wanting kind of at the last minute to come over the border because they know that they will forever then receive that amnesty.
So you don’t start talking about that, but the very first thing you do is physically, literally secure those borders. It baffles me and most Americans why for all these years presidents, administrations have spoken about it but never done it.


89 posted on 10/04/2010 7:47:44 PM PDT by Clyde5445 (Gov. Sarah Palin: :"You have to sacrifice to win. That's my philosophy in 6 words.")
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To: Allegra

Found a hole in my sock the other day when I was eating a banana.


90 posted on 10/04/2010 7:47:59 PM PDT by CAluvdubya ("Sarah Palin fights, we cannot spare her."--GonzoGOP)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

They translated the ad for you. Of course, they aren’t the only ones who covered it. Freepers were on it as well. As was the MSM.

http://www.mcclatchydc.com/2008/09/12/52363/out-of-bounds-mccain-palin-misdirect.html

http://www.standardnewswire.com/news/455133336.html

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2008/09/mccain-revives-immigration-deb.html


91 posted on 10/04/2010 7:50:22 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant; Solitar

New York City’s Naked Cowboy!


92 posted on 10/04/2010 7:51:12 PM PDT by okiejag
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To: Clyde5445
More proof of her amnesty leanings. I'd hate for you to be my defense lawyer.
93 posted on 10/04/2010 7:52:58 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: Jean S
Your point is well taken except that no one takes pissant seriously on FR since he started is vendetta against Palin.

Isn't that the truth! He's the resident jester.

94 posted on 10/04/2010 7:52:58 PM PDT by CAluvdubya ("Sarah Palin fights, we cannot spare her."--GonzoGOP)
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To: okiejag

Damn! I forgot about him.


95 posted on 10/04/2010 7:53:33 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

No amnesty mentioned in the article. You lie.


96 posted on 10/04/2010 7:55:12 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

You really are a mental midget.


97 posted on 10/04/2010 7:56:48 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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To: pissant

And you are a liar.


98 posted on 10/04/2010 7:57:21 PM PDT by gov_bean_ counter (Sarah Palin - For such a time as this...)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

-—”No amnesty mentioned in the article. You lie.”-—

He’s got her confused with Mike Pence. LOL (see tagline)


99 posted on 10/04/2010 7:58:48 PM PDT by TitansAFC ("Mike Pence's Amnesty plan is the '86 Amnesty with a trip home tacked on." - The Heritage Foundation)
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To: gov_bean_ counter

WTF did you think McCain-Kennedy was? Why the hell did we melt down the phone lines and to the congress and senate and kill it dead? Was it because it WASN’T AMNESTY?????

Where the hell were you, ace?


100 posted on 10/04/2010 7:59:02 PM PDT by pissant (THE Conservative party: www.falconparty.com)
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