Posted on 09/23/2008 3:39:20 PM PDT by WilliamReading
NEW YORK - Sarah Palin met her first world leaders Tuesday. ADVERTISEMENT
It was a tightly controlled crash course on foreign policy for the Republican vice presidential candidate, the mayor-turned-governor who has been outside North America just once.
Palin sat down with Afghan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. The conversations were private, the pictures public, meant to build her resume for voters concerned about her lack of experience in world affairs.
"I found her quite a capable woman," Karzai said later. "She asked the right questions on Afghanistan."
The self-described "hockey mom" also asked former Secretary of State Henry Kissinger for insights on Georgia, Russia, China and Iran, and she'll see more leaders Wednesday on the sidelines of the United Nations General Assembly meetings.
It was shuttle diplomacy, New York-style. At several points, Palin's motorcade got stuck in traffic and New Yorkers, unimpressed with the flashing lights, sirens and police officers in her group, simply walked between the vehicles to get across the street. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, three hours behind Palin in seeing Karzai, found herself overshadowed for a day as she made her own rounds.
John McCain's presidential campaign has shielded the first-term Alaska governor for weeks from spontaneous questions from voters and reporters, and went to striking lengths Tuesday to maintain that distance as Palin made her diplomatic debut.
The GOP campaign, applying more restrictive rules on access than even President Bush uses in the White House, banned reporters from the start of the meetings, so as not to risk a question being asked of Palin.
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What media bias?
News?
Reads like a Leftitorial.
Full of the usual, transparent journalistic dirty tricks.
Sour grapes ALERT!
This is about the most biased and insulting article about Sarah Palin yet, from one of her “sisters” in the Main Stream Media.
Karzai generated light laughter when he told an audience at the Asia Society that, in addition to Rice and Norway’s prime minister, he had seen Palin on Tuesday. Thomas Freston, a member of the society’s board, drew loud applause and laughter when he responded: “You’re probably the only person in the room who’s met Gov. Palin.”
Stopped reading right there.
blah blah blah...blah blah
They keep digging their unholy alliance hole deeper.
The polls over the last week or so have been troubling with McCain-Palin trending down from their post Convention peek. The Campaign needs to get Sarah more exposure, more TV interviews and town hall meeting if they want to reverse the current trend.
Does anyone have Kugler’s email address? or somewhere we can complain?
Sara Kugler (Associated Press writer) political campaign contributions link...
http://www.newsmeat.com/fec/bystate_detail.php?zip=10014&last=Kugler&first=Sara
From Wikipedia: America Coming Together (ACT) was a liberal, political action, 527 group dedicated to get-out-the-vote activities. ACT did not specifically endorse any political party, but mostly worked on behalf of Democratic candidates. It was the largest 527 group in 2004 and was planning to be involved in future races. The group was primarily funded by Peter Lewis, GEORGE SOROS, and labor unions, especially the Service Employees International Union, and was led by Steve Rosenthal, a former political director of the AFL-CIO.
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
vs.
Obama, Street-Organizer turned Senator who never has been South of the American Border.
Gee, I didn’t notice such condescension when Obama went on his whirlwind Foreign Policy Intern Tour to the Middle East and Europe. Now Sarah Palin can mark her checklist off on meeting foreign leaders. She is now even with Obama on foreign policy experience.
They are going to reach a fork in the road after this election. They can either go down a path to nothingness or they will try to be fair journalists.
There is no 2 lane option anymore.
The American people have figured them out.
Did you see the Rasmussen polls and the battleground poll ?
She is getting plenty of exposure and I bet her Oct 2 debate with Biden gets the highest audience rating of any VP debate in history, and perhaps any Presidential debate. When you have a superstar, you carefully orchestrate her appearances. Drawing 60,000 at her rally at the The Villages in Fl is an indication that her star power has not faded. Her interview with Hannity set records and the Couric interview over two days is upcoming.
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