Posted on 11/24/2010 5:15:55 PM PST by Retired Intelligence Officer
Sarah Palin never claimed she could see Russia from her house – that was Tina Fey – but she went one better on Glenn Beck's radio show in discussing the tensions in the Korean Peninsula and saying: "We've got to stand with our North Korean allies".
A transcript of the radio show reads:
Interviewer: How would you handle a situation like the one that just developed in North Korea?
Palin: Well, North Korea, this is stemming from a greater problem, when we're all sitting around asking, 'Oh no, what are we going to do,' and we're not having a lot of faith that the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is going to do. So this speaks to a bigger picture that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies – we're bound to by treaty....
Interviewer: South Korean.
Palin: Yes, and we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.
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With the understanding that she had meant South Korea, she was likely referring to the U.S.-ROK Mutual Defense Treaty. I haven't followed the Koreas to any great degree, but perhaps BobL could confirm this.
What’s with the immature insult of my intellect? I just happened to go outside and clean some ducks and geese (after I posted this thread) that my son killed this afternoon. You know, it’s called family bonding. We always make it a tradition to duck hunt over Thanksgiving. Just how many posts do I suppose to make per thread after creating one that would be satisfactory to your liking?
“I am confident that she knows the difference between north and south Korea, and I understand this was a slip of the tongue.
BUT, a President must mean what they say, and say what they mean....
The last thing you need is a President that has to be questioned if she really meant to say what she said in a time of crisis.
She gets a pass on this one, but we should make a note of it.”
-Too bad for gullible freepers who still trust the Lib media to report the truth, she had already identified the NorKs as the enemy eight seconds *before* the slip of the tongue...
“Who needs standards?”
The Constitution gives congress the power to “fix the Standard of Weights and Measures” But I’m not arguing for a federal response here. Alaska already has standards and the point is that they are really bad.
“Let each private school or private online school teach what it decides to and let each parent decide what he or she want their kids to learn.”
If you’re going to have a public school system and ask taxpayers to fund it, then you had better give them their money’s worth. And even if you think that a parent has the legal right to teach his kids that 2+2=3, you should still say that he is wrong.
Misspeaks happen. Typos happen. Good grief, I know I have made thousands here, alone. It’s not like we all have someone to proof read our comments. To make suggestions how this or that would sound better, or be more clear.
There is no doubt in my mind Sarah was focused on Bristol’s performance. Then she has all the interviews to do. People to see, places to go. All the while, take care of the kids, and then, somehow find time for herself and Todd. She has a right to be exhausted. But she keeps on moving as if she is as fresh as the new dawn. I find her “git her done” attitude, incredible.
But sometimes, exhaustion creeps up on you, regardless. Mix in sleep deprivation, and you have a recipe for disaster. Like the one she gave her critics in this interview.
Take a break Sarah Palin. You have earned it. You need to rest, then re-load, again.
How many posts about the human gaffes, Obama and Biden, have you made? Just wondering.
Please explain just how government is the solution to education problems?
You sure sound like a big government leftist to me...
Do you think before posting?
McCain was a complete media-whore and it got him exactly NOTHING in the final analysis with those people, and as soon as it becomes clear that Jim DeMint (or Marco Rubio, or Paul Ryan, or ...) has become the front runner he will get the Palin treatment in spades.
At that point, please don't come back here and try to defend whomever yerBoy is for the inevitable slip of the tongue that those bastards are going to jump on, because Palin is his proxy right now, and you ought to be defending her. It's not about the Kool Aid. It's about who is the enemy, and what they do to good people in every election, and it's time to stop excusing them by saying our candidates have to be better.
NO.
Journalism has to be better, and part of our electoral responsibility is to stop giving bad journalists a pass. What has been done to Sarah Palin is a mutha-effing outrage, and we have people on this thread who not only are not outraged by it, but who actually support it even on the basis of gruel as thin as this current non-story.
Please ask yourself one question: Where is "Retired Intelligence Officer?" He posted this non-article. He has ONE -- ONE (!) -- reply on this entire thread. One. How does it feel to be played, Bob?
Sure Ginrich can talk rings around her, Romney can talk a slick 20 minutes without mussing his hair and Huckabee can purse his dimples and speak with his bass, but Palin in a few words says more things of substance than the lot of them.
Pay closer attention and you will be enlightened
Sure Ginrich can talk rings around her, Romney can talk a slick 20 minutes without mussing his hair and Huckabee can purse his dimples and speak with his bass, but Palin in a few words says more things of substance than the lot of them.
Pay closer attention and you will be enlightened
EXACTLY!!!!
“Please explain just how government is the solution to education problems? “
Ask Sarah Palin. She’s the one who believes in government education.
Big friggin' deal...
I think Jim DeMint is great, too, but he's repeatedly said that he's not running for president. I have to take him at his word, given that he doesn't even have a whisper of any sort of campaign organization attached to him.
He's also late to the runway. Others are already climbing to cruising altitude, while he's still parked in the hangar. Simple analogy, but I think it makes my point.
Lastly, every Senator we've run as our nominee has failed, since I don't remember when. Republicans (and Americans in general) tend to get behind candidates who are former VPs, or those who have some sort of executive experience, i.e., ex-Governors.
Dems, on the other hand, seem to have a penchant for supporting non-executives and former Senators for president (Kennedy, Obama). Although they both won, neither Kennedy or Obama ran against an incumbent president, which is a much harder race to win. Kennedy barely beat ex-VP Nixon (and many would say he didn't), and Obama ran against another Senator.
Unless Obama isn't in the 2012 race for some reason, our nominee will have to unseat an incumbent president. Yes, his approval rating is sinking by the month, so that may not be as difficult as it sounds, but I doubt that the people are going to want to send another Senator with little to no executive experience to the White House.
Given that the presidency is the most important CEO position on earth, I believe the 2012 race will be a battle waged between ex-Governors.
YOU initiated the thread. If you aren't a troll please do tell us what the point was of posting a thesis you didn't intend to defend.
There should be no public school system. That is government running things which is socialism.Government/socialism doesn’t work.
Get government out of education and out of the economy. There should be no tax payer funding of education. Capitalism which is private property, which is the free market, works.
It has been the government schools and the liberal media that have brainwashed and misinformed most people.
I asked YOU -you posted the assertion that government should have done something.
You do not have to defend your posted assertion -being spineless protagonist is quite okay -leftists have mastered the technique...
” The free market works. Government/socialism doesn’t.
EXACTLY!!!! “
Thanks! Only on this forum do I find people that can agree with me on that. It’s a great feeling. Gives one hope.
It seems to work for you though, why is that?
If I had my way, there would be no government school system, period.
But if we’re going to have government schools then government has the responsibility to take care of the mess. You can’t be for all these government goodies and then bring up all sorts of libertarian arguments when the taxpayers want conditions attached.
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