I'm glad to see she's dumping some of her advisors.
I didn't know Bill Kristol was one of Palin’s advisers. I thought he said `probably shouldn't be the Republican nominee for president`. Maybe you could provide a link to prove me wrong.
Posted on 05/03/2011 8:24:13 AM PDT by Hawk720
Sarah Palin has parted ways with the neoconservative foreign policy advisers who had been writing speeches and advising her on policy since she joined the McCain campaign.
An aide to Palin, Tim Crawford, confirmed that Orion Strategies' Randy Scheunemann and Michael Goldfarb are no longer working for her PAC. They parted, both sides said on good terms.
"Randy flat out said, 'We can't give you the time,'" Crawford said.
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Crawford said they've been replaced by Peter Schweizer, a writer and fellow at the Hoover Institution who blogs regularly at Andrew Breitbart's Big Peace.
The personnel shift carries an ideological charge. Scheunemann, the former executive director of the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, is a longtime neoconservative stalwart, as is Goldfarb, a former reporter and protege of Weekly Standard editor Bill Kristol. They crafted for Palin a policy platform and voice reflecting an eagerness to use American force. The pair, who helped Palin with press and debate prep in 2008, were also something of Palin's last link to Washington's political establishment.
But Palin parted ways with that aggressive internationalism in a speech yesterday, condemning U.S. involvement in Libya and laying out a more cautious philosophy of the use of force. Schweizer has articulated a more skeptical view of the use of American force and promotion of democracy abroad.
"Egypt does a lot of things wrong, but they have also been pro-American on a lot of levels," he wrote of Obama's support for protesters in Egypt -- which was being roundly criticized by neoconservatives for being insufficiently vigorous. "When protests broke out in Iran earlier during his tenure in the White House, Obama was not willing to openly back them, at least until he came under considerable fire. But now he is supporting them in Egypt?"
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Possibility they are fading away until election time.
One can hope that their policy will become as dead as Bin Laden. I doubt it though.
A very good move on the part of Palin.
Thank you for that pic, onyx. You know it always makes me smile. And good morning to you.
Excellent and necessary move on Sara’s part. I am all in favor of separating from neocons and returning to a more conservative foreign policy. Way to go Sara!
Apparently, you didn't read the rest of your own post - "The attack was carried out in response to the 1986 Berlin discotheque bombing."
The War Powers Resolution of 1973 (50 U.S.C. 1541-1548) is pretty unequivocal in its prohibitions of military use of force without Congressional authority, except in some very specific circumstances that reach the threshold of "a national emergency created by attack upon the United States, its territories or possessions, or its armed forces."
A contemporaneous retaliation for a bombing targeting Americans would EASILY fit within those legal confines, this action wouldn't. Obama should have gone to Congress first. It's not complicated.
"So yes i would place him as one of america’s most wanted."
And, if you were the keeper of the actual America's most wanted list, then your opinion would be persuasive. I'm assuming you aren't.
Kaddhaffi has never been on that list, and he certainly wasn't on that list in the last two months. There are NO American interests in Libya, and certainly no interests that were or are threatened by exigent circumstances. Unless there is an Congressional authorization of force, like there was and is for bin Laden and al Qaeda, this is an illegal action under US law.
I agree. Well said.
I'm glad to see she's dumping some of her advisors.
I didn't know Bill Kristol was one of Palin’s advisers. I thought he said `probably shouldn't be the Republican nominee for president`. Maybe you could provide a link to prove me wrong.
So one president makes an agreement, the next president comes along and treats it like toilet paper. And you wonder why the world has problem trusting the United States. And the wanted list BS would be a direct violation of the Bush agreement. But then return the money and we can put him on that list.
That's when I posted this great story (dying to do a repeat). Read on.
BACKSTORY "Hey Jude" was the longest single ever to top the British charts and spent nine weeks as number one in the US—the longest run at the top of the American charts for a Beatles' single, and tied the record for longest stay at #1 (until beaten by Debbie Boone's "You Light Up My Life"). The "Hey Jude" single has sold approximately eight million copies and is frequently included on professional lists of the all-time best songs.
"Hey Jude" is credited to Lennon/McCartney, a song Paul McCartney wrote to comfort John Lennon's son Julian (nicknamed Jude) during his parents' divorce. "Hey Jude" was released in August 1968 as the first single from The Beatles' label Apple Records.
One of the first business ventures made by The Beatles' fledgling Apple Corps, was The Apple Shop, a retail store that opened on 7 December 1967 in Marylebone, London, and closed on 30 June 1968--- The Apple shop was a financial disaster. Theft was endemic. Customers helped themselves to the stock as did hapless staff members. The liberal ethos of the venture and those operating it was antipathetic to making accusations of shop-lifting or of calling for the police.
At the end of August 1968, Paul McCartney used the windows of the closed Apple Boutique shop to advertise the Beatles first Apple Records single release, and had scraped the title, "Hey Jude" in the whitewash on the glass of the closed-up shop.
The PTB declared it to be anti-semitic graffiti-----'Jude' being German for 'Jew'......and they forced McCartney's graffiti to be removed.
ROTFLOL.
Phew---I'm glad indylindy did not start humming, "Hey Jude" when she made her neocon comments.
AntiJewish? There you go again. Most American Jews agree far more with me than they do with warmongers like Palin. By that slimy smear standard, the warmongers are the ones who are “Anti-Jewish”
It’s about time.
Paul and his ties to the antijewish fringe within the GOP is well known. deal with it.
” Phew-—I’m glad indylindy did not start humming, “Hey Jude” when she made her neocon comments. “
That of course, would be grounds for a public hanging ;-)
thanks for the link, she is doing an about face, and I say good for her. Never really understood why a good conservative like Sara would be in bed with the neocons, now she no longer is. Excellent.
” I didn’t know Bill Kristol was one of Palin’s advisers “
I can’t see why.....it has been posted here many times.
bush had many many flaws. Gaddifi being one of them. Bush should have kept the Reagan policy on Libya. Maybe then he wouoldn’t hav eleft office with less than 30% approval. Bush’s doctrine was a mishmash wothin a mishmash just like Obama’s. We attack Iraq but not Iran or Syria, we cozy up to Libya and China but not other enemies. Bush had no overriding policy and was trying to place a cold war ideaology fit into a terrorism model.
Personally I think 300 lives is worth more than $1.5 billion don’t you?
Hey SJB, my singing isn’t really all that bad. LOL
She’s as bloodthirsty as they come....though perhaps her dumping of the neocons indicates that she has had a “Jesus moment” on foreign policy. Anti-Jewish fringe? You should get together with Al Sharpton. Like him, you love to scream bigot when you run out of rational arguments.
ROFL....put the bong down. Palin “bloodthirsty” Oh man you don’t understand how stupid your post is.
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