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PALIN MOCKED IN 2008 FOR WARNING PUTIN MAY INVADE UKRAINE IF OBAMA ELECTED
Breitbart ^ | Feb 28, 2014 | By Tony Lee

Posted on 02/28/2014 1:52:52 PM PST by Jim Robinson

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his "indecision" and "moral equivalence" may encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Palin said then:

"After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next."

For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.

In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into its neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.

Hounshell wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is an extremely far-fetched scenario." "And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine's pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell dismissively wrote.

Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obama's running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to "gird your loins" if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him.

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


TOPICS: Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; Russia; US: Alaska
KEYWORDS: 2016; alaska; crimea; europeanunion; nato; obama; palin; putin; russia; sarah; sarahpalin; ukraine
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To: Jim Robinson

81 posted on 02/28/2014 3:18:51 PM PST by Liberty Valance (Keep a simple manner for a happy life :o)
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To: Jim Robinson

Blake Hounshell
@blakehounshell
Deputy editor, POLITICO magazine, formerly at Foreign Policy. Mostly international, some politics. RT means it’s interesting. bhounshell[at]politico
Washington

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell

Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) tweeted at 2:34pm - 28 Feb 14:

remember when Blake made fun of Palin for saying Russia might invade Ukraine? @blakehounshell blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/10/… @JammieWF (https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/439498859090550785)

John C.B. LaRue (@jcblarue) tweeted at 2:36pm - 28 Feb 14:

@RichardGrenell @blakehounshell @JammieWF sucks when your incorrectness is documented on the interwebs!

(https://twitter.com/jcblarue/status/439499262066692096)

Brian D Brown (@briandb03) tweeted at 3:12pm - 28 Feb 14:

@RichardGrenell @blakehounshell @JammieWF @SarahPalinUSA
U gotta love the condescending line “this is an extremely far-fetched

scenario.” (https://twitter.com/briandb03/status/439508327333376000)


82 posted on 02/28/2014 3:20:12 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Jim Robinson

Oh, oh. Now bammy will blame Sarah for the Russian invasion.


83 posted on 02/28/2014 3:20:32 PM PST by freeangel ( (free speech is only good until someone else doesn't like it)
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To: Jim Robinson

Perhaps the leftists who were wrong about Palin’s expertise should read a book sometime, or a newspaper!


84 posted on 02/28/2014 3:21:44 PM PST by CountryClassSF
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To: Jim Robinson

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 5:21pm - 28 Feb 14:

Yes, Twitter, Sarah Palin totally called this exact Ukraine scenario 6 years ago…. (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439540945626095616)

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell


85 posted on 02/28/2014 3:22:53 PM PST by kcvl
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To: kcvl

There should be a study done to determine if the PDS in the media causes the inability to admit error or if the opposite is true.

But I could save them the time and money as the answer is obvious. Plenty of the GOP and it’s sycophants share the disease so a cure would be universally beneficial.


86 posted on 02/28/2014 3:23:03 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jim Robinson
Wow!

87 posted on 02/28/2014 3:23:06 PM PST by McGruff (Every night has it's dawn.)
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To: Norm Lenhart

If I remember my history, Russia has been invaded many times. In recent history, Napoleon tried to conquer Russia and failed. Hitler invaded Russia to take their oil and enslave their people, and failed. But Obama is a military genius. He can waltz in under the gay rainbow/unicorn flag and they’ll all die laughing.


88 posted on 02/28/2014 3:23:23 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Resistance to tyrants is obedience to God!!)
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To: Extremely Extreme Extremist
it's photoshop... but the difference between man and boy is real
89 posted on 02/28/2014 3:24:58 PM PST by Chode (Stand UP and Be Counted, or line up and be numbered - *DTOM* -vvv- NO Pity for the LAZY - 86-44)
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To: VerySadAmerican

The U.S. Military Budget Is Bigger Than the 10 Next Biggest Military Budgets Combined

http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/26/the-us-military-budget-is-bigger-than-th

We do, but can no longer afford to police the whole world.


90 posted on 02/28/2014 3:25:36 PM PST by TurboZamboni (Marx smelled bad and lived with his parents .)
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To: Jim Robinson

I’m kinda shocked. Don’t you realize that all those times the wrong people were in charge? CLEARLY we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for!

;)


91 posted on 02/28/2014 3:25:54 PM PST by Norm Lenhart
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To: Jim Robinson
Hounshell wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is an extremely far-fetched scenario." "And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine's pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell dismissively wrote.

Hmm. Wonder if he'd like to reconsider that statement, in light of this week's events.
Nah, probably not. He'd probably prefer to eat nails rather than admit that Sarah Palin MIGHT have been right.

92 posted on 02/28/2014 3:28:15 PM PST by SuziQ
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To: Norm Lenhart

Blake Hounshell likes to mock things he doesn’t understand (& gets his ass kicked EVERY TIME!)

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 7:49pm - 27 Feb 14:

So this is going to be on Fox News tomorrow, I’d wager bigstory.ap.org/article/court-… (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439215759043334144)

Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) tweeted at 7:52pm - 27 Feb 14:

@blakehounshell as it should. The American flag incites violence? Ummm, this is America. (https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/439216504404316160)

Jimmy Simpson (@informedblackmn) tweeted at 8:14pm - 27 Feb 14:

@blakehounshell What does that say about you then? Why isn’t a stupid policy that caters to American haters on your radar?

(https://twitter.com/informedblackmn/status/439222094304268288)


93 posted on 02/28/2014 3:31:12 PM PST by kcvl
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To: Jim Robinson

and they’ll all die laughing.


lol


94 posted on 02/28/2014 3:33:18 PM PST by txhurl (Young the Giant, 'It's About Time')
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To: freeangel

blamey....his name is blamey, not bammy ;)


95 posted on 02/28/2014 3:35:29 PM PST by Jane Long (While Marxists continue the fundamental transformation of the USA, progressive RINOs assist!)
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To: Jim Robinson

Never fear—Obama will bring his magic fairy dust with him.


96 posted on 02/28/2014 3:36:48 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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To: miserare

John Kerry has everything under control!

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 1:14pm - 27 Feb 14:

Hope he got that in writing. RT @WSJbreakingnews Kerry says Russia pledges to respect Ukraine territories. wsj.com (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439116286652866560)

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell


97 posted on 02/28/2014 3:38:03 PM PST by kcvl
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To: McGruff

98 posted on 02/28/2014 3:38:07 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: McGruff

99 posted on 02/28/2014 3:38:08 PM PST by 4Liberty (Optimal institutions - optimal economy.)
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To: Liberty Valance

“...and that gal shooting the moose looks pretty darn good!”


100 posted on 02/28/2014 3:38:17 PM PST by miserare (2014--The Year We Fight Back!)
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