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November 12, 2013, 03:25 pm Palin: Clinton was right, Obama 'not qualified' By Rebecca Shabad Sarah Palin says former President Bill Clinton’s statements from 2008 about President Obama not being ready for the White House were on the mark. In an interview to air Tuesday on CNN’s “The Lead with Jake Tapper," Palin recalled statements Bill Clinton made when Hillary Clinton was campaigning against Obama during the 2008 primary season. "I'll never forget Bill Clinton saying about Barack Obama and his story, his agenda, that it was the biggest fairy tale he'd ever seen," Palin said during the CNN interview....

Obama Was Willing to Lose in Iraq A president cannot treat a war as if it's a game. by Robert McFarlane. Wall Street Journal, 10/03/08 A profoundly important point is being missed in the campaign debate over which candidate was right on Iraq. In 2006, when conditions on the ground were trending downward and a decision was required either to continue the struggle or to cut our losses, Barack Obama stated that the proposed deployment of more forces, the "surge," was doomed to failure and instead called for a phased withdrawal of all forces within a defined period. In short,...

WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president. "She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."