Comments on: Defending Palin’s Foreign Policy Experience

By: gerryf

gerryf — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 08:30:38 +0000

I knew you wouldn’t let me down, J Harden….

By: Ed

Ed — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 02:51:03 +0000

Palin’s son is in the Army, not the National Guard. McCain really just says anything, truth be damned.

By: Gaucho Politico

Gaucho Politico — Fri, 19 Sep 2008 00:28:51 +0000

Barack Obama is on the senate foreign relations committee. So he has that. Plus being able to handle foriegn policy is not really about experience, it is about demonstrating competency. Palin has failed to demonstrate basic competency on the subject.

By: BenG

BenG — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:32:46 +0000

Justin,

You missed a quote from McCain on this point that I can’t believe hasn’t been talked about. McCain didn’t just say Mrs. Palin had: “Obvious knowledge of the energy security issue”. He actually had the audacity to say during an answer to a question about her qualification on National Security that she knows more about energy than anybody else in the country. I kid you not! Here’s the link:

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/fact-checker/2008/09/palin_on_energy.html

now if this doesn’t create a credibility gap- chasm- GRAND CANYON I don’t know what would!

By: J. Harden

J. Harden — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 22:04:45 +0000

Usually, a retort is “canned” because it has at, the very least, it has an element of truth to it, which in this case, it has a lot of Truth to it. You see that is why a retort can be “canned” to begin with, if the retort is false then its “canning” ability significantly impaired.

So…and how much foreign policy experience does Barrack Obama have? Queue uncanned (and thus nonsensical) lefty retort of a variety of meaningless hostilities in 3,2,1….

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:52:43 +0000

As long as it has to do with drilling right here right now, it will be substantive. There will be much talk of nuclear, but not much talk of storing waste–except in Nevada. Palin will talk about how Alaska provides 20% of the nation’s energy–a baldfaced lie. Some lip service about solar, more about ethanol, next to nothing on non-foodstuff based ethanol–ensuring higher food prices for another 4 years.

That plan and speech will be full of something, you bet.

By: ExiledIndependent

ExiledIndependent — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 21:31:19 +0000

(no retort required)

By: gerryf

gerryf — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 20:48:11 +0000

Queue the right’s canned retort that Obama has no more experience than Palin: 3….2….1….

By: Gaucho Politico

Gaucho Politico — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:42:27 +0000

wait i forgot the answer about going to war with Russia over Georgia or the Ukraine. We do know that much.

By: Gaucho Politico

Gaucho Politico — Thu, 18 Sep 2008 18:36:09 +0000

Is it a requirement to have been to another country to know how to deal with other countries? No. However, not having visited other countries may also speak to a more closed minded person not interested in broader culture or ideas different than their own. It is not absolute though.

I think a stronger attack on Palin should just be her total lack of any demonstration of her qualifications. She has not successfully answered a question on foriegn policy. After two weeks we still have no actual foriegn policy answers from her. Now we need more than that we need some economic answers from her too.

Her answer about what AIG does and whether or not we should bail them out was nonsense and people are still trying to figure out what she said. when you left to defend the indefensible you get crazy justifications.