Sarah Palin Bad Mouths US Policy while on Foreign Soil

[ploto]

Wonder if the same people will Dixie Chick her?

[coyotes_geek]

So?

[boutons_deux]

Inhofe/Oklahoma is taking a team to Copenhagen to undermine the US position on climate.

[symple19]

They need to dig a big hole, fill it with explosives, light the fuse, and throw her in...Please

[SpurNation]

Link. What was said?

[spursncowboys]

Did she go to the UN and side with dictators and communists?

[mookie2001]

too bad shes not old enough to be photoshopped with hanoi jane

[ChumpDumper]

Did she go to the UN and side with dictators and communists?Could you be more specific about that?

[SouthernFried]

Is she undermining the war effort?

[SouthernFried]

Inhofe/Oklahoma is taking a team to Copenhagen to undermine the US position on climate.

lol

[exstatic]

:lol They were interviewing attendees as they left, and one of them said that she talked until 10 minutes were left of the time, and then some canned pre-arranged questions were asked by the moderator, and that it was pretty obvious she didn't want live questions from the audience.

[DarrinS]

Inhofe/Oklahoma is taking a team to Copenhagen to undermine the US position on climate.


Current climate trends are doing more to undermine AGW than anything Inhofe can come up with.

Damn sun just won't cooperate.

[DarrinS]

Did she go to the UN and side with dictators and communists?

:lol

[DarrinS]

She's got nothing on Obama. Even David Frum was put off by his UN speech.





Increasingly, Barack Obama's speaking style inspires a reaction borrowed from the narrator of the Raymond Chandler novel The Long Goodbye: "You talk too damn much, and too damn much of it is about you." Of the first seven sentences Obama delivered to the United Nations General Assembly on Wednesday, the presidential "I" was the subject or direct object of five.

Like a State of the Union address, a presidential speech to the U.N. General Assembly is difficult to do well. Too many interests clamor and compete for their share of a finite amount of time. The main themes are in danger of disappearing as aides and agencies press for a mention of global financial architecture or climate change—and don't forget our friends in Latin America!

Even granting the difficulties, however, President Obama's UNGA address was alarming.

The continued flow of criticisms of the previous administration and Obama's apologies for the actions of the United States are becoming more than unseemly. The president observed, "I came to office at a time when many around the world had come to view America with skepticism and distrust." He allowed that "part" of this feeling about the U.S. was due to "misperceptions and misinformation." But apparently another part was a justified—or at least justifiable—response to American actions, or so he invited his audience to infer.

True, the president declared, "I will never apologize for defending the interests of the United States." But he then proceeded to say: "In Iraq, we are responsibly ending a war. We have removed American combat brigades from Iraqi cities, and set a deadline of next August to remove all our combat brigades from Iraqi territory." Those words suggest that U.S. troops were the cause of prolonging the internecine conflict in Iraq—rather than the solution.

The president seems to hold a fixed view that he can mitigate anti-American feeling by conceding the truth of what the anti-Americans say.

Less obnoxious, but more threatening to his administration's hopes for foreign policy success, is the commitment he has once again issued to deeply re-engage himself personally in the Israeli-Palestinian issue.

Compare these adjoining sentences:

"And in countries ravaged by violence—from Haiti to Congo to East Timor—we will work with the U.N. and other partners to support an enduring peace. I will also continue to seek a just and lasting peace between Israel, Palestine, and the Arab world." Haiti, Congo, and East Timor are to be concerns for his administration and the world generally, but Israel is to be a responsibility for the president personally: that inescapable presidential "I." A president has the same number of hours in a day as any other man, and a promise to do something himself is necessarily a warning that other things will be left undone.

Afghanistan—where an American-led coalition is fighting a shooting war—received only two mentions in the speech, but Palestinians and their concerns rated 13. Now, this astounding discrepancy in attention may reveal nothing more than an artful and insincere presidential nod toward other people's pieties, in this case those of Europeans and the Arab states. But there's a worrisome possibility that the president actually means what he says—and that he is about to pour hundreds of hours of his time into the job of cajoling the Palestinians to accept the deal they violently rejected eight years ago.

Maybe Obama has some private reason to expect greater success this time. More likely, though, he is just doubling down on Clinton's bad bet, thinking that Clinton failed because he waited until the end of his presidency, while he will succeed by starting near the beginning. Obama seems inspired above all by his grand, unlimited, vaulting self-confidence.

This president is an impressive man. But it's not reassuring that he seems even more impressed with himself than others are with him. At least with previous presidents, hubris followed some prior, ego-inflating triumph. Obama seems to be exhibiting all the symptoms with none of the initial success that normally induces the disease.

[Shastafarian]

She's got nothing on Obama. Even David Frum was put off by his UN speech.

:rollin

[nuclearfm]

They need to dig a big hole, fill it with explosives, light the fuse, and throw her in...Please

She'll survive that. You can't kill evil that way.

[George Gervin's Afro]

wait? she took pre-arranged questions? I seem to remember there was fake outrage recently about this same issue..

[CosmicCowboy]

I am continually amazed at how much you guys fear this woman.

[George Gervin's Afro]

I am continually amazed at how much you guys fear this woman.

I don't fear her at all..in fact I'd love to do her!

[johnsmith]

I fear her, because if this is the best that my party can come up with, we are fucked.

[hater]

I don't think anyone fears that chick. some ppl like her, some ppl wanna do her, some ppl hate her and some ppl like me, find her amusing. Kinda the way you find a retard amusing.

I would not mind her being president. It would be comedic gold and it would last 4 years. Maybe even moreso than Bush. Yeah, the country will be in shit, but it has been already for years.

[nuclearfm]

I don't think anyone fears that chick. some ppl like her, some ppl wanna do her, some ppl hate her and some ppl like me, find her amusing. Kinda the way you find a retard amusing.

I would not mind her being president. It would be comedic gold and it would last 4 years. Maybe even moreso than Bush. Yeah, the country will be in shit, but it has been already for years.
:lol....

....

....

:depressed

[spursncowboys]

I fear her, because if this is the best that my party can come up with, we are fucked.I'd take her over McCain.

[hater]

don't be so down.

might as well enjoy the last few years of the US "empire" with a laugh in your face.

[Winehole23]

I fear her, because if this is the best that my party can come up with, we are fucked.There are better candidates in the GOP. The question is whether they can beat Palin.

Given Palin's impromptu style of self-presentation, her thin skin, her poor grasp of national policy and inability to think on her feet, I tend to think she'll get torn to pieces in a wide-open party primary.

OTOH, given the preponderance of lizard brains in the party base, attacking Palin from the right may excite a wave of paternalistic rage. What's scary isn't Palin so much as her inchoate, unreflective base of support. For the most part, Palin's supporters are even more inarticulate and *intuitive* than she is.

I wonder whether having been a VP nominee last year is enough to sustain talk circuit bux for Palin. I'm hoping she's just out for herself. I'd just hate it if she felt called to higher office.

I think she's bad for the GOP. Like last year, she'll galvanize the base while driving away independents and party moderates who trust her even less, now that she's a proven quitter.

[ChumpDumper]

Treason!

She's undermining the war effort!

[Cry Havoc]

I'd take her over McCain.

:wow

Wow.

The fact that Sarah Palin is taken seriously as a possible contender for the presidency in 2012 is proof why the Republican party as it stands today is a complete and total farce of itself. This is coming from someone who used to be as much of a Republican as possible.

[CosmicCowboy]

Personally I hope that Palin doesn't run for President and even worse, get the nomination. I think she is a very nice person and hasn't deserved the unabashed hatred she has been subject to but I think she is simply unqualified to be President and would be a bad one...just like Obama.

[BacktoBasics]

I am continually amazed at how much you guys fear this woman.The isn't her specifically its that people...people with power give her credibility.

[BacktoBasics]

Personally I hope that Palin doesn't run for President and even worse, get the nomination. I think she is a very nice person and hasn't deserved the unabashed hatred she has been subject to but I think she is simply unqualified to be President and would be a bad one...just like Obama.You're turning into Rush.

[ChumpDumper]

The isn't her specifically its that people...people with power give her credibility.Somebody paid her to speak against US policy in communist China.

[Winehole23]

Somebody paid her to speak against US policy in communist China.Financial experts. :lol

[spursncowboys]

Palin did a good job in Alaska. She was a libertarian more than Conservative, or Bible thumper. She had more job experience than BHO, then again the guy working at McD's has more experience with working than him. Also she got elected and actually did something besides campaign.

[Wild Cobra]

Sarah Palin Bad Mouths US Policy while on Foreign Soil

Wonder if the same people will Dixie Chick her?
I haven't yet seen what she said. You going to link it?

Without any keyword quotes, I only find something from January, and the Spurstalk link.

Are you making this up?

[Shastafarian]

Palin did a good job in Alaska. She was a libertarian more than Conservative, or Bible thumper.

Can you say someone did a good job when they didn't even complete that job? She's a quitter.

[Shastafarian]

Here's one link. I'm sure there are more.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/09/palin-goes-to-china.html?yrail

[George Gervin's Afro]

Palin did a good job in Alaska. She was a libertarian more than Conservative, or Bible thumper. She had more job experience than BHO, then again the guy working at McD's has more experience with working than him. Also she got elected and actually did something besides campaign.

job experience? what is the experience requirement for being president?

[Wild Cobra]

Here's one link. I'm sure there are more.

http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/evanosnos/2009/09/palin-goes-to-china.html?yrail

OK, I must be dense.

Just how does that fit the thread title?

[Shastafarian]

OK, I must be dense.You said it, not me


Just how does that fit the thread title?
It references the speech in question. I found it in 10 seconds on google. I'm sure if you're really curious you can find more excerpts.

[Wild Cobra]

You said it, not me


It references the speech in question. I found it in 10 seconds on google. I'm sure if you're really curious you can find more excerpts.
Oh, but I'm not the one that claimed the "bad-mouthed" US policy of forigh soil. Neither were you, but you are acting as if you agree, so please, show me a link. I didn't find any related to the thread title during my search.

Put up of shut up.

[Shastafarian]

Oh, but I'm not the one that claimed the "bad-mouthed" US policy of forigh soil. Neither were you, but you are acting as if you agree, so please, show me a link. I didn't find any related to the thread title during my search.

Put up of shut up.

How was I acting as if I agreed?

[SouthernFried]

There are better candidates in the DEMOCRATIC PARTY.

What's scary isn't OBAMA so much as his inchoate, unreflective base of support. For the most part, OBAMA supporters are even more inarticulate and *intuitive* than he is.

I think he's bad for the DEMOCRATIC PARTY. he'll galvanize the base while driving away independents and party moderates who trust him even less.

fixed...and more appropriate.

[Winehole23]

Obama may be a lot of things, but inarticulate isn't one of them.

That said, he could turn out to be a heavy, heavy millstone for the Dems in 2012 if the economy and the war in Afghanistan don't come around.

[hater]

Obama may be a lot of things, but inarticulate isn't one of them.

That said, he could turn out to be a heavy, heavy millstone for the Dems in 2012 if the economy and the war in Afghanistan don't come around.

well I can guarantee you right now neither the economy nor the war in afghanistan will come around. how can they so soon? not even if we had baby jesus as president.

[Winehole23]

well I can guarantee you right now neither the economy nor the war in afghanistan will come around. how can they so soon? not even if we had baby jesus as president.Agree 100%.

[baseline bum]

Personally I hope that Palin doesn't run for President and even worse, get the nomination. I think she is a very nice person and hasn't deserved the unabashed hatred she has been subject to but I think she is simply unqualified to be President and would be a bad one...just like Obama.

All she is is an attack dog. All her speeches are filled with hate and accusations. I'd be ok with that if she didn't play the victim card every single time someone came after her. How can anyone respect someone who runs her mouth and talks a lot of shit and then cries about how unfair everyone is to her when they give it right back?

[symple19]

What's scary isn't Palin so much as her inchoate, unreflective base of support. For the most part, Palin's supporters are even more inarticulate and *intuitive* than she is.
Perfectly summed up

[mogrovejo]

well I can guarantee you right now neither the economy nor the war in afghanistan will come around. how can they so soon? not even if we had baby jesus as president.

Accordingly to Obama, they will. You either have baby jesus as a president or a liar.

[spursncowboys]

All she is is an attack dog. All her speeches are filled with hate and accusations. I'd be ok with that if she didn't play the victim card every single time someone came after her. How can anyone respect someone who runs her mouth and talks a lot of shit and then cries about how unfair everyone is to her when they give it right back? H. Clinton does that all the time. Also I don't think she does what you are saying as much. She was attacked, personally, by the media. They were pretty vicious with her so she wants to hit back. Her biggest problem was being thrown under the bus by mccain and his people.

[clambake]

...and she's a quitter.

[spursncowboys]

...and she's a quitter. Atleast she did some of her job, instead of getting elected Senate and the next day running for President. Classy ... like Mr. Peanut!

[spursncowboys]

well I can guarantee you right now neither the economy nor the war in afghanistan will come around. how can they so soon? not even if we had baby jesus as president.
The economy in America will always come around. As long as we are in a capitalist society, we will better ourselves.
The war is different. OIF changed over a two year span, Afghan could too if BHO cares about the troops and victory. If he doesn't and just wants to play politics than OEF will be a failure which, IMO, will make a domino effect. This is the war BHO wanted to win. This was the war he said we should be in, so we will see if he is willing to do what him and Soros want.

[baseline bum]

H. Clinton does that all the time. Also I don't think she does what you are saying as much. She was attacked, personally, by the media. They were pretty vicious with her so she wants to hit back. Her biggest problem was being thrown under the bus by mccain and his people.

What the hell does Hillary Clinton have to do with anything? Because I hate that cunt Sarah Palin I have to like that cunt Clinton?

All Palin does is talk shit. The first thing she ever said to the public was she's a pitbull with lipstick. If you're going to be a pitbull, you can't go running home crying when someone comes after you. Poor Palin can't take any of the biting criticisms that she can dish out with the best of them. :cry

[clambake]

Atleast she did some of her job,
she quit because she couldn't handle the job.

instead of getting elected Senate and the next day running for President. Classy ... like Mr. Peanut!
he knew he could do so much more for our great nation.......unlike the quitter.

[elbamba]

Why do people even care about her? Her opinion matters about as much as the Dixie Chicks.

[spursncowboys]

she quit because she couldn't handle the job. Atleast she campaigns with her own money. Instead of living off the govt. Also I bet being sued 500 times had nothing to do with it. Not to mention being in the outs with both political parties in AK.

he knew he could do so much more for our great nation.......unlike the quitter.like what? higher unemployment, higher taxes, lower approval rating, higher debt, lower gdp. He kickes out kids with vouchers and then puts his two girls in the very same school. DC education system is good for everyone, except his own kids. Just like a Lib.

[coyotes_geek]

she quit because she couldn't handle the job.


Wrong. She quit because her current job wasn't going to get her in a position to get the job she really wants.

[SpurNation]

Wrong. She quit because her current job wasn't going to get her in a position to get the job she really wants.

So she's smarter than what people give her credit for. aka... "Senator" Obama

[Winehole23]

Wrong. She quit because her current job wasn't going to get her in a position to get the job she really wants.Also, everybody turned against her. There was that, too. She lost her base of power at home when she reached out for the brass ring.

[boutons_deux]

She quit because "it's all about me". Fuck the people who elected her governor.

The Alaskan Repug party overrode her refusal to take federal funds, and denied her, first time in Alaskan history, a key nominee. Her disapproval ratings in Alaska have exceeded her approval ratings for a couple months now.

She's a loser.

PLEASE run pitbull bitch on the Repug national ticket in 2012. :lol

Obama may not write every word in all his speeches, but I'm sure he understands what he's saying, which is clearly not the case with pitbull bitch or dubya.

[spursncowboys]

She quit because "it's all about me". Fuck the people who elected her governor.

The Alaskan Repug party overrode her refusal to take federal funds, and denied her, first time in Alaskan history, a key nominee. Her disapproval ratings in Alaska have exceeded her approval ratings for a couple months now.

She's a loser.

PLEASE run pitbull bitch on the Repug national ticket in 2012. :lol

Obama may not write every word in all his speeches, but I'm sure he understands what he's saying, which is clearly not the case with pitbull bitch or dubya. I hope some republican strategist meets and hires you. You would be so beneficial to the right. Operation Skunkworks 2.0. He would pay you just to go and talk to people about why you are a democrat.