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« Patriotism at the DNC | Main | Palin » August 29, 2008BrilliantYou have to laugh at the Obama campaign's initial reaction to John McCain's selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his vice presidential running mate - they attacked her for having zero foreign policy experience. Obama has zero foreign policy experience. He also has zero executive experience - Palin has two successful years as governor of a state, including passing tough ethics reforms, and has a deep understanding of the extremely important energy issue. The sum total of Obama's achievements in public office amount to writing two best-selling books about himself, and running for the next job. Palin is a game-changing pick. With Obama having no real achievements to back his empty rhetoric of hope and change, and his veep choice a Washington insider who helped build the status quo that has given Congress a 9 percent approval rating, the Republican ticket includes two people with real and impressive records of reform. You want change in Washington? McCain-Palin. You want a president who will rubber-stamp the extreme liberal agenda of the most unpopular Congress in history? Obama-Biden. Update: The Palin pick is generating a big positive reaction. Here at the TN GOP office we're seeing a big surge in calls, emails and sign-ups on our website for "Women for McCain" and other coalitions, plus walk-in traffic seeking McCain-Palin bumper stickers and yard signs. Some of the callers and visitors are saying the Palin pick has shifted them solidly into the McCain camp. Posted in Campaign Season
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Guess you never learned the concept of "zero" in math class, did you? Posted by: Sean Braisted at August 29, 2008 12:17 PMEveryone has foreign Policy experience. We are experiencing the result of immigration policy, which is mostly a problem with the socialist policies in Mexico plus its attendant corruption. We are experiencing the foreign policy impact of monetary policy that makes it a good deal to bring a VW plant to Chattanooga after the governor and Chattanooga pays an outrageous bribe of $500 million so it can compete with our Nissan plant. We are experiencing the foreign policy dividends of the Clinton administration that has made our enemies certain of our weakness and willing to attack where we live. We are experiencing the effects of energy policy that threatens to weaken us politically and economically and thus invite more disrespect and more attacks. If oil really is a finite resource, which I doubt, then it must look to other nations that we are more interested in burning theirs than ours. No amount of talking nice to the Soviets has so far brought any dividends that I can see. Chinese and Soviet support for our enemies in the middle east seems to be something that no one is ready to deal with yet because we are tied up with other things now. It is not how much experience you have as much as it is what you learn from it. Posted by: Danny L. Newton at August 29, 2008 2:06 PMBill, You are so funny! And by "funny" I mean "slick." Nice the way you start writing about foreign policy experience and then end up writing about, well, not foreign policy experience. Finish your thought. Where is Governor Palin's foreign policy experience? She doesn't just "have it" because she lives near Russia. Osmosis doesn't work that way. Posted by: Mary Mancini at August 29, 2008 3:11 PMYour analysis is laughable. Posted by: JG at August 29, 2008 3:30 PMGreat pick McCain! The women I know are absolutely delighted with Sarah Palin. She is engaging, smart, witty, and frankly beautiful. She is a great role model for American Women and will make a fine VP and future President herself! Mrs. Smith goes to Washington...Love it!! Posted by: Iva Micchelle Russell at August 29, 2008 9:28 PMMary, Who said anything about Russia? As for foreign policy experience, she has as much as Obama, but she's not running for president, he is. She has has much as Tim Kaine, who the media and the libs fawned over as a possible VP pick for Obama. She has more experience dealing with the energy issue - not just oil, but energy including renewables - than Obama does, by the way. A lot more. And energy is the central issue of our time - the central foreign policy issue, and the central economic issue. Posted by: Bill Hobbs at August 30, 2008 8:24 AMAnyone recall the vast "foreign policy experience" that Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton had as governors? Where were the digs then about lack of experience for these 2 presidential candidates? Hmm, let's see how long did the Camp David agreement last? Posted by: Rick Forman at August 30, 2008 3:47 PMCarter & Clinton had the good fortune to arrive with diplomats on the scene of conflicts that were already over. Easy to look good when both parties want to make a deal, and when the terms are not seen as onerous on either side. Kennedy's foreign policy inexperience and perceived preference for words, not deeds, led us straight to the Cuban Missile Crisis. That the situation resolved itself, after Kennedy (secretly) agreed to remove missiles he placed in Turkey (to forestall a 'missile gap' that he campaigned on, but was known by satellite to be illusory), is no credit to his foreign policy chops. Generally, getting your country to DEFCON 2 an nearly starting a nuclear war is considered 'bad'. The thing I find interesting is that we are expected by Obama supporters to fear the *potentiality* of a VP without direct foreign policy experience succeeding a fallen president more than the *certainty* that their candidate will walk into the White House with no foreign policy experience. Apparently, probabilities are not their strong suit. Posted by: Darren at August 31, 2008 12:45 PMPost a comment
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