Rice reluctant to say Palin has ‘enough experience’ on foreign policy.
Rice reluctant to say Palin has ‘enough experience’ on foreign policy.
In an interview with CNN’s Zain Verjee this weekend, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice offered “a less-than-hearty endorsement” of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin’s foreign policy experience. “She’s governor of a state here in the United States,” said Rice. Pressed if Palin has “enough experience to handle the kinds of things” she handles, Rice added that “there are different kinds of experiences in life that help one to deal with matters of foreign policy.” Watch it:
By comparison, Rice responded to Sen. Barack Obama’s pick of Sen. Joe Biden as his running mate last month by saying that “Biden is obviously a very fine statesman.” Similarly to Rice, Vice President Dick Cheney offered only tepid praise for Palin’s potential, saying that “each administration’s different and there’s no reason why Sarah Palin can’t be a successful vice president.”
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ahhh, who cares? she's got the best endorsement EVER!
Cheney Supports McCain-Palin Ticket
September 8th, 2008 at 10:31 amWashington Post - 1 hour ago
By Michael Abramowitz ROME--Vice President Cheney weighed in for the first time on the selection of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as John McCain's running mate, dismissing suggestions she may not be up for the job.
Cheney: Palin good candidate, can be effective VP Reuters
Cheney sees nothing stopping Palin from doing job The Associated Press
Rice implying Palin lacking experience?
Like the pot calling the kettle bl...er, rusty...
September 8th, 2008 at 10:32 amAh yes , Condiliesalot ; as if she has plenty of successes as Secretary of State to determine anyone elses standing .....
September 8th, 2008 at 10:35 amCheney weighed in? Oh, yeah...like we believe him!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:35 amVice President Dick Cheney offered only tepid praise for Palin’s potential, saying that “each administration’s different and there’s no reason why Sarah Palin can’t be a successful vice president.”
Well, he did lower the bar...
September 8th, 2008 at 10:36 amVice President Dick Cheney offered only tepid praise for Palin’s potential, saying that “each administration’s different"
Not when it's a GOP one , Dick ........You always blow elephant balls.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:40 amPalin is as mavericky as McStain.
From Tom Hartmann's radio program:
"What does it mean to say that John McCain is a maverick?
Maverick is one of those eponymous words that is based on a person's name, and which captures something of the essence of what they were or did. Crapper (Thomas P., 1836 - 1910) a plumber and inventor is another such word.
Back in the days before barbed wire, millions of feral cattle roamed the wild-west. They only needed to be rounded up to make a fortune. In order to identify what cattle belonged to which rancher, they were branded with distinctive icons. In a move that some might call brilliant, it is said that Samuel Augustus Maverick (1803-1870) declared that his brand was no brand at all. This allowed him to claim any unbranded cow as his own. Clever in a Rovian sort of way, but (and by definition?) not exactly honest or conducive to living peacefully in a law abiding society.
John McCain is attempting to rustle the mantle of the candidate of change and reform from Barack Obama. This is after a disastrous eight years of Republican control of the executive branch of government (during six of which Republicans also controlled Congress). It can truly be said that John McCain is a maverick."
Indeed.
PEACE
September 8th, 2008 at 10:45 amYeah, let's see, there's the experience of hiring an administrator to administer your city while you're pretending to be mayor, the experience of gobbling up more per capita pork from the feds than any other state in the union...
You mean that kind of experience?
September 8th, 2008 at 10:51 amRest assured that if Russia is ever trying to steal our fish, Palin will have the experience to make sure everything turns out just fine.
I'll be sleep easy at night then.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:52 amSo Cheney endorsed her? Hey! Where'd all those sled dog puppies go?
September 8th, 2008 at 10:53 amThis administration has lowered the bar of expectations so far, that a diseased yak could run for president with a barbie doll for VP and it would still be step up...
hey, wait a second.......
September 8th, 2008 at 10:56 am“each administration’s different..." Sec. of State Condoleeza Rice.
Another profound statement from Dr. Rice. Geez!
September 8th, 2008 at 10:57 amGovernor Palin has too many skeletons in her closet that will be revealed now that she's being looked at very closely by practically everyone.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:58 amIn my motherly opinion she seems to be a selfish, power and attention hungry politician with little regard for the welfare of her large family.
Thank you raynman. I could not have said it better myself. Palin is already picking up where the bush administration has ended...
September 8th, 2008 at 10:58 amLiterally misleading the public about her support for the "bridge to nowhere"...she is not missing a beat
The difference between Sarah Palin and a pit bull isn't the lipstick.
It's the fact that pit bulls don't lie and steal to get what they want.
September 8th, 2008 at 10:59 amCheney likes her now... He'll shoot her in the face next year.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:10 amNothing new here. When has Rice ever answered a question directly?
September 8th, 2008 at 11:13 amWell, it's hardly politic for one unqualified token woman to diss *another* unqualified token woman...
September 8th, 2008 at 11:16 amPalin has no foreign policy experience. None! Nada! Zilch!
September 8th, 2008 at 11:17 amI don't care how they spin it the facts remain. She is not ready to be president. No way!
larkohio Says:
Palin has no foreign policy experience.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:17 am
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I'm thinking the "no foreign policy experience" point is really not the best tactic to use. After all, the neocons who enabled this moronic war in Iraq had many decades of foreign policy experience, including experience in the Middle East. Perhaps new blood is in order.
We need to attack Sarah Palin for being a dirty, lying science-denying weasel with an angry white preacher.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:30 am"there are different kinds of experiences in life that help one to deal with matters of foreign policy."
Does this mean that Rice has walked "off the reservation" in terms of trying to downplay Obama's experience? Surely someone who has actually traveled abroad, lived abroad, with roots in both the US and Africa, etc. would meet Rice's criteria.
Watch for Rice to soon become as popular as Scott McClellan at GOP gatherings.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:33 amSarah Palin's thin skin.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:41 am23. Ignorance - interesting. Any chance in making political hay of this. I'm wondering if the freepers might viscrally react to the hint of a "shadow governor". After all, it would make sense to the James Dobson worldview that the wife submit to her husband - therefore we're really looking at Mr. Palin as the real authority ?
Of course, there have always been hints that Shrub is a sock puppet for some unnamed neocon.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:46 amIf people (voters) looked at facts, issues, and character, we wouldn't have had eight years of bush. Even though bush ran on the 'outsider' tag in 2000 and 80% of the country thinks we're going wrong, the race is close. It makes no sence. Apparently people believe the 'evil media' propoganda and don't bother to check the facts. Now fox is promoting Palin as if they are the republican propoganda machine, without regard for facts. She claimed to have sold the jet at a profit, but it was actually sold for a loss. Scale it up to national numbers, and in four years we'll be breaking another record debt. How do people live through republican rule, experience how they end up doing exactly the opposite of what they say, and still vote for them? I disagree with what Obama said about republicans think Americans are stupid: they know Americans are stupid, and they have 2000 and 2004 to prove it.
September 8th, 2008 at 11:47 am“there are different kinds of experiences in life that help one to deal with matters of foreign policy.”
Ah, what about being a good pianist, ice skater, and provost?
September 8th, 2008 at 12:07 pmPalin ordered the aerial shooting of them. She couldn't find any more wolves. Then Cheney ripped their heads off and ate them.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:14 pmAnd a pitbull can't stab you in the back.
September 8th, 2008 at 12:27 pmOf course Sarah Palin has foreign policy experience.
Why her state is the largest one in America! And...it is right next to Russia. (GOP flaks have actually said these things).
Whats next, Palin mediating a trade agreement between Russian and American eskimos?
http://scootmandubious.blogspot.com/2008/09/debunking-lies-of-mccain-palin-bridge.html (amended)
September 8th, 2008 at 1:04 pmOuch, talk about damning with faint praise.
September 8th, 2008 at 2:33 pm