Hagel: Palin is the ‘thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.’
Hagel: Palin is the ‘thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.’
Earlier this month, Sen. Chuck Hagel (R-NE) criticized Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) choice of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, telling the Omaha World-Herald that “it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States.” In a recent interview with The New Yorker, Hagel went even further, saying that he doesn’t believe Palin is “qualified to be President of the United States“:
Hagel may be the only senior Republican elected official who has publicly criticized McCain’s choice of Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate. “I don’t believe she’s qualified to be President of the United States,” Hagel told me. “The first judgment a potential President makes is who their running mate is—and I don’t think John made a very good selection.” He scoffed at McCain’s attempts to portray her as an experienced politician. “To try to make the excuse that she looks out her window and sees Russia—and that she’s commander of the Alaska National Guard.” He added, “There is no question that this candidate is arguably the thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.”
Last week when former Secretary of State Colin Powell endorsed Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) on NBC’s Meet The Press, he also question’s Palin’s qualifications for office. “I don’t believe she’s ready to be president of the United States,” said Powell.
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The fact that John McCain thinks Sarah Palin is qualified to be president, is evidence enough that he isn’t qualified to be president. Heckuva job Johnny, you betcha. Winky-wink.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:21 amA narrative doesn’t need a resume. That could get in the way of the spun story.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:25 am“There is no question that this candidate is arguably the thinnest-résumé candidate for Vice-President in the history of America.”
And yet she is blithely unaware of this fact and her own blatant ignorance.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:27 amYglesias notes that “McCain’s decision that he wanted to take neocon policy and start applying it to great powers like Russia” may have been the “last straw” for Hagel, in terms of supporting him.
I’m concerned about McCain continuing Bush’s preventive strike option (you know, the one where the president can decide that someone is looking at us funny and thinking about attacking us, so we’re justified in bombing them first). McCain tried to make hay out of Joe Biden’s comments promising that if Obama is elected president, he “will be tested”. (Never mind, for ht emoment, that McCain’s best friend, Joe Lieberman, said the exact same thing of whoever wins – that they will be tested.) What concerns me is McCain promising that he would “test them first.” Does that mean he plans to start dropping bombs as soon as he’s in office? Is this what he has in mind when talking about Russia?
October 27th, 2008 at 11:31 amBut just think how much she can pad her resume in the next 4 years. She has now been to Iowa, Ohio, Missouri, etc and so is now an expert on them. She has been to Sax and Niemans so she is an expert on the economy. She knows all about construction because of the ‘bridges’ and invisible gas pipeline. And speaking of pork, I wonder if she obtained an audio copy of “Animal Farm”? Lot’s of good ideas for the GOP candidate in there. While I am being snarky, I can’t help but feel I’m not too far off here.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:31 amThere once was a governor Palin
October 27th, 2008 at 11:34 amRepublicans all dreamed of nailin’
And of making VP,
But now they can see
That all of their dreams are a-failin’
1) When is the last time that a political partey started turning on their own Prez and VP candidate ?
2) WHAAAT? McCain wants Russia to go to a system of strong, unbridled executive power without checks and balances?
Isn’t that what they had 10 years ago that the repubs hated ? And isn’t that what Iraq had 10 years ago ?
October 27th, 2008 at 11:35 amSarah Palin wasn’t chosen for her resume.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:36 amPossible Palin campaign slogan –”A dead moose in every garage”
October 27th, 2008 at 11:38 amAs Obama builds his list of possible names for Cabinet positions, if he really wants to “reach across the aisle” and appoint some Republicans, Hagel wouldn’t be bad choice (let me finish before jumping on me).
-Appointing a few Republicans IMMEDIATELY destroys the talking points from the right that Obama is looking to impose one-party rule, start a dictatorship, or that he’s too liberal/left/entrenched in the Democratic party.
-Hagel, as far as I can tell, has been on the correct side of most issues relating to the war, its conduct, our leaving, and veterans issues.
-Hagel would be a good ‘bipartisan’ choice for any cabinet level position that does NOT deal with social/domestic policy (his voting record on these issues is abhorrent to me)
Anyway, all that being said kudos to him for calling out McCain and Palin.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:42 amShe has more executive experience than all of the other candidates combined!
Read reports, sitting slack-jawed by the defenses of her credentials and not willing to believe that McCain and other prominent republican were willing to stand tall on the proximity argument after Palin had revealed time and again she had no understanding (not even basic control) of the general issues our nation faces today, I thought I was lost to ‘upside down, backwards crazy world’ for good.
And she is going to be the future of the party?
October 27th, 2008 at 11:44 amAnd she is going to be the future of the party?
It’s a catch 22. On the one hand I sincerely hope she is because nothing would destroy them faster.
On the other hand…I’ll have to listen to her voice again in 4 years…
October 27th, 2008 at 11:46 amIt is funny that now this is the standard she’ll be measured by. I am almost certain she would have explained up front her limitations. I am just as sure they told it’d be a piece of cake – ‘your what the country’s been waiting for’ sweetheart!
October 27th, 2008 at 11:48 amRacist neocons are likely to choose lack of experience over race. They don’t seem interested in overcoming their racist barriers. They’re not willing to make progress.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:49 amliberal traitor, agreed. The threat of having to hear her voice again is scary. If she at least had intelligent arguments I might be able to deal with it but that voice and associated spew of tripe is too much to take.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:52 amHer supporters forget that she didn’t go through the primaries, she got a free pass. If she went through the primaries, it would have been all the other republicans in the primaries saying how unqualified she is. That’s the funny part of any talk of 2012.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:53 amDidHeJustSayThat Says: It is funny that now this is the standard she’ll be measured by.
I read this compilation of Conservative pundits who mostly all said that Palin was the future of the Republican Party. Only one disagreed with the others and said that she didn’t have the qualifications to be the nominee in 2012.
I look at how viscious the Conservatives are, and am convinced that she will be shredded in an actual vetting the nominees process – by her own Republican rivals. Obama and Boden have been nice to her in comparision to what will happen to her in a primary campaign.
I don’t think she should underestimate the desire of other people in that party to be at the top of the ticket.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:56 amSure the nominee was hot!
October 27th, 2008 at 11:57 amBut a ‘Thinker’ she surely was not!
Her moose’s head on the walls,
played with their balls,
Upset stomachs was all that they got!
stewarjt Says:
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And yet she is blithely unaware of this fact and her own blatant ignorance.
I find that to be one of the main characterisitics of the mentally challenged.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:57 amBut Chuck, the rapture ready crowd loves her, they know she would bring about all of them meeting their God in person.
Thanks for speaking up though Chuck.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:59 amliberal traitor Says:
As Obama builds his list of possible names for Cabinet positions, if he really wants to “reach across the aisle” and appoint some Republicans, Hagel wouldn’t be bad choice (let me finish before jumping on me).
-Hagel, as far as I can tell, has been on the correct side of most issues relating to the war, its conduct, our leaving, and veterans issues.
October 27th, 2008 at 11:42 am
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No argument here. Hagel would be a very good choice for SecDef or Veterans’ Affairs. And I wouldn’t be surprised if the topic came up for discussion while Obama and Hagel were visiting the Middle East and Europe this summer.
And if Obama wanted to appoint Joe Stiglitz as Secretary of the Treasury, I’d be equally pleased.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:03 pmUnbelievable @ #18 says, “I read this compilation of Conservative pundits who mostly all said that Palin was the future of the Republican Party. Only one disagreed with the others and said that she didn’t have the qualifications to be the nominee in 2012.”
Thankfully, predictions are often wrong. It wasn’t that long ago that a prostitute toe-sucking commentator wrote a book about how this race would be between Condi and Hillary. How’d that turn out for you Mr. Morris?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:07 pmLiberal traitor, I agree with you re: Hagel, and other Republicans in an Obama administration. Despite the hijacking of the R party by neocons, there are still some decent representatives who would help us build up our country, as opposed to the “tearing down” and divisiveness we’ve seen these last several years.
I voted today, and I have to admit I’ve NEVER seen the enthusiasm as high for any other election. I hope common sense and reason rule, and God help us if it that is not the case.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pm5th Estate; or…..”A moose-head above everyone’s fireplace.
snark
October 27th, 2008 at 12:16 pmThere once was a gal from Alaska
October 27th, 2008 at 12:19 pmThe job of VP Repubs tasked her
When answers were sought
‘Bout her skills there was naught
And there were no more questions to ask her.
Hagel, like Colin Powell, merely states the obvious. Although the fact that more Republicans are finding the courage to state the obvious instead of parroting the party line tells us much about how the iron grip the GOP had all their minions in is now loosening.
And Palin? She needs a good reality check, and soon. The stories that we hear about her being some sort of GOP force to reckon with in the future, or about her own personal plans of grandeur in 2012 speak of a woman who is starting to believe the GOP press releases about her. She may get the ultra-evangelical vote sewn up, but that won’t be enough to carry the party. Those of us who believe that we need some sort of government plan other than raping the earth and waiting for the Rapture are greater in number.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:19 pmI don’t know how things will turn out for Sen Hagle now, but in the past any Republicans in congress who openly disagreed with the party line were quietly taken for “reeducation” and emerged pure partisan afterwards. After a probable Democratic sweep on the fourth will he and other now disaffected Republicans begin to sing the praises of Alaska’s Barbie governor? and attack on Limbaugh ,Savage , et all everything proposed by the new administration as Marxist socialism?
October 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pmclusterphuck Tim(a.k.a.-RedFoxOne)-FLAGGED!
October 27th, 2008 at 12:20 pmThank you Uncle Ho. I have been complaining endlessly about this problem…
October 27th, 2008 at 12:24 pmdbadass; I’m trying to get TP to ban this asswhole for all his ad-spamming.
Everyone, please feel free to pile on.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:26 pmThough Palin was pushed to the front
October 27th, 2008 at 12:28 pmSome Republicans thought it a stunt
“Her resume’s thin”,
Hagel said, with a grin,
“And she’s an unqualified candidate.”
I <3 limmericks
October 27th, 2008 at 12:33 pmDidn’t you all hear Palin last week “not tooting her own horn” telling Brian Williams that she has much more executive experience than Obama. I think she’s dumb enough to believe it.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:36 pmdeebaser Says: I <3 limericks
Limerick–the Irish haiku.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:42 pmRe: Executive experience. Like the CEO’s of Bear Sterns, Countrywide, AIG, Morgan Stanley, etc., and let’s not leave out Fiorina. Experience is one thing, learning and doing the right thing is another.
October 27th, 2008 at 12:44 pmMr. Hagel is an example of what the Republican Party use to stand for and how much Bush/Cheney have changed it’s values.
October 27th, 2008 at 1:31 pmSarah is exactly who she’s always been even in Alaska. She used her beauty and sex to more up to be Govenor. Notice how quickly she pushed herself as President and even started shopping on the RNC’s money. Sarah deals with life and men as a Beauty Contestant and it’s worked well. But on the big stage things will change for Sarah Boop and she’ll learn there is no such thing as a free ride. Republicans will learn this will be in the history books as the first Republican VP candidate who only used her looks, sex, flirting, lying, causing chaos at rallies and even pushing herself pass the Presidential candidate for his job. By her stupid actions watch how even Republican woman react on voting day. She is the joke to World leaders and to America but to stupid and greedy to know it.
Unka Ho, dbadass,
Looks like they finally fragged ClusterfcukTim off this thread.
Nice going!!
October 27th, 2008 at 1:37 pmupside; Even the trolls are not as annoying as clusterphuck with all his ad-spamming.
Trolls are dumb, even stupid, but this asswhole is just plain annoying.
October 27th, 2008 at 2:06 pmLimerick time eh? The party must be almost over.
Like a stumbling bumbling moose
October 27th, 2008 at 2:51 pmJohn McCain slipped his neck in the noose
He unleashed crazy Sarah
like George Bush in mascara
And she cooked, and then field dressed, his goose