McCain "corrects" the "little woman"
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| Sun, 09-28-2008 - 12:57pm |
Indicating how John McCain would control Sarah.....
From CNN's Emily Sherman
WASHINGTON (CNN)— Sen. John McCain retracted Sarah Palin's stance on Pakistan Sunday morning, after the Alaska governor appeared to back Sen. Barack Obama's support for unilateral strikes inside Pakistan against terrorists
"She would not…she understands and has stated repeatedly that we're not going to do anything except in America's national security interest," McCain told ABC's George Stephanopoulos of Palin. "In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… This is a free country, but I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin."
Saturday night, while on a stop for cheesesteaks in South Philadelphia, Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.
"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.
During Friday night's presidential debate in Mississippi, Obama took a similar stance and condemned the Bush administration for failing to act on the possibility terrorists are in Pakistan.
"Nobody talked about attacking Pakistan," Obama said after McCain accused the Illinois senator of wanting to announce an invasion. "If the United States has al Qaeda, bin Laden, top-level lieutenants in our sights, and Pakistan is unable or unwilling to act, then we should take them out."
McCain emphasized Sunday, Palin "shares" his view on the matter.


McCain: >>"In all due respect, people going around and… sticking a microphone while conversations are being held, and then all of a sudden that's—that's a person's position… <<
um....and when he made her his vp choice did he think all the reporters would leave their microphones home? Of course they are sticking mics in her face whenever she is around -- she is the REPUBLICAN VICE PRESIDENT PICK.
Don't need to be a rocket scientist to see that.
Patriarchy swarms again.
I agree McCain's statement is silly - and annoying. If Sarah misspoke, she should have been the one to clarify.
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That phone call she got near the end?
Sorry, I could not resist responding, then remembered my promise to myself to
(((I don't think most Americans think that that's a definitve policy statement made by Governor Palin.")))
If she said the words out of her mouth, then...oh that's right. The GOP bosses tell her what to say. Ooopsy. lol.
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/2008/09/28/2008-09-28_john_mccain_cant_hide_his_sarah_palin_pr-3.html
John McCain can't hide his Sarah Palin problem
Monday, September 29th 2008, 11:18 AM
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John McCain "suspended" his campaign last week because he said he needed to fly down to Washington and save a failing economy all by himself. McCain was doing the opposite, of course, wasn't suspending anything, just campaigning harder than ever, trying to figure out a way to bail out his own campaign.
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And this was only the second great publicity stunt of McCain's campaign, the latest detour from what stopped being the Straight Talk Express long ago. The first was the selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as his running mate, one that seemed like a much better idea a month ago.
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Palin was always a form of sleight of hand with McCain - check her out, not me! - even if it was hailed as genius by people who would have treated her like the Rev. Jeremiah Wright if Barack Obama had selected her. Oh, sure. Think about the reaction if Obama had selected anybody remotely like Palin. The party at Rush Limbaugh's house would have gone on longer than Mardi Gras.
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Except now McCain can't hide Palin anymore. He couldn't hide her from Katie Couric last week and he can't hide her on Thursday night at the vice presidential debate, even if the bar for Palin will be set lower than the curb in St. Louis.
So now all those who didn't see the Couric interview will be able to decide if the selection of Palin was "genius," as some called it at the time, or the action of a man who will clearly do or say anything now to save his last chance at the presidency.
Here is some of Couric's interview with the woman McCain believes is the best choice to be vice president at the most perilous time in the history of this country, one he actually referred to as a political "soul mate":
Couric: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land boundary that we have with Canada.
Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.
Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I'm executive of.
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his ugly head and comes into the air space of the United States, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.
We can only be said to be alive in those moments when our hearts are conscious of our treasures.
((McCain was doing the opposite, of course, wasn't suspending anything, just campaigning harder than ever, trying to figure out a way to bail out his own campaign.))
True. So true.