OMG. Palin has no brain.

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Registered: 09-06-2008
OMG. Palin has no brain.
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Wed, 10-01-2008 - 8:09pm

Never - ever - have I heard more a vacuous, vapid response to a question from a major candidate for public office:


http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/10/01/eveningnews/main4493062.shtml


Please, people.  Please.  You cannot put this bimbo in the White House.

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Registered: 03-25-2007
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:31pm


I thought that you thought it was, thus my question as to how they are similar and your reasoning for creating that new word.


I agree that the philosophies of liberals and neoconservatives are very different.

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Registered: 02-05-2007
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:32pm

"PALIN: We’ve gotta keep an eye on Russia. … You can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.


GIBSON: What insight does that give you into what they’re doing inside Georgia?


PALIN: Well, I’m giving you that perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Russia."


Sooo, if I live in Texas and I can see Mexico from my backyard, does that give me knowledge/insight into foreign (specifically Latin America) policy?

TutsyPop
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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:34pm
Many U.S. military commanders in Iraq believe they have dealt a large enough blow to al Qaeda in Iraq to declare victory over the group, according to a report in the Washington Post.


Now I'm starting to understand why we got bogged down in Iraq, a country which did not attack us, and was in no way connected with 9/11 OR Al Qaeda. Keep your eye on the ball, dude: AQI is NOT where the real threat to us came from, nor has it ever come from there since we helped create the conditions for it to exist in the first place. You might try this, if you need a little refresher. AQI is a sideshow, and everyone in the intel business knows it.

However, back on planet Earth (as opposed to BushWorld), we find this (it's OK, it's from FAUX "News," so you can "trust" it - wingnut approved!):

The Bush administration is considering changing its war strategy in Afghanistan in light of rising levels of violence and an increasingly complex insurgent threat, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Thursday....

Gates noted that violence has been on the rise in Afghanistan for the past two years, in part because of cross-border attacks from Al Qaeda, Taliban and other extremist elements that find refuge in neighboring Pakistan. That has made it harder for U.S. and allied troops to improve security, which Gates said has restricted gains in other vital areas such as weeding out government corruption and developing the economy.


Or this:

WASHINGTON - Islamist safe havens in western Pakistan are threatening the existence of Pakistan's civilian government through increased attacks, including last weekend's Marriott hotel bombing, US Defense Secretary Robert Gates said yesterday....

The remote mountainous region believed to be a safe harbor for Al Qaeda and other groups also poses the greatest threat of terrorism against the United States, Gates said in hearing testimony that underscored the dangers posed by the tribal lands along Pakistan's border with Afghanistan.


Try again.

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Registered: 02-05-2007
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:34pm
"Obama/Biden losing in November, McCain/Palin being sworn in in January 2009 "

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Registered: 07-22-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:37pm

>>> Sooo, if I live in Texas and I can see Mexico from my backyard, does that give me knowledge/insight into foreign (specifically Latin America) policy?

No, but it would probaby give you a perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Mexico.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:47pm
Bookmark.

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Registered: 02-05-2007
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 2:59pm

"No, but it would probaby give you a perspective of how small our world is and how important it is that we work with our allies to keep good relations with all of these countries, especially Mexico."


hahaha Are you serious?

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Registered: 07-22-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:03pm

>>> Now I'm starting to understand why we got bogged down in Iraq, a country which did not attack us, and was in no way connected with 9/11 OR Al Qaeda.

It was connected...duh.

>>> Keep your eye on the ball, dude: AQI is NOT where the real threat to us came from, nor has it ever come from there since we helped create the conditions for it to exist in the first place. You might try this, if you need a little refresher. AQI is a sideshow, and everyone in the intel business knows it

Over here...watch the birdie...all of the leftie wackos have been saying for years that Al Qaeda was in Iraq because we were in Iraq...LOL! We don't care how they got there, or why they came...what we care about is that we destroyed them...and that you were wrong, of course. ; )

>>> However, back on planet Earth (as opposed to BushWorld), we find this (it's OK, it's from FAUX "News," so you can "trust" it - wingnut approved!):

Hello! Hello! Come back! You're too far out in left field! LOL! Sorry...try harder. I proved my case, now you're just flailing around desperately looking for something to cling to now that you've been proven utterly...completely...definitively...wrong. LOL!

Try again.

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Registered: 09-25-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:30pm

You proved your case?

How, exactly? Originally, you responded to this point by sild: "the failure to capture bin Laden has seriously hindered the reaching of that objective," by saying "not really. The deaths of so many Al Qaeda leaders and the dismantling of their organization have dealt them a significant, if not debilitating, blow.

No mention in there of "debilitating blow only to the Iraq component of Al Qaeda," where everyone agrees the main headquarters of - and threat from - Al Qaeda ISN'T located. If you'd taken pains to limit your crowing about "debilitating blows" to Iraq explicitly, you MIGHT have a point (though not a very good one, considering that's not where Al Qaeda's headquartered). But you didn't. You just claimed - contrary to both fact and the recent assertions of our own commanders along the Pakistan/Afghanistan border - that Al Qaeda had been dealt a "debilitating blow."

Hooey.

And I demonstrated to you (and everyone else) that your statement was hooey...whereupon you replied with your "but I meant AQI" nonsense, which is not only lame but also wasn't what you said to begin with.

Try again.

edited to close an open quotation.




Edited 10/6/2008 3:31 pm ET by palin_in_comparison

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Registered: 07-22-2008
Mon, 10-06-2008 - 3:51pm

>>> Do you REALLY have to do this? I could just get my 7 yr old DS to debate with you!

Well, unless she's a lot better than mommy, she'd lose. LOL!

BTW...how'd she do with the inane "I can see Mexico" question?

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