Palin floundering again with the Press
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| Thu, 10-23-2008 - 2:48am |
As Daily Kos rightly points out, she does not know what a precondition to diplomatic negotiations is. Watch her flounder.
http://rawstory.com/news/2008/Pfotenhauer_cant_name_vice_presidents_duties_1022.html
A precondition is a specific ultimatum which the foreign country must satisfy before you speak with them. Obviously this puts your adversary in a position in which they partially surrender and show weakness before you even sit down with them. In contrast, if the adversary shows good faith and agrees to a structured agenda (yes you can still have lots of preparation and prenegotiation without preconditions), then meeting with them might be a good idea under the right circumstances, as Obama has pointed out. Bottom line is that I'm not sure I agree with Obama but I understand the point he's making that we can't expect to lord over the rest of the world given how badly the Bush Administration has behaved. I definitely think McCain and Palin are a lot more dangerous in their apparent unwillingness to seriously talk to or negotiate with our adversaries.
A precondition for Palin running for VP should have been that McCain vetted Palin enough to rest assured Palin would not be so hopelessly clueless on diplomacy 101 and the meaning of terms like precondition.

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"our futures will depend on how gov't cleans up post Bush43"
Yes. We didn't clean up after Nixon. Nixon got off scott free after he violated our trust in outrageous illegal schemes. He walked. Cheney walked. Rumsfeld walked. Unless we hold those who break the law accountable, we will be saying the same thing about Rove and the others for years to come.
You're exactly right.
And just heard on CNN, Biden of limits to the press, just prompter speeches.
Aw, now, c'mon.
~ SW
((((Yes. We didn't clean up after Nixon. Nixon got off scott free after he violated our trust in outrageous illegal schemes. He walked. Cheney walked. Rumsfeld walked. Unless we hold those who break the law accountable, we will be saying the same thing about Rove and the others for years to come.))))
"Rove is in a class of his own. How in the heck does a man ignore a subpoena, and still walk the streets? I have seen people go to jail for parking tickets."
That's right. This Administration and its cronies think they are above the law. They are corrupt. It is no coincidence their foreign and domestic "policy" have blown up in all our faces.
so when Biden said the VP doesn't DO MUCH (as well as how HC would have been a better choice as VP, as well as how strongly he disliked the email ad, a LOT of things)
"Maybe she's ready to be vp, maybe not --- good debate topic if done respectfully which few, esp the media have treated her with. Very few on this very board in fact."
sandy9193, this is not personal. This is about our future. Our money. Our lives.
People are tired of the distractions. The personal accusations. The petty charges like Senator Obama's who fought in World War II did or did not free a concentration camp. Those things will not change our lives. And we can find plenty on McCain's side that is a lot closer to McCain and a lot more troubling. But that's not the point.
We've got bigger problems here sandy9193. The Republicans have deregulated us into the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression in the 1920s and 30s, over 70 years ago! The Republicans scared us into a war in Iraq for reasons that turned out be bogus based on evidence that was very flimsy.
And no, Palin clearly has not shown herself ready to be President. She does not have the experience. Her answers to very big very relevant questions are consistently rambling, incoherent, and wrong.
We can't afford to risk 4 more years of Republican rule right now.
"Maybe she's ready to be vp, maybe not --- good debate topic if done respectfully which few, esp the media have treated her with. Very few on this very board in fact."
sandy9193, this is not personal. This is about our future. Our money. Our lives. and it's a debate board ... isn't it?
The “LOL” emoticon doesn’t fool anyone.
OK, there still seems to be a disconnect in your understanding of the context of what Palin said.
~ SW
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