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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A large margin?
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"Here's the truth. America doesn't trust the Republicans anymore. We see the Republican politicians and their Fox News for the big fat liars that they are. And big fat liars like them are always big fat failures too. America doesn't like proven two time losers like these Republican politicians."
Thanks for putting it in language even we dumb Democrats can understand. (That's what we are, right? A bunch of dummies. That's how the McCain campaign is treating us.)
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>>A large margin?
"A large margin? You call 5 to 7 points a large margin? Ok."
You call 5 to 7 points not a large margin? Ok.
Americans are done with the Fox Republicans. They are proven failures. On the homefront they deregulated us into the worst financial crisis since the Great Depression and spent all our money on Iraq so we are ill prepared to pay for it. Abroad, we've got two wars with no end in sight and one of them was for reasons that were totally and completely unfounded - it's dumb really, just plain dumb, and incompetent, and corrupt.
So keep on thinking McCain and Palin will preserve the Republicans hold on the Presidency. We'll see how the Fox Republican view of reality holds up.
"And by the way, I don't believe we're headed into a recession. I believe the fundamentals of this economy are strong, and I believe they will remain strong."
That quote by McCain says it all. He has lost more than a step. He never saw this coming. To the contrary, McCain and his supporters played a major role in deregulating us into this crisis. Even last Spring the guy who said he is always for deregulation was calling for more deregulation as a solution. We can't afford four more years of this Fox Republican unreality circus.
<<We have...McCain and Palin...the two on the GOP ticket.>>
Denial isn't your friend.
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Again I disagree.
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