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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>>This statement shows not only a profound misunderstanding of the actual Constitutional role of the Vice President, it is also a profound misunderstanding of the actual functioning of the US Senate over the last 229 years.
>>Biden says - A VP doesn't do much, Palin flounders .....
Flounder is a fish, and Sarah Palin is no fish!
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