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Republican Senator, Chuck Hagel, says Palin/McCain are Insulting The American People. Read the full article here.
http://www.omaha.com/index.php?u_page=2835&u_sid=10435997
Excerpt:
Palin has cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia as evidence of her international experience.
Hagel scoffed at that notion.
"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense
about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know
something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to
the American people."
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Comments (20)
Folks:
Chuck Hagel is one of John McCain's longest close personal friends, so when he states that Palin is not qualified, and that Palin/McCain are Insulting The American People, that is huge news.
Please recommend, so that this report does not sink out of sight. We need to have as many people as possible being made aware of what Senator Hagel has to say about Sarah Palin being not qualified.
Also, please distribute the article link to all your contacts.
Thanks.
September 18, 2008 10:31 AM | Reply | Permalink
Sorry to break in, but here's a guy actually knows Sarah Palin.
http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/talk/2008/09/sarah-palin-was-my-mayor-1.php
Great little gossipy blog. It's about to fall off the board for lack of recs!
September 18, 2008 9:06 PM | Reply | Permalink
Probably the most tragic thing about answering with this comment about window gazing as an answer to the experience question is the self-delusion and that she probably does not even know what actual experience would feel like. Now that is truly sad. We knows she lies so regularly, but this one is tragic. Self delusion, the worst sort of a lie.
September 18, 2008 11:36 PM | Reply | Permalink
Hagel is the rare Republican: he's actually served in the military, and knows what hell it is.
No, Hagel is not backing Obama. But he did attack lies against Obama.
September 19, 2008 12:05 AM | Reply | Permalink
This is very interesting ---- and I would LOVE to see an interview with William Cohen, former Rep. senator, Clinton's secy of Defense, and very very close friend of McCain's (believe he was best man at his wedding to Cindy). Cohen is a straight talker also and I sure would like to hear what he would say.
One thing this VP nomination is accomplishing -- you learn (or confirm) which Republicans are unwilling to lie through their teeth, or at least a bit uncomfortable doing so. From the convention, I recall Christie Todd Whitman, Tom Ridge and especially Olympia Snow walking that thin, wandering path that allowed them to be 'good loyal Republicans' and still not outright lie or make facially absurd claims and statements. (Anyone interviewed Richard Lugar recently?)
September 18, 2008 11:50 AM | Reply | Permalink
I love the "She can see Russia from Alaska" therefore she has foreign policy credibility line.
Now, any politician with no experience who happens to be from, say N. Dakota or Arizona, can claim experience because they can see Canada or Mexico from their astates. Gotta love the Repugs.
September 18, 2008 12:08 PM | Reply | Permalink
One of the few principaled conservatives remaining...
September 18, 2008 1:39 PM | Reply | Permalink
We're a growing phenomenon.
September 18, 2008 3:23 PM | Reply | Permalink
I want to see Hagel in Obama's cabinet. And not just for this. On foreign policy, he almost never disappoints.
September 18, 2008 1:48 PM | Reply | Permalink
McCain is claiming that he created the reform bill that would have regulated some aspects of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac (and deregulated their securities reporting requirements, which actually weren't strict enough as it was the sale of securities that led to the collapse.)
The thing is, flawed as the regulation was, it was HAGEL's bill. McCain didn't even help create it, he isn't even on that committee, he just tacked his name on the bill like the opportunist he is.
September 18, 2008 3:10 PM | Reply | Permalink
Speaking of McCain as opportunist...
Ross Perot has flat-out called McCain that before. In print. Wonder how Boss Ross would feel about putting that statement in an ad. :-)
September 18, 2008 4:50 PM | Reply | Permalink
What a SEXIST!!
September 18, 2008 5:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Little known fact, but...you can see Canada from Alaska. Indeed, the only way to drive to/from Alaska is through Canada. I note that Palin doesn't mention Canada. Maybe that side of her house doesn't have windows.
September 18, 2008 5:19 PM | Reply | Permalink
Canadians have universal health care, so she probably figured they were just a new type of Ruskie.
September 18, 2008 6:57 PM | Reply | Permalink
Good post, liam. but you shouldn't put commas around Chuck Hagel's name. Unfortunately, he is not the only Republican senator and therefore it is a simple (if repellent) adjective.
September 18, 2008 5:58 PM | Reply | Permalink
I have been to Alaska. Alaska was my home. When I flew over the Bering Sea and looked out the window all I could see was water fringed by frozen tundra. Ice and frozen mud looks the same no matter which country lays claim to it.
September 18, 2008 6:14 PM | Reply | Permalink
It's great to learn palin has now been "disinvited" from the anti-Iran rally in NY on Monday. I guess this was intended to be her "foreign policy" experience. She'll have to come up with some other "photo-op" to accomplish that scheme. Here's the link:
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palin_disinvited_from_Iran_rally.html?showall
September 18, 2008 7:33 PM | Reply | Permalink
I read a couple of years ago that Hagel is deeply involved with Diebold and one of the other major voting companies (they are linked but not supposed to be). He has been backing Obama for a while. Does he know something the rest of us don't?
September 18, 2008 8:13 PM | Reply | Permalink
Gee, a politician involved with a company making voting machines. What could go wrong there?
September 18, 2008 8:35 PM | Reply | Permalink
Wrong. He has not been backing Obama, as you claim.
He has not endorsed any candidate, and recently said that he does not intend to.
September 18, 2008 9:22 PM | Reply | Permalink
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