Sarah Palin opens her big mouth!

[Joanne98]

Former Governor Sarah Palin, increasingly willing to criticize Obama on foreign policy grounds, is joining the chorus of Republican critics of his confrontation with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu, contrasting his policy of engaging enemies with the tough talk to an ally.

Palin writes in a statement provided by an aide:

The Obama Administration reaches out to some of the world’s worst regimes in the name of their engagement policy. America and our allies watch as sanctions are eased on Cuba. Letters are written to Iran’s mullahs only to see that regime start killing protestors in the streets of Tehran. Envoys are sent to North Korea as they continue to defy the world’s demand to give up their nuclear weapons. The Burmese military junta’s representative is allowed to travel to our nation's capital. The President’s envoy for Sudan talks about giving that genocidal regime “gold stars,” while the President shakes hands with Venezuela’s tyrannical leader. In the midst of all this embracing of enemies, where does the Obama Administration choose to escalate a minor incident into a major diplomatic confrontation? With Iran, Cuba, Sudan, North Korea or Burma? No. With our treasured ally, Israel.

Last October, Secretary of State Clinton recognized Israel's desire for peace in the Middle East and praised Israel's “unprecedented” concessions for agreeing to halt settlement construction in the West Bank, a concession that did NOT include halting construction of apartments for Jews in Jerusalem. Even last week after planned construction was announced, Vice President Biden still expressed “appreciation” for the “significant” steps taken by the Israeli government to address this minor issue. Now, however, we see the Obama Administration has decided to escalate, make unilateral demands of Israel, and threaten the very foundation of the US-Israel relationship. This is quickly leading to the worst crisis in US-Israel relations in decades, and yet this did not have to happen. More importantly, it needs to stop before it spirals out of control. Vice President Biden should rein in the overheated Obama Administration rhetoric and chill the political spin masters' fire as they visit the Sunday media shows to criticize Israel

http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0310/Palin_Hit_reset__with_Israel.html?showall

[Bitwit1234]

1. So she is an expert on foreign policy now.

What in the heck is this person not an expert on. From starting out skinning moose and joining a beauty pageant to being and quitting a governorship what in the heck has this woman done but run around and make money for herself. But then what republican has a lick of sense. They show us this each and every day. The higher the position in the party they damn dumber they are.

[Raschel]

2. Ya. She really wrote this.

:rofl:

[Raschel]

3. You forgot to put WAD Alert on the title (Wild Alaskan Dingbat)

[Guilded Lilly]

4. Palin and her Republican cohorts

have said more (said it uglier) and done more damage to the U.S. standings in the entire world than Obama could do in ten terms.

Bald-faced lying, self-serving bullshitting and spewing empty and uneducated rhethoric is no way to go through life, unless of course you are Palin or her pals in the recent Republican party.

Nothing that has come out of Palin's mouth since we were sadly introduced to her, has done anything to make me think she has any redeeming qualities. As a (snork cough cough) politician, or a woman. And this *statement* has absolutely nothing to do with anything actually coming out of Palin's mouth. It, indeed, comes from and was written by her aides. She is incapable of anything intelligent in full paragraph.

[Raschel]

5. Palin is divisive. Nothing more. She keeps the pitchfork morons stirred up.

Just shameful.

[Jefferson23]

6. And the man who brought her to the forefront in politics,

Bill Kristol. Maybe he wrote it for her, lol.


Palin's Talent Scout
by Scott Horton


No wonder Bill Kristol has remained so positive about her while other neocons have fled. He helped push her to the veep ticket—and won out against Karl Rove. (With an update after a Weekly Standard blog post Friday night critiquing this piece.)

In June 2007, a cruise hosted by the political journal The Weekly Standard set anchor in Juneau, Alaska. Standard editors William Kristol and Fred Barnes then lunched with Governor Sarah Palin. It was a moment of discovery to equal Hernando Cortez’s landing at Veracruz.

The Daily Telegraph’s Tim Shipman saw this encounter as the launch of a Neoconservative project surrounding Palin. He interviewed a former Republican White House official now at the American Enterprise Institute about Palin:

http://www.thedailybeast.com/blogs-and-stories/2008-10-10/palins-talent-scout

[LeftishBrit]

7. Can she see Armageddon from her window?

[Jefferson23]

8. LOL, probably in her dreams I would say...yea.

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[LeftishBrit]

10. Palin would have absolutely no friends on DU!!!

[oberliner]

11. Apparently neither would Anthony Weiner or Hillary Clinton

Not sure Obama would be too popular in this forum either.