After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next," she said in Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.Left leaning publication The Wire is having to grudgingly acknowledge that Sarah Palin was right.
The former Alaska governor was happy to highlight her prediction on Friday and scold those who criticized her 2008 comments.
"Yes, I could see this one from Alaska," she said on Facebook. That remark was a reference to a 2008 interview in which Palin argued that Alaska's proximity to Russia helped boost her foreign policy experience.
So some of these things did happen! Administration officials sat down with Iran and worked out a temporary agreement to curb the refinement of uranium. The United States violated Pakistan's sovereign territory without its knowledge — to kill Osama bin Laden. And he is drawing down troops in Iraq. Whether or not you think that all of these things resulted in "crises," in Palin's evocative terminology, is up to you.
But it doesn't really seem like she deserves credit for the Ukraine thing. For one thing, calling what's happening at the moment an "invasion" is overly strong...Overly strong? Palin's predictions, coming to be as a result of the election of Obama, have come to pass, just as she had predicted them. Watch the video after clicking Read More below.
Meanwhile, former Defense secretary Gates, "dismantles Joe Biden’s elder statesman status*", declaring in his recent memoir that Biden had been “wrong on nearly every major foreign policy and national security issue over the past four decades.”
CNN, The Wire, Politico *6th paragraph
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There ain't no "curbing" of uranium refinement by Iran. On every front the preezy is feckless, period.
Obama's lack of resolve finds cover beneath America's growing reluctance to avoid foreign entanglements. This is even older Republican thinking than Palin or McCain's 2008 stance (see a mid-century Robert Taft). Kudos to her though for reminding us what hormonal buffoons the Bashir-Morgan-Sullivans of the world were/are.
Gates absolutely destroyed Biden's foreign policy creds.
Palin was right about Putin and the Ukraine. She was also right about ObamaCare having death panels. And she was right about quantatative easing not restoring vigor to the US economy. And she was right about Barack Obama being a big spending socialist.
The DNC spin machine and the Obama sychophant media ignored the substance of what she said and focused on ehr hair, her syntax, and her daughter's out-of-wedlock child.
Four yeaers later Mitt Romney was exactly right on those same things. The sychophant media chose to focus on questions about birth control pills and RomneyCare.
Media whores.
We don't have an honest press in America. Media whores, indeed. Pro-one party state run superficial ass-sniffers.
May?
She and the Romster have called the turn where all those super-smart Lefties put together haven't had a clue for 50 years.
Romney/Palin 2016.
Seriously.
Why does any discuss Obama's role in foreign policy seriously? He is just a joke. A lame joke. Everyone from Putin to Bibi to Assad to the Chinese know that.
He is a rudderless ship about to hit the rocks and we are the helpless passengers about to drown.
I'll join in also....We would've been far better if Palin had wound up POTUS, even allowing for what mistakes she would have made.
The media are able to make self-fulfilling prophecies of something like a Palin vice- presidency, let alone a presidency. It would indeed be hobbled by controversy and division, b/c all objections and complaints to any policy initiative or public utterance or private email would be treated like something even worse than a lane closure on the GW bridge.
Domestic Tranquility is their hostage.
Tomorrow's spin: Palin's remark signalled to Putin that Repubs would secretly welcome a Russian invasion of Ukraine so that they'd have something to blame Obama for.
It's all her fault.
Is there anyone in the "media" more ridiculous than Andrea Mitchell?
From the link by Richard Fernandez:
"Events are now moving so swiftly that Obama himself has become an irrelevancy. He let the crisis overrun him without so much as a cabinet meeting or an attempt at a council of national unity. The gooks are in the wire and he’s declared Happy Hour for the Democratic Party. But that only underscores the problem. He’s history one way or the other. The problem is to keep from joining him.
The challenge facing the American political class is what to do now. The unthinkable has happened: a real international crisis has flared up with an equally real dope in the Oval Office. The political class must realize they are playing for real money now. They must try to stabilize the crisis before it gets completely away. This game’s for keeps."
I'll join in also....We would've been far better if Palin had wound up POTUS, even allowing for what mistakes she would have made.
That's the first time I've heard anybody say that. Much of it compelled by Obama's incompetence, no doubt.
The political class must realize they are playing for real money now.
No worries. Valerie Jarrett and Jay Carney are in charge.
It's all her fault
The thing about the hate for her that rancors me is that she was not elected, nor appointed to anything on a national level. Was a competent governor of Alaska for a few years... and that's it.
The dislike of her is personal... it's the worst kind.
Palin was right about Putin and the Ukraine.
Well, Palin implied that Russia *wouldn't* invade Ukraine if McCain was elected, which is nonsense.
But certainly all the people who scoffed at the very notion of a Russian invasion have a lot to apologize for.
Of course for some Palin's baggage is a feature.
Yes it is...for people who look for ways to avoid dealing w/ the substance of conservatives' arguments.
Peggy Noonan nails it.
A female no less. How can that be?
April I also read that article and thought it was an unhinged rant. She seems upset that liberals have an agenda. Who knew! I suspect Rand Paul has one also.
Having to listen to the senate leader lie about what Americans are experiencing and then blame it on the Koch brothers is pretty extraordinary.
Telling the truth is now an unhinged rant? Watching America swirl down the toilet thanks to tired dying leftwing ideals and lies? Lovely that you approve, ARM. How reasonable.
The think problem is that the American left just doesn't believe in Adam Smith's "Invisible Hand." Because they've witnessed certain groups left out of prosperity over the last century, they are willing to throw out the whole model for a more centrally planned one. In a sense, America and the former Soviet Union exchanged government character: they shunned central planning as we took it on.
The thing that really galls me about Obama is that while he doesn't believe in the invisible hand, he really does enjoy giving his fellow Americans the invisible finger. The man reeks of revenge.
15,000 troops doesn't seem much like a Boy Scout camping trip.
Seems like an invasion.
Complete with warships on the coast.
How invigorating to hear our imperialists offer up such ardent defenses of America's 51st state- The Ukraine!
NB: "We are the world" was a song, not a political doctrine.
Some day conservatives will come to regret having no foreign policy platform other than figuring out which international backwater du jour is reassigned into the American ledger column. The nosiness here is really embarrassing. It's one thing to care about what happens in the world. Quite another to pretend that it's yours. I guess that's why conservatives care so little about what happens right here at home. And on that record, I'd love to see a Ukrainian response to this thread. It would probably look much like the Iraqi response to this by now familiar sort of muckily frustrated American belligerence: Thanks, but no thanks.
Chickie's 8:09 complaint about the lack of American appreciation for the massive shift of wealth to the top with ever decreasing "trickle-down" is pretty amusing. Many would say that's the sector of the population offering an invisible middle finger, at least when it isn't vocally articulating a more ardent chest-beating, backside lashing and self-victimized lament.
The largest corporate profits in history and Chickie complains about how the non-owners aren't sufficiently appreciating their lack of participation in this one-way wealth shift! Amazing.
BTW, Putin ended regional elections and now directly appoints governors, in case you apparently haven't heard. That sounds pretty centrally planned to me, as does his grab of neighboring countries. Do you ever say anything factually accurate or is it all just for poetic effect?
BTW, Putin ended regional elections and now directly appoints governors, in case you apparently haven't heard. That sounds pretty centrally planned to me, as does his grab of neighboring countries. Do you ever say anything factually accurate or is it all just for poetic effect?
I agree that Putin's latest moves are revanchist, retro, and reminiscent of the Cold War. But they are also quite recent which is why they're newsworthy. My 8:09 comment was to underscore the profound changes which occurred in the former Soviet Union territory since its fall, and also our countervailing changes -- played out in domestic policy -- to be played out in foreign policy.
Poet Chickie had a fact
but Poet Chickie lacked the tact
to use the knack and take the act
to put said knowledge to good effect.
Instead he writhed and roared in pain
that no one loved all of the gains
that benefited no one - save his dames
and their good masters at places like Bain
"Why can't," he cried, "the wretched love"
"The closed off kindness we see above?"
"The generosity sphincter has released enough!" "Now send us speedily peace-bearing dove!"
"For if we do not hate the poor,"
"And insufficiently abhor,"
"Industrious activity, exchange for all,"
"Then financial gods will appear too small!"
"For worshipping them is just the point,"
"And fractured economies we must anoint."
"Bar from commerce these wretched fleas!"
"For stinginess is virtue - and DESTINY!"
Poet Chickie had a fact
but Poet Chickie lacked the tact
to use the knack and take the act
of putting said knowledge to good effect.
Instead he writhed and roared in pain
that no one loved the wondrous gains
that benefited no one - save his dames
and their good masters, etc. at Bain
"Why can't," he cried, "the wretched love"
"The closed-off kindness from above?"
"The generosity sphincter released enough!"
"Now quickly send peace-bearing dove!"
"For if we do not hate the poor,"
"And insufficiently abhor,"
"Industrious activity, exchange for all,"
"Then finance lords appear too small!"
"For worshipping them is just the point,"
"And fractured economies we will anoint."
"Bar from commerce such wretched fleas!"
"For stinginess is VIRTUOUS DESTINY!"
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