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Memo to Snyder: Don’t stop the radical reforms now!Pick your foreign policy expert: Palin or these creeps?
December 21st, 2010 | 
Author: 
Dan Calabrese
Senate Democrats have decided the way to muster public support for President Obama’s START treaty with the Russians is to present the issue as a choice between rational, experienced, calm foreign policy heads . . . and an airhead.
Specifically Sarah Palin, or at least the Saturday Night Live cartoon version of Sarah Palin.
Respect their authoritah!
On their web site, Senate Democrats pose the question thusly:
Of course, Sarah Palin never said “I can see Russia from my house.” That was from a Saturday Night Live sketch. But since when can Democrats tell the difference between truth and fiction?
Let’s consider some of the oh-so-respected establishment types to whom they want us to genuflect:
James Baker III and Brent Scowcroft? These two patron saints of the foreign policy “realist” set are bastards who were perfectly happy to let people die at the hands of brutal dictators in the name of global “stability.” Screw them. They are evil men.
George H.W. Bush may be a good man, but when he was making foreign policy, he serially took the advice of the aforementioned bastards.
Hillary Clinton? Do you need a reminder of who this woman really is?
Colin Powell? Hey, wait a minute . . . isn’t that the guy who was sent to the UN by George W. Bush to lie us into the Iraq War? Or so Senate Democrats have been telling us for the past eight years? But we’re supposed to listen to him now?
Appeals to the authority of the “establishment” are particularly amusing given the current political environment, but judging from the pork-laden spending monster Democrats tried to cram through last week, there’s little evidence they’ve caught wind of how the nation is feeling about things.
At any rate, this isn’t a hard decision: I’ll side with Sarah Palin (the real one, not the SNL version) and her reality-based notion of the real stakes on the issue of geopolitical influence and nuclear proliferation, as evidenced by her thoughtful piece today in USA Today on the threat posed by Iran.
Palin is a bright, knowledgeable source of information and insight on foreign policy. Anyone who doesn’t think so should become more familiar with her actual thinking, not just the pop culture notions about her.
And if you would side with monsters like James A. Baker III and Brent Scowcroft on just about anything, honestly, you really ought to go to hell.
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the link for the Sarah Palin op piece is this:
http://www.usatoday.com/news/opinion/forum/2010-12-22-column22_ST2_N.htm
Of course they take SNL so seriously they (Dems) can’t distinguish between parody and person. If you’ll recall, Al Gore cited how he would watch Darryl Hammond’s impersonation of himself in order to improve his speeches and presentation. Idiots.
Her actual quote was nearly the same as humorous interpretation “you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska”. Presuming that she is still a resident of Alaska, then her home is in Alaska. pretty easy to migrate to “you can actually see Russia FROM MY HOUSE”
In either case, her real quote was in answer to her qualifications to handle international affairs. The fact that she would use proximity as a merit is inane.
You are wrong, Lou. I’m willing to accept your apology on Gov. Palin’s behalf.
http://www.northstarnational.com/2010/12/03/and-in-the-quote-tina-fey-to-slam-palin-contest-craig-is-a-winner/
Dan, I am not wrong and if you would simply check your own link, then you would see the same quote from SP as I noted “And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska.”
You cite your own article and IT INCLUDES THE QUOTE. If you want to be taken credibly, then you need to acknowledge the FACTS whether from me or YOURSELF!!!
You are the joke and the punchline. LOL
Um, Lou, you didn’t really read the piece, did you?
Apology still accepted.
I ran upon this ridiculous far right wing rancor on Google. You lose all of your credibility with me when you call people bastards and you stick up for Palin. The United States can little afford people who attack people because of their position on a certain topic. Your article reeks of biased and I am sure if the people you were demonizing were on the side you thought was correct you would have sang their praises instead of their faults. This article is an example of intolerance and poor journalism that serves most of the far, far right.
Wow. This is shocking. There are actually people defending Sarah Palin… in all seriousness … on this issue? That is just mindblowing. Just.. Wow! I honestly don’t even know what to say. There’s nothing to say.
Is she really that attractive to you?
The liberal left rodents will lie about and distort anything that Palin does or says. Best to ignore that trash. Its what most intelligent people do!
Palin is correct that the START Treaty is bad because it links missile defense with offensive weapons. It shouldn’t because we need missile defense against Iran and North Korea too, not just to defend NATO against Russian missiles.
However, the Russians think the preamble is part of the Treaty and there is somewhat of a provision for missile defense in the Treaty language itself.
Prediction: The Treaty will be broken anyway due to the USA having to build missile defense and the Russians will back out of the Treaty anyway. It will not last.
I cannot resist reading posts by those who have somehow actually been convinced (or convinced themselves) that Palin is an illiterate, ignorant woman completely devoid of the requisite intelligence to occupy the oval office–given the current occupant had just as thin a legislative resume.
I met Palin briefly when my squadron participated in exercises held at Elmendorf. Put simply, the the woman who been presented as a characterture based largely on the Gibson and Couric interviews, Tina Fey’s antics, and the defamations of countless bloggers and op eds is not only sharper than her enemies believe, she is brighter than they can imagine.
My few minutes with Palin was prior to 2008 and I really had no idea who she was.
One of the pilots on our team noticed her and said, “They say she’s America’s
most-popular governor.”
She was clearly attractive, very charismatic, and we chatted for a few minutes about the F-16, our mission, and it was clear she had a keen interest and knowledge of air defense. She also seemed very informed about the role of PACAF since Elmendorf and Eilson were part of the 11th Air Force.
A big part of my job–of any commander’s job–is to read people and it was not only myself but that of three of my pilots who made the trip that she was an uncommonly intelligent woman; not, perhaps, in the same was as a woman might be who took a graduate degree from Vassar but in a more elemental way that I had seen in rancher’s and farmer’s kids. It’s easy to dismiss or underestimate this kind of “smarts” but their real, formidable, and
every bit as capable of solving complex problems as the kind of intellect honed in Ivy League schools.
Sarah Palin dumb?
There are going to be a lot of very surprised people in the months and years
ahead who believe or wish it so.
Viper 1, thank you for your comment, God Bless and have a Merry Christmas.
Thank You VIPER1 It’s Been My Position From Day One,She’s Not Even Close To Being Illiterate As They Wish, But Then Again These Are The Same People That Sent Mr Obama To DC,(ENOUGH) Said.BTW Merry Christmas To All,& A Happy New Year As Well.
Merry Christmas, especially all that love our freedom.
Concerning Sarah Palin – Typically, opponents find out this upstart, woman, hick is smart, right about the same time they find out it’s too late.
Mr. Calabrese is so right. The stuffed-shirt, so called “wise men” and porky pundits in Washington & the media are useless parasites who get people killed and weaken the USA. Sarah Palin has more honesty, integrity, political acumen and strategic vision than the whole hideous gang of them, especially Boxcar Billary, the pantsuit pachyderm.