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Incredibly, Palin keeps reiterating her claim that Obama has been “reckless” in saying that airstrikes in Afghanistan have killed civilians, which serves to show that she seems genuinely to have no clue that our use of air power there has resulted in significant civilian casualties and that this has undermined NATO’s mission with the Afghan government. As her running mate would say, she seems not to understand. Even more remarkably, no one else seems to be noticing that she is absolutely wrong in her attack. As I said earlier today, it is completely unacceptable for anyone running for such an office to be this ignorant about a war zone where Americans are fighting.
Update: In her interview with FoxNews, Palin says that the other Court rulings she disagreed with were Kennedy v. Louisiana (she doesn’t seem to have understood the relevant Eighth Amendment issue), Kelo (she doesn’t seem to understand that it relates to using eminent domain on behalf of private developers), and, obviously, Exxon v. Baker.
Filed under: foreign policy, politics
I was only half listening, but I think I heard her mention that the Taliban were terrorists, too.
Shows that the answer to Katie Couric’s question is, “Us Magazine, People Magazine, but not an actual newspaper.”
Wait for it–FoxNews has promised to reveal her newspaper preferences later today. I am guessing USA Today.
Camp McCain keeps co-opting Obama talking points! First it was “change,” then Obama’s “he doesn’t get it” turned into McCain’s “my opponent doesn’t understand”…
“The Daily Show” last night featured a commentator arguing that McCain is the REAL black candidate… if his poll numbers continue on the decline, I would only be half surprised to hear his surrogates actually try out this line of reasoning.
No big surprise that she doesn’t realize we’re killing civilians in Afghanistan, just as it was no big surprise last night that she didn’t know what General McKeirnan had actually said about using surge tactics there.
As for her responses to the Supreme Court re-do question–the Faux news commentator pronounced them as substantive and comprehensive. That’s good enough for me. NOT.
“surge tactics” …heh
I’m really on the fence about what’s bugging me more, her knowledge gap about what McKeirnan said, or McCain’s insistence on applying a tactic as a strategy.
I think Palin’s not reading enough newspapers and McCain didn’t read enough Clausewitz (or Sun Tzu or Moltke or…).
If the world is either civilian or military, given the realities of Afganistan, we can only be killing civilians.
At the debate, Biden stumbled in his references to the Constitutional limits on the power of the VP. But at least he seems to understand that there’s something in there *somewhere* that constrains what he could legally do in an Obama administration. As far as I can tell, Palin’s understanding of the matter is that as Veep you’re empowered to do anything other than shoot a hunting companion with a rifle.
mbtogut, do you think that Palin’s reference to “General McClellan” [sic] was a Freudian slip? Or is it giving her too much credit to have been subconsciously channeling the hapless Civil War general and presidential opponent of Lincoln?
I’d guess she was mixing up Scott the turncoat spinmeister. Since I’m sure his book was among her “vast” reading materials.
Wow, such a snark. Last night, Sarah Palin wowed me and my family; we can’t wait to send her to Washington! Every time some condescending talking head such as yourself shows contempt for Sarah Palin, that only endears her to us “flyover” folk more–why? Because we know you would say the same rotten things about us. Sarah, you did great! You go get ‘em, girl!
GR
http://redstatefeminists.org
So you have nothing to say in her defense except to whine about “talking heads.” That’s pretty predictable, wouldn’t you say? I come from New Mexico, which is as “flyover” as they come, and I promise you that I have more sympathy for the interests of Middle Americans than your precious Sarah, who has embraced the agenda of McCain, who is no friend to the people in “flyover” states and serves the bankrupt establishment that he pretends to oppose.
Pointing out that a candidate doesn’t know anything isn’t condescension–it’s called holding people accountable. More Republicans should try it. It might make for a refreshing change.
Basically, if it’s not on Fox News, it can’t be true. So telling people that she left Wasilla $20M in debt is just a left wing smear by the liberal media, even though it’s true. Telling them that she didn’t really sell that plane on eBay is a left wing smear even though it’s true. Telling them that that pipeline isn’t a done deal and could cost Alaska $50M is just a left wing smear by the liberal media, even though it’s true. This is what I encountered tonight in my own home by someone who doesn’t read news but watches it mostly on Fox. Ugh.
sorry, $500M for the pipeline.
Daniel:
Here’s a link to my response to you about this issue over at Culture11. I hope the link works for you.
http://culture11.com/blogs/theconfabulum/2008/10/03/utter-nonsense-from-sarah-palin/#comment-1394
Daniel,
Unfortunately, I posted over at Culture11 before looking at your blog here. I appreciate your taking the time to respond. I can see you’re a busy man. It was nice of you to stick up for your friend Conor. That’s what friends do.
Have a great day!
I see that I need to update my reference to Gov. Palin’s understanding of the job description for the position to which she aspires. She’s just said that the Vice President is “in charge” of the Senate. So apparently her understanding of this gig continues to, uh, evolve. I wonder if the elementary school student was as surprised with this answer as Senator Reid presumably was. I frankly hadn’t bought much into the Quayle comparisons previously, but now I can see that both individuals apparently got tripped up handling a schoolboy’s question.