Sarah Palin:
She then slammed Barack Obama calling him disqualified to be
President of the United States, "Some of his comments that he has made
about the war that I think may in my world disqualifies someone
from consideration as the next commander in chief." Palin said, "Some
of his comments about Afghanistan and what we are doing there
supposedly just air raiding villages and killing civilians. That's
reckless. So I wanted to talk about things like that. So I guess I
have to apologize about being a little annoyed, but that is also an
indication of being outside that Washington elite and being outside
the media elite also and just wanting to talk and just wanting to talk
to Americans without the filter and let them know what we stand for."
Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, two weeks ago:
U.S. Secretary of Defense Robert Gates apologized Wednesday for
recent U.S. airstrikes that have killed civilians in Afghanistan.
"I offer all Afghans my sincere condolences and personal regrets
for the recent loss of innocent life as a result of coalition air
strikes," Gates said at a news conference outside the U.S. Embassy in
Kabul.
"While no military has ever done more to prevent civilian
casualties, it is clear that we have to work even harder."--
Daniel Larison has been chronicling her nonsense on this on an almost
daily basis, so I will just leave you with a quote from him about the
Palin choice:
For my part, I have made no secret that I welcome McCain's defeat,
so you might say that I am so biased against the ticket that you
should ignore what I say, but it seems clear to me that the
ever-declining standards that conservatives have set for what makes a
candidate acceptable to them and the declining quality of the
political leadership they have received are very closely related.--
It is not an unfair attack to state that on matters great and small
alike, Sarah Palin has demonstrated that she has no idea what she is
talking about. And on the few occasions that she decides she should
speak freely to the press, it is clear that she is just passing on
jingoistic claptrap and unadulterated nonsense. Which, then again, may
explain her appeal to the Republican base.
~~ by John Cole, former Republican
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