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I See Russian People

September 28, 2008 By Laurel

Senator Chuck Hagel (R-Nebraska)

“[Sarah Palin] doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said Wednesday in an interview. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”

The McCain campaign has cited the proximity of Alaska to Russia as evidence of her international experience.

Hagel scoffed at that notion.

“I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'” he said. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”

H/T Pam Spaulding

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  1. sabutai says

    September 28, 2008 at 8:02 pm

    Republican presidential nominee John McCain defended running mate Sarah Palin on Sunday, even as she contradicted his policy against talking publicly about attacking terrorist targets in Pakistan.

    McCain chided Democrat Barack Obama during Friday’s presidential debate for saying publicly he supports striking terrorist targets inside Pakistan if the Pakistani government is unable or unwilling to do so.

    […]

    “You don’t say that out loud,” McCain said during the debate. “If you have to do things, you do things.”

    But on Saturday, Palin said much the same thing to a customer at a Philadelphia restaurant, with the press nearby.

    […]

    McCain said Palin’s exchange was not an official policy statement.

    “I don’t think most Americans think that that’s a definitive policy statement made by Governor Palin,” McCain said.

    <

    p>This is new.  From time to time, what the would-be vice president of the United States says will be labeled “unofficial”.  As in, if it sounds crazy and naive, it magically doesn’t count.  The only world leader I’ve before seen treated that way was in the aftermath of some (likely) drunken ramblings from Boris Yeltsin during a visit to a former Soviet Republic.

    • sabutai says

      September 28, 2008 at 8:35 pm

      The American:

      “If that’s what we have to do [operate our military in Pakistan] to stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should,” Palin said in the exchange, which was captured on video and reported by CBS News.

      [..]

      McCain said Palin’s exchange was not an official policy statement.

      “I don’t think most Americans think that that’s a definitive policy statement made by Governor Palin,” McCain said.

      The Russian:

      [Boris Yeltsin] spluttered out words to the effect that if President Bill Clinton were to cause some sort of accident in Yugoslavia, Russia would “send a missile”.

      Mr Yeltsin’s press spokesman, Dmitry Yakushkin, moved so fast that journalists were left in no doubt that this could not be regarded as a statement of policy.

      <

      p>Boy, that “narrow maritime border” is looking narrower by the day.

      <

      p>(cross-posted)

      • david says

        September 28, 2008 at 10:59 pm

  2. sabutai says

    September 30, 2008 at 7:41 pm

    Now it turns out that McCain thinks Hugo Chavez either lives in the Middle East, or os the name of a country in the Middle East:

    <

    p>

    <

    p>McCain: “ensuring that America is secure, and not dependent on oil from people like Hugo Chavez or other parts of the Middle East which is, we know, could be destabilized under certain sets of circumstances.”

    <

    p>(H/T)

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