09-18-2008, 02:31 PM
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GOP senator: A 'stretch' to say Palin is qualified
(Associated Press story)
GOP senator: A 'stretch' to say Palin is qualified WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president. "She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "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." "I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said. McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin's qualifications, citing Alaska's proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska." Hagel took issue with that argument. "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." Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, before becoming Alaska's governor in December 2006. Palin visited soldiers in Kuwait and Germany last year and said in an interview with ABC News that her only other foreign travel had been to Mexico and Canada. She also said she had never met a foreign head of state. Hagel told the newspaper that other governors have been elected to serve in the White House without experience in Washington. He said judgment and character were also important for the job. "But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world," Hagel said. "I think that's just a requirement." |
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09-18-2008, 03:13 PM
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IT`s not easy to have a conversation with somebody who can`t even pronounce the letter `W`..lol. If you`ll be so kind as to read my statement again I did use the word `sometimes`did I not... and there`s not even a `w`to be found..lol...go figure.
If what we`re looking for is the opposite of Bush, then wouldn`t the lady make more sense....excuse the absence of question marks, my keyboard seems to be taking a stroke or sumtin..lol get it, stroke..lol.. 
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09-18-2008, 04:37 PM
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09-18-2008, 04:53 PM
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lmao..`the opposite of man is woman, just like the opposite of weasel is woman..lol..her inexperience just may mean that she`s developed none of the bad habits that some of the men before her have done, and so obviously well I might add, who knows, she just may add a breath of fresh air to the white house, not to mention a woman`s touch..lol...so you see by electing a woman into office we all win, except for you of course who seems to be still stuck in that little corner..lol..hmmmm however WILL you get yourself out of this one...
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09-18-2008, 04:56 PM
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