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salon.com - 8/30/2008
Gov. Palin and Iraq
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Presumably, John McCain would only select a candidate for vice president who shared his supposedly clear-eyed vision about Iraq, who had also called for -- or at least thought it was a good idea -- to push more troops into Iraq in 2007. Well, maybe Sarah Palin thought the surge was great, or ...

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Daily Kos:  Apples and Oranges

The Poor Man Institute:  So bizarre

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Apples and Oranges
Daily Kos — ... Russia's challenge to the free and democratic country of Georgia. Barack Obama and I will end this neglect. We will hold Russia accountable for its actions, and we'll help the people of Georgia rebuild. I've been on the ground in Georgia, Iraq, Pakistan and Afghanistan, and I can tell you in no uncertain terms: this Administration's policy has been an abject failure. America cannot afford four more years of this. Republican Vice-Presidential Candidate Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska for about 18 months, and former mayor of Wasilla, pop. 6000: ...

So bizarre
The Poor Man Institute — ... might view the role of the Cabinet - to settle her scores - and her executive authority - unconstrained, transferrable to unelected proxies.  It would be nice if we had some more significant insights into how she would govern, but unless someone wants to tease some kind of Presidential War Powers philosophy out of then-Mayor Palin’s response to a flagrant facemask penalty in the Wasilla vs. Lower Moosenads HS football game, it’s pretty much all we get.  She seems like a complete zero. ...

Country First or Alaska First?
Daily Kos — ... It's bad enough that Palin has said she hasn't paid attention to Iraq because she was focused on state issues, but we need a vice-president who isn't myopically focused on Alaskan issues. ...

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Palin is seemingly unaware of McCain’s Iraq plan. — Think Progress
In an interview with Time Magazine today, Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK), Sen. John McCain’s (R-AZ) running mate, suggested that McCain has yet to share his plan for Iraq with her. Palin, who has not been to Iraq , said she does not know “what the plan is to ever end the war.” She ...
Palin has never been to Iraq. — Think Progress
“ Speaking with evident condescension ” earlier this year, John McCain assaulted Barack Obama for having visited Iraq only once. (Obama subsequently visited Iraq for a second time recently.) “Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once,” he said, “my friends, this is about leadership and learning ...