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It’s well known that facts have a liberal bias
Unqualified Offerings — By Thoreau I agree with the first commenter at ObWi :  It doesn’t matter if Palin had trouble giving an accurate explanation of the Bush doctrine and the distinction between pre-emptive and preventive war.  She was asked about the Bush doctrine, and she said that Bush attacked people who posed a threat to America.  Yes, there’s a difference between the general merits of a doctrine and the merits of a particular policy based on that doctrine.  That’s a fine distinction.  It’s a damn important one, mind you, but in the minds of many it’s a fine one.  ...

Campaign 08: Palin and the Bush Doctrine
The Nation: Top Stories — ... on high alert, and perhaps rightly so. It certainly demonstrates her non-existent command of national security lingo, and indeed, as blogger Hilzoy documents, Palin confused preventive and preemptive war, stating in fact the doctrine of preemptive war (which is not the neo-con doctrine that prevents war through preemption; confusing I know!) That said, I worry the peanut gallery is misreading the Bush doctrine and Palin's ignorant response to Gibson. The central fact is that coherence, clarity and rationality were not, in fact, what sold the Bush doctrine in the first ...

Palin vs Bush
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan — Hilzoy delves into Palin's answer on the Bush doctrine: When, as Palin said, "there is legitimate and enough intelligence that tells us that a strike is imminent against American people", the claim that we have the right to preempt that strike does not require the Bush Doctrine; it just requires the old, and much more widely accepted, doctrine of preemption. That is: in what Palin says here, she's not actually supporting the Bush Doctrine at all. She's just saying what generations of American Presidents and candidates have said: that when ...

links for 2008-09-12
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... JohnMcCain.com - McCain-Palin 2008 Obsidian Wings: Palin And The Bush Doctrine Think Progress » Hannity ...

links for 2008-09-13
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... JohnMcCain.com - McCain-Palin 2008 Obsidian Wings: Palin And The Bush Doctrine Think Progress » Hannity ...

John McCain Is Dishonorable and Dishonest
J. Bradford DeLong's Grasping Reality with All Eight Tentacles — ... Obsidian Wings: Palin And The Bush Doctrine: I watched the first clip of Sarah Palin's interview with Charlie Gibson, and to me, the most striking part was her complete inability to answer the question: "Do you agree with the Bush Doctrine?" Here's what she said: ...