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Rove: Bush Had Foreign Policy Experience Because Texas Is Near Mexico
newshounds.us - 9/2/2008
Rove: Bush Had Foreign Policy Experience Because Texas Is Near Mexico
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Just as Cindy McCain laughably suggested that Sarah Palin knows foreign policy because Alaska is near Russia, Karl Rove insisted to Alan Colmes last night that George W. Bush had foreign policy experience as governor of Texas because Texas is on the Mexico border. Rove also tacitly admitted ...

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Rove: Bush Had Foreign Policy Experience Because Texas Is Near Mexico
The Latest on Air America — We actually let these people run our country for 8 years? Via Newshounds.

Rove: Bush Had Foreign Policy Experience Because Texas Is Near Mexico
Think Progress — ... .” Rove dodged the question, replying, “No, I was critical of Obama making a political decision.” (HT: News Hounds ) Transcript: COLMES: Would it have been better for John McCain to make a governing decision? ROVE: Well, look, he made the decision that he did, and it was a brilliant decision. COLMES: Well, we don’t know that, because the election’s not over. But you were critical of Tim Kaine, saying that would be a political decision. ROVE: No, I was critical of Obama making a political decision. He ended up making a political decision. He ended up taking a person who ...

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