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Palin stumped when asked to explain her preconditions for meeting foreign leaders.
Think Progress —
Gov. Sarah Palin has attacked Sen. Barack Obama for being “so off base in his proclamation that he would meet with some of these leaders around our world who would seek to destroy America and that, and without preconditions being met.” When asked by NBC’s Brian Williams what are some of those preconditions she envisions, Palin was stumped:
WILLIAMS: Governor Palin, yesterday you tied this notion of an early test to the new president. Would this notion of precondition –
PALIN: Right.
WILLIAMS: — that you both have been hammering the Obama campaign on. What — first of all, what in your mind is a ...
Sarah Palin Unprepared To Explain What A Precondition Is
Daily Kos —
McCain's attention seems to be wandering: Update (5:40PM): Here's a link to the full interview broadcast on tonight's NBC Nightly News broadcast. Note how McCain doesn't even seem to believe himself when he says that he's got Obama and Biden right here he wants them.
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Palin Denounces Negotiations Without Preconditions, Supports Negotiations Without Preconditions
Matthew Yglesias —
One of the virtues of Sarah Palin being badly underbriefed about national security issues, is that she has to rely on common sense to bluff her way through questions, and she keeps accidentally straying from conservative dogma. When asked about the “Bush Doctrine” of preventive war, she said she embraced the doctrine, but then actually outlined a much more reasonable “imminent threat” standard for action. And here she is talking about negotiations without preconditions:
WILLIAMS: What — first of all, what in your mind is a precondition?
PALIN: You have to have some diplomatic strategy going into a meeting ...
The Most Qualified Veep In Recent History Speaks
The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
Palin tries to explain what preconditions are:
Yglesias pounces:
That’s just not what preconditions are. As Ilan Goldenberg says, she’s talking about the need to prepare before a meeting, which is different, “not negotiating until preconditions are met means not starting your negotiating until the other side has met some kind of condition you imposed.” That’s our current policy — that we need to isolate Iran until they preemptively give in to all our demands, and then we can talk. Obama’s proposal is also Palin’s proposal — to negotiate first in hopes of getting a deal. Of course ...
