Sen. Chuck Hagel of Nebraska became the nation's most prominent Republican officeholder to publicly question whether Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has the experience to serve as president. It goes to show we still have some good Republicans, although most of them are on the Un-straight Talk Express headed for Spinville and Propaganda City.
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published last 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."
Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not? "I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president," he said.
McCain and other Republicans have blindly 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."
Hagel took issue with that. "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, serves alongside Senator Barack Obama and he knows Obama is not a lightweight on foreign relations. Indeed, Obama has immersed himself in the facts and policies that will make America a respected leader in the world once again.
Not only is Palin a cipher in foreign relations, no matter that she had a day of photo opportunities at the United Nations yesterday (no questions were allowed from reporters – imagine that!), but her education does not compare to Obama’s, or even Biden’s. He went to Columbia and graduated at the top of his class at Harvard Law School. Biden has a law degree from Syracuse University.
In 1984, Palin won the Miss Wasilla beauty contest (playing the flute and winning the "Miss Congeniality" award as well), then finished third (second runner up) in the Miss Alaska pageant, at which she won a college scholarship. Palin attended Hawaii Pacific College -- now known as Hawaii Pacific University -- in Honolulu, Hawaii, in 1982 for a semester, where she majored in Business Administration, and transferred in 1983 to North Idaho College. In 1987, Palin received a Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho. So she has a Bachelor's degree in communications, and no post graduate studies.
Not only is Palin under qualified educationally and experience-wise, but she obviously has little regard for the laws of the land. Sounds a lot like Bush-Cheney, does it not? Palin's husband has refused to testify in the ethics investigation of his wife, and a key lawmaker said Thursday that uncooperative witnesses are effectively sidetracking the inquiry until after Election Day.
Todd Palin, who participates in state business in person or by e-mail, was among 13 people subpoenaed by the Alaska Legislature. McCain-Palin presidential campaign spokesman, super lawyer Ed O'Callaghan, said Thursday that Todd Palin would not appear, because he no longer believes the investigation is “legitimate.” It is so nice that he and Sarah Barracuda can pick and choose what investigation by the state legislature is legitimate. Give me a break!
State Sen. Bill Wielechowski of Alasaka, a Democrat, said the McCain-Palin campaign is doing all it can to prevent the Legislature from completing a report on whether the GOP's vice presidential nominee abused her power as governor. This shows us what the McCain-Palin administration will be like if elected to office – MORE OF THE SAME: FOUR MORE YEARS OF THE LAST EIGHT, TERRIBLE YEARS! REPUBLICANS DO NOT DESERVE IT, AMERICA! Wake up and fire the party that got us into this mess!
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment