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Sarah Palin doesn’t know what the Bush Doctrine is?? She’s a champion bullshitter, but when you’re running for a position as important as the vice presidency, it’s a good idea to know one of the central policies of the person you’re trying to replace.
If Palin knowing more about energy policy than anybody else in the whole wide world counts as foreign policy experience, how is that applicable to the war she’s trying to start with Russia? Is there some sort of oil rivalry between Russia and Georgia that I don’t know about?
Finally, both Palin and McCain are now fully onboard with the bizarre “Alaska is next to Russia” school of foreign policy credentials, which is sorta like me making the claim that I speak fluent Spanish because I live next door to a Mexican guy.
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“Is there some sort of oil rivalry between Russia and Georgia that I don’t know about?”
No, but there is a serious issue concerning the oil pipeline intended to bring Central Asian oil to Western markets that runs through Georgia, a project that was initiated by Bill Clinton and continued under Bush in an effort to undermine Russia and its general lock over energy resources in its “backyard.” That American, bipartisan, imperialist policy made the Russian junior imperialists both jumpy and angry and led quite naturally to the Georgian situation, with the helping hand of Saakashvili, the bipartisan foreign policy elite here, the Israeli government, and perhaps the McCain campaign (certainly with the ex post facto aid of both the McCain and Obama campaigns). Of course, if you took off your partisan blinders for a second, Greg, you might have bothered to look into the situation and attempted to see where the play actually lies rather than just latching on to any ignorant thing as an attempt to cudgel the McCain campaign (which, I admit, is possibly more noxious than the Obama campaign, although Obama is working hard to prove me wrong).
Bah! Liberals!
If you were at all capable of stepping away from the partisan
Comment by Rojo — September 11, 2008 @ 8:41 pm
Hola senor Greg. Donde esta la voting booth?
For a definition of the phrase ‘disconnected from reality’, see Sarah Palin trying to answer policy questions with republican sound bites. It gets particularly interesting when the questions outnumber the soundbites and she has to repeat the same soundbite over and over. Not to be confused with the Rain Man….
And hey Rojo, the Georgia dance wouldn’t have happened without Putin getting out his old KGB dancing slippers…. He and Cheney are soul mates.
Comment by kamachanda — September 12, 2008 @ 1:20 am
And don’t forget…visiting a German restaurant in Ohio also enhances foreign policy credentials.
Comment by Doobie — September 12, 2008 @ 8:23 pm
For Rojo: The oil factor in the Russia/Georgia conflagration is based on the geographic location of Georgia, which makes it a great way to route oil (in pipelines) from Kazakhstan and the other -stans of the old Soviet Union to the West, bypassing Russia. Russia understandably resents the push of the U.S.A., etc. to cut out its hegemony over that oil. That is the prime motivation for Russia’s meddling with the Ossetians and Abkhazians to induce Georgia to do something stupid, which it did when it tried to take back the separatist provences. Russia intended to create doubt in the business interests that were in line to finance that pipeline, and the degree to which they were successful is yet to be determined. The drop in the Russian stock markets may (or may not) be long enough to inhibit future Russian adventures of this sort. But watch the Russian activities in the Crimea (of The Ukraine) where Russia is beginning to play the same game as it did in Georgia. Thanks to George W. Bush and his “looking into the soul” of Putin, we supposedly have nothing to fear. That is one area that McCain genuinely does differ from Bush, but he is so far to the right that it may not make any practical difference.
Comment by DB for sanity — September 13, 2008 @ 3:14 pm
Guys, I don’t wanna get too excited too quickly here, but using Palin’s logic, thanks to a little thing I like to call Google Earth, I am now qualified to RULE THE WOOOOOOORRRRRLLLLLD!!!!
Everybody but Rojo gets a cabinet position. (Post as Azul and we’ll talk.)
Comment by briantologist — September 15, 2008 @ 7:05 pm
Disconnected from reality much?
According to the McSame team, any sentence containing the word “lipstick” automatically applies directly, explicitly, and intentionally to Sarah Palin. By this logic, any sentence with “Pitbull”, “Hockey-mom”, “pig” or pretty much any animal reference must surely have some kinda Palin implication in there somewhere.
Examples of hands-on experience with foreign policy includes “energy” (a one word sentence), catching a connecting flight at an airport in a foreign country and living in a state that’s “near” a foreign country (4,341 miles from Anchorage to Moscow).
After 7 years of voting with GW Bush on a 90% plus basis, each year more than the one before, McCain represents “Change is a-comin”.
Comment by DigitalDave — September 16, 2008 @ 10:11 am