Nope. Didn't watch her interview with Charlie Gibson. Don't really like either person.
From what I read, she handled the God question pretty well on Iraq--quoting Abraham Lincoln. I am not sure I believe her, since that approach is completely opposite to the Bush Christianist take on God and America. But perhaps her statement reflects at least an understanding of how extreme that approach is to many Americans.
She, evidently, saber-rattled on Russia, which makes me just cringe. Where are those troops coming from, there Governor? But the weirdest part was when Gibson asked her if she agreed with the "Bush Doctrine." It seems clear that she doesn't know what that is. The fundamental switch in foreign policy under this administration, and she is clueless.
Please don't tell me she is prepared to be a foreign policy leader. I know she claims that she is because she just knows she is. More leading from the gut. That has worked so very well.
And, like Bush, btw, there are some really bizarre takes on public policy. McClatchy reports that under Palin's mayoral rule, the town of Wasilla charged rape victims for the cost of their exam. The town's decision forced a change in state law to ban such a practice.
Sigh.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/12/AR2008091202457.html
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Just wanted to say I think you are being a little unfair to Palin as the above article explains.
Yeah, except even Krauthammer doesn't have it right. It isn't preemptive war. We have long had the ability to attack someone we knew was going to attack us. The Bush doctrine (and he can cloud the issue all he wants) was the ability to do a "preventative" war. Do we forget the "mushroom cloud" argument?
Of course, Krauthammer and Bill Kristol remain some of the very few neocons still carrying Bush's water--and now Sarah Palin.
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