Palin is qualified?

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http://news.yahoo.com/story//ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/hagel_palin

ASHINGTON ? Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published 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. You can't say anything."

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 of the United States," Hagel said.

McCain and other Republicans have 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, from an island in Alaska."

Hagel took issue with that argument. "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, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.

In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn't expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama's running mate.

Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, before becoming Alaska's governor in December 2006.

Palin visited soldiers in Kuwait and Germany last year and said in an interview with ABC News that her only other foreign travel had been to Mexico and Canada. She also said she had never met a foreign head of state.

Hagel told the newspaper that other governors have been elected to serve in the White House without experience in Washington. He said judgment and character were also important for the job.

"But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world," Hagel said. "I think that's just a requirement."

Why didn't we vote for this guy?
 

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very few governors have foreign policy experience....but we keep electing them....i wonder why that is...maybe because they have exectutive experience...
 

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I hear the "executive experience" reference alot among republicans when talking about Palin and OBama's lack thereof. What "executive" experience does the 30 year "maverick" senator have?
 

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I hear the "executive experience" reference alot among republicans when talking about Palin and OBama's lack thereof. What "executive" experience does the 30 year "maverick" senator have?

don't know mccain's full resume but wouldn't a person who led men in the military be considered having executive experience....

and btw i am not a republican...just voting for one...
 
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don't know mccain's full resume but wouldn't a person who led men in the military be considered having executive experience....

and btw i am not a republican...just voting for one...


Well if any leadership experience = executive experience... half of all Americans have it.

Troop leader, basketball coach, middle-manager, block captain...

I believe senators fair poorly because they can never portray themselves as outsiders... cause they aint.

The executive experience governors have is valid, I suppose since they run a state from top to bottom... at least budget-wise

Clinton, Reagon were two governors who handled foreign relations OK... so I don't think you have to have a VAST foreign policy experience to be President... but some world view, some sophistication, something beyond folksy or religious charm, is probably called for.

Dunno, I doubt McCain is going to croak on day 1, so it's probably moot.
 

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wll obama backers think that mccain is going to die right after he is sworn in...

What do think the odds would be of him making it in good health through all 4 years??

I wish he got the nomination & won 8 years ago. He would have been a lot better than Bush,

Then again, anyone would have done better than Bush. :(
 

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I think the question Hagle has is not whether McCain lives or not but if Palin is qualified.

My own view is that I am not sure about Obama. I am sure that I don't like McCains politics. As for Biden I think Obama made a mistake. I kind of like the guy but America doesn't. He ran for President longer than anyone and he got the fewest votes of anyone. Obama should have picked someone that would help him get votes where he is weak. Maybe he thinks he did by getting Biden for experience.:shrug:
McCain picked Palin to help him where he was weak. But in doing so he picked a cutesy woman who has all the right answers except she doesn't even have the experience to face the press. That is how I see it anyway. I think executive experience is over rated. Bush had it and he has not fared that well.
Even if you want to say the "Surge" worked you still have to ask why he waited so long to put more boots on the ground.
 

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Nice to hear a real man, a real Republican who puts the country before the party and not some phony republican like some on this site. You won't get a bunch of bullshit from Hagel like these other phony snakes. Hagel would have made a great president.
 

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don't know if shes qualified but somebodies interested in her--was guest on Hannity last night-
pretty good showing for "vice pres candidate" wouldn't you say?

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Nice to hear a real man, a real Republican who puts the country before the party and not some phony republican like some on this site. You won't get a bunch of bullshit from Hagel like these other phony snakes. Hagel would have made a great president.

now, let's hear the same from a Democrat. Please post if u find it.
 

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now, let's hear the same from a Democrat. Please post if u find it.

i heard a ton of
Democrats say the same thing as Hagel. This is a phony, lying piece of garbage they found out in Alaska, who uses religion to con people who need to be led. Not in those exact same words but that is what they all mean. They can't come out and say it because the gullible lipstick on a pig crowd will get fooled again. McCain use to be just like Hagel and then he turned into a lying no good piece of garbage. Don't mean to sugar coat it. Just sayin.
 

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Stevie, could you imagine if these no good scummy crooks would have gotten there hands on Social Security? Remember how they had all the clueless tricked into thinking they were gonna fix it and how the Dems didn't want to help? These crooks wanted to get their hands on that money so bad they could taste it. Every senior citizen counting on that check would be so down in the dumps right now. These dirtbags have no shame.
 

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i heard a ton of
Democrats say the same thing as Hagel. This is a phony, lying piece of garbage they found out in Alaska, who uses religion to con people who need to be led. Not in those exact same words but that is what they all mean. They can't come out and say it because the gullible lipstick on a pig crowd will get fooled again. McCain use to be just like Hagel and then he turned into a lying no good piece of garbage. Don't mean to sugar coat it. Just sayin.

no, you tool, I want a Democrat to say something bad about Obama. Don't u see the irony?? :confused:
 

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no, you tool, I want a Democrat to say something bad about Obama. Don't u see the irony?? :confused:

:mj07: knew exactly what you meant :mj07:

Did you miss the debates? Biden said it, Hillary said it, hell they all said it but please lets be realistic here. On one hand we have one guy who has been an up and coming star that we all have heard of. On the other side we have some broad nobody has ever heard of and in no way was this Penticastol nut bag thought of as an up and coming star of the Republican party. If Obama picked Hillary we still woud'nt know anything about this Penticastol nut. She is a stand up comedians dream. Her foreign experience comes from being able to see Russia from her Igloo:mj07: I can see a track and field from my house so now i like to be called Usain Bolt :mj07:
 

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:mj07: knew exactly what you meant :mj07:

Did you miss the debates? Biden said it, Hillary said it, hell they all said it but please lets be realistic here. On one hand we have one guy who has been an up and coming star that we all have heard of. On the other side we have some broad nobody has ever heard of and in no way was this Penticastol nut bag thought of as an up and coming star of the Republican party. If Obama picked Hillary we still woud'nt know anything about this Penticastol nut. She is a stand up comedians dream. Her foreign experience comes from being able to see Russia from her Igloo:mj07: I can see a track and field from my house so now i like to be called Usain Bolt :mj07:

sounds like she is just about as much qualified as Obama. :eek:
 

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sounds like she is just about as much qualified as Obama. :eek:

There is more people in my city then in Alaska. I grew up with our mayor. I don't want that simple fuk anywhere near the Whitehouse. Heck i don't even want him near my house.
 
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