quote: I spent some time on the Governor's Web site seeking more details about her trade negotiations with Russia. There's a press release about Gov. Palin's meeting with a trade mission from the Yukon, but nothing about Russia anywhere in the archives. Tony Knowles, a Democrat who was governor from 1994-2002, led a trade mission -- back in 1997, while Palin was running Wasilla -- to the remote island of Sakhalin, off the coast of Siberia. That seems to be about it for Russia-Alaska trade missions lately.
quote: That’s why I say I, like every American I’m speaking with, we’re ill about this position that we have been put in where it is the taxpayers looking to bail out. But ultimately what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the healthcare reform that is needed to help shore up our economy. Helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track. So health care reform and reducing taxes and reining in spending has got to accompany tax reductions and tax relief for Americans and trade—we’ve got to see trade as opportunity, not as competitive, scary thing, but one in five jobs being created in the trade sector today—we’ve got to look at that as more opportunity.
this is mind blowing
reducing taxes need to accompany tax reductions...
lancer, i think we have our next motto!
quote: Originally posted by Kidicious
Why does she make a big deal about Alaska being close to Russia when Canada is on the border and it's totalitarian.
quote: Originally posted by Asher
We scare her more. She dare not mention our name.
Maybe it's just that, with the exception of the dirty French-speaking part, Canada just doesn't feel very "foreign." Or she might have forgotten you entirely.
Well, there you go. It's not a foreign country, it's just their hockey rivals next door or something. Frankly, I think you're all nuts for living somewhere that cold.
quote: Originally posted by Elok
Well, there you go. It's not a foreign country, it's just their hockey rivals next door or something. Frankly, I think you're all nuts for living somewhere that cold.
You won't be thinking that by the time global warming finishes you off.
SO wait. I have way more countries right next to me (I'm closer to Russia than Palin is, and more to the point, the more important regions of Russia). So I guess that makes me even more of an expert on foreign policy and relations. Cool. Where do I sign up? I can also talk about the.. you know. uhm, borders.
quote: Originally posted by Chemical Ollie
To be fair, she has more foreign experience than GW Bush had in 2000.
How exactly is zero foreign experience greater than zero foreign experience? Also, W is hardly the presidential foreign policy benchmark we should be using as a point of reference.
The SNL thing is gold. I saw that first and had to check out the actual interview -- it was less funny after seeing her torn to shreds by that infamous attack chihuahua Katie Couric.
quote: ANCHORAGE -- Soon after Sarah Palin was elected mayor of the foothill town of Wasilla, Alaska, she startled a local music teacher by insisting in casual conversation that men and dinosaurs coexisted on an Earth created 6,000 years ago -- about 65 million years after scientists say most dinosaurs became extinct -- the teacher said.
After conducting a college band and watching Palin deliver a commencement address to a small group of home-schooled students in June 1997, Wasilla resident Philip Munger said, he asked the young mayor about her religious beliefs.
Palin told him that "dinosaurs and humans walked the Earth at the same time," Munger said. When he asked her about prehistoric fossils and tracks dating back millions of years, Palin said "she had seen pictures of human footprints inside the tracks," recalled Munger, who teaches music at the University of Alaska in Anchorage and has regularly criticized Palin in recent years on his liberal political blog, called Progressive Alaska.
The idea of a "young Earth" -- that God created the Earth about 6,000 years ago, and dinosaurs and humans coexisted early on -- is a popular strain of creationism.
Though in her race for governor she called for faith-based "intelligent design" to be taught along with evolution in Alaska's schools, Gov. Palin has not sought to require it, state educators say.
quote: Originally posted by Asher
Are the republican posters even going to bother trying to excuse her now? It's pretty obvious to everyone she's a terrible choice.
the silence from the usual suspects is somewhat telling
