Hagel Says Palin Not Qualified

By: Vaughn Ververs
Topics: Sarah Palin

Retiring Republican Senator Chuck Hagel told the Omaha World Herald today that he does not think Sarah Palin is qualified to be president. "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," he said. "She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel added. "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."

More Hagel: "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.' That kind of thing is insulting to the American people." Hagel says he has no plans to endorse either presidential candidate but he has spoken highly of Obama and accompanied him on his summer trip to Iraq and Afghanistan. Hagel has also been a vocal critic of his party when it comes to the war in Iraq.

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by dalva0 September 19, 2008 6:08 AM EDT: Sarah Palin, Rocks!!; Reply to this comment


by kuei12 September 19, 2008 1:51 AM EDT: "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

The past eight years have been insulting to the american people.; Reply to this comment


by markuzz1 September 18, 2008 8:38 PM EDT: The choice of Sarah Palin was a huge mistake. As a Republican i consider it too grave a chance that john McCain took and it thus goes far to show that he probably have stopped to think very well. The wellbeing of the entire American people are too precious to be gambled with and for this reason i am going to vote for Obama as the president of the united states of america; Reply to this comment


by alainva September 18, 2008 7:14 PM EDT: To Mainstream Media, I have to say that who are you? Are you Reporters of Truths or Messengers of Lies Deceptions and Propagandas? Chuck Hagel is right. McCain and Palin should be vote out for many reasons; Unemployment getting close to 7%, Stock Market Collapsed, Gas price is as high as ever, Everything else went up 25%, People are loosing their home daily, and McCain and his Economic adviser Mr. Gramm had to do a lot with these problems, yet most of medias supporting McCain /Palin since they do not want to admit that either they are paid off or scared of Republicans. McCain and Palin are on the wrong side of all issues and yet he gets free ride from Medias. All McCain%u2019s staff are Lobbyist and the worst on is Bill Gramm. McCain has no plan for economy and at many occasions he said he does not understand it. He is the ultimate flip flapper. Palin lied about bridge to no where, since she was for it and politician in D.C killed it and she kept almost 400 million dollar money. She abused her power and fired a commissionaire for personal reason. She was Mayor of six thousand people city , when she took over city had surplus when she left city had deficit even so that she took 27 million dollar of tax payers money that was given to her by D. C through her lobbies. Mainstream Medias are betraying Americans once more without any shame by supporting McBush.; Reply to this comment


by alainva September 18, 2008 7:12 PM EDT: To Mainstream Media, I have to say that who are you? Are you Reporters of Truths or Messengers of Lies Deceptions and Propagandas? Chuck Hagel is right. McCain and Palin should be vote out for many reasons; Unemployment getting close to 7%, Stock Market Collapsed, Gas price is as high as ever, Everything else went up 25%, People are loosing their home daily, and McCain and his Economic adviser Mr. Gramm had to do a lot with these problems, yet most of medias supporting McCain /Palin since they do not want to admit that either they are paid off or scared of Republicans. McCain and Palin are on the wrong side of all issues and yet he gets free ride from Medias. All McCain%u2019s staff are Lobbyist and the worst on is Bill Gramm. McCain has no plan for economy and at many occasions he said he does not understand it. He is the ultimate flip flapper. Palin lied about bridge to no where, since she was for it and politician in D.C killed it and she kept almost 400 million dollar money. She abused her power and fired a commissionaire for personal reason. She was Mayor of six thousand people city , when she took over city had surplus when she left city had deficit even so that she took 27 million dollar of tax payers money that was given to her by D. C through her lobbies. Mainstream Medias are betraying Americans once more without any shame by supporting McBush.; Reply to this comment


by smart4peace September 18, 2008 7:07 PM EDT: Palin and McCain were able to convince white women who don''t even agree with them on any
substantive issue to support them, because suddenly Palin''s
presence on the ticket has inspired confidence
in these same white women, and made them give the rat party a "second look." Scary that folks like them get to vote. Catch them in the middle of their cycle??? As a women, I find these sorry excuses for females to be embarrassing. Truth is, they were jealous of the Hillary supporters'' passion, jealous of the dem''s passion for change, so they jumped on the first sinking ship that went past. How sorry for them.; Reply to this comment


by alainva September 18, 2008 7:03 PM EDT: To Mainstream Media, I have to say that who are you? Are you Reporters of Truths or Messengers of Lies Deceptions and Propagandas? Chuck Hagel is right. McCain and Palin should be vote out for many reasons; Unemployment getting close to 7%, Stock Market Collapsed, Gas price is as high as ever, Everything else went up 25%, People are loosing their home daily, and McCain and his Economic adviser Mr. Gramm had to do a lot with these problems, yet most of medias supporting McCain /Palin since they do not want to admit that either they are paid off or scared of Republicans. McCain and Palin are on the wrong side of all issues and yet he gets free ride from Medias. All McCain%u2019s staff are Lobbyist and the worst on is Bill Gramm. McCain has no plan for economy and at many occasions he said he does not understand it. He is the ultimate flip flapper. Palin lied about bridge to no where, since she was for it and politician in D.C killed it and she kept almost 400 million dollar money. She abused her power and fired a commissionaire for personal reason. She was Mayor of six thousand people city , when she took over city had surplus when she left city had deficit even so that she took 27 million dollar of tax payers money that was given to her by D. C through her lobbies. Mainstream Medias are betraying Americans once more without any shame by supporting McBush.; Reply to this comment


by alainva September 18, 2008 7:03 PM EDT: To Mainstream Media, I have to say that who are you? Are you Reporters of Truths or Messengers of Lies Deceptions and Propagandas? Chuck Hagel is right. McCain and Palin should be vote out for many reasons; Unemployment getting close to 7%, Stock Market Collapsed, Gas price is as high as ever, Everything else went up 25%, People are loosing their home daily, and McCain and his Economic adviser Mr. Gramm had to do a lot with these problems, yet most of medias supporting McCain /Palin since they do not want to admit that either they are paid off or scared of Republicans. McCain and Palin are on the wrong side of all issues and yet he gets free ride from Medias. All McCain%u2019s staff are Lobbyist and the worst on is Bill Gramm. McCain has no plan for economy and at many occasions he said he does not understand it. He is the ultimate flip flapper. Palin lied about bridge to no where, since she was for it and politician in D.C killed it and she kept almost 400 million dollar money. She abused her power and fired a commissionaire for personal reason. She was Mayor of six thousand people city , when she took over city had surplus when she left city had deficit even so that she took 27 million dollar of tax payers money that was given to her by D. C through her lobbies. Mainstream Medias are betraying Americans once more without any shame by supporting McBush.; Reply to this comment


by hugochavez9 September 18, 2008 6:46 PM EDT: And the devil came here yesterday.

Yesterday, the devil came here. Right here. Right here. And it smells of sulfur still today, this table that I am now standing in front of.

Yesterday, ladies and gentlemen, from this rostrum, the president of the United States, the gentleman to whom I refer as the devil, came here, talking as if he owned the world. Truly. As the owner of the world.; Reply to this comment


by etchingpress September 18, 2008 6:44 PM EDT: I have to give the GOP some credit where it is due. They have virtually perfected running entire campaigns (and a nation quite frankly) on political schemes which ignore empirical evidence. Sometimes--brilliantly; just look at their handling of the run-up to the Iraq War. Not many parties have the talent it takes to lead a democratic nation to war based largely on fallacies. What I don''t understand is how huge swaths of the American public still buy into it their policies. I have never been under the assumption that all Americans have the same knowledge of issues, or the same expertise of obscure talking points; but I would like to assume that Americans are capable of analyzing the actions of our elected officials and to hold them accountable. It is so frustrating to know that a political party knowingly mocks our collective intelligence again and again. And we let them. Turn off your televisions and read. Frederick Douglas said that the best weapon a slave owner had was ignorance. The GOP has proven this statement--and there''s plenty of empirical evidence.; Reply to this comment