Palin To Meet With A Slew Of World Leaders In New York

By: Scott Conroy
Topics: Sarah Palin

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From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(ORLANDO, Fla.) Now we know why Sarah Palin has had so much downtime lately. She's been taking a crash course on planet earth.

Over the course of just 30 hours in New York City starting on Tuesday, the Republican vice-presidential nominee is scheduled to meet with seven world leaders, the face of American foreign policy during the Nixon and Ford administrations, and the most famous social activist in the world. The meetings are being held in conjunction with the opening of the United Nations General Assembly.

Besides her previously reported meetings with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, Colombian President Alvaro Uribe and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, Palin will hold separate private talks with Iraqi President Jalal Talabani, Pakistani President Ali Zardari, Indian Prime Minister Manmohan Singh, Georgian President Mikheil Saakashvili, Ukrainian President Viktor Yushchenko and U2's Bono.

Palin, who didn't own a passport until 2007, will spend Tuesday and Wednesday in New York juggling issues ranging from fighting in Kashmir and the Caucuses to AIDS in Africa and free trade in Latin America.

When her meetings come to an end, Palin will have just one week to prepare to debate Democratic vice-presidential nominee Joe Biden, who has traveled the world on Congressional delegations throughout his 35 years in the Senate and chairs the Foreign Relations Committee. If Palin finds Bono to be verbose when it comes to his foreign policy views, just wait until she meets Biden.

Scott Conroy
Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.
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by steeepe September 23, 2008 2:51 PM EDT: Palin is a religious nut who believes in creationism, the "Rapture", and talking in tongues and wanted to ban books in her town library. It is preposterous that someone so ignorant is running for VP and may have a chance at President. It shows how generally moronic the U.S. has become and how intelligence and rationality are no longer valued by many Americans. I bet that the founding fathers couldn''t get elected today. They were too well read and smart to have a chance. The GOP would ridicule them as elitists.; Reply to this comment


by alicerea1 September 23, 2008 9:55 AM EDT: (continued) part 2

Obama%u2019s milieu is the intersection of Chicago politics and the fringe Left; there is much to be explored and explained about Obama. Below is a partial list where Obama remains unvetted:

1. Trinity United Church of Christ. Obama%u2019s 20-year membership in an explicitly racist church, a church with rhetoric too hot for Oprah.

2. Rezko. Obama%u2019s ties to Tony Rezko and the 2005 purchase of the Obamas%u2019 home. Obama funnelling money to Rezko%u2019s sleazy businesses.
3. Ayers. Obama%u2019s extensive ties to unrepentant terroist Bill Ayers.

4. Chicago Annenberg Challenge (CAC). Obama and Ayers together dispensing tens of millions of dollars supposedly for educational organizations.

Although now just being investigated, it%u2019s known that money was funnelled to Ayers%u2019 friend, radical Mike Klonsky, a founding member of the Maoist Party of the United States.

5. Minister Louis Farrakhan. Obama is surrounded by people like Rev. Willie Barrow, a friend and admirer of the anti-white, anti-Semitic Farrakhan.

If the media doesn%u2019t do their job, we may end up with this guy as President.; Reply to this comment


by alicerea1 September 23, 2008 9:54 AM EDT: Stop knocking Palin and start Vetting Obama.

A Plea to the Media:
Vet Obama!

Below is a limited list of areas where the media has failed to investigate Obama.

This list does not include Obama%u2019s many policy reversals or outright fabrications, like the statement that the Kennedy family facilitated his father coming to the United States.

It does not include Obama%u2019s habit of voting %u2018present%u2019 as a member of the Illinois State Senate nor his strange maneuverings regarding a born alive bill.

Instead, the list below concerns Obama%u2019s associates and business dealings.

It is a sordid group, comprised of the America-hating, anti-Israel, and explicitly racial Left. There is big money involved, as with the Chicago Annenberg Challenge, and bizarre organizations to which money was funneled.

part 1 (continued); Reply to this comment


by alicerea1 September 23, 2008 9:52 AM EDT: Thank God that there is a lady in this race.

The media is so disrespectful, it''s embarrassing for America.

The world is watching; Reply to this comment


by metsobitso September 22, 2008 12:06 PM EDT: Palin meets with a slew of world leaders. Maybe she will get their autographs.; Reply to this comment


by sleepyric September 22, 2008 10:45 AM EDT: Palin meets with a slew of world leaders. World leaders leave meeting shaking their heads. Side note: Next time you watch Palin with McCain lurking behind her - watch him checking our her rear end. Then watch Cindy, watching John. Something wierd there?????; Reply to this comment


by julian1413 September 22, 2008 5:57 AM EDT: Truthfully - it''s not about the Candidates - it''s about the campaign Managers and their fight to win. McCain''s camp ridiculed Obama for being inexperienced with very little foreign affairs. The Obama''s mistake was arranging an outdoor speaking event that Angela Merkel, the German Chancellor expressed her distaste for.

So now the Obama camp is ridiculing Palin for the same thing and the McCain camp is determined to arrange International meetings for her all week long to top Obama''s. Oh how the Liberals will scream.

If only the Americans could see through all the games the Campaigns are playing, get straight answers from all the candidates and vote on their policies and positions. Maybe if the Media wasn''t so hungry for ratings we could have had a normal election.; Reply to this comment


by urnot September 22, 2008 5:49 AM EDT: She is a complete fraud.

Shaking hands with world leaders does not make her suddenly knowledgeable any more than living where "she can see Russia" does.

What a complete joke.

I suppose there are a lot of Americans who will buy this fraud. It says more about the sad state of American education than id says about this unqualified empty suit running for GOP V.P.; Reply to this comment


by twocanpete September 22, 2008 1:09 AM EDT: http://twocanpete.blogspot.com/
Wow, Palin is going to be sitting next to Bono! If living neext to Russian makes her a diplomat I suppose this will make her a middle aged rock star.; Reply to this comment