Sarah Palin: Obama's Terrorism Approach "Fatally Flawed"
(AP)
The same day the president met with his national security team to discuss the security reviews he ordered after the alleged attempt to blow up a plane on Christmas Day, Palin posted a note on Facebook criticizing the administration's response to the event.
Umar Farouk Abdulmutallab, who allegedly attempted to blow up the plane headed for Detroit, Mich., "is an enemy of the United States, not just another criminal defendant," Palin wrote. Abdulmutallab is currently in federal custody, in which he told U.S. investigators he received training and instructions from al Qaeda operatives in Yemen.
"It simply makes no sense to treat an al Qaeda-trained operative willing to die in the course of massacring hundreds of people as a common criminal," Palin wrote. "Reports indicate that Abdulmutallab stated there were many more like him in Yemen but that he stopped talking once he was read his Miranda rights. President Obama's advisers lamely claim Abdulmutallab might be willing to agree to a plea bargain – pretty doubtful you can cut a deal with a suicide bomber."
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She added, "We are at war with radical Islamic extremists and treating this threat as a law enforcement issue is dangerous for our nation's security. That's what happened in the 1990s and we saw the result on September 11, 2001."
Palin fails to address the fact that the Bush administration prosecuted "shoe bomber" Richard Reid, an al Qaeda operative, in civilian court, and he is now serving a life term in maximum-security prison.
The former 2008 vice presidential candidate also says that "acts of terrorism are just that, not 'man caused disasters,'" invoking the infamous phrasing from Homeland Security Secretary Janet Napolitano.
"I was totally misinterpreted in a sense of what I was trying to communicate," Napolitano later told the New York Times. "It was just a mistake. In the editing process, that phrase, usually it's 'terrorism or other man-caused disasters.'"
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[Sarah Palin] knows exactly what magazines she reads but simply refused to answer that question because it was an insult to the Alaskan people! It implied that Alaskans are illiterate and don't know what's going on in the rest of the country. It was an insult! Also none of the other candidates were asked that question! Why should she be? The other candidates' intelligence was always respected. Sarah should have been shown the same respect. She did exactly right by not answering that question.
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Dear JV1970, here's a correction of your attempt at revisionism: on 30 September 2008 aLASka's gubernatorial out-to-lunch (let's be gentle with her, because she's only a woman? I'm reminded of Harry S Truman's comment about heat and kitchens) did _not_ refuse to answer Katie Couric's famous question (about not only magazines but also newspapers). She launched into a prolix answer with floundering but ingratiatingly smiling gusto:
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KC: And when it comes to establishing your world view, I was curious: What newspapers and magazines did you regularly read before you were tapped for this, to stay informed and to understand the world?
SP: I've read most of them, again with a great appreciation for the press, for the media---
KC: But, like, what ones specifically? I?m curious that you---
SP: Um---all of 'em, any of 'em that, um, have, um, been in front of me over all these years.
KC: Can you name any of them?
SP: I have a vast variety of sources where we get our news, too.
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You continue: "She also should have told Katie Couric to her face and on camera what an insult it was!"
She did, sort of, in the milquetoast, subject-evading, beauty-contest way that when she's speaking impromptu is her _only_ way:
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SP: Alaska isn't a foreign country, where it's kind of suggested, it seems like, "Wow, how could you keep in touch with what the rest of Washington DC may be thinking and doing when you live up there in Alaska?" Believe me, Alaska is like a microcosm of America.
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And will-o'-the-wisp Palin is a microcosm of the lessons that the venerable Republican Party must learn about the mature-politics direction it must rediscover if it's to have a chance in the presidential election of 2012. It must resist the current attempt by benighted Ozarkians to hijack it towards a new dark age of inaction and of uneducated fears.
The world's so-called "liberals" don't _hate_ her. That schoolgirl word "hate" is thrown around mainly by those supposedly Republican-voting vandals who try to show that the world's mistrust and scorn of her is somehow only a juvenile _personal_ thing and not a mature worry about lack of judiciousness or worldly wisdom. The US Democratic Party's faithfuls are absolutely _relishing_ the prospect of a 2012 contest that has her in one corner. Hate doesn't come into it.
But the world has been thanking her for providing ineffably enjoyable entertainment since August 2008 (a year and a half simply _flies_ if we're having fun!) when the former high-altitude bomber John McCain plucked her (a fellow prisoner?) out of the blue (or the white?) to run the Senate or whatever her job would have been. My main criticism of the stand-up and sit-down comedian's thespian talent is that she's been plagiarising material and style from Tina Fey.
so from 2012, you will learn more about who can be a real leader of this world.
personally, i think it is supposed to be Sarah Palin, not obama, not hillary, not at all.
Even the dumbest of the dumbs know that you don't close Gitmo......and then along come barack..........
Sarah cannot control her own home, how would she be if she were made President? The oval office would become a beauty salon with Sarah having her nails done. I can hear her screeching now "I broke a nail! Give me the box! I want to press the button! I want WAR!" But Sarah war with whom? Her answer? "I don't care with who! Just let's make a war!" Comments like the following would be the order of the day - "Where's my rouge pot?" "Has anyone seen my mascara?" "What color lipstick goes with this?" "Who wants to do my toenails?" "Bristol's pregnant again - anyone know the father?"
Come on guys, get real. This elk/wolf/chicken hick from Alaska can't keep her hair fixed let alone fix what's wrong with our country.
Obama inherited a terrible mess from the Republicans. He's trying to fix it, and no one will even stand behind him. This is why the USA is becoming the laughing stock of the world, and why the terrorists are trying to kill us off.
Obama supporters rairly deal with the issues. It's either "Bush's fault" or "he did it too". Let's get them back to the issue.
Ken