Palin, Iraq and 9/11

I keep seeing the term "socialist" applied to Sen. Obama as an insult. Don't get me wrong, I have no desire to have a true Socialist in the Whitehouse, but we must understand the truth. Our country is by all definitions a socialist country. True it may not be 100% socialist, but 40% of our economy is the government. Roads, water, Internet, Federal Reserve, Military, take over of private corporations, IRS, SEC, FBI, etc. Most Americans do not understand the vast involvement government has in their everyday life. We cannot with a straight face continue to deny the socialist aspects of our country.

This is just silly. Our major enemy in Iraq is a group call Al Qaeda in Iraq. Palin was making the point that, by fighting in Iraq, we are fighting the same enemy that attacked us. It's a huge leap to say that she is blaming Iraq for 9/11.

The Left is so keen to catch Palin in a gaffe they're blind to Biden's gaffe-o-rama, not to mention Obama's long history of stupid statements.

I think that Palin does not know what she's talking about, God bless her.

McCain is trying to scare us into electing him.

Just repeat over and over how those "radical Islamic extremists" are "hell bent" on destroying us. It's Armageddon! Elect the Republicans, they are the only ones who can protect us from our enemies!

Don't talk about health care, the economy, tax cuts for the wealthy, tax cuts for corporations, home foreclosures, etc. Just repeat over and over, "radical Islamic extremists".

Dare Nigeria - get your factrs correct - factcheck.org is ran by a liberal organization, so do not go by them, name one distortion McCain has said, and tall me something is not Obama whining all the time?

It seems that the libs are afraid because McCain picked a running mate with far more experience then Obama or Biden put together. But what I do not understand is why they bring up the experience because it is obvious it works against Obama!!

Palin over 10 years experience as an executive (Mayor and Governor)
Obama - 3 years as a Solinski (Socialist Group) Community Organizer

Lets see only 2 Presidents came from the Congress, the majority were Governors or VP's So History proves that Palin is considered more experience. And did not Clinton say he had the experience because he was a Governor,
Libs are Hypocrits!!

one problem, the majority of the people that carried out 9/11 - Saudis, most of the money that funds Al Queada - from Saudi royalty and drugs grown in Afghanistan. Current stronghold for the Taliban and likely location of the planners of 9/11 - Afghanistan. Greatest "ally" we claim in the region Saudi Arabia. Area with the least US resources and focus on the war on terror - Afghanistan. Yeah, I'm sure she is all up on foreign policy.

Maybee - you are correct - Al qeada is in Iraq now and was there before but that is separate.

alwriter60 - you admit Al Qeada are there now, so what is wrong with Palin's speech?, like Maybee says is he going in a time machine!

You libs are so funny it is scary that you can vote! You ignore the socialist comments from Obama, but try to make something out of nothing!!

Journalism is dead in 2008

I think this woman was sending her 19 year old son off to war. Perhaps Kornblut could have held off on her "analysis".

Unless Palin was sending off the troops in a time machine, it seems likely she was talking about the situation in Iraq now-- not 5 years ago.

Sally,

If there is a Ticket that has been fighting like 4th graders, it is the Mccain Campaign.

The keep churning out lies in their Ads with a view to confuse Americans.

They take quotations out of context. Even factcheck.com had to castigate them from gross dishonesty.

If Mccain can not stay above board because of his desire to win the election at all cost, what message do you think that sends to our Children - There is no shame in lying your way up.

Is that the kind of message you want you Child(ren) to carry in their minds for life.

Obama has been a complete Gentleman. I wish he could get into the trenches and discard his gloves.

The Mccain's Campaign is playing dirty. Sarah Palin is propagating falsehoods and her beliefs are to the extreme.

Daniel Plainview wrote: "What scares the crap outa me is that a woman who is a breath away from being leader of the free world needs to cram for the job!!!"

Isn't that what "The One" is doing? He has no foreign policy experience either. But worse yet, he has no executive experience nor has he even run a business. So you will accept HIS "qualifications" (or lack thereof) for BEING the leader of the free world but reject HER actual executive experience (6 months as a mayor and 20 months of being a governor) for being a HEARTBEAT AWAY from being the leader of the free world. That sounds sexist to me!

Jihadis and Al Qaeda didn't exist in Iraq before we came in!

She doesn't know anything about foreign policy except what the Bush cronies tell her!

This woman will NEVER get elected. Her bubble is bursting in 3...2...1...

Yeah, democrats are scared of Sarah Palin .Democrats fear for the safty of this country. What can this night school student do to protect my family? Nothing, she knows squat!! She is a parrot who took a crash course on foriegn policy for 2 weeks and now she is ready to lead on day one? Please get this light weight a pass on the Whitehouse tour bus and then kindly send her *** back to Alaska. This is not a joke!

Barack last nite in the forum on volunteerism said basically the same thing.

In response to what happened in the country after 9/11 he spoke about a few things regarding unity then said this.

Paraphrasing...We went after the people who did this...

From Paul Krugman Op-Ed Columnist

Why do the McCain people think they can get away with this stuff? Well, they’re probably counting on the common practice in the news media of being “balanced” at all costs. You know how it goes: If a politician says that black is white, the news report doesn’t say that he’s wrong, it reports that “some Democrats say” that he’s wrong. Or a grotesque lie from one side is paired with a trivial misstatement from the other, conveying the impression that both sides are equally dirty.

They’re probably also counting on the prevalence of horse-race reporting, so that instead of the story being “McCain campaign lies,” it becomes “Obama on defensive in face of attacks.”

Still, how upset should we be about the McCain campaign’s lies? I mean, politics ain’t beanbag, and all that.

One answer is that the muck being hurled by the McCain campaign is preventing a debate on real issues — on whether the country really wants, for example, to continue the economic policies of the last eight years.

But there’s another answer, which may be even more important: how a politician campaigns tells you a lot about how he or she would govern.

I’m not talking about the theory, often advanced as a defense of horse-race political reporting, that the skills needed to run a winning campaign are the same as those needed to run the country. The contrast between the Bush political team’s ruthless effectiveness and the heckuva job done by the Bush administration is living, breathing, bumbling, and, in the case of the emerging Interior Department scandal, proof to the contrary.

I’m talking, instead, about the relationship between the character of a campaign and that of the administration that follows. Thus, the deceptive and dishonest 2000 Bush-Cheney campaign provided an all-too-revealing preview of things to come. In fact, my early suspicion that we were being misled about the threat from Iraq came from the way the political tactics being used to sell the war resembled the tactics that had earlier been used to sell the Bush tax cuts.

And now the team that hopes to form the next administration is running a campaign that makes Bush-Cheney 2000 look like something out of a civics class. What does that say about how that team would run the country?

What it says, I’d argue, is that the Obama campaign is wrong to suggest that a McCain-Palin administration would just be a continuation of Bush-Cheney. If the way John McCain and Sarah Palin are campaigning is any indication, it would be much, much worse.

Republican's keep tellin us what scares us about Palin is she is ok now but she will be great later on. I'm sorry a 2 month crash course on foriegn policy isn't good enough for this great nation! What scares the crap outa me is that a woman who is a breath away from being leader of the free world needs to cram for the job!!! That's utter bull and Republicans know it. Country first my ***!

In an audio recording posted on an Islamic website on June 30, 2006, in response to the death of al Zarqawi (June 7, 2006), Usama bin Laden said (translated from Arabic): "I say to Bush, you should deliver the body (of al-Zarqawi) to his family, and don't be too happy. Our flag hasn't fallen, thanks be to God. It has passed from one lion to another lion in Islam. We will continue, God willing, to fight you and your allies everywhere, in Iraq, Afghanistan, Somalia and Sudan, until we drain your money and kill your men and send you home defeated, God willing, as we defeated you before, thanks to God, in Somalia."

Deny it all you want, but the truth is there were Iraqi officials who met with al Qaeda officials in Asia in the late 1990s.

riley

Even time mccain lies and palin speacks the lose woman and ind's.

She looked stupid in the interview everone has said it today!

James Danley

What we know now is different to what we were told at the time do some research check dates!

AQI are Al Qaeda are not linked

Sadam and Al Qaeda had no links

Read the british review of intel used in the lead up to the iraq war or the australian one or the spanish one.. Even read the report of the 911 comission.

No link between sadam and Al Qaeda

No link between AQI and Al Qaeda.

The fact of no link has even been stated by the UN.

Meanwhile, back on teh campaign trail with the VP nominee who supposedly has 35 years of experience...

Biden living up to his gaffe-prone reputation
By John M. Broder
Thursday, September 11, 2008

The Obama camp has to attack Palin because they know their candidate is weak and has no real accomplishments.

BO is undisciplined, unqualified, and fights like a 4th grader.

Obama has to be forced to attack--so he does it by talking about lipstick and liars. That will scare Putin.

McCain/Palin should just go on vacation.

The way the Democrats are flipping out and saying rediculous things they are losing women and independents in droves.

-comparing BO to Jesus because he was a community organizer
-Palin's only qualification is because she didn't have an abortion
-BO's lipstick comment
-Biden saying Palin is a step backward for women
-sending 30 lawyers to AL
-pro-Obama media attacks
-BO calling people stupid and liars

Where's their confidence in Obama to win on his star power?