Poor John McCain, he thought he would run a positive campaign and make Sarah Palin his attack dog. Unfortunately Palin has come across as clueless. The poor girl is attacking Obama for publicly claiming that if Pakistan knew where Osama Bin Laden was and refused to hand him over to us that he would have no problem going into Pakistan to get him. Really now, what is her problem with Obama restating the Bush doctrine of “you are either with us, or you are with the terrorists?” We have spent nearly a trillion dollars prosecuting a war against a nation that had no WMDs, posed no threat to its neighbors or us, and was quite frankly the wrong war at the wrong time and we fought this in an aggressive fashion. Now Palin comes out and says that it would be wrong to go into Pakistan to fight Al Qaeda even though the Bush administration has recently done the exact same thing Obama has proposed. From Yahoo News here is a series of other things that Palin has appeared clueless in.
In Palin’s view, the potential crises would be sparked by Obama’s own actions. Playing off the Republican ticket’s previous criticisms of the Democratic nominee, she criticized Obama for:
_Advancing the idea of invading Pakistan without that government’s permission. Obama has said he would authorize an attack if the whereabouts of al-Qaida leader Osama bin Laden were known and Pakistan’s government were unable or unwilling to go after him.
Palin’s criticism, however, comes as the Bush administration has authorized attacks on al-Qaida targets within Pakistan, sparking criticism at times from Pakistan’s government. McCain, for his part, has said he would pursue bin Laden “to the gates of hell.”
_Advocating sitting down with “the world’s worst dictators” without preconditions. Palin noted that Obama has said he would meet with the Iranian regime even though it has threatened Israel with destruction. For his part, Obama has contended that the U.S. should not be afraid to meet with its adversaries.
_Opposing the troop surge in Iraq and voting to cut funding to troops, which Palin said left those in Iraq at grave risk. Obama’s lone vote against a funding measure came because the bill did not include a timetable for withdrawal of troops; he followed with a vote for funding and has supported every other funding measure.
_Offering a weak response to Russia’s invasion of Georgia, which Palin said would encourage Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin to invade the Ukraine. In August, when the two sides were fighting, Obama condemned Russia’s action and called for diplomacy and restraint by both countries.
Palin also repeated familiar campaign slogans, contrasting Obama as a tax-and-spend liberal with McCain as a fiscal conservative who will do more to help struggling families and small businesses. Palin said a McCain administration would create more jobs and lead the country to energy independence.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20081021/ap_on_el_pr/palin#full
Bottom line is that Palin is capable of spewing the same empty Republican rhetoric we have heard the past eight years, but she is quite incapable of independent thought and policy analysis. Should Palin be sent back to Alaska and into political oblivion? You betcha!
