Reply #12: Palin talks tough on Iran, Russia in ABC interview

[Octafish]

She certainly sounded like a certified nutjob warmonger -- definitely pals of Bush.

A good friend of mine says Palin's interview exposed her newly-minted neocon positions.

Palin talks tough on Iran, Russia in ABC interview

Her interview with anchor Charles Gibson isn't without stumbles as she discusses foreign policy.

By Michael Finnegan, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer
September 12, 2008

Sarah Palin took a hard line on Russia and Iran on Thursday as she fielded questions on foreign affairs for the first time since Republican presidential candidate John McCain named her his running mate two weeks ago.

The Alaska governor also reversed her stand on the cause of climate change, telling ABC News that she believes "man's activities certainly can be contributing to the issue of global warming." Less than a year ago, she said the opposite.

SNIP...

"Are we fighting a holy war?" he asked.

After Palin disputed his characterization, she paraphrased Abraham Lincoln, saying she meant, "Let us not pray that God is on our side in a war or any other time, but let us pray that we are on God's side."

Gibson went on to take a second part of her comments out of context. Palin had asked the group to pray "that there is a plan, and that plan is God's plan."

But Gibson dropped her reference to praying -- and instead quoted Palin as saying the war was God's plan. He asked if she believed the country was sending her son on a task from God.

"I don't know if the task is from God, Charlie," she responded, adding that she was proud of Track for "serving something greater than himself."

Palin's most visible stumble came when Gibson asked whether she agreed with the Bush Doctrine.

"In what respect, Charlie?" she asked the anchor, who sat directly across from her in a matching upright armchair.

Gibson then asked what she interpreted the Bush Doctrine to be.

"His worldview," she answered.

Once Gibson explained that the doctrine meant preemptive wars, Palin used the opportunity to take veiled shots at President Bush, whose unpopularity has weighed on McCain's candidacy.

"I believe that what President Bush has attempted to do is rid this world of Islamic extremism, terrorists who are hellbent on destroying our nation," she said. "There have been blunders along the way, though. There have been mistakes made."

With new leadership "comes opportunity to do things better," she said.

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http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-palin12-2008sep12,0,3693136.story

She is uneducated. And insane.

Most importantly: No. No. YOU are the best, OmmmSweetOmmm!