Ah, The Old Experience Tactic
September 5th 2008 19:05
Madeline Al(not too)bright is saying that Sarah Palin doesn't have any "experience" in international politics. Stange comment, coming from her, isn't it? How much experience did she have when Bill (the Zipper) elevated her beyond her abilities by making her Sec. of State? At least as much as Barack Obama has, I guess. She was born in another counrty and had done some traveling... (He spent part of his childhood out of the country, after all... and he does have relatives that don't live in America...) Boy, those are some hefty credentials, aren't they?
There were those of us who pointed out how incredibly little experience Obama has had and the media ignored it (all but Fox), saying that he was a brilliant speech-maker and experience wasn't all that big a deal. Sarah Palin has him beat by miles on the experience of running a state, but the mainstream media doesn't seem to understand and carps on the fact that she was also the mayor of a small town. They keep forgetting that Barack Obama has never been in charge of ANYTHING! He's never really run a successful campaign, either. The only reason he was elected to the Senate was that he had his opponents disqualified! His entire time in the Senate has been spent campaigning for the presidency.
Sarah Palin is being called the "new Ronald Reagan" by some. He didn't have a lot of international experience when he took office, either. But he did pretty well, didn't he? His platform was to stand up for what he believed in and not back down when things got tough. She's like that, too. The liberals and the media are attacking her furiously and it doesn't look like she's going to be backing down, whining, or crying. She's facing a stacked deck, folks, every detail of her life is going to be under a microscope. Her husband, her kids, are not getting a break, either. Obama gets to say what's off limits, but she won't have that luxury. If this campaign doesn't break her (and it won't!) she should be able to stare down any foreign leader who wants to play rough. John McCain chose very, very wisely.
There were those of us who pointed out how incredibly little experience Obama has had and the media ignored it (all but Fox), saying that he was a brilliant speech-maker and experience wasn't all that big a deal. Sarah Palin has him beat by miles on the experience of running a state, but the mainstream media doesn't seem to understand and carps on the fact that she was also the mayor of a small town. They keep forgetting that Barack Obama has never been in charge of ANYTHING! He's never really run a successful campaign, either. The only reason he was elected to the Senate was that he had his opponents disqualified! His entire time in the Senate has been spent campaigning for the presidency.
Sarah Palin is being called the "new Ronald Reagan" by some. He didn't have a lot of international experience when he took office, either. But he did pretty well, didn't he? His platform was to stand up for what he believed in and not back down when things got tough. She's like that, too. The liberals and the media are attacking her furiously and it doesn't look like she's going to be backing down, whining, or crying. She's facing a stacked deck, folks, every detail of her life is going to be under a microscope. Her husband, her kids, are not getting a break, either. Obama gets to say what's off limits, but she won't have that luxury. If this campaign doesn't break her (and it won't!) she should be able to stare down any foreign leader who wants to play rough. John McCain chose very, very wisely.
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Comment by Anonymous
I have been commenting, for a few days now, on some of the biased posts all over the Net. It is too bad so many people are choosing to write from reflex and not from investigation.
Thank you
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Albright's subsequent career record highlights a combination of scholarly research and political activity. She was a coordinator for the unsuccessful presidential candidacy of Senator Edmund S. Muskie of Maine in 1976, later becoming his chief legislative assistant. In 1978 Albright was asked by one of her former professors at Columbia University, Zbigniew Brzezinski, National Security Adviser under President Carter, to join the National Security Council staff as a legislative liaison, where she remained until 1981. The following year was spent writing a book about the role of the press in bringing about political change in Poland in the period 1980 to 1982, a project conducted under a fellowship from the Woodrow Wilson Center for Scholars at the Smithsonian Institute.
Albright's next important career milestone came in 1982, when she joined the faculty of Georgetown University and expanded both her interests and personal contacts. As a research professor of international affairs and director of women students enrolled in the foreign service program at the university's School of Foreign Service, she taught undergraduate and graduate courses in international studies, U.S. foreign relations, Russian foreign policy, and central and eastern European politics. She was also instrumental in developing programs designed to enhance professional opportunities for women in international affairs. She also became affiliated with the Georgetown University Center for Strategic and International Studies as a senior fellow in Soviet and eastern European affairs. In October of 1989 she took over the presidency of the Center for National Policy, a Washington-based nonprofit research organization formed in 1981 as a Democratic think tank with a mandate to generate discussion and study about domestic and international issues. Having been divorced, she did all this while over the years raising three daughters by herself, and still found the time to be a board member on numerous institutes, national commissions, and civic organizations ranging from the Atlantic Institute, the Boards of Trustees of Wellesley College and of Williams College, and the National Democratic Institute for International Affairs to the Black Student Fund and the Washington Urban League.
Parallel with her research and teaching, Albright deepened her involvement in Democratic Party politics. She acted as an adviser to both Walter Mondale and Geraldine Ferraro during the 1984 presidential election year; and as an adviser to Michael S. Dukakis in 1988 when he failed in his bid to defeat Republican George Bush. She was more successful, however, in 1992, when she endorsed Arkansas Governor Bill Clinton's candidacy. During the campaign she served as his senior foreign policy adviser, and in the transition period as foreign policy liaison in the White House prior to her U.N. posting.
Comment by S.L.
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Harry didn't even want to be Vice President, FDR insisted. By the time he became president he had spent a good deal of time learning from FDR who was a very good communicator.
Having Sarah Palin learn from John McCain is not unusual. However, having a new president learn from a vice president is a little odd, don't you think, s?
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Comment by Jim Stillman
Oh, it's not that difficult;even I, a loon y liberal, can tell the difference.
You, SL, are a "blow hard".
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