This should FRIGHTEN everyone who has been awake the last 8 years:

[mod mom]

Bush Aides Schooling Palin In Foreign Policy

Newsweek | September 4, 2008 01:14 PM




The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden.

Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska governor, campaign officials told NEWSWEEK. After taking leave from his job as vice president for international affairs at Ford Motor Co. last Friday, Biegun flew to St. Paul and, together with McCain's foreign-policy guru Randy Schuenemann, began briefings for Palin on national-security issues--an area where her resume is conspicuously thin.

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http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/04/bush-aides-schooling-pali_n_123939.html

:scared:

McCain/Palin MORE OF THE SAME!

[LisaL]

1. It is scary. Especially considering how old McCain is.

The whole thing would have been funny if it wasn't so sad. If McCain crocks (hey, he is old, so it's not like it's out of the bounds of possibility), we might end up with President Palin. Boggles the mind.

[mod mom]

6. I can't recall where I read it, but... one bad sunburn away

[graywarrior]

2. Ready on day 1

[tabatha]

3. One good thing - she will have a very narrow point of view.

[gateley]

4. God - at least we don't see Rumsfeld's name mentioned. nt

[Rosa Luxemburg]

5. yes

The Neocons are making a comeback

[neomonkey]

7. Mr Smith Goes To Washington

Without the poignancy.

[crimsonblue]

18. She is No Smith....

Smith went to Washington to actually make a difference. Palin is as corrupt and partisan as they come. Terrible comparison.

[VenusRising]

8. That is frightening!

:scared:

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

9. Gee, I thought her proximity to the vast empty wastes of Siberia had already endowed her

with all the foreign policy expertise she needs.

[mod mom]

10. Maybe they're fitting her w the manchurian candidate chip-you know the one that picks up

audio during debates and press conferences.

[nichomachus]

11. You're forgetting

her shopping trip layover in Shannon, Ireland.

[vaberella]

12. For this nations national security to be cropped into a 3 hour cram session

it boggles my mind and puts the fear of God into me.

[unblock]

20. they won't teach her national security. they'll just teach her catch phrases

you weak on defense. must fight there before fight here. cut and run. anti-troop. not proud enough of amurika. not follow leader. unpatriotic. why not join military. elitist. peace-loving hippie. dangerous times. dangerous people. mushroom cloud. we on mission from god, like blues brothers. sexist!

[LibDemAlways]

13. I keep having visions of another

stolen election followed by the untimely demise of McCain brought about by the same criminals who've foisted Bush on us for 8 years. This woman is all about the oil and she's a fundie wet dream to boot. She'd be another chimp, a bogus "President," manipulated by an evil cabal of neocons probably fronted by Cheney. Her mission would be to appoint neanderthals to the Supreme Court to strip away what few rights we have left, while letting the corporations have carte blanche to get us involved in more needless wars for profit. It's a very scary scenario and one that's no doubt been carefully thought through. If I were McCain I'd be watching my back very closely.

[DevonRex]

14. Just the title terrifies me. Didn't have to read any further. nt

[Starbucks Anarchist]

15. They need to make an ad out of this.

[Born_A_Truman]

16. Former. Bush. More of the same.

I hope Biden asks her at the debate "Is that what Steve Biegun told you to say?"

[Triana]

17. They're writing her speeches FOR her?

Are they going to change her DIAPERS too? Hell, that's what they did with Duhbya.

Can we have someone in the White House who ISN'T a blazing idiot for once? Who's actually QUALIFIED? Who is NOT some backwoods redneck hick?

[renie408]

19. That's not scary...that's AWESOME!! How can McCain say he is not the same as Bush

and have Bush's people train Palin?? Don't you think this is the sort of thing that would turn a lot of people off??