Lindsey Graham Lowers The Bar For Palin: ‘Don’t Think It Matters’ That She Hasn’t Traveled Abroad

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from ThinkProgress:



Graham Lowers The Bar For Palin: ‘Don’t Think It Matters’ That She Hasn’t Traveled Abroad»

This summer, Sen. John McCain (R-AZ) and his surrogates spent weeks assaulting Sen. Barack Obama (D-IL) for traveling to Iraq just once while a senator. “Sen. Obama has been to Iraq once,” McCain said, “this is about leadership and learning.” “Why is it that Senator Obama wants to sit down with the President of Iran, but hasn’t yet sat down with General Petraeus?” he charged in May.

It seems that new VP pick Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) isn’t receiving the same scrutiny for her thin foreign policy resume. On CNN yesterday, Wolf Blitzer asked Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) about Palin’s foreign policy background, particularly where she has traveled abroad. Graham didn’t know the answer but said it didn’t matter:

Q: Has she met with world leaders like you have, like Biden has? Has she really gone around the world and done any of those things?

GRAHAM: I don’t know where she’s traveled to…But it’s not meeting people that matters. You know, President Bush met President Putin. And I don’t think it matters just meeting people. You look at people’s judgment.

Watch it: http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/30/graham-palin-mccain/


As ThinkProgress noted, Palin has never been to Iraq, failing a central component of McCain’s commander in chief test. Speaking with Time Magazine earlier this month, Palin expressed little substantive knowledge about Iraq policy, admitting that she does not know “what the plan is to ever end the war.” “Let’s make sure we have a plan here,” she pressed:

{My son) is 19, he’ll be gone for a year, and thats quite tough too, kind of on a personal level when I talk about, hmmm, the plan for the war? You know, lets make sure we have a plan here? And respecting McCain’s position on that too though.

In the interview with Blitzer, Graham said Palin’s experience in Alaska is sufficient for her to tackle the world’s largest country. “Gov. Palin took on Ted Stevens. If she can take him on, she can take on the Russians. Heh,” he said.


http://thinkprogress.org/2008/08/30/graham-palin-mccain/

[radfringe]

1. they said the same thing about bush is 2000

and look where it has gotten us....

[Nickster]

16. Exactly my first thought! Right on the money. Look what not being aware of the world outside of the

US has gotten us!?

[Mz Pip]

2. Her judgment sucks

How's that?

Thinking creationism should be taught along side evolution sucks.

Opposing abortion for victims of rape and incest sucks.

Opposing having polar bears on the endangered species list sucks.

Leaing a small town with a multi-million dollar deficit sucks.

[mod mom]

3. “Gov. Palin took on Ted Stevens" WTF? He did an ad supporting her:

http://tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/08/palin_ad_starring_ted_stevens.php

[FVZA_Colonel]

10. And she supported that damn bridge when she thought it would be on the federal dime.

[Muttocracy]

4. After Graham went on MTP raking Obama as inexperienced?! nt

[Paladin]

5. Anybody Know The Status Of Lindsey Graham's Health ?

I saw him on TV yesterday and he looked just awful---gray-complected, feeble, like he'd aged 20 years or so. Any news or rumors about this?

[mitchum]

9. Menopause?

yeah...that was a cheap shot

[VP505]

17. Cheap shot but

fitting.

[Toucano]

6. A talking head on Fox said she has foreign policy credentials

because she is from Alaska and that's "right up there next to Russia".

Spin
Spin
Spin

I nearly died laughing!

[jimshoes]

7. Perhaps if she moves next to a hospital

she can cure cancer in a few weeks.

[Toucano]

11. She'll be a brain surgeon in a matter of days!

Then she can help out the entire Fox staff by reversing their lobotomies.

[vixengrl]

8. Wow--catch that slap at Bush?

"But it’s not meeting people that matters. You know, President Bush met President Putin."


But pointedly not said aloud by Graham--"See, our party let a dumb shit with that kind of soul-searching judgement be president, so what does anything matter, really?"

[spanone]

12. yea, lindsey, it's not necessary that our veep have any fucking foreign experience...sure lindsey

you dumb fuck

[Crabby Appleton]

13. She has traveled abroad, there are pics of her visiting AK NG

units last year in Germany and Kuwait.

[Lucinda]

14. Ssshhhh......Dont confuse them with facts. LOL

[anakie]

15. I liked the talking head who said she was qualified to be CIC

sorry folks but I was glancing at Faux and up popped our good friend Newt. Talking up her credentials to be CIC as she has more military experience than Obama due to being the CIC of the Alaska National Guard. Really grasping at straws.


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