Monday, September 15, 2008
No Governor Left Behind...
I missed the Charlie/Palin set-to from the other night, but just noticed this tidbit, which shows a major reason why Sarah Palin is so very dangerous to every American man, woman and child.0 comments
Charles Gibson asks:
GIBSON: Let me ask you about some specific national security situations.
PALIN: Sure.
GIBSON: Let's start, because we are near Russia, let's start with Russia and Georgia.
The administration has said we've got to maintain the territorial integrity of Georgia. Do you believe the United States should try to restore Georgian sovereignty over South Ossetia and Abkhazia?
PALIN: First off, we're going to continue good relations with Saakashvili there. I was able to speak with him the other day and giving him my commitment, as John McCain's running mate, that we will be committed to Georgia. And we've got to keep an eye on Russia. For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable and we have to keep...[GN emphasis]
GIBSON: You believe unprovoked.
PALIN: I do believe unprovoked and we have got to keep our eyes on Russia, under the leadership there. I think it was unfortunate. That manifestation that we saw with that invasion of Georgia, shows us some steps backwards that Russia has recently taken away from the race toward a more democratic nation with democratic ideals. That's why we have to keep an eye on Russia.
No, it's very clear now.
She hasn't been paying attention to world affairs from her northern outpost.
Not a bad thing, necessarily. I mean, neither have most mayors of small towns around the country, or even most governors of those other forty-nine states.
But, then, neither am I running for Pope because I was an altar boy.
Her foreign policy experience-esqe resume comes from her job (as with any and all governors) as titular head of her state's National Guard unit (reportedly smaller than the population of Wasilla, AK, of which she was mayor.).
Now, after intense prepping at the hands of some of the most villainous Dick Cheney-era Neo-Cons encamped in Washington, D.C., she's dutifully spewing threats to the very country that George W. Bush and this cabal of neo-cons have alternatingly emboldened and pampered, then ignored, for eight long years.
They also have her lying in plain sight, spouting that Down is Up—a key neo-con tenet. Charlie was on it: "unprovoked?"
Georgia paid John McCain's staff members $800,000 to lobby for Georgia support in the White House and in Congress, specifically in McCain's office. They did; McCain has been a staunch ally of Georgia ever since the cash started coming in. Dick Cheney's office has been a powerful force behind throwing full U.S. support behind Georgia's actions.
South Ossetia and Abkhazia are on the border between the two countries, Georgian by agreement, heavily Russian by population. Georgia dearly wanted to fully cede the two areas, but was afraid to do so without help. Smart thinking. Enter $800,000 passing through John McCain's foreign policy adviser's office. Re-enter John McCain's full-throated cry for Georgian sovereignty.
Just as we had Saddam Hussein looking to Daddy George Bush for the U.S.'s OK to roll into Kuwait in order to solve a long-standing territorial dispute between Iraq and Kuwait, so Saakashvili looked to the U.S. for the go-ahead and the backing to roll into South Ossetia and Abkhazia, since the Russian response loomed a bit larger than Kuwait's, and made Georgia understandably nervous.
Through many Cheney office/Neo-con/Cold Warrior channels, we said, in effect, swell, go ahead.
Off Georgia went, rolling into South Ossetia and Abkhazia. As they assumed, the Russian response was swift and mighty.
STOMP.
So, we see that Palin's ignorance of facts and events, whether diplomatic, territorial, political, power-dealing or day-of-the-week leave her as unable to hold high office as it does the vast majority of us, who are simply used to dealing on our small local level—no matter how grand our political fantasies are—and may well prove to get us all blown to kingdom come.
"Our Sarah" is simply parroting swill she's been force-fed by the best Bush-era neo-cons available.
That makes her eminently dangerous for your family and for mine.
As for Georgia and John McCain?
Just what did Georgia get for their $800,000? John McCain screaming "Foul!" very loudly for about a week and a half, but not doing much more than that. The Cheney forces sending over a butt-load of cash, weapons and good will just this past week.
And a lousy t-shirt.
All of this dust-up proves clearly, once again, that McCain is as corruptible as the day is long. It also proves to the heads of every corner of the world that he is buyable, but will not follow through on his agreements when you DO buy him. That makes him VERRRRY dangerous in a dangerous world. Thieves have a firm, and very real code of ethics—they may not be our ethics, but that code keeps the criminal world from total self-imposed chaos. It holds firm whether among the world's highest-level shadow government financiers or the scummiest drug dealers sitting outside your kids' schoolyard.
McCain has broken his word within that criminal world. So no other country will EVER trust him on any matter again. No matter WHAT price they're willing to pay.
So, the message is out on the World's street, as it is among those in America not on the loony right fringe: John will happily take your money, but you'll never get what you pay for.
CAVEAT EMPTOR!
posted by Gotham 2:34 PM
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