Republican Senator Hagel: Palin isn't qualified

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WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.

"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

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"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said.

McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin's qualifications, citing Alaska's proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."

Hagel took issue with that argument. "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/hagel_palin

[Mr. Big Dog 10,747]

Chuck calls them as he sees them.

"You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

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Hagel took issue with that argument. "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.

give them hell, chuck...

[kaydee457 13]

Chuck calls them as he sees them.

"You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

Your candidate, as inexperienced as he is, isn't running against Palin.....get it?

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Chuck calls them as he sees them.

"You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."

Your candidate, as inexperienced as he is, isn't running against Palin.....get it?

Honestly, you can't use this whole unexperienced argument anymore. McCain was flinging that one long before Palin was announced. He surly can't talk these days...an no, being governor of a state that has a population of less than most major American cities doesn't really count...and neither do the Alaska's moose

I heart Chuck Hagel. He was one of the best politicians to come out of Nebraska since George Norris.

Edited September 18, 2008 by ginger1981

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"STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator Biden, you did go beyond talking about Pakistan. You were asked: Is he (Obama) ready? You said, "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

BIDEN: I think I stand by the statement."

http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Yj...2NiZDJiNzU3YzI=

You know Obama is unqualified when his own running mate thinks he's unqualified to be president.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's a storybook, man."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/..._on_obama_.html

For Biden most blacks aren't articulate, bright, clean or nice-looking so Obama is pretty exceptional. Thanks for the endorsement, Joe.

Edited September 18, 2008 by alienlovechild

[kaydee457 13]

"STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator Biden, you did go beyond talking about Pakistan. You were asked: Is he (Obama) ready? You said, "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

BIDEN: I think I stand by the statement."

http://media.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Yj...2NiZDJiNzU3YzI=

You know Obama is unqualified when his own running mate thinks he's unqualified to be president.

"I mean, you got the first mainstream African-American who is articulate and bright and clean and a nice-looking guy ... I mean, that's a storybook, man."

http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/..._on_obama_.html

For Biden most blacks aren't articulate, bright, clean or nice-looking so Obama is pretty exceptional. Thanks for the endorsement, Joe.

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"STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator Biden, you did go beyond talking about Pakistan. You were asked: Is he (Obama) ready? You said, "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

BIDEN: I think I stand by the statement."

Forgetting something?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you still stand by the statement?

BIDEN: That was a year ago. He's learned a hell of a lot.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So he's developed...

STEPHANOPOULOS: ... on the campaign trail?

BIDEN: Well, what we're talking about, here, is that he has repeatedly, since then, said he would not negotiate unconditionally -- meaning him sitting down alone, right off the bat, with these leaders.

He's talked about his secretary of state, his secretary of defense.

As a matter of fact, his statements he's using have mirrored the statements the rest of us have been talking about. This is a fellow who, I think, shorthanded an answer that, in fact, was the wrong answer, in my view, saying, I would, within the first year -- it implied he'd personally sit down with anybody who wanted to sit down with him.

That's not what he meant. That's not what he has said, since then, for the last year, or thereabouts. And so, I think, that he's fully capable of understanding what's going on.

To put this in context, the policy that Bush has pursued, and McCain will continue, has been an abject failure. We are weaker in the Middle East. We are weaker around the world. Terrorism is stronger than it ever was. Iran is closer to a bomb.

Just by any measure -- any measure -- what has their policy wrought? A disaster -- it's been an absolute disaster.

http://biden.senate.gov/press/transcripts/...D6-AD00C50D6C64

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Hagel's pretty much stating the obvious here. Palin isn't even qualified to be a mayor of a town of 9,000 people, never mind the VP of 300 million.

Edited September 18, 2008 by SRVT

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Ha, my town has over 50,000 people and I think my mayor's a freakin clown.

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same here..a chopf##k supreme.....

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Ha, my town has over 50,000 people and I think my mayor's a freakin clown.

Wonder what people of Detroit or Oakland California think.

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shite, the emporess has no clothes ...

or, maybe they've just been photoshopped until now.

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shite, the emporess has no clothes ...

Now there's a picture I'd vote for McCain to see!

[kaydee457 13]

"STEPHANOPOULOS: But Senator Biden, you did go beyond talking about Pakistan. You were asked: Is he (Obama) ready? You said, "I think he can be ready, but right now I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."

BIDEN: I think I stand by the statement."

Forgetting something?

STEPHANOPOULOS: Do you still stand by the statement?

BIDEN: That was a year ago. He's learned a hell of a lot.

STEPHANOPOULOS: So he's developed...

STEPHANOPOULOS: ... on the campaign trail?

BIDEN: Well, what we're talking about, here, is that he has repeatedly, since then, said he would not negotiate unconditionally -- meaning him sitting down alone, right off the bat, with these leaders.

He's talked about his secretary of state, his secretary of defense.

As a matter of fact, his statements he's using have mirrored the statements the rest of us have been talking about. This is a fellow who, I think, shorthanded an answer that, in fact, was the wrong answer, in my view, saying, I would, within the first year -- it implied he'd personally sit down with anybody who wanted to sit down with him.

That's not what he meant. That's not what he has said, since then, for the last year, or thereabouts. And so, I think, that he's fully capable of understanding what's going on.

To put this in context, the policy that Bush has pursued, and McCain will continue, has been an abject failure. We are weaker in the Middle East. We are weaker around the world. Terrorism is stronger than it ever was. Iran is closer to a bomb.

Just by any measure -- any measure -- what has their policy wrought? A disaster -- it's been an absolute disaster.

http://biden.senate.gov/press/transcripts/...D6-AD00C50D6C64

Oh, well that's different. I see now, he "learned a hell of a lot" about the Senate, and the federal government in Washington in 144 days, will proceed to fix all that he, "the One" found wrong, and now he's mastered the Presidency and all it comprises in about a year.......

Yep, I get it now <clucking tongue and rolling eyes>.....

Edited September 18, 2008 by kaydee457