OOPS! Another Faux Foreign Policy Experience For Sarah Palin
By Jamie Thursday Oct 02, 2008 11:50amAnd the resume padding hits just keep on coming:
Sarah Palin has committed yet another political blunder after claiming she had held talks with a British ambassador - talks that never actually took place.
In an answer to questions about her foreign policy experience ahead of tonight's make-or-break vice presidential TV debate, her aides listed numerous contacts with foreign officials - including Britain's ambassador to Washington, Sir Nigel Sheinwald.
However the meeting never occurred. Officials at the embassy swiftly contacted the McCain-Palin campaign to inform them of the discrepancy.
A British Embassy spokesman said the error arose after Sir Nigel's name was listed among those who had attended a US Governor's meeting in July.
So her aides used a list with the names of guests at a meeting Palin was at in an attempt to show her foreign policy experience, but that list had an error on it. Even if Sir Nigel Sheinwald showed up, what is to say that he and Palin actual met and exchanged ideas? It really sounds like her handlers are throwing out anything they can to pad her resume a little more, and that tactic has just come back to bite them.
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The level of these folks' stupidity is mind-numbing... I guess the statement of a couple of weeks ago that these folks don't care if they're caught in a lie, they just keep dishing it out is true...
Speaks volumes........
How dare you lefty fact freaks even dain to question anything on her resume! Sexist pigs!!!!
:) Looks like they got caught withtheir hands in the cookie jar, maybe if she doesn't get VP she could be overqualified to work for the GW Iraq CPA?!
Hmm..remember how the repubs got their panties in a twist when Al Gore said he traveled with to a disaster site with FEMA director James Lee Witt? I'm sure that they'll sweep this little gaffe of Palin's under the rug and complain that it's nit picking. Hypocrisy, thy name is Republican!
Apparently, Sarah Palin watched an interview with Sir Nigel Sheinwald on E!
Its funny, but the harder they try to find examples to make up for Palin's lack of foreign policy experience the more those examples turn out to be like farts in a crowded room. Sure its funny when they let one loose and Palin plays it off with her winks and folksy style, but after-wards, when the farts dissipate, they prove to be meaningless.
Forget Sir Nigel, Sarah Palin Never Even Watched Michael Palin.
My father claimed Palin won. I said 'Oh yeah.' Then I ran down my list of talking points. He was amazed that I wrote everything down. By the end of the converastion he sad maybe Biden did win. But I already gave up hope for my Dad to vote for Barack. He is just to bigoted. Sigh!
Let's just throw some lipstick against the wall and see what sticks.
The inmates are running the asylum!!! I've never put any false info on any resume I've ever given a potential employer. I can't imagine how this sort of thing works for someone... your lies are ALWAYS found out, eventually. I guess people have to actually care that your lying for you to realize you need to stop. How fucked up!!!
Liberal AND Proud @ 8:
Look! it's a pig!!!
From last night's "debate"
"Darn right it was the predator lenders, who tried to talk Americans into thinking that it was smart to buy a $300,000 house if we could only afford a $100,000 house. There was deception there, and there was greed and there is corruption on Wall Street. And we need to stop that.
Again, John McCain and I, that commitment that we have made, and we're going to follow through on that, getting rid of that corruption."
Did she string together one single coherent sentence last night?
So basically she attended a meeting wherein she may have nodded across the room to people from foreign nations and they're trying to use that to expand her non-existent foreign policy cred.
Another great big steaming pile of reslug politics.
Kos has the candidates schedule for today. I like what they have for Slick Sarah:
Barack Obama
Abington, Pennsylvania
Schwarzman Stadium
Abington High School
11:00 am (EDT)
Joe Biden
No public events scheduled
[Michelle Obama and Jill Biden have no public events scheduled]
John McCain
Pueblo, Colorado
Massari Arena
Colorado State University
1:30 pm (MDT)
Sarah Palin
Returns to undisclosed location
Here's a song to cheer everyone up:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7DIc8jdra0o
Ya know, she could always compensate for the lack of foreign policy experience and knowledge by emphasizing her values.
Oh, that's right. Most Americans don't agree with those values.
Wow! I can't believe that the UK's Fascist right-wing-nut news paper, the Daily Mail, even published something damaging to the Republican party! They are marginally better than Fox News and this must be the margin.
When I say Fascist, it's not hyperbole. They supported the Blackshirts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/British_Union_of_Fascists
I don't think they get to live that down either.
I have met with Bob Hope, REM, Bob Dylan, Alexander Haig, Mickey Mantle and many other important people. I have to admit i had to pay an admission fee to meet with some of them but so what?
Slick Sarah found some loose change in her purse. She says that gives her economic experience.
sarah's resume is so tissue thin, she could stuff her bra with them.
Ruthless People @ 17:
How do you know she shaves down there?
What a joke.
ANYONE who still considers Palin a viable candidate is hopelessly lost in KoolAid land.
"Reality has a known liberal bias."
-Steven Colbert
ysbaddaden @ 19:
With all those babies flying out when would she have time?
IFILL: Next question, Gov. Palin, still on the economy. Last year, Congress passed a bill that would make it more difficult for debt-strapped mortgage-holders to declare bankruptcy, to get out from under that debt. This is something that John McCain supported. Would you have?
PALIN: Yes, I would have. But here, again, there have -- there have been so many changes in the conditions of our economy in just even these past weeks that there has been more and more revelation made aware now to Americans about the corruption and the greed on Wall Street.
BennyP @ 20:
40% still support the Palin/McCain ticket. Hope you got stock in Kool-Aid.
This debate was an over-hyped travesty. First they tried to intimidate the moderator, claiming that the book she is WRITING, not WRITTEN, favors Obama. Therefore she should step down. When that did not work, they decided to just ignore the moderator. Palin was asked questions and she boldly stated that she wasn't going to answer questions, she was going to speak directly to the American people.
Gwen Ifil let her get away with that. She shold have stopped her there, reminded her that the rules were that she would respond to questions put before her by the moderator. It was all over after that. She just spouted NeoCon talking points the rest of the night. The public was ill-served by this fiasco.
Ruthless People @ 22:
...First Dude has to go to his hand to get anything tight these days.
Now that the VP debates are over the next time we'll probably see Slick Sarah again is when the voters send her back to Wasilla with her tail tucked between her legs.
Apparently Sara padded her resume to the point of a woman stuffing a whole roll of toilet down her bra....
If you're going to engage in that kind of allusion it better be believable...
coach777b @ 25:
I went to a job interview yesterday. I started out by telling the interviewer that I wouldn't be answering any of his questions, just talking about what I wanted to talk about. I also padded my resume extensively and while being inteviewed saide that I had all kinds of connections that I don't have and that I had been to all of these places I have never been. Do you think I'll get the job?
I met Neil Armstrong when I was kid. I can't for the life of me understand why NASA doesn't think that makes me qualified to pilot a space shuttle.
Say, I wonder if Palin's resume writers ever filled out a sub-prime loan application?
Sarah Palin is the country's foremost expert on space travel.
She used to watch reruns of Alf on Nickelodeon when she was a kid.
The "Bailout" passed.
America --- you just got punk'd!!!!!!!!!!!
coach777b @ 25:
Actually the part about Gwen Ifil not sufficiently reigning in Palin to the point where Sara boldly saying something about not going to answer questions posed by the moderator I found really troubling....you're right and Gwen should of taken it to the distance by reminding Palin that this is a debate not some platform you can just state whatever memorized/crammed talking points your little mind can come up with....
It is amazing how the MSM is spinning Palins performance. "She was able to comeback from the Katie Couric interviews yada yada" We witnessed an individual who made it through the screeners of an American Idol episode and no one is going to tell her that she is not qualified, because she is effective and stroking the reptilian brain stem of some American males while letting other American voters know that they are as smart as she is.
She completely avoided answering four of Gwen's question s on bankruptcy, deregulation, t bailout and the Achilles heel question. I mean what they hell did she really say. Not much not much at all. Why is her lack of in depth knowledge on critical issues a plus? Biden answered every question with on point and in-depth understanding of challenging topics. Sarah did not.
I hope Tina Fey addresses the Achilles heel, the "clean up the planet" comments, Talabani, the "oh Joe there you go again". The can I call you "Joe" move while Biden called Governor Palin.
With the "tapping" comments does she mean the illegal wiretapping program.
"Talabani" WTF
I ride the ferry from Bainbridge Island to Seattle to work and one day I met Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet on "Lost"; she lives on Bainbridge).
Therefore, I AM THE SMOKE MONSTER!
Yellow Elephant Safari @ 33:
"Well and like the Northern Lights like are right up dere in Alaska, and yew know like they're in space too. There's a small atmospheric border between Alaska and the Northern Lights, and yup. Medical coverage."
-- Sarah Palin
earl @ 34:
Americans just watched the largest Treasury heist in our history. The Secretary of the Treasury Paulson was the inside hit man
Fanon @ 30:
Was the job with the RNC?
If not, then I think yer screwed pal.
Kathleen @ 36:
I also hope SNL doesn't miss the point about Gwen letting Palin run amuck with the rules of the debate.....should be an interesting skit.....
Hey, I was outside the building when they held the 1997 APEC summit. I guess that means I've met Clinton, Yeltsin, and a whole gang of other pacific rim leaders. Can I be the new Secretary of State? =)
"Nuc-ular weapons is the be all and end all and ... may I address the issue of Zamboni maintainence fer just a little minute, thank yew ... "
miss_kitty @ 39:
And when those Martians rear dere heads and...who do ya suppose is dere to keep an eye...why it's the Earthlings of Alaska and such, yah know?
The "bar" for palin wa set so absurdly low that a baby cockroach couldn't have scuttled under the fucker.
Gwen Ifill is awful. Period. Gawd, wadda nothing!
earl @ 44:
That hillbilly accent....that grating voice.....that clueless self assured mind....
All wrapped up in her blind ambition...
If McCain wins we are so screwed.....
WHO CARES ABOUT PALIN? IT IS ALL ABOUT JOHN MCCAIN AND WHAT ARE HIS IDEAS TO FIX THIS COUNTRY? ANSWER: ZERO!!!
Ruthless People @ 13:
I believe that Biden is seeing his son off to Iraq. It was reported on cnn.com
"And also last night I also met Joe Biden."
Ruthless People @ 13:
Obviously taking a tour of VP hotspots with The Dick. Those are pretty much undisclosed. And what have we here? 'Returns?' Sounds like she's been on the tour before.
Cheney must be shitting himself over this choice.
earl @ 44:
Heyeee, sure you asked about nuclear weapons, and I gave you an answer about Zambonis, but I'm not always gunna answer the questions the way you or the moderator want me to cuz I'm a MAVERICK! SqueeEE!
Kathleen @ 40:
Everyone should take out their money from banks and put it into a credit union. It's safer there I have been told.
U.S. Governor's meeting. Is that kind of like a trade show for Governors?
Isn't that kind of like saying you are "friends" with an actor because you stood in line and got his autograph?
Barbara @ 49:
Joe's son going to Iraq negated Sarah from playing the "I am the only parent of a kid up her who's son is truly fighting for Amurika" card she would have played. We would have heard about her son going to Iraq more often than McCain played his POW card were it not for Joe's son going too.
Ruthless People @ 25:
One doesn't contradict the other. I very much doubt 100% of the McCain supporters think Palin is any good.
Or why is it we keep hearing their rationalizations: It doesn't matter! She's not running for president!, etc
Even Carly Fiorina did it - her only mistake was admitting why that rationalization is necessary.
Did anybody see Bristol's shotgun groom at the debates? I think he saw his opportunity and made a run for the border.
Joe Biden:
No public events scheduled
"Biden addresses his son's deployment ceremony"
Nope nothing public about that ...?
OK, so Palin didn't fuck up and start speaking in tongues. She still showed she didn't know a fucking thing besides talking points, conversational catch phrases and platitudes. She's a worthless candidate.
Regardless of what GOPers think about her "victory" last night, her ticket still loses on election day. The electoral map is falling firmly into Obama's hands. For Christ's sake, Virginia, PA and Florida are leaning Obama. McSkinCancer cannot win w/o those these states. Of course, the MSM doesn't want to make a big deal of this fact because they still want a horse race.
By year's end, Palin should just be just an odd little footnote in history. And I can't wait.
Ruthless People @ 57:
Fortunately for him, he can see Russia from where he is.
Alexdem @ 56:
Probably true. I don't think the McSame supporters like the loony Palin and I don't think the loony Palin supporters like McSame. It's a political marriage of convenience if ever there were one......and we all know McSame is master in convenient marriages.
Alexdem @ 60:
Only now he can see Alaska!
Ah, the six degrees of seperation foreign policy. She shared a toilet with the president of Chad (not simultaneously), 3 months seperated in time, but he transmitted important knowledge through the toilet bowl.
Jo @ 53:
Credit Unions, like most other kinds of Unions, are good for you...
I haven't used a "bank" for the last 25 years...
I can just see sarah meeting the Queen of England,
" Hi-ya, can I call you Queenie?"
Pericles @ 52:
Was that sarah whilst she's porked?
Kathleen @ 36:
With the "tapping" comments does she mean the illegal wiretapping program.
She's into seances summoning the ghosts of topless tap-dancers.
sarah was probably a bight light in the classroom. when the prof posed the question, her hand shot up. she had the answers that the book had. bright girl. but vp material, hardly. Well, golly, guys, i don't think she had the expertise to run alaska. unless there were an instructional manual telling her how to do so. then she could study it and have all the answers. but then again, the people that were interviewed at her town hall meeting in alaska who loved her and would like to go hunting with her or have a beer with her, they were not the sharpest knives in the scabbard.
Eighty Percent of the information we have about this lady is QUESTIONABLE... Fifteen Percent is an OUT-RIGHT LIE...
O maybe I have those numbers turned around!
Oh, by the way...
What the HELL was she doing wih that little baby of hers... out that late... being shuffled off from one person to another... not getting the good rest that is NECESSARY for an infant.
No onder her kids hate her.
These people are too easy to make fun of. It's no fun.
Alaska is right next to Russia that makes me an expert on foreign policy. Well congratulations on your fourth grade understanding of geography.
I'm a maverick. Golly gee... that was such a swell word back in the 1950s. I'm not out of touch; not me.
Next she'll be telling us she was drunk in Tijuana, so she has a perfect understanding of Mexico.
Oh wait, that was the idiot who's in the White House now.
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