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Former Sec. of State Eagleburger on Palin: Of course she's not ready

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In an interview on National Public Radio, former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger states Sarah Palin is not ready to be president and he devoutly hopes she would never be tested. Eagleburger, a Republican, served under George H.W. Bush and is supporting McCain, though McCain may be wondering how strong that support is at the moment. McCain regularly cites Eagleburger as an important endorsement.

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  • crob80227
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      crob80227  

    • Or maybe a better example would be "Americas Got Talent"?

      Sarah Palin's "talent" would be some kind of bizzare one-woman perforamce art piece involving $150,000 worth of clothing and makeup (take THAT Cher!) and improving some kind of weird character that hates those doggone Muslims, you betcha!

      That's why she is such a joke....because there really isn't any "there" there.

      Once the RNC Road Show is cancelled this fall there really isn't much of a career left for Mrs. Palin.

      After this Tuesday Season Finale we just aren't gonna she her around anymore.

    • 4 years ago
  • J_Jammer
  • crob80227
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      crob80227  
    • crob80227:

      Even if she were to have a lifespan beyond the Season Finale....what exactly would that look like? What exactly would she do that would distinguish herself and keep herself in the public eye for the next 4 years? Sarahs big problem is that she was utterly undistinguished and unremarkable prior to being selected. Much like the rather untalented and unremarkable Top Ten of American Idol those kids never really make in the music businesses after they get voted off at 10, 9, 8, 7, etc. Because they really werent that good to begin with. Sarah seems to be facing the exact same future.

    • 4 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • crob80227:

      If she were so easily forgotten she would not be bothered with now at all. As in no one would have cared that she existed as VP pick. However, people cared; whether it was because they liked her or because they hated her...they cared enough to talk good or bad about her. Someone like that isn't just done. She didn't make herself important...everyone else did.

    • 4 years ago
  • crob80227
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    • She is an empty shell. She wasn’t exactly moments away from greatness prior to being plucked from absolute obscurity. Her “accomplishments” as Gov of Alaska were remarkably unimpressive and, in fact, paled in comparison to the accomplishments of other Govenors.

      Sarah Palin is exactly like the “winners” of American Idol.

      While they were on the show they were the BIGGEST names in music. They were the absolute shit…..and the moment the show was over? Poof! They all disappeared never to be heard from again. Anyone attend a Ruben Studdard concert lately?

      Can anyone name even HALF the runners-up for all the seasons?

      Exactly.

      Sarah Palin is to politics what Nikki McKibben is to the recording industry.

      A manufactured “star” that vanishes from sight the moment the show is over.

      In this case the show ends for Sarah Palin on Nov. 4th.

    • 4 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • crob80227:

      Jordin Sparks.
      Carrie Underwood.
      Kelly Clarkson.
      David Cook.
      David Archuleta.

      Carrie Underwood has sold more records than most country music artist...Kelly Clarkson has sold massive amounts of CDs as well.

      Your comparison isn't a good one. They are still famous and some have been away from the show for years.

    • 4 years ago
  • Cashmere
  • AmberT
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      AmberT  

    • Joe Biden is light years beyond her as a solid choice. I am sorry but making rape victims pay for the medical tests? Teaching religious ideology in a SCIENCE class? Even though she is not effected by gay marrige, she want's to take that right away from others? The list goes on.

      So the main republican idea is small government, lets divide it up to economic and social policy. Now, Republicans want Big government in social policy, just look at the social conservative ideology. Oxy-moron(s).

    • 4 years ago
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  
    • AmberT:

      There is no proof that that was her policy and none to suggest she knew what was going on with that policy.

      Before you state that she should know...not everyone knows everything that goes on.

      And if these women complained then maybe she would have found out....

      but that cannot be blamed on her. I mean you can do it, but it holds no water.

    • 4 years ago
  • karrer
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      karrer  
    • AmberT:

      Let's face it, there's no proof that this woman even knows what the word "policy" means...

      She obviously doesn't understand what "American exceptionalism" refers to, nor did she know what the "Bush Doctrine" was when asked during Charlie Gibson's now famous interview.

      Remember:

      This is a woman who couldn't come up with the name of a single periodical that she has read though she allegedly reads "all of 'em."

      This is a woman who wore a scarf featuring her rival's mascot, the donkey on stage in the middle of a political campaign. Completely unaware!

      She is obviously the least qualified person ever to run for Vice President. After all, her response to a child's question about the role of the VP revealed the extent of her terrifying ignorance.

      1.) Uh... let's see, the VP takes over for the Pres if he croaks.

      And...

      2.) Sumthin' bout the Senate.

      That would earn a 5th grade kid a C- if he were lucky.

      What Palin said was worse. "Sumthin' bout the Senate" is vague but not completely wrong. Whereas "the Vice President is in charge of the Senate." is just false.

      ...

      It's too depressing to continue laying this out.

    • 4 years ago
  • RS57
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  • J_Jammer
  • nessie00
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      nessie00  

    • IS ANYONE REALLY READY TO TAKE ON THE WORLD'S PROBLEMS. I THINK NOT. IF THEY SURROUND THEMSELVES WITH THE RIGHT ADVISORS THEY WILL DO WHAT IS HUMANLY POSSIBLE...THEIR BEST. WE MAY NOT ALWAYS AGREE, BUT A MAJOR DECISION IS NEVER MADE BY ONLY ONE PERSON. SHE IS AS READY AS ANYONE. TOUGHER TOO, DO NOT LET HER FOOL YOU.

    • 4 years ago
  • seeker561
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    • nessie00:

      "...BUT A MAJOR DECISION IS NEVER MADE BY ONLY ONE PERSON..."

      Wrong! Every major decision is made by exactly one person. They may solicit the opinions of others but in the end history remembers that Truman dropped the bomb, Bush started a war and Lincoln ended one.

    • 4 years ago
  • caseygane
  • J_Jammer
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      J_Jammer [removed]  

    • 7. Harry Truman

      1945-53 (Democratic)

      Truman entered the White House after just 82 days as Roosevelt’s Vice President and with very little foreign experience. He was soon called upon to make some of the most significant international policy decisions in American history.

      He sanctioned the use of atomic weapons over Japan, signed up to the United Nations and NATO as well as formulating the Truman Doctrine, which shaped America’s anti-Communist policy for decades to come. Industrial disputes, scandals and the alleged harbouring of Soviet agents diminished Truman’s reputation at home leaving him with a 22 per cent approval rating.

      "Prevented a possible Third World War by containing the Soviet Union." Camilla Cavendish, columnist.
      ---------------------------------

      Number seven on a list of 42 Presidents...dictating how good of a President he was and what do we notice?

      The following: "Truman entered the White House after just 82 days as Roosevelt’s Vice President and with very little foreign experience."

      and if there were TVs and nitpicky people of today....that would have been noticed and maybe made into a big deal and then what? Maybe they wouldn't have won and where would America be?

      I'm not stating that McCain and Palin are the answer to everything, nor am I endorsing them, I'm stating that suggesting that such things matter as to how to run the office isn't viable. You may use that to not vote for them, but it's not good enough to try and convince others.

      Because history points to that line of thinking as a lie.

    • 4 years ago
  • smice
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      smice  

    • Garrison Keillor on Palin: "It was dishonest, cynical men who put forward a clueless young woman for national office, hoping to juice up the ticket, hoping she could skate through two months of chaperoned campaigning, but the truth emerges: The lady is talking freely about matters she has never thought about. The American people have an ear for B.S. They can tell when someone's mouth is moving and the clutch is not engaged. When she said, "One thing that Americans do at this time, also, though, is let's commit ourselves just every day, American people, Joe Sixpack, hockey moms across the nation, I think we need to band together and say never again. Never will we be exploited and taken advantage of again by those who are managing our money and loaning us these dollars," people smelled gas.

      Some Republicans adore her because they are pranksters at heart and love the consternation of grown-ups. The ne'er-do-well son of the old Republican family as president, the idea that you increase government revenue by cutting taxes, the idea that you cut social services and thereby drive the needy into the middle class, the idea that you overthrow a dictator with a show of force and achieve democracy at no cost to yourself — one stink bomb after another, and now Gov. Palin.

      She is a chatty sportscaster who lacks the guile to conceal her vacuity, and she was John McCain's first major decision as nominee. This troubles independent voters, and now she is a major drag on his candidacy. She will get a nice book deal from Regnery and a new career making personal appearances for 40 grand a pop, and she'll become a trivia question, "What politician claimed foreign policy expertise based on being able to see Russia from her house?" And the rest of us will have to pull ourselves out of the swamp of Republican economics."

    • 4 years ago
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