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Sarah Palin Displays a World-Class Ignorance of Foreign Affairs, but Her Supporters Won't Care

September 12, 2008 11:50 AM ET | Bonnie Erbe | Permanent Link | Print

Reader Comments

Get with the program, Bonnie...

It was not an exact quote. Those were NOT exact words.

Check YouTube for the *actual* video when Palin said the phrase in question. Eesh!... you'd think with blogs and youtube, USN&WP would do a google before posting erroneous info.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6Owb2y7weA&feature=related

http://www.onenewsnow.com/Blog/Default.aspx?id=248260

http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/11/abc-news-blows-it/

"pray for our military men and women who are striving to do what's right for our country and that our national leaders are sending them out on a task that is from God... that’s what we have to make sure that we’re praying for..."

She was praying/hoping that the task was from God -- not declaring it to be so. Bonnie go back to Journalism 101.

Palin Foreign Affairs

I never knew Obama was such a foreign affairs expert? I didn't even know he had a little bit of foreign affairs experience? As a matter of fact, I thought that was what Biden was for? It's amazing that I missed this about Obama. How I was so wrong about him. Silly me. Funny since I've been calling Palin Obama Jr. all this time. You know, doesn't know much about foreign policy, looks good, speaks well, not really up to the challenge yet of being Commander In Chief. I guess the only real difference between the two is little Obama is on the bottom of the ticket and big Obama is on top. But for some reason it seems people don't notice that.

Ernie- It is not all there is. Fopr many people in this country, including yourself, the presidential race is becoming nothing more than a high school popularity contest.If you are stupid enough to drink the kool-aid and support this woman as a potential future President after the last disastrous 8 years, then YOU are the one in trouble.

MCCAIN OR PALIN

CHOOSE YOUR DESTRUCTOR!!!!!!!!

Palin

I agree with you. We were Hillary supporter. Now switch to McCain. But to my surprise, all the medias seem to be very bias on Palin. We have to come to the web to see her speech on Navada's Carson City. Her speech was so great!

What happened to the FAIR MEDIA OF OUR COUNTRY ?!

Angry Hillary Clinton supporters from California.

Palin

Matt of Florida,

Your chosen one is going down. I Love It!!!!

Sarah and Obama

Both OBAMA and Sarah are ignorant on foreign policy...who's running for president anyway?

Pailin

She is a joke. Let's call her what she is, "Political Barbie Doll." The Republican base talks about how unqualified minorities are for jobs and it should be about merit. This pathological liar and resume enhancer has no credentials to speak of, yet they turn out in drives for her. She is a master opportunist who uses cliches and slogans to justify her alledged knowledge, experience and managerial skills. Anybody dumb enough to vote for her is only voting for the continued diminishing of of the US brand. Didn't conservatives learn after all of the things George Bush has wrecked. We are no longer the power we were in 2000. The rest of the world has to be bent over laughing at the mental midgets who support Pailin. She's a HS cheerleader masquerading as a national politician.

GOD AND COUNTRY

finally we have someone that wants to bring this country back to its roots. thank you GOD.

palin is a blessing

why is obama running against sarah and not mccain.the fact of the matter is that she would make a better president than mccain,obama and country club biden.

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About Bonnie Erbe

Bonnie Erbe is a contributing editor at U.S. News & World Report and hosts PBS's weekly news analysis program, To the Contrary with Bonnie Erbe. She also writes a weekly syndicated newspaper column for Scripps Howard News Service.

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