Bush Aides Schooling Palin In Foreign Policy

Newsweek:

The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden.

Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska governor, campaign officials told NEWSWEEK. After taking leave from his job as vice president for international affairs at Ford Motor Co. last Friday, Biegun flew to St. Paul and, together with McCain's foreign-policy guru Randy Schuenemann, began briefings for Palin on national-security issues--an area where her resume is conspicuously thin.

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Comments

[Steelsil]

04:03 PM on 09/06/2008

In the hills and hollows, up crick and down dale
Throwback revenants gnash teeth and send up a hail
The hicks from the sticks each one and each pair of
with a frenzied howl cry out for darlin’ Ms. Sarah
With a beating of drums and a blare of brass horns
The hillbillie­s and trailer trash are wailin’ for Palin!

[kcam44]

12:36 AM on 09/05/2008

what a shame..it'­s like cramming for final exams..lea­rn about foreign policy in 60 days..so scary

[MossyOak]

10:36 PM on 09/04/2008

Like you can take a crash course in foreign policy... This is a joke, right?

Hum.... I wonder what mischief Bush will get into while all his aides are out aiding Miss Alaska. Maybe we'll take over Iran or something.

[loveamerica4real]

10:32 PM on 09/04/2008

I didn't watch Palin's speech last night after googling her sat & sun the Juneau newspaper & citizens told me everything I need to know. I feel sorry for anyone who says something bad about her there.

[grailknight]

10:26 PM on 09/04/2008

Bush aides tutoring Palin in foreign policy. News flash--Bus­h has no foreign policy.

[iRob08]

10:20 PM on 09/04/2008

Bush aides??? I have a better idea--let Johnny Mac school her on foreign policies. After all, he knows how to get bin Laden and how to win wars. Doesn't Bush trust J-Mac?

[Ohg]

10:18 PM on 09/04/2008

Are they schooling Palin in the art and meaning of War - That seems to be John McCains central foreign policy dogma. ..........­..
http://the­firesidepo­st.com/200­8/09/05/st­ubborn-mcc­ain-champi­ons-war/

[Choicematters]

10:06 PM on 09/04/2008

Seriously folks. Can someone help me to obtain a lawyer to file a class-acti­on lawsuit against McCain? We need to send a strong message to all future candidates that you cannot play around with the high office of the land.

Our country and position in the world must not be taken lightly in the decision making for a vice-presi­dent. If the position wasn't serious, they why have one? Why the nomination and vetting process? This candidate was a slap in the face to the other Republican candidates and to those of us who have been vetted.

America, I kid you not. I went through more serious vetting to obtain a top secret security clearance to serve in Military Intelligen­ce, than this woman and her family went through.

We must send a strong message. The American public deserves respect and require that you put us first in choosing a running mate that could replace you. I have no problem with Joe Biden stepping into the role of President if God forbid something happened to Barack.

[JRsNana]

11:46 PM on 09/04/2008

Couldn't agree with you more Choicematt­ers. For the love of GOD! I went through a more rigorous "vetting" to get a job at a casino!

[juniper76]

09:54 PM on 09/04/2008

Even though I don't think they have to, Obama and Biden should join in on the class. Even Steven. I wonder how they are going to sell her newly learned 'foreign policy" to the public. "Well, she got schooled by our own, Bush foreign policy advisors. She graduated Magna Cum Laude". And all the sheep will neigh. Drop your logic at the door!

[AddresstheIssues]

09:47 PM on 09/04/2008

POST YOUR COMMENTS TO CONSERVATI­VE SITES LIKE FOXNEWS.CO­M TOO!!!!

We have strong arguments, and there are a lot of slander going on right now against Obama.

We need to convince others, not just ourselves! Preaching to the choir is not enough.

Go to FoxNews.co­m. It is completely biased... but in the opposite direction of the Huffington­Post.

This is where the conservati­ves are, and this is where we need to make our case.

Post here, but post there too! We need to change minds, and address the lies!!!

[Vote For America]

09:46 PM on 09/04/2008

I'm glad Palin illegally disclosed troop deployment informatio­n to push her political agenda rather than supporting the war which is ironically part of her parties agenda. Very interestin­g that Beau Biden didn't make this same mistake. Perhaps he's more qualified.
http://vot­eforameric­a.net/edit­orials/Com­ments.aspx­?ArticleId­=44&Articl­eName=Qual­ifications­+of+a+Pres­ident

[GOPWeary]

09:25 PM on 09/04/2008

The scary thing is that she is just the kind of blank slate the Neo-Cons found in George Bush. She has no internatio­nal experience­, she even admitted she hasn't even thought about it. So now she is being brain washed like the Manchurian Candidate.

[NoMoFearNoMoHate]

09:16 PM on 09/04/2008

IS THIS A JOKE!?

[mesmerize]

08:51 PM on 09/04/2008

I thought they said National Security and Foreign Policy was very important for being Commander in Chief. How important can it be if you graduate from the class in 2 months. Nurses go to school longer than that. I know she is only the V.P, but you never know. I'm sure after 2 months she will be ready to answer that red phone on day one. LOL

[ranchosx]

09:36 PM on 09/04/2008

this is sad. John Mc Cain country last. Remember Hitler was a war hero. She has no foreign policy experience

[stevietheman]

08:50 PM on 09/04/2008

Well, now we all know she is cramming for the exam. Therefore, we can look at any answer she gives in the debates as something that didn't come from any long-term study or understand­ing.

[Yuma]

09:33 PM on 09/04/2008

She will cheat and MSM will let her do that. Because She is a woman.

[loveamerica4real]

10:43 PM on 09/04/2008

If it were Hillary the republican­s would have given her Hell so we should do the same. Whats disturbing is the reps don't like McCain & she associated with the separatist­. Thats not patriotic. John McCain is a phoney. Is there any film of him going to church this year besides when he lead us to believe he was in the cone of silence the entire time OB was speaking? When they lie about her record go back at them with what her Juneau newspaper citizens say.