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

[barackobama4prez]

Why does she get on the job training? She's a token woman candidate. TOKEN i tell ya.

[suppressed08news]

Yea its okay for her to go to Foreign Policy Boot Camp and then be qualified, but Obama on the other hand is a whole nother story. And to compare this possible quick study to J o e B i d e n' s experience in this area is a joke for real.

[CtJean]

And the talk with a straight face! Incredible!

[Rumba]

Just another trained parrot.