Palin 33% Of Her Foreign Policy Experience Was A Lie-She NEVER Visited Ireland!!!

[kpete]

Palin lied about visiting Ireland as part of her foreign policy experience
John Aravosis (DC) · 9/02/2008 02:21:00 PM ET ·

She didn't visit Ireland, which is what the McCain-Palin campaign claimed to Politico's Ben Smith on Saturday. She had a short refueling stopover, which means at best her extensive Irish diplomacy amounted to buying a sweater and a beer mug in the Shannon airport.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0808/Palins_travels.html

Does Sarah Palin count duty-free shopping as foreign policy experience?
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0908/Palins_stopover.html?showall

Why does Sarah Palin's duty-free-diplomacy matter? Because John McCain, who is 72 and has had 4 bouts of cancer, just picked Sarah Palin to replace him as commander in chief should he die or be incapacitated in office. Sarah Palin, in an effort to bolster her non-existent national security expertise, claimed she had visited 3 countries: Germany; Kuwait; and Ireland. Now we find out that one of those three, 33% of her experience, was pretty much a lie. Did the McCain campaign know that Palin basically lied to the media and the American people? Or did this Irish blogger do the vetting that the McCain campaign couldn't be bothered to do?

Oh, the McCain-Palin campaign now alleges that Palin visited Canada too. Sure, if you count buying a Celine Dion CD.

more at:
http://www.americablog.com/2008/09/palin-lied-about-visiting-ireland-as.html

[Gnister]

1. So the straight talk express is lying???

[Cha]

31. The bullshit express is driving off the Bridge to Nowhere

with miss lieability in the driver's seat.

[TwilightGardener]

2. Can't keep track of her lies now. Is anything about her the truth?

[XemaSab]

3. She forgot to add her several trips to

the United States. :eyes:

And if she's never been to Canada, that's just sad. *I've* been to Canada four times! Everyone's been to Canada! :bounce:

[maseman]

4. Christ even if she did visit Ireland

How the fuck is that national security experience? I've been to Canada, Mexico, Puerto Rico, Trinidad/Tobago, etc. I'm not ready (I don't think) for the VP ticket.

[LonelyLRLiberal]

12. Exactly - even visiting Alaska's NG in Kuwait and Germany is not experience in foreign policy.

Good grief!

Another thing we've got to get across is that she is NOT a reformer or fiscally conservative! Her record in Alaska proves that.

[kestrel91316]

33. I have lived in Japan for 3 years, visited the Phillippines 2 or 3 times,

visited Mexico at least twice and Canada 2 or 3 times, and even been to France.

Can I be Secretary of State?

[book_worm]

5. Yet another lie Palin is caught in.

[truthisfreedom]

6. She may have been to the North Pole...

[Sebastian Doyle]

19. Yeah, but that's only a 12 hour drive

....by dog sled.

[Epiphany4z]

7. omg...lol

a stop over?...what can you say to crap like this?..McCain is insane.

[Ichingcarpenter]

8. She visited Denmark when she flew over Greenland

How many more gifts do we get in one day?

[Occam Bandage]

9. Visiting Ireland is such a non-credential, I can't believe she'd lie about it.

I've visited Ireland. It was a lovely country. I wouldn't claim it as "foreign-policy experience."

[tblue37]

29. I spent a week there in 2006. I can haz VP nomination? n/t

[northernsoul]

32. Oh, I disagree

A 5-hour drinking and singing session with the locals at The Plough in Dublin taught me a helluva lot about international relations and diplomacy!

[vaberella]

36. If living in Alaska makes you an expert on Russia. A stop over in Ireland makes you Prime Minister.

[Vinca]

10. OMG - if we're counting airports, I bet there are a whole lot of people

on this board qualified to be Secretary of State.

[berni_mccoy]

11. ROFL!ROFL!ROFL!ROFL!

[zulchzulu]

13. My head is spinning...

I can't keep up on all the Palindrama...

[renate]

14. oh my good sweet lord

That runaway train just isn't stopping! This is absolutely incredible.

I wish all this were coming out right after the convention... I'd been thinking that they couldn't ditch her so soon after selecting her, and after making such a big giant deal about how she'll appeal to conservative voters, but this is getting beyond belief.

[vanderBeth]

15. I don't think I have heard one thing she has said that is true.

:rofl:

[TheDonkey]

16. Holy mother of G-D!!!!! Can these clowns do nothing but lie and spin!!?!

[Sebastian Doyle]

17. She drank a Guinness once

That counts, right? :beer:

[spanone]

18. this whole thing stinks to high heaven....i'm listening to this fool on msnbc right now...bullshit

[yellerpup]

20. Reminds me of my conservative dad.

Once took us on a vacation (read: family endurance test) to the Alamo. We had been driving for about 13 hours and as we drew close enough to see it, he said, "See there, kids! Now, you can tell all your friends that you've been to the Alamo." Then he turned the corner and we went to a cheap hotel without ever going inside. (no swimming pool either!) Dad would have loved Sarah! :rofl:

[tblue37]

30. My ex-husband used to do that sort of thing. n/t

[yellerpup]

40. Fun, isn't it?

:hug:

[C_U_L8R]

21. Great Jumping Jehosaphat...

do these Theocons ever stop lying !!??

(rhetorical question hahahaha)

[Rambis]

22. I had three pints of Guinness in the Shannon airport once

that would qualify me as a expert of foreign affairs and I should be given an ambassadorship.

[yellerpup]

34. That would qualify you as an Irishman. n/t

[jberryhill]

23. But she did stay at a Holiday Inn Express

And had the free breakfast:

[RoadRage]

25. OMG..

I just choked on my cheerios. Nice.. very nice. :)

[nc4bo]

24. ..the wheels on the bus go round and round but are about to fall off one by one LOL

[Doremus]

26. If we can add stuff to our resume by simply being in the vicinity

Then Barack has years and years of executive experience.

I'm sure he's been in the Illinois state house and the White House MANY times.

He's probably been in a Microsoft store, filled up his tank at Exxon, bought a car from Ford or Chrysler or GM .... hell, he's a veritable business tycoon!


:rofl:
:rofl:

[yardwork]

27. Palin lies just like the McCains lie. Pathological.

[SoxFan]

28. Apparently I'm ready to be mayor of Atlanta

[vaberella]

39. Hello Mayor of Atlanta, I'm ready to be the Senator of New York. n/t

[libnnc]

35. Okay I'm getting dizzy now....

Will someone put this candidacy out of its misery now?

:wow:

[vaberella]

37. She's the gift that keeps giving every second of the day. n/t

[ErinBerin84]

38. ok, someone needs to make a list of how many talking points are being debunked.

Lindsey Graham had some fucking NERVE saying last Sunday of Obama "He went to Iraq, but only because we SHAMED him into going!"

[depakid]

41. She never even had a passport until 2007

[Muttocracy]

42. That's incredible. I spent weeks in Ireland - me for VP!!