Palin requests meeting with Karzai. Wouldn't you love to be a fly on that wall?

[jefferson_dem]

Palin requests meeting with Karzai
Posted: Friday, September 19, 2008 3:30 PM by Domenico Montanaro
Filed Under: 2008, Palin
From NBC's Libby Leist

Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin has asked to meet with Afghan President Hamid Karzai at next week's meeting of the United Nations' General Assembly, diplomatic sources tell NBC News. There is no confirmation the meeting will actually take place, however.

Democratic vice presidential candidate Joe Biden is scheduled to meet with the Pakistani President Asif Ali Zardari, according to the Pakistani officials. Zardari, the widower of Benazir Bhutto, won election earlier this month, replacing Pervez Musharraf. There is no word, as yet, on a meeting with Palin.

NBC has also learned that Palin has not requested to meet French President Nicolas Sarkozy or Foreign Minister Bernard Kouchner, and the Georgians are saying no meetings yet are scheduled with President Mikheil Saakashvili.

http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/archive/2008/09/19/1426577.aspx

[Alhena]

1. "Hamid, I told Congress 'thanks, but no thanks' on that Bridge to Nowhere"

[jefferson_dem]

8. "lipstick... pit bull...trig... first dude...ebay... PTA...mav'rik...snow machine..."

"Any of that compute with ya, Hamid?"

[orwell]

2. In what regards Hamid... n/t

[stopbush]

3. But McCain thinks he's one of our enemies! ;)

[JuniperLea]

4. She's an idiot! She shouldn't be allowed! She could do irreparable harm!

This isn't even funny. Sarah W. Palin is dangerous!

[Inuca]

13. Yes, she is an idiot. No, she won't do any harm

because Karzai is NOT an idiot. But yes, being a fly on the wall at this or any other similar meeting would be priceless.

[skypilot]

15. She's just trying to "appear" Vice-Presidential.

She wants to limit her direct exposure to the press but yet still have that same press report on all these big important things she's pretending to do--or pretending to want to do. Wasn't she just recently trying to boss around Schwartzenegger? She's full of shit.

[global1]

17. Come On Kharzi Is In The Back Pocket Of *Co......

I bet a call went into Kharzi that said - Hey Kharz - we need you - we're going to set up a meeting between you and Caribou Barbi - so that we could give the stupid American public the impression that she is presidential and knows something about foreign policy.

What's that Kharz - you say you don't want to meet with her - well that's non-negotiable - unless you want us to take your personal security forces away from you which we supply.

So Kharz - put it on your calendar. That's all. Oh - and Kharz - smile for the photo op with her.

[grannie4peace]

5. i think that's a bad idea!!!!!

[asjr]

6. Is this for real??

[Starbucks Anarchist]

7. "Can you make me some Indian food?"

I bet she says that.

[BlueIdaho]

9. Yeah - like Karzai has a political death wish. nm.

[fifthoffive]

10. Love the hat, Ham-Id!

Didja kill that yerself?

[Vinca]

11. If they shake hands maybe she can say she's been to Afghanistan.nt

[cynatnite]

12. A photo with someone wearing karakul hat will add to her foreign policy credentials n/t

[jillan]

14. haha Palin - Our guy gets in the door.

You have to wait for permission.

[gateley]

16. I am laughing OUT LOUD at the mere thought of it! nt

[gateley]

18. Bet he'd meet with Joe Biden in a flash. nt

[Muttocracy]

19. Hah! Biden was married at the U.N. chapel. He should meet with all diplomatic acquaintances

and I bet a lot of them will want to meet with Obama if they haven't already.

[gateley]

20. God - again, they're from different galaxies in this arena. nt

[hamsterjill]

21. In what respect, Hamid????

"And I want you to meet my husband, Taaaaawwwwwddd...the man that I admire most in this world..."

To think that actual foreign relations are going to be interrupted by this fluff stunt makes me wanna toss my cookies. This is a publicity stunt and a tantrum because she is ONLY trying to show that if Joe can meet with a leader, she can meet with a leader, too.

Nanny nanny boo boo.

[Muttocracy]

24. not that meeting with world leaders matters all that much, as she told Charlie. nt

[KamaAina]

22. Didn't they already meet at some mayors' conference?

Karzai = "mayor of Kabul", pop. ~3,000,000

Moose-olini = mayor of Wasilla, AK, pop. ~9,000

[GoddessOfGuinness]

23. Maybe she wants to help him embrace the lord.

[CoffeeCat]

25. "Hamid, do you know the difference between...

...a bit bull and a hockey mom?'

Hamid: "What is a pit bu..."

Palin: "Lipstick! Get it!??? Lipstick!!"

Hamid: <blank stare>

Palin: Soooo. Hoooooooow'z it goooooin? LOVE your cape and hat thingees. WAY cool! Just like Ron Paul--ULTRA COOL! Love it!
Love you! I love the international stuff! Don't you Hammy? Can I call you Hammy?"

Hamid: "I....uh....think I...left something in my car. Can you excuse me for a..."

Palin: NO PROBLEMO! I'll just be sittin here drinkin my iced red bull. So refreshing and cold! Just like the weather
in a-LAS-ka. Hammy? Can you say, "a-LAS-ka?"

<door slams shut>
<tires squeal in the parking lot>

Palin: <slurps iced red bull and talks to self> "Must remember facts....Afghan not a knitted blanket. Afghan a country. Tora
Bora fell on the floora, turn it over...I am woman hear me roara. I love foreign this foreign stuff! Hammy?
Hammy? Mr. Mcain? Anyone?"

<crickets>

[PatSeg]

28. Oh my

I think you nailed it!

[jefferson_dem]

29. Funny...

But also scary as fuck.

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. DUzy!

:rofl:

[undeterred]

38. He's going to wonder if she's there to cook for him or

if she's a hooker from the great northwest.

[blondeatlast]

26. "Has asked to meet with.." Please, Kharzai's event scheduleer; laugh in her face!

The US of A would ALMOST love you for it...

[InternalDialogue]

34. She deserves the same anwer to a meeting request as I do.

And I got a journalism degree, too!

[Muttocracy]

27. she'll beat Biden to Karzai... oh, wait....

(U.S Senator Joseph Biden (L) meets with the Afghan President Hamid Karzai in Kabul February 20, 2008.)

[blondeatlast]

31. Note she's only REQUESTED it, too. What I would give for Kharzai's

people to say "Sarah Who?"

[Muttocracy]

35. well, she'll beat Obama right?...dang...

[Muttocracy]

41. In fairness, McCain has met him too - she's the odd one out

[ContinentalOp]

43. Oooh, McCain got to sit the closest.

It's funny how far they are sitting apart in the Obama and Biden pics.

[sammytko]

44. Yes, maybe closer, but lower - H is looking down on him nt

[Muttocracy]

45. well, those 2 are at the same place in Kabul, I think the McCain one is in the embassy in D.C.

[sammytko]

42. He's only smiling with Obama!

He feels the magic. See how he is reaching out to him.

[ceile]

32. This is a joke, right?

:wtf:

[zulchzulu]

33. "Can eye cow ya Hammie?"

Nice choice, Johnny...

[Bad Thoughts]

36. "Hamid, have you hear the Word?"

Cultural insensitivity ensues.

[TwilightGardener]

37. When is the press going to call her arrogant and presumptuous? Oh, wait...

That only applies to black men.

[oviedodem]

39. Know she will have answer to "Have you ever met a world leader"

[vanderBeth]

40. ....

:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

I wouldn't even acknowledge her, much less meet with her.

[RichardRay]

46. Please, Great Spirit of All That Makes Any Sense At All,

don't let this happen.

She's severely out of her weight class trying to talk to Charlie Gibson, if she tries to behave that way with Karzai he'll (probably figuratively) pull a saber, whack off her head and leave the room in a rage yelling for an AK-47. She might be a bull dog, but Karzai is a wolf, and without an airplane, a couple of friends and a shot form a safe distance Palin would last long enough to yip.