Now we know why the McCain/Palin campaign wants to keep Palin away from interviews and reporters

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http://www.opednews.com/articles/Palin-Casually-Speaks-of-W-by-Steven-Leser-080912-73.html

Palin Casually Speaks of War with a Nuclear Armed Russia

Now we know why the McCain/Palin campaign wants to keep Palin away from interviews and reporters. Before the interview, we knew a lot about her that was scary. She inquires about banning books at the local library. She abuses what little power she has as a small town mayor and Governor of Alaska. She talks about God being a part of our war in Iraq. That all pales compared to the things that start to come out of her mouth when interviewed. As reported by the associated press, http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080911/ap_on_el_pr/palin_interview , during Palin’s interview with Charles Gibson of ABC News, she was asked if Georgia became a NATO ally and Russia invaded Georgia whether the US should go to war with Russia. Palin replied “Perhaps so”. A video of the exchange is on YouTube and can be seen at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sxVFiUZglH4 . She says “Perhaps so” with the kind of nonchalance someone might respond with when asked if one wants to go to the movies this weekend. Upon hearing this, I went to the website of the NTI or “Nuclear Threat Initiative”. NTI maintains a database of each country’s nuclear capabilities. Russia’s page can be seen here http://www.nti.org/e_research/profiles/Russia/index.html and mentions among other things:

According to the Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists' Nuclear Notebook, as of 2008, Russia is estimated to have around 14,000 nuclear weapons, although total stockpile size is uncertain because there is no accurate count of tactical nuclear weapons. Under the provisions of the START I and the Strategic Offensive Reductions Treaty (Treaty of Moscow), the Russian nuclear arsenal has been reduced to approximately 5,200 strategic nuclear warheads. The SORT Treaty requires Russia to reduce the number of deployed strategic warheads to between 1,700 and 2,200 by the end of 2012.



Palin has casually talked of war with a country that has thousands of nuclear warheads each many times greater than the Hiroshima and Nagasaki bombs and this same country unequivocally has the ability to deliver these weapons to every part of the United States. In fact, Russia has a triad of methods to deliver these weapons similar to the US’s own triad, that of Land Based, Undersea submarine based and Aircraft Launched or Dropped weapons.

I’m only surprised Palin didn’t start mentioning precious bodily fluids (look it up if you don’t understand the reference) and how Fluoridation is the most monstrously conceived and dangerous communist plot we have ever had to face. Wherever Peter George, Stanley Kubrick, and Peter Sellers are, they must be smiling and shaking their heads.

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1. Is it true?

What I want to know is if she was presented the questions in advance, as is customary with campaigns that desire to tightly control access to a candidate that is, well, "less than perfect". I don't hear a thing about the ground rules of the interview. If this was a typical staged interview then she is seriously flawed as a candidate.

You won't hear talk of precious bodily fluids from her kind. They're all about forcing Jesus to return according to their time table. Think about it. They are actively promoting situations that they believe will trigger the "end times". There are some of us who would refer to that as trying to stuff God into a box. I'm as hard-core fundamental evangelical as it gets and I have to tell you that kind of thinking is really flawed as Biblical doctrine.