Afghan's Karsai Agrees to Act Like He Knows Palin on the Way Into the UN Next Week

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Washington Post
Saturday, September 20, 2008; Page A06


Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin will meet next week with Afghan President Hamid Karzai in New York, on the sidelines of the opening of the U.N. General Assembly, according to Afghan officials in Washington.

The meeting is part of a broader effort to demonstrate the Alaska governor's ability to handle foreign policy issues, at a time when she has come under fire for a lack of experience on the international stage. The opportunity to speak before the United Nations annually draws the world's leaders to Manhattan, and the GOP presidential nominee, Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), plans to use the occasion to introduce Palin to those officials, McCain aides have said.

"It's a great opportunity for Governor Palin to meet and interact with some of the world leaders she will deal with as vice president," said one McCain adviser, who spoke on the condition of anonymity because her U.N. schedule had not been made public. "She'll talk about the issues facing the world."

"Unfortunately, a few meetings at the U.N. won't change the fact that John McCain is promising four more years of the same cowboy diplomacy that has shredded our alliances and set back our ability to fight international terrorism," said Hari Sevugan, a spokesman for the Democratic nominee, Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).

The request to Karzai for a sit-down came from Palin's team early this week and Karzai sent his agreement yesterday, officials at the Afghan Embassy said. Karzai, who will travel to Washington later in the week for a White House meeting with President Bush, expects to have separate telephone conversations with McCain and with Obama during his U.S. stay.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/19/AR2008091903820_pf.html


"Yoo hoo! Hamid!"

"Sarah! Is that you?"

"Oh you!"

"No . . . you! You."

[thewiseguy]

1. wow! She is going to meet the mayor of Kabul?

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3. " . . . love the coulerful scurf"

"I can see Russia from Afghanistan."

[grannylib]

2. My STARS, I'm so impressed! Why, silly little me, thinking she had

no experience! Well, this certainly changes MY mind! If she's good enough for Hamid Karzai at the UN, then by golly, li'l miss Talking Caribou Barbie is just okie-dokie with me too! Now that I know she's truly QUALIFIED, I'm just MORTIFIED that I wasn't wholeheartedly supporting another woman from the moment she was selected as McAnus' running mate!




HEAVY :sarcasm: just in case you couldn't tell...

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5. she requested the meet and he accepted

Apparently, that's all there is to foreign policy. Meet and greet.

[spag68]

4. This is our chance!!!!!!

We delay her van at a light with a phony accident and send Tina Fey in to set the meeting up. Then after a while Tina stands up and says Now live from New York, It's Saturday night. Then split and leave them standing there.