President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

[Elmore Furth]

Sarah Palin just can't get any respect.

Thu Apr 8, 8:07 pm ET
WASHINGTON (Reuters) – President Barack Obama on Thursday made clear he was not going to take advice from Republican Sarah Palin when it comes to decisions about the U.S. nuclear arsenal.

Palin, the former vice presidential candidate, has not been shy about criticizing Obama's policies and this week weighed in on his revamped nuclear strategy, saying it was like a child in a playground who says 'punch me in the face, I'm not going to retaliate.'

"I really have no response to that. The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues," Obama said in an interview with ABC News.

Pressed further on Republican criticism that his strategy restricts the use of nuclear weapons too much, Obama added:

"What I would say to them is, is that if the secretary of defense and the chairman of the joint chiefs of staff are comfortable with it, I'm probably going to take my advice from them and not from Sarah Palin."


President Obama questions Sarah Palin's nuclear acumen

[tulsakatz]

1. ....but she can see Russia from her house!

no problem......I wouldn't take her advice on anything either

[MissHoneychurch]

2. Thank goodness

this "lady" isn't anywhere near the red button.

[Hawkeye-X]

3. Obama should have ignored her completely.

Make her as she's but a gnat.

When speaking of the Name that She can't Remember, she should be irrelevant to anyone.

Hawkeye-X

[Mayberry Machiavelli]

5. He was asked by a "reporter", he didn't bring her up. And he was dismissive, as appropriate.

[BlueMTexpat]

4. But SP was the first to see Putin's head looming up over Alaska.

She MUST be an expert.

I can't see why on earth Obama would listen to the secretary of defense and the chair of the JCS. What could THEY possibly know?

:sarcasm:

[Orsino]

6. He's not questioning it. He's denying it.

Correctly.

[lunatica]

7. It's more like he dismissed Sarah's nuclear non-expertise

Questions? I didn't hear him question anything. Did he say, "I wonder if Sarah knows about the nuclear issues" or did he say, "Does anyone know if Sarah Palin knows things about nuclear issues?"

Those questions are "questioning" her knowledge. Saying "The last I checked, Sarah Palin is not much of an expert on nuclear issues" is a simple declarative statement, not a question nor is there any doubtful or timid indication of ambivalent in his assertion.