McCain And Palin Off Message In Response To North Korea Diplomacy

[ProSense]

McCain And Palin Off Message In Response To North Korea Diplomacy

Yesterday, the Bush administration announced that the United States was removing North Korea from the State Department’s list of state sponsors of terrorism. The decision was made after North Korea “agreed to resume disabling a plutonium plant and to allow some inspections to verify that it had halted its nuclear program.”

The administration’s move quickly split the McCain-Palin ticket. John McCain issued a preemptive statement on Friday expressing his displeasure with the agreement:

I have previously said that I would not support the easing of sanctions North Korea unless the United States is able to fully verify the nuclear declaration Pyongyang submitted on June 26. <…> I expect the administration to explain exactly how this new verification agreement advances American interests and those of our allies before I will be able to support any decision to remove North Korea from the list of state sponsors of terrorism.

When asked about the deal on Saturday, McCain’s running mate Sarah Palin — trying desperately to demonstrate her own foreign policy competence — offered a contradictory response:

Condoleezza Rice, of course, having worked on this strategy for quite some time, I have faith in her that they’re making this wise decision and North Korea, of course, better live up to its end of the bargain there, in speaking with the other countries whom they’ve been working with, in promising the verification. That end of the bargain has got to be lived up to.

Watch it:

(http://thinkprogress.org/2008/10/12/mccain-palin-north-korea/">Palin Contradicts McCain On North Korea)

As CNN’s Don Lemon noted, McCain and Palin were also off-message last month when Palin suggested that the U.S. should go after Taliban and Al-Qaida leaders in Pakistan — a position McCain opposes. The candidates tried to dismiss the disagreement as “gotcha journalism.”

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Palin is guessing!

[lapfog_1]

1. Palin again demonstrates that she is one of the sheeple.

by taking the line "we must believe what our leaders tell us, so if Bush and Condi say that this is a good agreement, well then it must be". What she has completely failed to understand is that she's been promoted to be one of the sheeple herders and needs to check in with the new chief sheeple herder for clues (talking points).

[Blue_Roses]

2. Palin AGAIN demonstrates her INCOMPETENCE for the VP position!

:eyes: good grief...she's so incompetent:banghead:

[dkf]

6. Isn't it McCain's incompetence since he hasn't informed her what his position is?

I'm guessing she assumes McCain is supporting Bush unless he tells her the opposite.

[Me.]

3. So Who's In Charge In Dunceville?

He or she? Seems to me she's cutting off his....legs.

[beac]

4. Biy, they really have lost control of their lipsticky pitbull, haven't threy?

"Gotcha journalism"????? It's isn't too hard to "gotcha" Palin since she is IGNORANT on every subject-- including her own ticket's positions.

[Democat]

5. Palin sounds like a second grader talking politics when she babbles about anything!

Is the real VP, Todd, more coherent than her?

[ProSense]

8. When is everyone going to catch on:

"Is the real VP, Todd, more coherent than her?"

[Life Long Dem]

7. I thought it was the "Red button" we pressed??!!

:nuke: Too bad there was no one around to answer the question!