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Posted on 11/10/2008 1:42:09 PM PST by Enchante
By now you’ve all heard the Fox News report last week that “unnamed” former McCain advisers leaked that Sarah Palin was confused about whether Africa was a continent, and which countries were in NAFTA. I was perfectly happy staying under the radar as an anonymous source for Fox News‘ Carl Cameron, but now that Palin has accused her accusers of being “unprofessional…jerks…cowards… taking things out of context, and then tried to spread something on national news” and begun to cast doubt on the Fox News report, maybe she’s right to a certain extent. For those of us on the McCain campaign who thought that she acted like a rogue diva and lost John the election, maybe we DO have a responsibility to come out in public. But Sarah… careful what you ask for: some of us may have more to reveal.
So yes, to be clear, last week I was the one who leaked those things to a producer at Fox News who works with Cameron. Carl and his producers are good guys, and I don’t want them to have to worry about protecting their sources (and going through the wringer ala Judith Miller or Matt Cooper) on something like this.
As you know, I was one of the foreign policy advisers on the McCain campaign who worked with Randy Scheunemann to help prep Sarah on her debate with Joe Biden. Did we outright give her a geography quiz when we started the prep? No, of course not. But yes, in the context of the prep, it slowly became apparent that her grasp of basic geo-political knowledge had major gaps. Could she have passed a multiple choice test about South Africa or NAFTA. Probably. But it was clear that she simply didn’t have the ease of knowledge that we come to expect from a major party political candidate. Other slights came up, too: Not knowing the difference between Hezbollah and Hamas. Or the difference between the Shiites and Suni. Or when it came to international terrorist organizations, knowing that the IRA was in Northern Ireland, and ETA in Spain.
The real thing we had to constantly remind her was to never, ever compare herself in any way to Hillary Clinton, as she had at her announcement speech. We had it on good authority that Biden was prepping to unleash the inevitable line, “I know Hillary Clinton. Hillary Clinton is a friend of mine. And Sarah, you’re no Hillary Clinton.” Alas, Biden would have been right.
Right, this guy would not be a capable advisor for any candidate. The more he talks, the more he proves that he is a total jerk.
I know. Questions like where do you get the news are simply too hard to answer.
Don’t forget Barry Hussein....he thinks there are 57 states. I wonder who carried those 7 other states on November 4th? sarc/
Eisenstadt outs himself also as Hillary! fan. How special. He worked on the Rooty RINO campaign first... bleh!
Puuuleeeaase!
Governor Palin as the VP pick is the only thing that kept McCain in the game!
Palin is right. You are a jerk!
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I bet George W...George H W...and some of the other GOP candidates in the past were not as versed on geopolitics and the like.
Most politicians in office do not know this stuff off hand....most dont even read the bills they sign!
Blasting Sarah for this is petty....and more evidence that RINOs need to be purged...bloody if need be
It doesnt sound like Sarah was all that unfamiliar with those topics, anyway.
Of course, McCain is an pro-Globalist liberal...and wanted to see how much she knew about liberal geopolitics.
Of course, McCain himself doesnt realize there is a border between the USA and Mexico....maybe Eisenstadt needs to brief him on that
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