PALIN MOCKED IN 2008 FOR WARNING PUTIN MAY INVADE UKRAINE IF OBAMA ELECTED

Breitbart ^ | Feb 28, 2014 | By Tony Lee

[Jim Robinson]

During the 2008 presidential campaign, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin warned that if Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his "indecision" and "moral equivalence" may encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.

Palin said then:

"After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama's reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia's Putin to invade Ukraine next."

For those comments, she was mocked by the high-brow Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.

In light of recent events in Ukraine and concerns that Russia is getting its troops ready to cross the border into its neighboring nation, nobody seems to be laughing at or dismissing those comments now.

Hounshell wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is an extremely far-fetched scenario." "And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine's pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell dismissively wrote.

Palin made her remarks on the stump after Obama's running mate Joe Biden warned Obama supporters to "gird your loins" if Obama is elected because international leaders may test or try to take advantage of him.

[Liberty Valance]

[kcvl]

Blake Hounshell
@blakehounshell
Deputy editor, POLITICO magazine, formerly at Foreign Policy. Mostly international, some politics. RT means it’s interesting. bhounshell[at]politico
Washington

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell

Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) tweeted at 2:34pm - 28 Feb 14:

remember when Blake made fun of Palin for saying Russia might invade Ukraine? @blakehounshell blog.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2008/10/… @JammieWF (https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/439498859090550785)

John C.B. LaRue (@jcblarue) tweeted at 2:36pm - 28 Feb 14:

@RichardGrenell @blakehounshell @JammieWF sucks when your incorrectness is documented on the interwebs!

(https://twitter.com/jcblarue/status/439499262066692096)

Brian D Brown (@briandb03) tweeted at 3:12pm - 28 Feb 14:

@RichardGrenell @blakehounshell @JammieWF @SarahPalinUSA
U gotta love the condescending line “this is an extremely far-fetched

scenario.” (https://twitter.com/briandb03/status/439508327333376000)

[freeangel]

Oh, oh. Now bammy will blame Sarah for the Russian invasion.

[CountryClassSF]

Perhaps the leftists who were wrong about Palin’s expertise should read a book sometime, or a newspaper!

[kcvl]

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 5:21pm - 28 Feb 14:

Yes, Twitter, Sarah Palin totally called this exact Ukraine scenario 6 years ago…. (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439540945626095616)

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell

[Norm Lenhart]

There should be a study done to determine if the PDS in the media causes the inability to admit error or if the opposite is true.

But I could save them the time and money as the answer is obvious. Plenty of the GOP and it’s sycophants share the disease so a cure would be universally beneficial.

[McGruff]

Wow!

[Jim Robinson]

If I remember my history, Russia has been invaded many times. In recent history, Napoleon tried to conquer Russia and failed. Hitler invaded Russia to take their oil and enslave their people, and failed. But Obama is a military genius. He can waltz in under the gay rainbow/unicorn flag and they’ll all die laughing.

[Chode]

it's photoshop... but the difference between man and boy is real

[TurboZamboni]

The U.S. Military Budget Is Bigger Than the 10 Next Biggest Military Budgets Combined

http://reason.com/blog/2014/02/26/the-us-military-budget-is-bigger-than-th

We do, but can no longer afford to police the whole world.

[Norm Lenhart]

I’m kinda shocked. Don’t you realize that all those times the wrong people were in charge? CLEARLY we’re the ones we’ve been waiting for!

;)

[SuziQ]

Hounshell wrote then that Palin's comments were "strange" and "this is an extremely far-fetched scenario." "And given how Russia has been able to unsettle Ukraine's pro-Western government without firing a shot, I don't see why violence would be necessary to bring Kiev to heel," Hounshell dismissively wrote.

Hmm. Wonder if he'd like to reconsider that statement, in light of this week's events.
Nah, probably not. He'd probably prefer to eat nails rather than admit that Sarah Palin MIGHT have been right.

[kcvl]

Blake Hounshell likes to mock things he doesn’t understand (& gets his ass kicked EVERY TIME!)

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 7:49pm - 27 Feb 14:

So this is going to be on Fox News tomorrow, I’d wager bigstory.ap.org/article/court-… (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439215759043334144)

Richard Grenell (@RichardGrenell) tweeted at 7:52pm - 27 Feb 14:

@blakehounshell as it should. The American flag incites violence? Ummm, this is America. (https://twitter.com/RichardGrenell/status/439216504404316160)

Jimmy Simpson (@informedblackmn) tweeted at 8:14pm - 27 Feb 14:

@blakehounshell What does that say about you then? Why isn’t a stupid policy that caters to American haters on your radar?

(https://twitter.com/informedblackmn/status/439222094304268288)

[txhurl]

and they’ll all die laughing.

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lol

[Jane Long]

blamey....his name is blamey, not bammy ;)

[miserare]

Never fear—Obama will bring his magic fairy dust with him.

[kcvl]

John Kerry has everything under control!

Blake Hounshell (@blakehounshell) tweeted at 1:14pm - 27 Feb 14:

Hope he got that in writing. RT @WSJbreakingnews Kerry says Russia pledges to respect Ukraine territories. wsj.com (https://twitter.com/blakehounshell/status/439116286652866560)

https://mobile.twitter.com/blakehounshell

[4Liberty]

[4Liberty]

[miserare]

“...and that gal shooting the moose looks pretty darn good!”