Posted on 03/02/2014 11:35:49 AM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
Sarah Palin warned in 2008 that if Obama were elected, Putin would be encouraged to invade Ukraine. At the time, she was mocked.
Did former Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin predict six years ago the current situation in Ukraine? It appears as though she did.
On Friday, hours before Russia’s parliament gave President Vladimir Putin the formal go ahead to send forces to Ukraine, the Breitbart website reminded those who may have forgotten that during the 2008 presidential campaign, Palin warned that if then-Senator Barack Obama were elected president, his "indecision" and "moral equivalence" may encourage Russia's Vladimir Putin to invade Ukraine.
“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,” Palin said at the time.
Breitbart further noted that Palin was mocked over those comments by the Foreign Policy magazine and its editor Blake Hounshell, who now is one of the editors of Politico magazine.
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 wrote at the time.
Palin made her remarks 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.
In the 2012 election race, Obama’ Republican rival Mitt Romney was mocked over similar comments he made about Russia....
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Just further proof that it’s never a good idea to send a boy to do a man’s work.
They did the same thing when Bush was president.
The MSM didn't report on the Bali mall bombing because it would have made Bush right about terrorism being exported worldwide.
-PJ
FUJM
With the princess thin skin occupant of the W/H what would be the downside of invasion in Europe and then Chine going into Taiwan?
Zero, as in Captain Zero.
There are no repercussion that they will fear so what will stop them?
Thank you for the best and longest laugh I've had today!
Good.
Shopping for a silk rope, are you?
Damn, I forgot all about that. Good thing private enterprise in this country is building spacecraft, while NASA works with the Muslims.
I liberated that one from another FReeper who I’d cite if I could remember which one. I enjoyed it too...;o)
I've been to Russia. They believe we stole Alaska.
Obama doesn't have the balls to stop him.
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