Lieberman tutors Palin on foreign policy issues (WP)

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Experts Helping Palin Brush Up on Foreign Policy
By Michael Abramowitz and Juliet Eilperin
Washington Post Staff Writers
Friday, September 5, 2008; Page A25

ST. PAUL, Minn., Sept. 4 -- Sen. Joseph I. Lieberman is among several national security experts helping brief Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin on foreign policy issues as she prepares to hit the campaign trail while cramming for a debate with her Democratic opponent, Sen. Joseph R. Biden Jr. (Del.), in less than a month, according to officials from Sen. John McCain's campaign.

Lieberman, who was the 2000 Democratic vice presidential nominee but is now an independent, has helped introduce Palin to officials of the American Israel Public Affairs Committee, the leading pro-Israel lobby. In a meeting Tuesday, the day before she delivered her prime-time address at the Republican National Convention here, Palin assured the group of her strong support for Israel, of her desire to see the United States move its embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem and of her opposition to Iran's aspirations to become a nuclear power, according to sources familiar with the meeting.

The exchange offered a brief glimpse into the views of the one-term governor of Alaska, who has virtually no record on foreign policy and has not traveled extensively outside the United States. As governor, she made two foreign trips last summer, one of which was to Canada. On the second, sponsored by the Pentagon, she traveled to Kuwait and Germany -- and made a short stop at a "military outpost" in Iraq -- to visit members of the Alaska National Guard deployed there, according to Palin spokeswoman Maria Comella. Comella added that Palin may have visited Mexico on a personal trip.

Campaign officials and McCain foreign policy advisers called Palin a quick study who has sound judgment that will serve her in good stead on national security issues. But privately, some in the GOP foreign policy establishment voiced concern that McCain has turned to a relative neophyte on national security matters at a time when the United States is facing challenges ranging from wars in Iraq and Afghanistan to the nuclear activities of Iran and North Korea...

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/04/AR2008090403557.html

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[RagAss]

3. Yup

[Ichingcarpenter]

10. Mutual neighbors in a trailer park of international relations

Pathetic.

[FrenchieCat]

2. She is not fucking ready..........not even close to close.

This is so scary!

[PBS Poll-435]

4. What Next....?

Lindsay Graham will tutor her on assertiveness?

Larry Craig will conduct a lecture on ladies' room etiquette?

Mitt Romney will coach Palin on how to get the most shine for your dime?

Marsha Blackburn will hold a class on how not to use sex as leverage?

[rpannier]

7. From Romney she'll learn how to move the family and the family pet

[PBS Poll-435]

9. Exactly.

I fear, though, that Sarah might actually be able to use that tidbit of advice.

Since the media pundits and the conservatives think that the ticket should be flipped, how long is it till we see poor McChevron on strapped to the roof of the Straight Talk Local?

[rpannier]

5. Hope he gives her a better explanation of Jewish holidays

and she remembers that it's the Czech Republic and it's the Republic of Slovakia.

[GrizzlyMan]

6. Gee whiz I wonder if he'll bring up Israel?

[GrizzlyMan]

8. If Israel is so wonderful, why do the AIPAC folks live here?

Oh wait, their home country is a polluted cesspool of corruption and violence. Never mind.

[LeftishBrit]

13. AIPAC members are Americans, not Israelis

so

'their home country is a polluted cesspool of corruption and violence'

As their home country is America, this will only happen if someone like Palin gets in.

[nadinbrzezinski]

11. My lord I wonder if she even knows the mess

in Israel at the top of the guv'ment

(Essentially Ohlmert will be out due to corruption charges and the head of foreign affairs is a good candidate to become the next PM)

Lord I hate these people. They put the interest of themselves ahead of both the US and Israel

[LeftishBrit]

14. You are right there

Actually they put the interest of themselves ahead of the whole world.

Why would anyone in a democracy want an extremist religious nutcase a heartbeat from the presidency, is what I do not understand.

And I can't understand Lieberman cosying up to fundamentally anti-semitic Christian Right Armageddon-lovers like Hagee and Palin.

[Hardrada]

12. Krauthammer, for one, is worried. They got a live sabre-rattling

Christian fundie now quite close to the live ammunition and this was something those suave brilliant neocons totally failed to anticipate! And a sharp one too unlike their fallen dull tool, GWB.

[truthisfreedom]

15. Isn't it cute? It's so trainable!

Ooh!

[agentS]

16. OH great. The blind leading the clueless

[samuraiguppy]

17. traitor

after we win this election we should make getting him out of office a priority. Can we impeach him?

[Bad Thoughts]

18. Lesson One: You make threats to Putin, He'll Ignore You

I doubt that a fundie like Palin would absorb that lesson.

[barack the house]

19. AIPAC may well want to research Palin's church who stand against Israel.

[terrya]

20. Lieberman is now officially a member of the Republican Party, correct?

He's not even trying to pretend anymore.

Why would a Democrat be tutoring the Republican nominee for Vice President?