Bushies Come to Palin's Aid, Teaching Foreign Affairs

[tekisui]

By Michael Isikoff

The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden.

Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska governor, campaign officials told NEWSWEEK. After taking leave from his job as vice president for international affairs at Ford Motor Co. last Friday, Biegun flew to St. Paul and, together with McCain’s foreign-policy guru Randy Schuenemann, began briefings for Palin on national-security issues—an area where her resume is conspicuously thin.

Biegun is hardly the only Bushie to be tapped for Palin duty. Among others:

Matt Scully, a former Bush White House speechwriter who helped draft some of the major foreign-policy addresses during the president’s first term, is working on Palin’s acceptance speech to the convention Wednesday night.

Mark Wallace, a former lawyer for the Bush 2000 campaign who served in a variety of administration jobs including chief counsel at the Federal Emergency Management Agency and deputy ambassador to the United Nations, has been put in charge of “prep” for the debate against Biden.

Wallace’s wife, Nicolle Wallace, the former White House communications director, has taken over the same job for Palin.

Tucker Eskew, another senior Bush White House communications aide, is serving as senior counselor to Palin’s operation.

Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former chief economist at the Council of Economic Advisers who has been serving as top economics guru for the McCain campaign, has moved over to serve as Palin’s chief domestic-policy adviser.

more at link: http://www.blog.newsweek.com/blogs/stumper/archive/2008/09/02/bushies-come-to-palin-s-rescue.aspx

[DJ13]

1. Thats like learning finance from an Enron executive

[slor]

2. That is scary...

their foreign policy is horrific, to say the least.

[bluestateguy]

3. oh brother

[lurky]

4. So all the top talent is working for Palin, now?

Again, which one is running for president?

[nc4bo]

5. oh but wait......wasn't mcanus supposed to be distancing himself from the bushies

I mean, didn't he just do a one hour long *cough* speech *cough* saying how different from the current regime?

Such a magnificent maverick. :sarcasm:

[Muttocracy]

6. HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! So much for learning at the feet of the master.

McCain can't get her up to speed?

35 years of preparation vs. 1 month?

[seafan]

7. That's why she's hidden away. She's reading "My Pet Goat" to prepare her foreign policy creds.

Or was it Bush's Cliff's Notes...

While Joe Biden 'Meets the Press', Sarah Palin 'Flees the Press". The Bushies will not allow her to speak unscripted, because her utter lack of qualification for this job would be both revolting and infuriating to voters.

And we should KEEP THE PRESSURE ON.




I suspected this undisclosed location bull yesterday.

And we can count on a severely curtailed media access to Palin, because she will be sequestered and prepped with sound bytes to cover for her lack of knowledge of foreign affairs, the occupation of Iraq, Cheney's threats against Iran and Russia, the economy, scientific advancement, the health care failure, the catastrophic dynamics of job outsourcing and the abysmal failure of public education.

Underlying all of this is a rabid, fundamentalist view of religion, with Palin's words: the Iraq war is 'a task that is from God'.


And couching it all will be accusations of "sexism" aimed at anyone who dares question her views.

They will not get away with this.

[Cha]

8. That's the ticket.. get those idiotics who fucked up the Planet

to teach the Gov of Alaska, whose Foreign Policy

experience consists of being close to Siberia, the finer points on said Fuck UPS.