Palin doesn't understand preconditions vs. preparation

[endthewar]

Judging from an excerpt from her interview with Brian Williams:

http://thepage.time.com/excerpts-from-nbcs-mccain-palin-interview/

"WILLIAMS: Governor Palin, yesterday you tied this notion of an early test to the new president. Would this notion of precondition--

PALIN: Right.

WILLIAMS: --that you both have been hammering the Obama campaign on. What-- first of all, what in your mind is a precondition?

PALIN: You have to have some diplomatic strategy going into a meeting with someone like Ahmadinejad or Kim Jong-il, one of these dictators that would seek to destroy America or her allies. It is so naive and so dangerous for a presidential candidate to just proclaim that they would be willing to sit down with a-- a leader like Ahmadinejad and just talk about the problems, the issues that are facing them. So that-- that's-- that's some ill-preparedness right there."


So a precondition is a diplomatic strategy? I could have sworn that it was a non-negotiable demand, not a diplomatic strategy. Please let this nightmare end.

[elkston]

1. She essentially just echoed Obma and Biden's position

That preparations and strategy are needed prior to diplomatic talks. Obama has never denied this. He simply rejects the notion that the other side must agree to some action before talks are on the table.

The McCain campaign is off in the wild now.