Palin Resurrects ‘WTF’ Phrase to Blast Obama on Giving Missile Defense Secrets to Russia
- Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:32am by
Jonathon M. Seidl
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Not to say that she is for sure running for president, but Sarah Palin just released a Facebook note that resembles the framework of a foreign policy speech on the campaign trail.
In it, she blasts President Obama for wanting “to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift.”
Palin’s note is based on an article on the site Foreign Policy, which reveals that the administration recently threatened to veto the defense budget if the House included a provision that would limit what the U.S. could share with Russia about our missile defense system. The House passed the provision anyway.
“Through its single-minded pursuit of ‘resetting’ relations with Russia, the Obama administration may simply be willing to hand over this information and, in doing so, weaken U.S. national security,” the Foreign Policy authors write.
Based on that, Palin resurrects her “WTF” pun, which simultaneously represents the phrase “what the fu**” and Obama’s mantra of “winning the future.”
“Does this make sense to you?” she asks. “Me neither. File this under ‘WTF.’”
You can read the whole note below:
As Governor I fought the Obama Administration’s plans to cut funds for missile defense in Alaska. So imagine how appalled and surprised I was to read this article by former Clinton CIA Director James Woolsey, appropriately titled “Giving Away the Farm,” concerning President Obama’s latest bizarre actions relating to missile defense.
President Obama wants to give Russia our missile defense secrets because he believes that we can buy their friendship and cooperation with this taxpayer-funded gift. But giving military secrets and technologies to a rival or competitor like Russia is just plain dumb. You can’t buy off Russia. And giving them advanced military technology will not create stability. What happens if Russia gives this technology (or sells it!) to other countries like Iran or China? After all, as Woolsey points out, Russia helped Iran with its missile and nuclear programs. Or what happens if an even more hardline leader comes to power in the Kremlin?
We tried buying off the Kremlin with technologies in the 1970s. That policy was a component of “detente,” and the hope was that if we would share our technologies with them, they would become more peaceful. Things, of course, didn’t work out that way. The Kremlin took western technologies and embarked on a massive military building program. History teaches that peace comes from American military strength. And a central component of that has always been technological superiority. Why would President Obama even dream of giving this away?
Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. President Obama actually threatened to veto the defense appropriation bill over this section of the law! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96. Attention now turns to the Senate.
Why is it that President Obama seems to work so hard to give things to our enemies, while at the same time asking friends and allies like Israel to make sacrifices?
During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? Giving away our missile defense secrets won’t make us safer. What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves. Russia gets access to our technologies, and we are forced to spend even more money because of the need to stay ahead. Does this make sense to you? Me neither. File this under “WTF.”
- Sarah Palin
Any 2012 candidate will have to prove that they either have foreign policy experience or at least understand the foreign-policy challenges facing the nation. This sure looks like an attempt by Palin to do just that.
(H/T: Business Insider)



















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kentuckypatriot
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:07amAttention all you REPUBLICAN WOMEN out there who hate Sarah…….. news flash, I am a REPUBLICAN woman, and I love her. You are just jealous because she is prettier than you. It’s time to put that excuse to bed now. Stop thinking of yourselves for once, or assuming your husband / boyfriend/ whomever has the hots for her and STAND UP FOR YOUR COUNTRY DAM##TT!!!! This is serious stuff. IMO, Sarah or Herman Cain are the only ones who can save us. The other RINOS don’t have a chance!!
Report Post »smitdawg
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:10amPlease listen to the words of Rick Santorum. Very bold and Reagan like.Though I love Sarah Palin I believe she much more effective as a verbal sniper at Obomas social agenda. Because she has over come every malicious, intrusive attack she has become bulletproof in a way and very effective in hammering the left, but not electable because she needs the undesided voters who dont get her unfortunatlly, I think. P.S. Im a male and hope i dont sound like a chauvinistic pig.Given that,I think she would be ten times better than Obummer.
Report Post »The Third Archon
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:57pmThe don’t like her, because she has the IQ of a lemur.
Report Post »SKOALBROTHER {GALLEY OF CATFISH}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:45pmSarah is the finest woman in the land, sexy, smart and feminine with a light-hearted, “WTF” demeanor and the ability to make cash money fall right out of a storm cloud.
She makes all other women in the entire world seem to look like hags.
Sarah is the Bomb.
She is THE national treasure who makes all strong men drool for freedomness.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:00amThis is serious stuff. IMO, Sarah or Herman Cain are the only ones who can save us. The other RINOS don’t have a chance!!
Report Post »*********
Not necessarily no one else stands a chance, BUT, no one else seems to be willing to take the arrows! If the early Americans had the character of those in the Repub party today (general terms of those interested in presidency.) Paul Revere would have had no one to alert, because they’d all have been home preparing “Tea & Crumpets” for the Kings emissaries! General Washington would have had many fewer troops to pray for in the snow, because most would have given up and gone home to write letters to the editor! And Patrick Henry would have been looking up the words, (spelling and grammatical usage) in Webster Bros. dictionary before looking for some good speech writer!
DOES ANYONE KNOW WHAT THAT WORD “LIBERTY” MEANS ANYWAY! Probably something we‘ll find out when Nancy Pelosi’s finally had a chance to read that healthcare law! [because it will be no more!]
RED-DAWN
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:06amIsn’t this like sending guns over the boarder to Mexico, just to see where they go. I might suggest he put the ATF in charge of the exchange. At least we know they can get the job done in places outside the US.
I agree, WTF?
Report Post »g.prunty
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:06amNASA wasn’t enough to give away?
Report Post »Stu Pedaso
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:05amObama has given away everything else, Why not our military secrets?
Report Post »indy1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:05amThe lib media attack Sarah Palin instead of Hussein for giving away our missile technology to the evil Putin. The Russians showed they are still evil when they invaded Georgia, shut down democracy and continue to meddle and threaten their other neighbors.
Report Post »Observer
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:04amSnowleopard {gallery of cat folks} How is the fire situation in your neck of the Woods this week?
Report Post »Amy
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:04am“During these tough economic times when we are facing massive deficits and a competitive global economy, does President Obama really want to give away technologies that the American taxpayer paid lots of money to develop? ”
Mrs. Palin is being too kind. Let’s not forget that it is not just the taxpayer money that paid for the develop of military technology. It is beyond money because the technology was developed with American Ingenuity.
This freedom of thought and creativity has been protected for every American because of the many military and covert civilian men and women who have sacrificed for our country..
Communist minds are imprisoned. American minds are free.
Report Post »flyboy213
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:02amCongress should stop this IMPEACH OBUMMER now ! What is with this Socialist/Marxist, Communist Bast@#d !!! I have had enough. Time for Bohner to get up and say Lets Impeach this LIER !!!!!!!!!
Report Post »RN MOM
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:00amObama was born in a think tank, he has learned to dazzle the masses with his majik tricks… Watch was he puts a nuclear arm into the hat and pulls out a cute little bunny. Liberals love to be dazzled by the slight of hand- that’s what happens when you have no God- you idolize men who seem to have god-like abilities. I pray the republicans can hold their ground and keep this trickster away from our military secrets.
Report Post »nomercy63
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58am!00% Sarah Palin all the way!!!!! she has the guts and the toughness we need!!!!!!! Herman Cain? When he talks after one sentence I am asleep! Obama is pure evil and we all know it it is time to start backing candidates no matter what that can defeat this traitor and fraud and seek criminal charges though out his appointments and decisions against the American people!
Report Post »sevencreekssappers
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:57amObama said he will fundamentally transform America and energy prices will necessarily sky rocket. He is just doing what he promised. Change. And hope that he gets away with it and he is. I blame both sides for the destruction of this country, many of our leaders are just sitting back and letting it happen.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:57amImagine the field day the great Commie hunter, Senator McCarthy now fully vindicated, could of had finding the traitors in Washington DC & Hollywood today. Heck, imagine the field day he could have hunting Commies in your kids school.
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:26amIt’s a lot easier today, they’re not hiding anymore.
Report Post »teddrunk
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:30amThat is true. In fact they’re bragging about being Commies. An entire party of traitors, the Democrats. How do Americans sleep at night?
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 5:12pmfully vindicated? nice try but false as most of the claims you make.
Report Post »raderby
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:55amClinton did the same with China, so does anyone else see the pattern? Talk to MI6 about the UK 30‘s thru 60’s….. inside out communism. like I have said since Feb 2008 at the top of my voice – HE’S A COMMIE!!!. Answers everything.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:58amClinton’s Gop Critics Off Target On Missiles Treason? Fact Is, George Bush Also Backed China’s Launches.
June 21, 1998|By Steven Thomma, INQUIRER WASHINGTON BUREAU
Did President Clinton sell out the United States? Leading Republicans say that he did, that he let the Chinese have missile secrets and thus helped them aim nuclear bombs at the United States.
But a careful look at the facts and the records available shows that some of the most serious accusations are false and that others are far from proved.
Any transfer of missile secrets to the Chinese – by far the most serious of these accusations – came from a private satellite company, not from Clinton or his administration and not with his approval.
In fact, it was President Bush who approved a Chinese satellite launch that failed and that might have led to the illegal transfer of missile technology.
Moreover, if the company did give the Chinese forbidden technology, it is not clear how much it helped a country that probably has been able to hit the United States with its missiles for nearly two decades.
http://articles.philly.com/1998-06-21/news/25727963_1_chinese-satellite-missile-secrets-treason
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:00amHey KOOk you forgot this from your article. How convenient.
Certainly there are substantive questions to be asked about the eagerness with which the Clinton administration helped the politically well-connected U.S. telecommunications company continue to do business with China even while the company was being investigated for allegedly sharing secret technology with the Chinese earlier. Many Democrats agree that the matter should be investigated.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:08pmCertainly there are substantive questions to be asked about the eagerness with which the Clinton administration helped the politically well-connected U.S. telecommunications company continue to do business with China even while the company was being investigated for allegedly sharing secret technology with the Chinese earlier. Many Democrats agree that the matter should be investigated.
That “earlier” sharing of secret terchnology by the George HW Bush administration?
that part?
I read it.
Report Post »WireWizard
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:53amPresident Palin will shake things up, I only hope it won’t be too late.
Report Post »Oldphoto678
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:51amSarah Palin will never, ever be the President. Not in 2012, not in 2016, not ever! Most Americans would not vote for Palin. In fact, if I were you, I’d get ready for four more years of Obama as POTUS.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:54amOldphoto678
If I were you I would start thinking about an alternative to Social security and Medicare when you retire if you are not already because Obama and the socialists will be gone in 2012.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:06amWanna bet? Every phony argument that the LEFT and ANTI-AMERICAN One-Worlders have conjured up about SARAH PALIN has been dismantled…. they even lost the PAUL REVERE one. Before the summer is out, doubters will become believers. PALIN/CAIN is the ticket.
I hope she doesn’t announce until August or September… Let the chaff fall away. Bachmann’s already shown her lack of judgment by appointing that hack Rollins as her campaign mgr. He’s already had to apologize to Palin for his stupidity. Romney did himself in with “Global Warming” and general “nice but weak” (but I’d vote for him/anyone over OBAMA); Pawlenty with his “bus” comment. The people who are going to the top are those with SOMETHING TO SAY that doesn’t need to insult others running.
PS the whole world is asking WTF about Obama…the ONLY explanation is that he is purposefully trying to DESTROY AMERICA for his Muslim Buddies and Soros Bilderbergs… he’s already stashed his billions away.
Report Post »Want our country back
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:07pmPATTY HENRY
Really enjoy reading your posts. Thank you
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 5:10pmPATTY HENRY
Report Post »I hate to be the bearer of bad news (for you, not me) but the real goods on Sarah haven’t even started to come out yet. She’s toast if she enters the race, and she knows it. She‘s milking this for all it’s worth and rubes like you are making her a rich woman.
flsnipe
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:51amThere is a reason Coke doesn’t share their secret formula! Traitor! Where is Cry baby John and the rest of Congress
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:51amWTF is the mildest expression that can be used.
Does giving our Missile Defence secrets of Russia make sense? It shure as hell does – - To a president whose sole purpose in office is to destroy America and make this country into a communist quagmire third world nation. Trouble is – - – He’s well on the way.
KEEP UP THE PRESSURE SARAH!
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:18amShe’s wrong.
WTF
Report Post »starman70
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:28am@ KAPTAIN KOOK:
SHE’S WRONG??????
Gonzo said it right to the point in a earlier post.
If this had had happened during the COLD WAR of the 50‘s and 60’s, America would be a nuclear wasteland.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:54amI guess you’ll never know for sure, but you’ll believe that anyway.
Report Post »Texas Grasshopper
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:51amawful tired of our Elected officials following this Adminstration off the cliff….there is NO exuse anymore …none
Report Post »jblovesAmerica
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:50amI would like to see The Lady Gov get more seasoning-in Congress then the Senate-she can rally donors better then anyone-and be able to take the gloves off at all times. Being POUTUS she could be hamstrung.
Report Post »One thing is for sure-the Russians are not our friends-the old reshime-hated being knocked out-they want o be players-at any and all costs-they hate the USA. Palin understands that.
Ed from Justice
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:23amHey JB……. She has had much more seasoning as an executive that Obama. That is what the elite egocentric folks from the eastern universites don’t seem to understand. An exceptional IQ does not equate to management skills. It takes talent that you are born with and experience. She has all of this and I don’t care what anyone says, when people are constantly trying to make you look bad, it is because they fear you. She has demonstrated that she will open up a can of whup ass on both democrats and republicans. She has a servant’s heart and she is the only politician in the country who can fill up an arena in Chicago and charge $79 – $125 per throw. She is an energy specialist. Especially, since her husband has worked every job in the oil fields and she has kicked ass on the big oil companies who were trying to hold on to leases and not pay the state of Alaska. We could employ 9mm people if we just started to expand our own energy production plus all of the above, wind, solar, nuclear , etc. Cya and good luck to you and your family
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:49amIs not espionage taking our national secrets for the purpose of giving them to another nation? I agree with Sarah Palin, “WTF”!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Report Post »Nathan-H
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:47amObama and his administration are HELL bent on our distruction before he leaves office in 2012.
Report Post »NickDeringer
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:40amNow I get it. Sarah Palin is campaigning for her own show on Fox. Maybe she’ll get the 5 PM slot when Beck leaves.
Crafty, Saracuda!!!
Report Post »Observer
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:58amNicky my boy, Why would you think that she would want to do a 5:00 pm show when she has the Universe at her command? You always think so shallow…………………….colour is blue
Report Post »ronmorgen
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:07amAll you Trolls can do is mock.
Report Post »SEC777
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:29am60% of Americans have an unfavorable opinion of her. That’s hardly “universe at command” numbers.
Report Post »CatherineAnn
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:57amI think she would do a great service to the country if she did a show on Fox. With 2012 going to be a huge battle the more opportunities for the public to learn the truth the better.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:46amYeah she is close to Obama’s unfavorable rating.
In a latest poll, 59 per cent of respondents gave the president negative marks for his handling of the economy, up from 55 per cent a month earlier.
Report Post »SimpleTruths
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:35pm60% unfavorable and growing!
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:39amObama selling out the missile defense secrets to the Russians? Even after what he did to the UK and the missile numbers they had purchased from us?
Uh, no, the traitor of the White House does not suprise me at all.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:16amNo. You are mistaken.
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/12/18/the-confusion-of-anti-start-hawks/
Report Post »Joe Palin
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:38amOk; Miss cat folk, I read the article twice and nobody is claiming the Administration is selling secrets to anybody. So what are you trying to say? Every so often you seem to drift into the haze of irrational fear and hate. Please aim before firing.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:41amJoe Palin
I know comprehension isn’t a strong trait of Liberals so in case you missed it twice. (Members of Congress saw how foolish President Obama’s gambit was, so they put a section in the defense appropriation bill that specifically forbids the federal government from spending money to share these technologies with the Kremlin. PRESIDENT OBAMA ACTUALLY THREATENED TO VETO THE DEFENSE APPROPRIATION BILL OVER THIS SECTION OF THE LAW! Fortunately, the House passed the bill with a veto-proof majority, a whopping 322 to 96.)
He was going to try and veto it so he could give secrets to the Russians. It’s a good thing the Congressmen are smarter than he is.
Report Post »SKOALBROTHER {GALLEY OF CATFISH}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:13pm@ Blackhawk, I think Jopalin is right. None of those things you “accuse” the administration of actually occurred. Also, since we are in the United States of America, when “intent” cannot be proven, we presume innocence.. Nothing was apparently sold, or attempted to be sold. You have No Case.
Report Post »Duddio
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 6:22pmOMG, Doofus!!! Nobody was actually murdered, so it’s ridiculous for you to level charges of attempted murder…….
The very fact that he planned to share military technology and secrets, that he had people discuss it in negotiations, and that he threatened to veto a bill prohibiting him from doing it means he thinks he needs to. We can’t close the barn door after the horses have all run away, and we can’t stop the dippety-doo in the WH from giving one of our greatest antagonists in the modern world the secrets of all our military superiority AFTER he’s given it away.
Tell you what, next time you are in a car accident, WAIT until AFTER it happens, and THEN put on your seatbelt…… Blackhawk is exactly correct!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:37amIf Obama had been president during the cold war, America would be a radioactive wasteland today.
Report Post »TexasCommonSense
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:40amThank you good Lord we had Mr. Reagan instead.
Report Post »kickagrandma
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:44am@GONZO ~~~ Indeed!
PRAY ON, AMERICA!
Report Post »Gonzo
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:48amAmen Texas.
Report Post »Rob
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:36amAnyone that drives the left crazy has my support.
Report Post »Blackhawk1
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:31amTagudinian
That is the same reason the Left hates Michelle Bachman. For some reason liberals hate good looking smart women! Maybe because liberals know they would never have a chance at dating one.
Report Post »Libertyluvnmomma
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:58amName one liberal man that isn’t a eunuch.
I’ve been racking my brain all morning. to the haters, I can make my own jokes for that statement….
they’re threatened by Palin too!
Report Post »I only say it as an outside observation. I’m not supporting anyone yet.
SimpleTruths
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:33pm@TAGUDINIAN
Yeah that’s what defines a great leader, who’s got the best eyeliner.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:37am@SimpleTruths
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:33pm
@TAGUDINIAN
Yeah that’s what defines a great leader, who’s got the best eyeliner.
Report Post »***************
Must be, that seems to be the level of all Prog leaders, in US and Europe.
TRONINTHEMORNING
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:36amRight now, I’m a Herman Cain supporter; but I’m watching Sarah and Michele–the others are not happening for me.
Report Post »Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:43amIs there ANYONE with the guts in DC to impeach this POTUS for the treasonous activity that he and his cronies are doing anymore in complete violation in all areas of the Constitution now?
Report Post »JUSTANOTHEROPINION
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:45amI am with you TRONINTHEMORNING
Report Post »biohazard23
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:47am@snow, I don’t think so.
Report Post »Ironmaan
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:48amObama is a traitor. Every action he takes is without thought for the American people. He gave away our economic prosperity, and he is now giving away our security.
Report Post »http://guerillatics.com
thegrassroots
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:51amO Good Grief! Contact the “LawMakers,” America! TELL THEM To Haul This Yahoo In For MANY Counts Of Treason! With this pseudo-intellectual, resident — The Enemy Is In The White House!
Report Post »Stuck_in_CA
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:54amGood for her! She’s a valuable voice of the opposition, (The real patriots of America).
Report Post »As long as she isn’t running for office, she can continue to be THE strongest truth flamethrower around.
She’ll do much more for the cause in that capacity, than campaigning for votes, IMHO.
Want our country back
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:55amHa ha ha ….. the left can’t shut her up.
I LOVE YOU SARAH
This woman is a fighter and refuses to be sucked into that Media circus.
Thru her tears and fears for this great nation, she has to smile at the lamestream media‘s obsession with ’EVERYTHING SARAH”
The left will be out in force on this headline, Sarah and Religion seem to be their ‘call to action’ LOL
Report Post »ByrdsofMisssouri
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:04amI just don‘t understand anyone who really reads Sarah’s writings can claim that this woman is not intelligent. I know that most of it is is mainstream media, but how can they even compare her common sense to Obama’s rhetoric is beyond me. Give me Sarah, Cain, Bachmann, or West, hopefully. It is time for a real change.
Report Post »SEC777
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:05amTo my mind, it‘s quite unbecoming to use such language and continue to flaunt one’s Christianity. It doesn’t matter at all that she used initials. Ephesians 5:4 reminds us that our speech and humor should be completely clean. I’ll say it another way, if I wouldn’t feel comfortable saying the language in a prayer or behind the pulpit, then I shouldn’t say it in public, in private, or even inside my own head.
Will there be anyone who truly embodies Christian values in this election? I’m watching you closely, Mr. Cain.
Report Post »Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:06am@TRONINTHEMORNING
Report Post »Got to say, I’m with you. Cain seems to make the most sense, right now. May Michelle or Palin as VP. The others all have some issue with them, or they are wishy-washy. Santorum SOUNDED good, but I don’t know enough about him, yet.
CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:09amWTF is she thinking?
“Despite the best efforts of some hawkish interventionists to pretend that arms control is a relic of the past and irrelevant to today’s problems, they are the ones most likely to portray Russia as an existing or emerging threat to its neighbors.
They should be the ones most eager to limit and constrain Russia through treaty obligations. Even if they don’t believe that Russia will comply with the treaty, it is hawks who should want to impose obligations and limits on Russia’s arsenal.
Instead, it is the most anti-Russian and hawkish figures who are effectively enabling Russian power.
What is remarkable about this is that these are the same people who could not stop haranguing the administration for betraying Poland and the Czech Republic when there was no betrayal, and they are the ones who remain convinced that it is the administration that is giving in to Russian demands when Russia has obtained virtually nothing tangible from the “reset.”
Now that they are presented with an opportunity to side with European allies in support of greater U.S. and European security, they have opted instead for a rejectionist position that would keep the U.S. largely blind to Russian activities, increase uncertainty about Russia’s arsenal, and add to allied anxieties about potential Russian threats.
http://www.amconmag.com/larison/2010/12/18/the-confusion-of-anti-start-hawks/
Report Post »SEC777
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:10amI can @BirdsofMissouri. I don’t know if Mrs. Palin wrote this herself or had a staffer do it, but sentences such as, “What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves,” is very, very bad writing. If one is going to put his or her words out for the world to read, then it’s absolutely okay to sound intelligent. We need a brilliant leader to repair our country, not a folksy one. (And when she speaks, it’s even worse.)
Report Post »Polwatcher
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:13amObama would love nothing better than an enemy attack on us. This would allow him to create chaos here like he has helped in the middle east. He could institute martial law and possibly become a USA dictator.
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:15amTo me this is treasonus. (sp) We all need to get on the phones to our leaders to get this idiot out of office. This is like the last straw. What amazes me is that he is so open about our destruction and yet no one will call him out in fear of this administration. I wouldn‘t believe this stuff if I wasn’t seeing it with my own eyes. This is stuff for the movies not real life.
Report Post »Meyvn
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:17amYep. Obama is Winning Our Future, just like Charlie Sheen is winning his.
Report Post »Thatsitivehadenough
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:18amObama knows we are in the final stages of merging with Russia and going full blown communist.
Waiting for the 2012 election is not enough. EDUCATE yourselves. READ MORE BOOKS!
There’s a REASON tyrants always burn the books FIRST. READ MORE BOOKS…..
Report Post »el_gancho
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:20amI’m right there with you. I‘m really liking what I’m hearing from Mr. Cain, with Mrs. Palin a close second. I really think that if those two hooked up as a Presidential/VP ticket, they would kick some serious butt.
Report Post »Deanna in Missouri
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:20amSEC777
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:10am
I can @BirdsofMissouri. I don’t know if Mrs. Palin wrote this herself or had a staffer do it, but sentences such as, “What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves,” is very, very bad writing.
Thats exactly what it would be “an arms race with ourselves.” We would have to make sure we were ahead of technology of today to stay ahead of Russia or who ever they sell this information to.
Report Post »ramburner
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:23amI agree. We need a common sense kind of leader. Obummer ought to be tried for treason and impeached!
Report Post »SEC777
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:27am@DEANNAINMISSOURI, I’m not arguing for or against the sentiment, I‘m saying it’s very bad writing. It sounds like a middle school girl wrote it.
Report Post »Joe Palin
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:31amIt would be refreshing to see if the opposition could support the President or get out of the way. It would be interesting to see just one of their plans go through without being able to blame us later for interfering.
I also think there are too many whiners and boo birds these days. What would real conservatives – like Reagan, Goldwater and Eisenhower do?
Report Post »1Sword
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:33amHAHA WTF” Sarah Nailed it
Report Post »SweetDoug
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:33amOh, dear. Someone with the intellectual capacity to not only poke barbs at people, but to use their own words, riffing off a popular phrase, in the form of a pun!
Sarah should step down! We can’t have this!
It’s just not fair to the other side.
I would suggest that she tie have her brain behind that pretty little head of her’s, just to make it fair for them.
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Report Post »V-V
CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:37amI guess reviving and maintaining the Cold War makes sense to Sarah Palin.
NONsense, but sense.
Report Post »Islesfordian
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:41am“Even if they don’t believe that Russia will comply with the treaty, it is hawks who should want to impose obligations and limits on Russia’s arsenal.”
Perfect epitome of liberal stupidity Capt’n Kook. We should make treaties with people who we don’t believe will obey them.
Thanks for reminding us how dangerous you clowns are.
Report Post »CaptainKook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:47amEven if they don’t believe that Russia will comply with the treaty, it is hawks who should want to impose obligations and limits on Russia’s arsenal.”
Perfect epitome of liberal stupidity Capt’n Kook
That is a quote from Pat Buchanan’s American Conservative Magazine.
Take your complaint to them.
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:49amSarah Palin has massive credibility and the nomination is hers for the taking. That‘s why every hack in both establishment party’s are doing everything they can to get us another Mccain as our nominee.
She not from there and she won’t go along to get along with them. It‘s obvious that they have no control over her and that’s one of the reasons they don’t want her there.
It’s real easy this time folks, she’s one of us, not one of them. She smart, I know they call her stupid but they know better and are trying to pick our nominee for us. I can tell you what DCs reaction would be to a President elect Palin. SH*T!
The careerist bureaucrats of course, will yawn and then do everything they can to sabotage her but she’s smart enough to know that and unlike common DC creatures, a temper that they probably don’t want to excite.
Report Post »drbage
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:50amYou can tell how concerned the left is about the O since they now are trotting out every Tom, Dick, and Jane from Hollywood to tout how the O is going to go down in history as the greatest President ever. I would love to pull a Clinton on them and ask them to define the word “great.” I think a memo has gone out to Rush’s “mush for brains” crowd to run away anytime they can discern that a reporter might be from Fox News or any conservative media outlet.
Report Post »65Mustang
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:55amAgree with you totally!
Report Post »De minimus
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:00am“— The Enemy Is In The White House!”
NO, sunbeam. The enemy is now Washington DC and anyone from there is an enemy of freedom, justice and the American way. Until proven otherwise. Tough news, I know but there it is.
Report Post »Marylou7
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:03amYou tell’em Sarah. Love that woman.
Report Post »stifroc
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:07amI’ve already started learning Mandarin
Report Post »timeout
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:20amdid ya know that leon panetta actually handed not for distribution docs to a commie who was a u.s. representative in the late 70s? commie was delacy. and panetta is going to be secdef? bho is a usurper.
Report Post »momprayn
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:28am@SEC777 — Yes, I agree – I’ve been a humongous Palin fan but this does bother me – although I know they all have their flaws. I think she’d be the greatest, active and most anti-Obama President ever but I’m also praying He work on her about these things – whatever else we don’t know. But I have faith that God is in control and He’ll see to it that the person HE wants will win. Pray for them all.
Report Post »As to Cain – he has said he would appoint Muslims to his cabinet if they “showed” they would adhere to the Constitution, etc. so he doesn’t get it either about Muslims either & that bothers me. There’ll always be something. And yes, I wouldn’t be surprised about his “language” at times either.
As to Sarah — Check out her long interview with Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. She was GREAT, answering in quick, knowledgeable ways about serious political questions. Very Presidential.
Bullcop34
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:29am@sec777 WTF is minute is comparison to selling national security secrets. If it take a WTF statement to open your blind eyes then hey…WTF! Noone is perfect except God and since you are bringing the Bible to this, just what does it read about judging others?
Report Post »banjarmon
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:29amYou GO Sarah…My money is on YOU. Run SARAH RUN!!!!
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:39amAs reflected in her insightful depiction of end of life counseling as “death panels” I would say her ability to understand and comment on a strategic missile agreement with Russia is something south of zero. Doesn’t she know that Russia can see Alaska Alyatki and can read all our military secrets and figure out what we are doing anyway. But clearly Russia works day and night trying to take down the US.
Report Post »hauschild
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:45amIf you guys want change you can sink your teeth into, best hop aboard the Palin bandwagon.
If you want basically no change, then choose another candidate.
The read on Palin for POTUS is almost as easy for me as the read on Reagan back in ‘76 and ’80. It is an absolute no-brainer. No other current or potential candidate is even close to the level she is at.
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:46amShe is a two bit art or movie critic. Never painted anything worthwhile and never actually showed leadership of any kind. Unless of course you consider misuse of state funds. Why not do a factual piece on her performance as mayor and governor. You know apply the same bias filter you apply to dems.
Report Post »PATTY HENRY
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:52amNOW HEAR THIS: Obama is not stupid; Obama is A ONE WORLD CONSPIRATOR/TRAITOR who is doing everything…and I mean SOROS-EVERYTHING to destroy America, brick by brick.
HE is using every SMOKE and MIRROR trick that exists to keep us looking the other way while he does TRAITOROUS things like giving our Missile secrets away; allowing our promised E. European defenses to be dismantled , SPREADING OUR TROOPS now into 4 unauthorized wars.
WHAT SENATOR has the GUTS to call for IMPEACHMENT? THAT should be OUR FOCUS. Obama will destroy AMERICAN completely before the next election. WHICH SENATOR (not running) HAS THE GUTS to do this? I hope you give suggestions. MAYBE ORIN HATCH? He’s not running, he’s had his career, he’s a free-thinker but not a RINO…right?
Report Post »Wayner
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:53amI’m with SnowLeopard…. Impeach the POS ,,,,, oppps did I leave out some initials in that?
Report Post »JRook
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:54am@hauschild No candidate is at here level…….LOL thank god. Most could actually pass the GED.
Report Post »nothingbuthetruth
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:54amToo bad all three cant be on the ticket. That is a dream ticket. Bachmann, Cain and Palin !!!!!!
Report Post »Jimtt500
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:59amAs governor, Palin demonstrated many of the qualities we expect in our best leaders. She set aside private concerns for the greater good.
She succeeded to a remarkable extent in settling, at least for a time, what had seemed insoluble problems, in the process putting Alaska on a trajectory to financial well-being.
While other states reel under staggering deficits, budget cuts, and protests, Alaska has built up a $12 billion surplus, most of it attributable to Palin’s tax. Galvin estimates that it has raised $8 billion more than Murkowski’s tax would have. But given the corruption that plagued the PPT, a better benchmark might be the tax it supplanted—the one put on the books after the Exxon Valdez spill. By that measure, Palin’s major achievement has probably meant the difference between a $12 billion surplus and a deficit…
On the big issues she left the state in better shape than most people, herself included, seem to realize or want to credit her for.
Palin’s achievement was to pull Alaska out of a dire, corrupt, enduring systemic crisis and return it to fiscal health and prosperity when many people believed that such a thing was impossible
Report Post »C. Schwehr
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:21amSeems to be a popular stand right now,,,
Report Post »Vickie Dhaene
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:37pmDiddo
Report Post »Alexandra1214
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 12:52pmRet. Col. Allan West …… wahoooo he’s a great American!!!
Report Post »SKOALBROTHER {GALLEY OF CATFISH}
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:06pmGovernor Palin is an amazing public speaker with a talent for down-home comedy. As shown with her clever use of “WTF” to be a vulgar double meaning, she effortlessly shifts into a trailer trash mode and then back again to that of a sophisticated pundit! She is better than Newt, Michelle, or Ann at debasing the culture to make a point. Good Times!
Report Post »BocaBaby
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 1:11pmGotta love the SARAH, and while we are on this subject….
To the BLAZE: WHY are you not reporting the terrible job Michelle Bachman has done in allowing her new dooofus employee, that people supporoting her $$$$$$$$$$$$ is paying for while, she allows him to bash Sarah Palin??????
This has COMPLETELY turned me off to Bachman, and prior to this I thought she was a great woman, and she still may be BUT NOT as POTUS…..
Also, Glenn Beck repeated over and over prior to his big rally that it was NOT a political even, but then can you tell me out of all of the people there, Bachman insisted on having her OWN GROUP OF SUPPORTERS, UNDER HER TENT, SEPARATED OUT TO SOMEHOW DRAW ATTENTION TO HERSELF, AND BUILD UP HER CAMPAIGN, yet I suppose out of kindness, Glenn nor anyone else mentioed it.
But at the end of the day, that speaks to her self serving, self promotion, and ,now her lack of judgemnt in Ed Rollins, and it has been almost now an entire week, and she has yet to act in a executive manner, which is compatable, to what I am looking for……..NO to Michelle for me, she was not my first pick, but now I place her at the bottom of the barrel with romney, gingrich, pawlenty, etc etc.
This is hugely dissapointing, and SHE FREAKING KNOWS BETTER…..seriously, she needs now NOT to run, because I predict it will not end well for her.
TRUMP
PALIN
CAIN
and now no way to Michelle…and she seemed so likeable before, sorry :(
Report Post »Timbotim
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:18pmTime to start treating this cryptomoozie like he deserves; hit him where it hurts, so to speak. We need to start showing the soles of our shoes to NObama. That needs to be the symbol of our discontent. So, everybody: HOLD UP THE SOLE OF YOUR SHOE TO THE PRESIDENT! Who’s with me?
Report Post »kralspaces
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 2:29pmTwice now Herman looked like he head head lights in them their eyes. I wish he would just say something like ” what do you mean?” instead of that stare.
Report Post »Lover of America
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 3:33pmI am with you on the Herman Cain dude, he is amazingly intelligent. I like his style. I like Sarah Palin, but the question I have is who are these people going to have run as VP?
Report Post »GreatAmerica
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 4:09pmWhat specifically has he does to warrant a trial?
Report Post »Liberty1forall
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 6:04pmYes Cain looks solid…a true conservative from what I can tell. I like his attitude too! I would vote fro him today…as long as he sticks to his standards. Most of the idiots in washington are so slimey they are will to tell you anything to get elected. That what happen with Obama. He would sell his soul for a vote.
Report Post »Mil Mom
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:09pm@Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
Report Post »Posted on June 9, 2011 at 8:43am
Is there ANYONE with the guts in DC to impeach this POTUS for the treasonous activity that he and his cronies are doing anymore in complete violation in all areas of the Constitution now?
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I’ve been asking this for 2 yrs, obviously the answer is NO! I wonder what temperature this boiling pot of water has to reach before the frogs in the House realize it’s too late. Used to enjoy frog legs as a kid, before my brother and his friend decided there was more work gigging them than meat on them. Guess they were tooo far from the Potomoc !!!!
Mil Mom
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:17pm@ CaptainKook
Report Post »They should be the ones most eager to limit and constrain Russia through treaty obligations. Even if they don’t believe that Russia will comply with the treaty, it is hawks who should want to impose obligations and limits on Russia’s arsenal.
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We know they didn’t comply during the Cold War, why should we believe them now! More to the point, would you believe the proven thief when he says he‘ll PROTECT YOUR ASSETS IF YOU’LL JUST SIGN THEM OVER TO HIM! ???? Your reasoning just seems to be 90 degrees off sensible!
Mil Mom
Posted on June 9, 2011 at 11:23pm@SEC777
Report Post »Posted on June 9, 2011 at 9:10am
I can @BirdsofMissouri. I don’t know if Mrs. Palin wrote this herself or had a staffer do it, but sentences such as, “What it will do is create a situation where we are facing an arms race with ourselves,” is very, very bad writing. If one is going to put his or her words out for the world to read, then it’s absolutely okay to sound intelligent. We need a brilliant leader to repair our country, not a folksy one. (And when she speaks, it’s even worse.)
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If you can’t discredit the policy, look for grammatical errors? Glad Joe Biden, and BO are so scholarly, Oh that‘s right they don’t write things, only TOTUS!!!
Mil Mom
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 12:13am@JRook
Report Post »Posted on June 9, 2011 at 10:46am
She is a two bit art or movie critic. Never painted anything worthwhile and never actually showed leadership of any kind. Unless of course you consider misuse of state funds. Why not do a factual piece on her performance as mayor and governor. You know apply the same bias filter you apply to dems.
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“Waiter”, more Kool Aid, Over here please!”
jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:40amYeah give russia our secrets, they dont ever give or sell their weapons to anyone… ever..
Report Post »jb.kibs
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 1:45amWhat right, exactly, does the president have to give away our military information to other countries? actually i believe that is treason on the highest level.
Are you going to sit here and try to tell me, that a general who is giving away battle plans to other countries, who are friends with countries who are fighting you, is not treasonous? seriously? WTF is right… this jacka$$ needs the boot.
Report Post »sunnydog
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 10:35amyes we need to kick obama to the curb
Report Post »*************************
Posted on June 10, 2011 at 2:17pmWTF — Where’s The Fun? Come on, Obama! WHERE’S THE FUN?!
Report Post »Christian Kalgaard
Posted on June 11, 2011 at 11:54amCain is a deceiver, in all likelihood. Allen West is the man.
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