Larry Eagleburger eats crow
Former Secretary of State Lawrence Eagleburger dissed Sarah Palin on NPR yesterday: “I can’t say that she would be a genius in the job, but I think she would be enough to get us through a four-year — well, I hope not. … Get us through whatever period of time was necessary, and I devoutly hope that it would never be tested.”
On Neil Cavuto’s show this afternoon, it finally dawned on Eagleburger that neophyte Barack Obama is far less prepared than Palin — and he offered an apology to Team McCain.
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I have watched him a few times in the last month on TV, he seems confused and a bit past his prime.
*Mouth – Insert foot here.*
I have watched him a few times on TV over the last month, and he seems confused and past his prime.
Another professional Republican. Give me grass roots conservative anyday.
Fox News has McCain reply to Eagleburger
Whatever happened to Reagan’s 11th commandment? So many “on our side” seem to be wanting to lose this election. The Republican Party seems afraid of success.
Correct me if I’m wrong, but wasn’t Eagleburger one of the McCain supporters during the primaries?
Geez! Who can even keep UP with these gaffes.
Has Eaglenburger responce to McCain
It’s dawning on a lot of people that
Gov. Palin is far more prepared than
Obama.
Eagleburger does a big apology and slams Obama in that video I linked to
I like that video link, William Amos. That is the most contrite offering I’ve ever seen from a politician, and I believe him to be speaking truthfully.
Putz.
Doonesbury is gunna be eatin turd too.
but he won’t apologize.
Bud, you should watch his apology. I think we need to forgive him; seriously.
Well, ok. I must admit, I’m shocked. Someone has actually admitted to being wrong and saying something stupid (his words). My apologies, Mr. Secretary!
He’s still alive?
Actually, he lives in my community. I’ve met a couple of his sons. Very nice young men.
hmmm, I guess it’s easier to believe than a crow eatin a Eagleburger.
Sarah Palin is awful, and I’m glad that McCain is finally realizing his pathetic choice.
Edelweiss grow a brain and get a clue, dumba$$ kos talking parrot.
Eagleburger? Doonesbury? Where are they digging up these fossils from? (a tar pit?). I thought these people were pushing daises already.
At least he had the humility to apologize, and he did so profusely. Humility is sadly lacking in a lot of politicians.
edelweiss if you don’t stop playing on the computer, the men in the white coats will come get you and put you in that room again.
YEst she still far more qualifed to be VP than senator empty suit is to be President
Well if she was so awful as you claim it howcome no one thought she was this awful when she was running for governor?
Why all of a sudden she’s “awful”? You know why? Because that’s what the media portrays her to be. They don’t like her because she’s a threat to them.
Ah, an unnamed, alleged “advisor” told someone at CNN that Palin was acting like a diva.
Sure…probably an Obama “advisor” planted this story.
McCain has already denied this stuff, and so has Palin. Made up stories by the Dems.
edelweiss said:
Yeh and um; Barack Obama was the Democrat’s moment of Satori? Your golden calf is not infallible.
Somebody must have kicked him in the n…
Sarah is far more qualified than The naive One and flap jaw combined.
Iowahawk Finds an Obama-Con.
Beer on screen.
Present
Of course the press was all to “eagle” to get right on this supposed GOP diss of Palin. However, I don’t recall seeing anything about his corrected analysis in the media.
You know, I’m beginning to think the media isn’t covering this election in a fair manner…
/sarc off
Well you got a head start on the weekend. I’m jealous, cheers.
Well for a politician I think he apologised as much as he knew how and I’ll accept that. Have you ever heard a democrat apologise like that? Democrats only say the people are stupid for not understanding them correctly, or they misspoke of some phoney excuse. I’m just convinced McCain/Palin are going to get shafted in this election. My gosh, now they are saying there will be blood in the streets if bo loses. Oh well, maybe we could use a little blood in the streets if thats what it takes to get this country headed in the right direction but I’m afraid it’s too late because we are too divided because of the liberal takeover.
God, please forgive us for allowing so many liberal values in this country and please bless America once again like You have done in days past!
At least one of the Kool-Aid drinkers noticed that.
From what I read, Palin has been in public service for 13 years. Obama has been in public service for 11 or 12.
Obama has never held an executive position in public service. Palin has held two (Mayor and Governor). In addition, Palin has been a member of a legislative body (Town Council).
How can anyone argue that she doesn’t have MORE experience?
Say whatever you will, Sarah Palin is the most experienced candidate on either ticket in executive experience.
Now on being a legislative blowhard, well…
Yeah, but he’s brain dead!
Responding to “lil’ swiss miss” is like pounding your head on the wall for 8 hours and sometimes finding a nail. It will give you a headache and it won’t move the wall an inch.
Ahhhh, thank you for your PDS edelscheiss.
That was eye opening and almost scary! Someone in the GOP got to him quick. Im thinking waking up in his bed in the middle of the night with one eye open and having a bacalava covered Special Forces guy standing over him, whispering “Larry, dont forget… WE have still have the keys to the skeletons in your closet… and you’re about to be in it”
Wish all the govenment people could admit they were wrong as quick as he did.
And she has an 80+% approval rating as Governor.
Now that the McCain campaign is letting Sarah be Sarah, she’s drawing superstar type crowds again.
If McCain loses this race, it’s because of McCain, not Palin.
You can say that again.
In Little Women, the March family learns valuable lessons through hardship.
/trying out my new ‘respond to trolls with non sequiturs’ plan
Hmmm edelweiss…. must be a fan of “The Sound of Music”… that’s all one needs to know. That darned soundtrack was like fingers on chalkboard to me.
I use to like Lawrence Eagleburger, especially during the first Gulf War when he was just a Deputy Secretary of State. Now he stands as a perfect example of the Peter Principle.
Somebody is getting their scripts mixed up.
http://sarah-palin-2008.blogspot.com/2008/10/second-obama-staffer-spills-guts.html
C’mon, gang! Watch his apology video. Man. Can’t we show more grace than our counterparts on the left?? We’re all human, and Eagleburger offered a convincing apology.
McCain is the reason I am NOT voting for McCain. If Palin were at the top of the ticket I would vote GOP this year. Palin is a conservative. McCain is not. It’s that simple.
One down and one hundred million to go. Vicki I happy there are people on the right, like yourself that have the compassion to forgive. I’m not one who can. I’ve been watching the media destroy this country for thirty years and it has become abundantly clear that these people are not our adversaries but are the enemy.
Bless you
You mean like Joey Hairplugs thinks Obama’s not ready to be president. That type of pathetic!
Sad that Mr. Eagleburger has become so bitter. I guess he is no longer as important as he once was.
Sad.
Michelle, can’t you at least link to his apology as an “Update”?
Hot Air has the video here.
I do understand that sentiment, but please consider this: Obama is an inexperienced left-wing socialist. McCain, for all his faults, is not. It’s that simple.
I’ll respect your choice, and I won’t take the path of others and attack you for it. That’s just where I’m coming from on this. Obama has said he’s going to “fundamentally transform” America, so even in just 4 years, the US may be radically different. An incumbent Obama in ‘12 will have the deck even more stacked in his favor than now, which means it might be 2016 before you get a second chance. Again, do what you will, but that’s just how I see it.
What a turd burp.
“If you don’t have nothin good to say. don’t say nothin’ at all”
Thumper
“A McCain advisor…”
“A top McCain advisor…”
edelweiss, I can spew garbage just like a liberal.
“An Obama advisor said that Barak views Biden as that ‘old dumb white guy’.”
“A top Obama advisor told me that if they lose, he’ll blame ‘that old dumb white guy’ because ‘it can’t be MY fault’.”
See, I can do it, too. And it’s true. I can’t tell you who said it because I have to protect my source. If Obama wins then I’ll have an “inside” person close to The One because we all know that those liberal socialists just open their arms when a conservative shows up.
I have a niece in Australia who couldn’t believe I’ve already voted for McCain. She asked what I thought of Palin and went on to tell of her experience, taking on her own party, over seeing a very large state budget, etc. Her response was…Oh I’d never heard any of that. See what the left liberal MSM is doing around the world? I believe Republicans and Dems only hear whats on TV or in the NYT. Unbelieveable. NBC snooze did another hatchet job on McCain and puffed up Obambi. Brian Williams is a butt kisser, hoping to get reeeaaal close to TheOne if he’s elected.
On October 31st, 2008 at 5:32 pm, edelweiss said:
Sarah Palin is awful, and I’m glad that McCain is finally realizing his pathetic choice.
And Swiss chocolate tastes like poop.
I Luv the Guv: John McCain’s best decision yet
1) Wrong
2) Wrong
Go for 3/5.
If, please GOD, John McCain wins it will because of the GUV. And should, GOD forbid, the 25th Amendment come into play let the inauguration song be NORTH TO ALASKA. (Johnny Horton)
edelweiss? Is that a weed?
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BOO
Trick or Treat
Smell my Feet
Give Me Something Good to Eat
Yo da ley he hoo, Edeldipstick: You’d better get used to seeing Palin around more. She’s going to be the top of the ticket for ‘12 and ‘16. We’re talkin’ Reagan landslide revisited. And she’s as lovely to listen to as she is to watch.
So was Eagleburger lying then, or is he lying now? And I guess yesterday you all hated him and now you love him.
Where do turnips like Edelweiss come from? Honest question.
I do confess that should I meet such true belivers I don’t think I’d have the time of day to share with them.
Come to think of it, I haven’t talked with my sister since she sent me a Moveon diatribe. Ah well, the One that Divides and All That.
Eagleburger, Schmiegelburger…a RINO’s a RINO 100 percent.
Edelweiss’ link was authored by this:
Note to self, stop drinking when reading new post.
Cheers to you to, FLmom
Better late than never. I read Eagleburger’s earlier comments and my first thought was, with all due respect HOW FREAKIN QUALIFIED IS OBAMA.
What the *$&*@&$@*$^@*^^@ are these elites thinking? Obviously, they are not thinking a all.
It’s nice that Eagleberger corrected himself and retracted his remarks. However, I think that he should have also done it on NPR as those were the listeners who heard the original remarks. This is just like the misquote that Drew Griffen made on CNN regarding an article by Byron York about Gov. Palin. Griffen apologized to the National Review but Not Gov. Palin. A misdirected apology is not worth much.
No, I have never like that IDIOT.
Unlike the B Hussein ‘fundamentally wrong’ ZERObama campaign and it’s Dear Leader like followers who will NEVER EVER apologize even when they’re proven dead ass wrong, a man for the McCain ticket DID APOLOGIZE and admit a mistake.
He apologized on national TV.
That alone was refreshing.
McCain’s friends have honor.
Obama’s friends are hiding from the law and the American people.
If the socialist one wins, you’ll never hear an apology, EVER. (don’t think we’ve heard one yet from him?)
Plus , the media be banned from writing it.
Remember what Obama just said… “we’re 5 days away from FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING THE US OF A.”
Think about that ….
“FUNDAMENTALLY TRANSFORMING AMERICA”
does Fundamental = constitution? Socialism? Both and much more? Yep.
We’re not broken but%head, get out if you don’t like it here.
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Obama is qualified because he is BLACK!! Nuff said…
/stupid
NPR/Air AmeriKa. One we pay for, one is gone. But under His Messiahship NPR might be all we have on radio.
Kathleen Kennedy Townsend was on TV earlier. I have been hating that family for two generations. That cow is justifying/dismissing He Who Has Come’s relationship with William Ayers; that would be the William Ayers who dedicated his book- Prairie Fire- to Shirhan Shirhan, the man who murdered her father.
They are people without souls these Kennedys.
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God Bless America except for the blue states.
Vote McCain
Not Hussein
BOO
Trick or Treat
Smell my Feet
Give Me Something Good to Eat
Everything that you said is true. Yet I don’t see a corelation between your comment and mine.
My point was that though I was pleased with Mr. Eaglebergers apology on FOX, I think that he also should have apologized on NPR where he made the statement yesterday.
If i insult a man at his office in front of his co-workers but apologize to his barber is that an apology?
Please take your sorry-ass rhetorical bullbleep down the hall. this is MM, site, after all: we know that phrase is akin to the old “beating your wife” line.
Eagleburger should be grabbed by the collar in one hand, the belt in the other, carried to the door and tossed towards the curb.
Slam. Mission accomplished.
Edelweiss doth protest too much, methinks.
If Sarah is really so “awful”, why did Democrats feel the need to mount personal attacks against her and her family? If she is such a “pathetic choice”, why don’t they have the confidence to debate her on the issues like normal adults, instead of slinging mud like spoiled brats throwing a tantrum?
Just because the media repeat these ad hominem attacks against Palin like an echo chamber, doesn’t mean they are valid. The media’s “official stamp of approval” on such claims may fool some Republicans, like Eagleburger and Noonan, but the rest of us are on to them. They were ready to pounce on and destroy anyone McCain had named as a running mate, and it wouldn’t have mattered if that person was black or a woman.
What astounds me is that Republicans do not acknowledge that the LeftStreamMedia is their enemy. They should treat every contact with ‘journalists’ as one battle of a war. Is that so hard to understand? Go on the attack. Question the question. Point out the bias. Counter punch. Show no quarter.
Newt did it a few weeks ago and Fred (and Jeri recently did a decent job) would too. And I think think SarahCuda’s learned her lesson. This is war, people.
And the result of losing is to shamefully pass on our battles to our offspring. That would be a tragedy:
I’m with vickiesoup, amos and others(drive by reader tonite, doorbell keeps ringing) I give the man credit for apologizing on national t.v. you don’t see that everyday or even every year. I was perturbed when i 1st saw what he’d said, good man to admit he was wrong and loved the pounding he gave the zero.
Or a step further, “Backside, insert head here.”
(At least Palin isn’t a sock-puppet who can’t make a cognitive point, unless it comes off a teleprompter.)
Obama’s a marionette in an expensive suit.
I cannot believe how many intelligent people–by intelligent, I am not referring to Ivy League educated–disapprove of Sarah Palin despite the fact that of the four candidates (her, McCain, Obama, and Biden), she is actually the most-qualified of them all.
She has actually prepared governmental budgets for a city and a state. Neither one of the other three has done that and yet that does not seem to be a concern for anyone in the middle or to the right who has voiced their disapproval of Gov. Palin.
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Ignorance, our most costly commodity – paraphrased from Rush Limbaugh.
How often does Eagleburger come out into the sunlight and reward his brain with oxygen?
At the risk of giving edelweiss way too much air time for her(?) ridiculous remark, I would add, “Why is Sarah Palin one of the most popular governors in the US?” I’m SURE it’s because she’s “just awful.” Edelweiss’ scorn gives me yet another reason to support Sarah.
It isn’t just the amount of experience that counts. The quality of the candidates’ experience also matters.
Palin has far less experience with weatherman terrorists, dope pushers, pornographers, racist preachers, communists, political clout machines and election riggers than Obama.
On the other hand, Barack has far less experience with being honest, being a government executive, working for a living, caring for relatives, staying off drugs, and supporting the constitution than Palin.
Just watched Eagleburger call the “One” a “Charlatan” on Huckleberry Hound’s show on Fox News. I guess he’s trying undo some of the damage.
ptg, we know which type of experience we want in the Oval Office.
Poor Eagleburger – he had a moment of sobriety and now all of his friends on the right are upset.
Why don’t these people embrace Americans with different opinions?