A reminder of Obama’s own nuclear ignorance; Update: At SRLC, Palin strikes back at “Obama Doctrine;” vid added
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As you know, the Sage of 1600 Pennsylvania took a snippy shot at Sarah Palin yesterday over his nuclear policy:
“I really have no response,” he told ABC News. “Because last I checked, Sarah Palin’s not much of an expert on nuclear issues.”
Someone get him a skin thickener, stat.
It’s funny. Not so very long ago, renowned nuclear scientist Barack Obama was on the campaign trail in Washington state when he was forced to admit to a supporter that he had no clue about one of the country’s longest-standing and most notorious nuclear controversies.
Remember? Video: Obama stumped on Hanford nuke waste clean-up, “Uhhhhhhhhhh.” (Thanks to Andy M for reminding me.)
Refresher from May 2008:
If you put yourself out there as the presidential candidate most in touch with The People, if you put yourself out there as the champion of the environment, and if you put yourself out there as the candidate best able to represent the Pacific Northwest and bring about “change,” you should have a staff competent enough to brief you on the biggest policy issues consuming the electorate’s energies there as you campaign for votes.
The Hanford nuclear waste clean-up has gone on for decades. It’s been a cause celebre for environmentalists and the PNW congressional delegation. When I worked at the Seattle Times, I took a tour of the now-closed Fast Flux Test Facility at Hanford, which some cancer researchers said could have been used to produce life-saving medical isotopes. Every year brings new funding battles. Hanford is to the region as Yucca Mountain is to Nevada, and Obama was plenty opinionated about the latter issue.
…Over the weekend, Obama also took a question about Hanford. Let’s underscore here that Hanford is not some tiny municipal dump. It’s the nation’s most contaminated nuclear site. Obama’s response?
The transcript:
Here’s something that you will rarely hear from a politician, and that is that I’m not familiar with the Hanford, uuuuhh, site, so I don’t know exactly what’s going on there. (Applause.) Now, having said that, I promise you I’ll learn about it by the time I leave here on the ride back to the airport.
Yes, typical Obama supporters applauded and cheered him for announcing his ignorance and then using it as an exercise in self-congratulations.
Humility is becoming, Mr. President. Try it more often.
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Update 1:49pm Eastern: Palin at SRLC in New Orleans strikes back at Obama’s jibe, poking at his acquisition of nuclear knowledge through “community organizing.”
Transcript from Weekly Standard:
In foreign policy, we’ve got the makings of the Obama Doctrine: coddling our enemies while alienating allies.
The administration eased sanctions on Cuba and sided with Chavez against Honduran democracy. They won’t bring up human rights with China because, quote, ‘we know what they are going to say.’ They offer tepid sanctions on North Korea and ‘gold stars and cookies’ for the Sudanese President. They send letters to Iranian mullahs but can barely muster a word of support for the Green Movement seeking freedom and women’s rights in Iran!
And President Obama, with all that vast nuclear expertise he acquired as a community organizer, a part-time senator, and a candidate for president, has accomplished nothing to date with Iran or North Korea.
Meanwhile, this administration alienates our friends. They treated Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai poorly and acted surprised when he reacted in kind. And they escalated a minor zoning decision into a major breach with Israel, our closest ally in the Middle East.
Folks, someone needs to remind the President: Jerusalem is not a settlement. Israel is our friend. And the critical nuclear concerns of our time are North Korea, who has nuclear weapons, and Iran, who wants them.
Update: Here’s the video, thanks to The Right Scoop:
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Very spot on, especially the Kate Gosselein comaprison. I think that in the end we need to question any candidate for high office who quit his/her job as Governor for the lamest of reasons (and to not even put her efforts to fix the problems at the RNC which would have been a worthy exchange of effort, if she otherwise didn’t want to go third party) along with her willingness to get cozy with people within the party who are in fact hostile to conservatism.
What I find intrgueing about Sarah Palin’s public perception, is that it seems to me the minute she signed on to help re-elect McCain, the volume of the asinine venom leveled by the left in Media, Washington and Hollywood dropped considerably lower…coincidence, perhaps?
For those still willing to vote her in just to get a quick elimination of Socialist power, must understand that her loopiness, plus the other factors cited by me and others will most likely re-create the conditions to help bring the left back in at the worst possible moment, thus solving nothing in the long-term. We need to select better and more carefully.
OK guys. Sarah knows how to kill a bear thats all thats neaded
OK guys, I know to dress and cook ducks and geese after I go out hunting. Will you vote me in as President?
On April 11th, 2010 at 3:20 pm, love2rumba said:
Depends, do you take them down with a .338 Win. Mag. or better? No pansy shotguns here.
Now for myself, I prefer women who can take them down at anything over 500m. Which is why I’m not that hot about Mrs. Palin. Now there was this Army Corporal in the AMU back in the…
Presidents on dealing with enemies…
“Speak softly but carry a big stick”
Theodore Roosevelt
“Trust, but Verify”
Ronald Reagan
“Make suicidal policy sound remotely sane with overly long, boring and teleprompter assisted speeches, then hand them your stick”
Obama
On April 11th, 2010 at 9:34 pm, dadinseattle said:
You forgot this one.
“I will never relent in defending America – whatever it takes.”
George W. Bush
I know most people don’t like him but he did say this about what other people think,”I understand everybody in this country doesn’t agree with the decisions I’ve made. And I made some tough decisions. But people know where I stand.” Also a very true and bold statement.
he has a stick?