Okay, please, you McCain/Palin supporters. Explain this.

INNSKEEP: Given what you've said, senator, is there an occasion where you could imagine turning to Gov. Palin for advice in a foreign policy crisis?


MCCAIN: I've turned to her advice many times in the past. I can't imagine turning to Sen. Obama or Sen. Biden, because they've been wrong. They were wrong about Iraq, they were wrong about Russia. Sen. Biden wanted to divide Iraq into three different countries. He voted against the first Gulf War. Sen. Obama has no experience whatsoever and has been wrong in the issues that he's been involved in.

So McCain has turned to Palin many times in the past for advice? Given that his first conversation with her was approximately a month ago?

John McCain, reinventing reality, creating deny ability, fear mongering and dodging the facts daily!

well i'm not really a mccain supporter but he means that he is comfortable discussing issues with Palin, takes her opinion seriously and solicits her advice but on foreign policy issues he has much more experience...

That's not what it means to me.

He's talking out of both sides of his mouth here. He's known her for a month.......AND has had asked her advise many times in the past?

Yeah..right.

First of all, Palin has the right ideas when she met with colombian leaders about the free trade. She's negotiated a pipeline with Canada that no one could get an agreement for over thirty years. What you need first is good judgement in foreign policy, Biden is proven poor at this, with his desire to appease the soviet, and his desire to split iraq into three which would create a vacuum and Iran would capture one part, the Saudi's another, and turkey another, and more terrorist and civil unrest.

haha Since everything is so stable in Iraq, Afghanistan, Turkey, and Pakistan under Bush, with whom McCain says he has voted with 95% of the time I must conclude...

The answer is obvious isn't it?

The pipeline has much less to do with Palin than with the economic interests of the oil companies involved. Oh, and that pipeline isn't a done deal yet.

But please, can you reply to McCain's statement about asking her advice many times in the past?

actually it was reported that mccain met palin last feb at a governor's conference...

during the course of discussions between running mates on common interests and differences in policies and issue positions it is completely credible that mccain and palin have offered each other a great deal of advice.

so what big deal. the question is a transparent attempt to get mccain to admit the obvious fact that his foreign policy experience is much broader and deeper than hers (or obama's for that matter) for the sake of a stupid sound bite.

so what big deal.



thus my initial response summed it up.

one does not need to meet nor speak directly to another to ask for advice

i am pretty sure he could say that about most governors

if a governor is any good at all they will be letting their opinions knoewn to the people in washington

and if those in washington are smart they will be asking governors for advice

it may be in the form of a blanket request for ideas but it is still advice asked for and given

I don't understand: "one does not need to meet nor speak directly to another to ask for advice".

There has to be some form of contact in person or through correspondence to enable one to seek advise from a person.

you think so

you took advice from the site listed in how alaska women feel about palin

have you had any contact with any of them

I don't consider it advise.

But..it came via the internet. I don't believe that would be how McCain received advise from Palin though.

probably not

but they should have an inside track to the state house being a gov

and if so could over suggestion via said track

and that is not a far fetched possibility

also could have made suggestion through party insiders

that got to him

person to person is not a necessity to give or receive advice

it would be kinda hard to drill in alaska with out the gov being involved

many means more than once - on McCain's defense he never really mentioned what subject he asked her advice on, could have been lunch, color combination, not so sure it would have been foreign policy - but what do I know?