Comments on: Sarah Palin: A Good Surprise http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080902/sarah-palin-a-good-surprise/ Seeking reliable, objective sources on economics, foreign-policy and energy-policy issues. Thu, 08 Jan 2009 21:52:24 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.3.2 By: Steve Darden http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080902/sarah-palin-a-good-surprise/#comment-28988 Steve Darden Wed, 03 Sep 2008 15:41:35 +0000 http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080902/sarah-palin-a-good-surprise/#comment-28988 That is a very good point Will. Though logic has not been important in the "hope, change and charisma" campaign so far. Meanwhile, McCain has proposed at least two planks from the "silly closet" [for sure the gas tax holiday, while both candidates have adopted the "energy independence" nonsense]. How the Iraq contradiction plays out may depend on how skillfully the McCain campaign illuminates it. That is a very good point Will. Though logic has not been important in the “hope, change and charisma” campaign so far. Meanwhile, McCain has proposed at least two planks from the “silly closet” [for sure the gas tax holiday, while both candidates have adopted the “energy independence” nonsense].

How the Iraq contradiction plays out may depend on how skillfully the McCain campaign illuminates it.

]]> By: Will Howard http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080902/sarah-palin-a-good-surprise/#comment-28983 Will Howard Wed, 03 Sep 2008 07:43:25 +0000 http://seekerblog.com/archives/20080902/sarah-palin-a-good-surprise/#comment-28983 OK now I'm confused. Not about Sarah Palin, but about Joe Biden as Obama's choice for running mate. Biden was picked partly on the basis of his foreign-policy experience, right? Yet he voted for the Iraq invasion (or at least to authorise it). Isn't this the issue Hilary Clinton was hammered on by her fellow Democrats? Isn't this THE big issue the Obama campaign has presented as the central and defining foreign policy question of this election? Whatever one's position on the 2003 Iraq invasion it still leaves the question of how the Democrats reconcile this contradiction. OK now I’m confused. Not about Sarah Palin, but about Joe Biden as Obama’s choice for running mate. Biden was picked partly on the basis of his foreign-policy experience, right? Yet he voted for the Iraq invasion (or at least to authorise it). Isn’t this the issue Hilary Clinton was hammered on by her fellow Democrats? Isn’t this THE big issue the Obama campaign has presented as the central and defining foreign policy question of this election?

Whatever one’s position on the 2003 Iraq invasion it still leaves the question of how the Democrats reconcile this contradiction.

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