Word: palin
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Regardless of political affiliation and partisan politics, Alaska Klub members said they believe the Palin pick will be good for Alaska. “I generally want to bring the spirit of Alaska to Cambridge, and I think this will help,” Treuer said. The Alaska Klub’s upcoming events include “Wasilla Drinks,” when the club will watch the vice-presidential debate between “our beloved Gov. Sarah Palin and that dirty Washington Insider Joe Biden,” as advertised on the club’s Facebook...
...September 3, Republican presidential candidate John McCain told ABC’s Charles Gibson that his running mate, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, had foreign policy experience on the grounds that “Alaska is right next to Russia.” Governor Palin was given the opportunity to exhibit her Russia expertise last week during her first major interview, also with Mr. Gibson, since being tagged as McCain’s running mate. Although much attention remains devoted to the two wars launched by the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia has emerged this summer as a major...
...Bush administration’s footsteps when it comes to using—or misusing—“democracy” to justify an aggressive, bellicose foreign policy. “We’ve got to keep an eye on Russia,” Ms. Palin told Mr. Gibson. Referring to this summer’s Russia-Georgia conflict, Ms. Palin scolded Russia for its aggressive actions in Georgia. “For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable,” she said. When pressed...
...Palin is not alone in seeing Russia as the provoker—not the provoked—as a country seeking to regain its former empire, to invade sovereign countries on a whim, to send a message to the world that it’s back...
...Still, the McCain-Palin ticket has used this conflict to step up its vitriolic rhetoric. Mr. McCain wants to expel Russia from the G8 and reconsider further WTO accession talks. And both he and Ms. Palin are committed to expanding NATO to include Georgia and Ukraine. In her interview, Palin stated that the Rose Revolution in Georgia and the Orange Revolution in Ukraine “have showed us that those democratic nations, I believe, should be in NATO...