ahem..
Palin: Well, North Korea, this is stemming from a greater problem, when we're all sitting around asking, 'Oh no, what are we going to do,' and we're not having a lot of faith that the White House is going to come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is going to do. So this speaks to a bigger picture that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies – we're bound to by treaty....
Interviewer: South Korean.
Palin: Yes, and we're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.
Even granting it was a slip of the tongue and she meant South Korea all along (questionable at best)... what did she mean by "strong enough policy to sanction"?
Sanction meaning "impose sanctions" or sanction meaning "give approval for"?
What the heck is she on about? Does anyone know? Does SHE know?
As someone commented in The Guardian.... " Yo, my fellow Americans: remember all those Civil War lessons we sat through in history class, learning how the heroic Abraham Lincoln led the Confederate Army in glorious battle against Hitler to free the Jewish slaves in Egypt? Sarah Palin does. "
BTW - you left a very good comment on somebody's blog about this article in the Guardian. Can't remember which blog or if there was a link. I'm interested in both.
ReplyDeleteAbout Sarah Palin....?
ReplyDeleteThat would have been Green Eagle's blog. That was actually before I read of this North Korea gaffe.
The article I think you're thinking of was in the Sydney Morning Herald, and was about her reality show: http://www.smh.com.au/opinion/politics/every-gaffe-turns-to-gold-as-sarah-palins-illogic-defies-reality-20101123-185l1.html
It's written by a New York Times Columnist, but the comments (one of which I quoted) are by local readers.
I was just getting ready to tell you I found it.
ReplyDeleteHave bookmarked your comment on GE and this posting under my "Palin Files."
The slip of the tongue doesn't bother me as much as:
ReplyDeletewe're also bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes.
She really has no command of the English language. To me, prudence means standing back a bit. I have confidence in the ability of a country with the economic wherewithal of South Korea to hold their own against a basket case like North Korea. I have less confidence in the diplomatic ability of the US to make the situation better.
In any case, it's probably not a good time to restart the Korean War.
"Prudence" is a word she heard somewhere... in something that sounded cool and political...
ReplyDelete"greater problem"... "bigger picture..."
What?
For cryin' out loud, WHAT??? could be "greater" or "bigger" than a nuclear-armed nutcase regime shooting at and killing people in a neighbouring country while they hold starving millions in a state of warped ignorance that even Palin would have trouble matching.
She does nothing but cast shadows, trying to make people think there's something unsaid which they need to be afraid of but which she knows ALL about..
The sheer intellectual vacuity of this verbal garbage insults everyone in its self-important narcissism.