Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416778)	9/12/2008 3:47:42 PM
From: jlallen	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578962

not a single poster on this thread knew it either. Many of whom would tell you they did not favor it since it originated with Bush....making them both ignorant and hypocritical....a twofer....

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416778)	9/12/2008 3:59:15 PM
From: michael97123	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1578962

Truth is i didnt know the bush doctrine either. Bush is too dumb to have a doctrine in my view and this preemption thing has been around forever. Hell we preempted USSR in Cuba. Preventive war is just preemption. Problem is our intel sucked.

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416778)	9/12/2008 4:05:54 PM
From: tejek	2 Recommendations Respond to of 1578962

Clueless Palin Peddles Cliches Under Gibson's Glare: Commentary Commentary by Jeremy Gerard Sept. 12 (Bloomberg) -- The question of experience came up again last night: Was the man of the moment prepared for the difficult task at hand? Did he have the chops? ABC News anchor Charles Gibson got the get, the first mano- a-womano sit down with the Republican vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin. He had the chops. Palin may not have blinked when John McCain asked her to be his running mate. Last night, however, found her frozen in the Klieg lights as the dogged interlocutor set his sights on his visitor. Peering down at Palin through reading glasses set at the tip of his nose, foot circling over knee ever more impatiently, Gibson, 65, wouldn't let her coast. Yes, she had mastered the pronunciation of Georgia president Mikhail Saakashvili's name, not to mention that of Iran's Mahmud Ahmadinejad. And maybe that would have been good enough on ``Good Morning America.'' But no-one had coached her in something called the Bush Doctrine. Doctrine? What doctrine would that be, Charlie? Palin, 44, apparently never heard of the Bush Doctrine until yesterday. She flashed a smile nearly as frozen as her running- mate's and did that tenth-grader thing of tap-dancing around the question, skittishly ad libbing her way with gibberish about Bush's ``global vision.'' Gibson was having none of it, pressing her for specifics she didn't have at her command and finally -- his glare set to iceberg blue, foot circling like a lasso -- he impatiently explained what the doctrine is, when it was introduced, and gave her another chance to answer. Few Overseas Trips My sympathy for Palin lasted only as long as it took me to remember that it was Palin who had insisted, at the top of the interview, that she's ready to lead the country on a moment's notice. Asked whether she had ever been outside the U.S. before her recent trip to the Middle East, she answered, ``Canada. Mexico.'' Asked what heads of state she had dealt with, she referenced all those trade delegations that came to Alaska looking to do some business. When the interview turned to Iraq and Iran, Palin's innocence of diplomatic nuance, not to mention global politics, was something she couldn't dance around. We're America, she said, we don't have to put up with those uppity Eye-ranians. Does she believe we are doing God's will in Iraq? ``I wouldn't presume to know God's will, Charlie,'' she answered gamely. Gibson was ready with a clip of her sermonizing not long ago in church and she danced around that one, too. Gibson didn't ask the candidate if she has any clue about the principle of separation of church and state on which her beloved United States was founded. I wish he had. (Jeremy Gerard is an editor for Bloomberg News. The opinions expressed are his own.) bloomberg.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (416778)	9/12/2008 4:17:39 PM
From: Don Hurst	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1578962

>>" And, for the record, I didn't know right away what Bush Doctrine was either, and as far as I can tell, not a single poster on this thread knew it either. That didn't stop half the people from calling Palin an idiot... "<< Palin is a lightweight but she is an "expert??" on Russia because she can see it from some island she never visits? And you didn't know what the Bush Doctrine was either which shows that you are also a lightweight. Maybe you can advise Palin...