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WASHINGTON - Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party's vice presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a "stretch" to say she's qualified to be president.
"She doesn't have any foreign policy credentials," Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. "You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."
Could Palin lead the country if GOP presidential nominee John McCain could not?
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States," Hagel said.
McCain and other Republicans have defended Palin's qualifications, citing Alaska's proximity to Russia. Palin told ABC News, "They're our next-door neighbors and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."
Hagel took issue with that argument. "I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'" he said. "That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."
Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, has been a vocal critic of the Bush administration since the 2003 invasion of Iraq.
In July, Hagel traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama. Though he didn't expect to be asked, Hagel had said he would have considered serving as Obama's running mate.
Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, population 6,500, before becoming Alaska's governor in December 2006.
Palin visited soldiers in Kuwait and Germany last year and said in an interview with ABC News that her only other foreign travel had been to Mexico and Canada. She also said she had never met a foreign head of state.
Hagel told the newspaper that other governors have been elected to serve in the White House without experience in Washington. He said judgment and character were also important for the job.
"But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world," Hagel said. "I think that's just a requirement."
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How are they going to fire Hagel? They ditched Carly Fiorino for saying Palin couldn't run a company like HP. Then she screwed the pooch by saying in another interview, that McCain couldn't run a company either. In a third interview she said none of the four candidates could run a company. Oops, too late Carly. Nice knowing you!
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How are they going to fire Hagel? They ditched Carly Fiorino for saying Palin couldn't run a company like HP. Then she screwed the pooch by saying in another interview, that McCain couldn't run a company either. In a third interview she said none of the four candidates could run a company. Oops, too late Carly. Nice knowing you!
Where do you get this stuff, Yuma? She isn't fired. She's out there pimping McCain more today.
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Where do you get this stuff, Yuma? She isn't fired. She's out there pimping McCain more today.
Fiorina said that none of the current Presidential and VEEP candidates have what it takes to run a major corporation...
I think it's a stupid thing to say, however she was asked by a St. Louis radio station if Palin could step in and run HP today... which of course, is an even more stupid thing to ask...
Where do you get this stuff, Yuma? She isn't fired. She's out there pimping McCain more today.
she might not have been fired, but they yanked her from three scheduled TV interviews later this week. they definitely put a muzzle on her as far as the larger picture was concerned after that comment.
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Any of the four would run any major public company like HP into the ground, I'm guessing.
Hard to say isn't Donald... I do believe that Biden would have the greatest difficulty of the four...
So much of what makes a CEO successful has very little to do with how many degrees they have or where they went to school, or if they went to school at all...
I can see McCain's proven record of being willing to reach across the aisle play as a positive in terms of his ability to run a major corporation... same for Palin actually... she seems incredibly driven, incredibly willing to buck the system and fight for what she believes is right...
As for Obama... I would place him 3rd in this grouping, with Palin being #1, Mac #2 and then Obama... Barack just seems incapable of making quick decisions when being pressed. Additionally, I am not sold on his decision-making when it comes to who he surrounds himself with... Also, I have heard it said that Michelle is the one who wears the pants in the family... That is not a typical quality found in successful business leaders...
.... Also, I have heard it said that Michelle is the one who wears the pants in the family... That is not a typical quality found in successful business leaders...
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