Ethics

McCain Pulls Palin's Pakistan Position

By Ed Brayton

To paraphrase Albert Brooks' wonderful character in Broadcast News, that's a lot of alliteration for anxious authors placed in powerful posts. Just to show you how prepared Palin is on foreign policy, the first statement she's actually made about any foreign policy issues other than platitudes was to support Barack Obama's (and Bush's) position on Pakistan and contradict McCain's:

Saturday night, while on a stop for cheesesteaks in South Philadelphia, Palin was questioned by a Temple graduate student about whether the U.S. should cross the border from Afghanistan into Pakistan.

"If that's what we have to do stop the terrorists from coming any further in, absolutely, we should," Palin said.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on September 30, 2008 (boomark / email).