Eagleberger: Palin's A Disaster

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Friday October 31, 2008 · 6:26 AM PDT

2008/10/31 · 06:26

Former Republican Secretary of State and one of John McCain's most prominent supporters offered a stunningly frank and remarkably bleak assessment of Sarah Palin's capacity to handle the presidency should such a scenario arise.

The remarks took place during an interview on National Public Radio that was, ironically, billed as "making the case" for a McCain presidency. Audio clip of the Eagelberger interview available at:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/...

Lawrence Eagleburger, who served as Secretary of State under George H.W. Bush and whose endorsement is often trumpeted by McCain, said on Thursday that the Alaska governor is not only unprepared to take over the job on a moment's notice but, even after some time in office, would only amount to an "adequate" commander in chief.

"And I devoutly hope that [she] would never be tested," he added for good measure -- referring both to Palin's policy dexterity and the idea of McCain not making it through his time in office.

Has anyone else noticed that McCain is the "only one" who KNOWS Palin's record, just like He is the "only one" who Knows how to win wars, and the "only one" who KNOWS how to find Bin Laden and "the only" one who KNOWS how to fix our economy?

Joe the plumber is now part of McCain-Palin's campaign. Once again McCain has shown us how he chooses his people: liars, underqualified or unlicensed, empty-headed, partisan hacks, people with than than stellar ethics and/or integrity. McCain and Palin: a fraudulent act that even Republicans don't approve of.

To ad insult to injury: The New York Times/CBS News poll released last night shows "a growing number of voters" have concluded that Gov. Sarah Palin "is not qualified to be vice president, weighing down the Republican ticket in the last days of the campaign."

"All told, 59% of voters surveyed said Ms. Palin was not prepared for the job, up nine percentage points since the beginning of the month."

http://www.nytimes.com/...

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