Gov. Palin On Borrowing Foreign Money to Give to Foreign Countries

"Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy."
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Sarah Palin comments on her Facebook Notes page regarding the latest reckless, boneheaded move by our incompetent president:

Should we be borrowing money from China to turn
around and give it to the Muslim Brotherhood?

Given that we are running massive deficits and are drowning in more than $14 trillion in debt, and despite not knowing who will rule Egypt until its election this fall, this strange strategy may be the end result given President Obama’s announcement that he is committing $2 billion to Egypt’s “new government.” It’s part of a $20 billion foreign aid package laid out with the Group of 8 countries in Europe today.

Now, given that Egypt has a history of corruption when it comes to utilizing American aid, it is doubtful that the money will really help needy Egyptian people. Couple that with the fact that the Muslim Brotherhood is organized to have a real shot at taking control of Egypt’s government, and one has to ask why we would send money (that we don’t have) into unknown Egyptian hands?

Throwing borrowed money around is not sound economic policy. And throwing borrowed money around the developing world is not sound foreign policy. Foreign assistance should go to American allies that need it and appreciate it, and for humanitarian purposes when it can truly make a difference.

Considering the Obama Administration’s continued strange strategies on the economy and foreign policy has us counting down the days to the next election. November 2012 can’t come soon enough.

- Sarah Palin

- JP

Gov. Palin's caution over embracing the 'New Egypt' is justified

"We should not stand for that, or with that, or by that"
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While the left accuses Sarah Palin of not being "ready for prime time" because of her remarks about Egypt, the early signs of what a post-Mubarak society in that land may look like indicate that the caution she expressed about whether the U.S. should embrace the Egyptian revolution is justified.

In an interview with CBN's David Brody, Gov. Palin warned that we should not put America's stamp of approval on the "New Egypt" until we know who's going to fill the void:

"Is it going to be the Muslim Brotherhood? We should not stand for that, or with that, or by that. Any radical Islamists. No, that is not who we should be supporting and standing by … we need to find out who was behind all of the turmoil and the revolt and the protests so that good decisions can be made in terms of who we will stand by and support.”

Aaron Goldstein comments on the makeup of the committee the Egyptian military has appointed to draw up the country's new constitution:

While the panel includes a member of the Muslim Brotherhood there are scarcely any Coptic Christians on the committee while women have been left off the committee altogether.

The exclusion of Coptic Christians is particularly galling when one considers the New Year's Massacre of Copts in Alexandria which resulted in the deaths of 21 people. It seems the Egyptian military and the Muslim Brotherhood are determined to keep Coptic Christians even more marginalized in a post-Mubarak Egypt.

As to the exclusion of women, one must wonder if the Muslim Brotherhood would have participated in the committee had a woman been named to it.

The panel will work quickly, as it is expected to have the new constitution finished in just ten days time. The Egyptian people are scheduled to vote on it in two months.

While the left is correct in asserting that the U.S. should not expect the Egyptian idea of "democracy" to look like our own, it is missing Gov. Palin's larger point: Egyptians should exercise their right of self-determination, but the U.S. should not be obligated to endorse it, especially if the process involves giving radical Islamists a seat at the table which excluding women and the the country's principal religious minority.

The left, which has long claimed to be in the vanguard of fighting for women's rights, always seems to take the side of militant Islamists when it comes down to those radicals subjugating their women. Our leftists have been meekly silent about the treatment of women in Muslim culture, a status which is less elevated that that of horses and camels. Moreover, recent omens from elements of Egypt's revolutionaries regarding women and Israel are disturbing at the very least.

Sarah Palin was right to warn that we should be wary of throwing our support behind the the Egyptian revolutionaries until we are assured of who they are and how they will govern. The first signals the Egyptians are sending with the panel which will write its new constitution are not positive ones in any way, shape or form. Once again, Gov. Palin has proven that hers is the prudent view, while her critics on the left show themselves to be all too willing and eager to embrace all that the United States should stand against.

-JP

Devonia Smith: Obama takes Sarah Palin's advice on Iran

Palin has demonstrated the executive power of a few well placed words
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At Examiner.com, Devonia Smith observes that just hours after Gov. Palin's tweet challenging the Obama administration to exert the same pressure for democratic change on the government of Iraq as it did on Egypt's Mubarek regime, the White House seemed to be dutifully following her advice:

Today, President Obama honored Sarah Palin's short and tweet advice following the overthrow of Mubarak in Egypt. That's another testament to the confidence that Palin fans have in her keen common sense mastery of presidential policy directives.

In a mere 140 word Tweet, Sarah Palin challenged both the sitting American president, Barack Hussein Obama and the national media.

Certainly, Palin has demonstrated the executive power of the value of just a very few words, well placed - from her tweet to the president's ear.

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Now, if the White House would only heed Gov. Palin's wisdom on spending and energy independence...

- JP

NY Sun: Palin or Panetta?

Even the LA Times says Obama Admin. had "mixed message" on Egypt
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A Friday New York Sun editorial addresses the question of who has had the better intelligence, Sarah Palin or Leon Panetta?

For the past day or so the former governor of Alaska has been mocked on some of the most famous blogs in the land for answering a question about Egypt with what the Little Green Footballs ridiculed as “an especially colorful word salad.” The question about Egypt had been asked of her by David Brody of the Christian Broadcasting Network. “It’s a difficult situation,” she responded.

“This is that 3 a.m. White House phone call,” she added, “and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House, it seems that that call went right to the answering machine. And nobody yet has explained to the American public what they know — and surely they know more than the rest of us know — who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak.”

The Internet commentators were still laughing about Mrs. Palin’s circumlocutions when the reports started surfacing that the Central Intelligence Agency was declaring that Mr. Mubarak would resign before the end of the day. The director of the CIA, Leon Panetta, went so far as to make that prediction in testimony before the Congress. He had barely spoken than the Egyptian strongman turned around and announced that he was not resigning.

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So with the news today that Mubarak had transferred his his powers to the military and headed for the Red Sea resort of Sharm el-Sheikh, the political figure in America who called attention to the Obama administration’s "all of the above" responses to Egypt is the same one her detractors have ridiculed for her everyday-American plain language that only leftists don't seem to be able to understand. The sun's editors conclude, "It looks like Mr. Obama would have gained better intelligence all along if he listened less to Mr. Panetta and more to Mrs. Palin."

h/t: Benyamin Korn

- JP

Freedom Watch: Sarah Palin on Egypt and the Tea Party

She stands with Tea Party on the Patriot Act
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Gov. Palin was Judge Napolitano's first guest on 'Freedom Watch' Thursday night, and she spoke out on Egypt, US foreign aid, the Patriot Act, the GOP and the Tea Party:


- JP

Gibbs is confused. So tell us something we didn't know.

Let us make this perfectly clear...
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USA Today reports that presidential spokesguy Robert "Cairo Bob" Gibbs professed not to know what Gov. Palin was talking about when she criticized the Obama Administration for its handling of the crisis in Egypt.

But as Jim Hoft points out, the administration sent more conflicting signals about Egypt Saturday than a third base coach in a Busch Stadium double header:

Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 3:45 AM:
Obama on Mubarak: Time to Go

Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 10:20 AM
Obama Administration: No Mubarak Must Stay

Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 5:34 PM
Obama Administration: Psych! Just kidding. Mubarak Must Go

Saturday Feb. 5, 2011 6:14 PM
Obama VP Biden: You Need to Be Clear With Us, Mubarak and We Don’t Want Any Games.

And Gibbs doesn't understand what she means? This is from the mouthpiece of an administration that said Saturday "Mubarak Must Go… No Stay… No Go… And We Don’t Want Any Games."

- JP

Quote of the Day (February 6, 2011)

Palin Rebukes Obama on Egypt Error
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Free Us Florida:

"Unlike wishy-washy Romney, Sarah Palin has come out and rebuked Obama for his dithering over Egypt. As Palin pointed out, Israel is surrounded by snake and scorpion, each dedicated to its eradication."

- JP

NY Times tries to set up Sarah Palin

Just like a bowling pin
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The left wing media never gives up. Their latest Wyle E. Coyote tactic in the Democrat/Media Complex war on Gov. Palin is transparent in a post by Michael D. Shear on the paper's The Caucus blog. Titled "Could Palin Use Speech to End Silence on Egypt?", the gist of the piece is that Mr. Shear wants the governor to address the situation in Egypt in her speech tonight at the Reagan 100 opening banquet:

It’s possible that Ms. Palin could use the opportunity to deliver a broadly conceived foreign policy speech that uses the turmoil in Egypt to advance an understanding of her national security beliefs that goes beyond her use of Twitter messages and Facebook posts.

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How would she handle Egypt? Would she have sided more quickly with the protectors demanding freedom from oppression? Or would she, as some of her conservative rivals said they would have, been wary of an Islamist regime taking over in Egypt once its president, Hosni Mubarak, departs?

So far, Ms. Palin has been mum. She has not sent out a Twitter message about Egypt. She has not posted her thoughts on her Facebook page. There have been no slickly-produced videos distributed through the Internet on the subject.

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Mr. Shear is literally trying to goad Gov. Palin into talking about Egypt tonight. The more about Egypt she might say, the more he and his state controlled media comrades would like it. Why? Because if things in Egypt go downhill -- that is, even more downhill than they already are -- after tonight, guess who they will blame? Imagine Gov. Palin devoting a considerable portion of her speech to Egypt tonight, and imagine that next week the violence escalates for any reason, culminating in several hundred deaths. They will blame her for it in a New York Times minute.

Sound far fetched? Think we're just paranoid? Consider this: All she did was mark some congressional districts on a map as part of a campaign promotion in which she was supporting the Republican challengers against Democrat incumbents. The left used it to blame her for the completely unrelated deaths and injuries to some people in Tuscon Arizona months later. The moonbat leftist blogs are still blaming her. Now do you doubt, even for a minute, that they would also blame her for, God forbid, any deaths that might occur in Egypt if she had said anything in public about the situation there beforehand? You betcha they would!

But the Mama Grizzly is smarter than the average bear, and she won't fall for it. Besides, she's speaking at an event to honor Ronald Reagan, and that will be the focus of the address she will deliver in just a few hours. Nice try, Mr. Shear Coyote.

- JP

Quote of the Day (February 2, 2011)

We are dependent on shaky governments for crude oil
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Steve Markowitz at EnduringSense:

"The current Egyptian events again bring the forefront the issue of America’s dependence on oil from unstable regimes in the Middle East. While Egypt is not an oil producer, the Suez Canal is important in the supply chain for oil. In addition, the instability with other Middle Eastern countries increases the shipping risk at the chokepoint that is the Straits of Hormuz. The danger of America’s oil dependence on risky sources should have been addressed years, if not decades ago. However, politicians, mainly on the Left, banded together with radical environmentalists to hinder America’s production in coal, oil and nuclear energy... During the presidential campaign, Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin used the slogan; 'drill, baby, drill'. This should be a national rallying cry for what should be America’s most important program of this generation."

- JP

Day By Day (January 31, 2011)

Walk like an Egyptian
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Good morning! It's a wonderful life if we just take it Day By Day:


Please support Chris Muir's pro-Palin Day By Day.

- JP

Day By Day (January 30, 2011)

Jimmy Carter 2.0
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Good morning! It's a wonderful life if we just take it Day By Day:


Please support Chris Muir's pro-Palin Day By Day.

- JP

What if Sarah Palin had said that Mubarak is not a dictator?

“I can see Cairo from my house!”
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‘Whose Bright Idea Was It to Send Joe Biden Out to Talk About Egypt?’ That's the Question of the Day, says Stacy McCain...

...asked by Blake Hounshell of Foreign Policy in response to the latest eruption of Bidenism":

Asked if he would characterize Mubarak as a dictator Biden responded: ‘Mubarak has been an ally of ours in a number of things. And he’s been very responsible on, relative to geopolitical interest in the region, the Middle East peace efforts; the actions Egypt has taken relative to normalizing relationship with — with Israel. … I would not refer to him as a dictator.’

Remember how in 2008 we were told that Biden was such a brilliant choice as running mate and that Obama would benefit enormously from this guy’s vast experience in foreign policy?

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- JP