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Fri May 16, 2014, 07:22 PM May 2014

Palin bashes Obama for using social media. Via her Facebook page.

Sarah Palin took to social media Friday to bash the Obama administration for using “hashtagging tweets” as foreign policy, a likely jab at first lady Michelle Obama’s photo lamenting the kidnapping of more than 200 Nigerian schoolchildren.

“Diplomacy via Twitter is the lazy, ineffectual, naïve, and insulting way for America’s leaders to deal with major national and international issues. It’s embarrassing,” the former Alaska governor wrote in a Facebook post. “Under Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton’s State Department repeatedly refused to recognize Boko Haram as terrorists despite their conventional, predictable Islamic terrorist rants, training, and mission. Now, in a life or death situation, nearly 300 kidnapped Nigerian girls are in the hands of these terrorists awaiting rescue.”

“And what is the Obama administration’s weapon of choice in this battle for these young girls’ lives? Hashtagging tweets on social media!” she continued.

The Facebook post is accompanied by a photo of an unidentified man, whom Palin calls a “patriot,” pictured holding up a sign of various derisive Twitter hashtags such as “#HashtagsWillNotBringYourGirlsBack” and “#StopLazyInternetActivism.”

http://www.politico.com/story/2014/05/sarah-palin-obama-hashtag-nigeria-michelle-obama-diplomacy-foreign-policy-106764.html

Yes, she slammed the Obamas for using social media. On her Facebook page.

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She doesn't have onecaliberal May 2014 #1
please, dung beetles serve a purpose. spanone May 2014 #2
And if anyone knows lazy, ineffectual, naive and insulting . . . gratuitous May 2014 #3
Yeah, everybody knows the best way to get a message out is to write it on your hand. tanyev May 2014 #4
Bazinga! pinboy3niner May 2014 #5
Sarah Palin Foreign policy in 2013 : 'Let Allah Sort It Out' In Syria...via Facebook SummerSnow May 2014 #6
Clinton didn't brand Boko Harum a terrorist org because leading experts wrote letters and white okaawhatever May 2014 #7

SummerSnow

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6. Sarah Palin Foreign policy in 2013 : 'Let Allah Sort It Out' In Syria...via Facebook
Fri May 16, 2014, 08:06 PM
May 2014

Now she wants Obama to be quick about settling this issue in Nigeria without Allah's intervention on Facebook? WTF? Stupid as a marble




http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/08/31/sarah-palin-syria_n_3848819.html

okaawhatever

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7. Clinton didn't brand Boko Harum a terrorist org because leading experts wrote letters and white
Fri May 16, 2014, 10:48 PM
May 2014

papers explaining that it would only elevate their image and increase funding and sympathy. It would have likely led to attacks on Western targets in Africa. She did the responsible thing. She did, for the first time ever, blacklist three leaders of the group and the State dept and others created individually specific punishment like sanctions. Give it a rest Palin.

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