HEADLINE: GOP senator: A 'stretch' to say Palin is qualified

Bluebear

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Thu Sep-18-08 10:41 AM
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HEADLINE: GOP senator: A 'stretch' to say Palin is qualified

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.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080918/ap_on_el_pr/hagel_palin

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gateley

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Thu Sep-18-08 10:43 AM
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And it's not just any GOP Senator -- it's Hagel. That's saying something. nt

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Thu Sep-18-08 10:43 AM
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1. Be sure to click in to the link and rate the story

email it to friends as well, so it goes into their most popular catagory.

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Thu Sep-18-08 11:42 AM
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2. "...insulting to the American people."

"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."

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Vanje

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Thu Sep-18-08 11:48 AM
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3. More Chuck Hagel here

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=103x385220

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