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Alex, I love you, but your spin is easily twisted. "Everybody knows that America should attack foreign countries who are an iminent threat. Only Washington elites call this obvious principal 'the Bush Doctrine.' Real Americans call it 'common sense.'"
You're missing the point. It's not that she didn't know "the Bush Doctrine." It's that she agrees with it. It's that she would push to have Georgia and Ukraine enter NATO, and provoke Russia into a military conflict to which she would respond with force. It's that McCain already wants to bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb, bomb Iran."
But neither wants to raise taxes. And so in four years, you have two more wars, a bigger defense budget, and an even bigger deficit. The current accounts deficit and the national debt are already destroying the economy. We have Lehman Brothers failing today, we lost Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, Bear Sterns already gone.
The only difference between George Bush and Sarah Palin - - - is lipstick.
That's how to scare the "heartland." That's how to scare Joe Six Pack. Who gives a shit about "the Bush Doctrine."
