(CNN) – Sarah Palin may be having a bragging rights moment.
In 2008, when she was the GOP vice presidential nominee, Palin questioned in a speech whether then-Sen. Barack Obama would have the foreign policy credentials to handle a scenario in which Russian President Vladimir Putin invaded Ukraine.
“After the Russian army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence – the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next,” she said in Reno, Nevada on October 21, 2008.
The former Alaska governor was happy to highlight her prediction on Friday and scold those who criticized her 2008 comments.
“Yes, I could see this one from Alaska,” she said on Facebook. That remark was a reference to a 2008 interview in which Palin argued that Alaska’s proximity to Russia helped boost her foreign policy experience.
Saturday Night Live parodied her remarks in a now-famous sketch with Tina Fey, who played Palin on the show, saying “I can see Russia from my house.”
On Facebook, Palin continued to explain how she anticipated a growing crisis between Russia and Ukraine, where there has now been an uncontested arrival of Russian military forces by air at a Russian base in Ukraine’s Crimea region. They are believed to be Russian land forces, according to a U.S. assessment.
Political tension grows in Ukraine’s Crimea region
“I’m usually not one to Told-Ya-So, but I did, despite my accurate prediction being derided as ‘an extremely far-fetched scenario’ by the ‘high-brow’ Foreign Policy magazine.”
In October 2008, Foreign Policy labeled Palin’s prediction as “strange.”
AlisonH Said:
Sarah Palin has quite an experience: as council woman; mayor; corruption fighter with results; governor; expert in oil industry etc.
If she runs in 2016, it will be a nightmare for the progressives/liberals. They hate what she stands for and very much afraid of her as well. She has a lot of supporters all over the USA.
As the country is very much dissatisfied with democrats, she may win in 2016 if she runs for POTUS.
@watsa46 Obama is more flexible,can you bend over like he can. What is an elite woman or should I say Who is an elite woman.
We shall all remember that Pr. O promised Putin to be more flexible if he wins a 2nd term. Here are the consequences: Syria, Iran, Ukraine and undermining Israel using an antisemite to do his dirty job.
@ honeybee:most women; not the elite of course!
@ AlisonH:
Thank you AlisonH , I was amazing how ignorant Tine Fey et al, on geography of Alaska. The Democratic party want women dependent on govt. handouts. I hope we don’t spend the next 8 yrs watching Hilary grow fatter and uglier.
The Diomede Islands are only two miles from Alaska so, as Governor, Sarah Palin had to deal with Russia being in her back yard.The Left will never elect a woman President as smart, savvy and tough as Sarah Palin and if the GOP were smart they’d back her instead of undermining her at every turn.
Watch Palin’s speech at the Republican convention in 2008 and everything she said about Obama then has proved to be true.She has his number back then but electing a black man as President was more important.
@ mickeyobe:
So who care what you think, Honeybee doesn’t care!!!!
honeybee, your comment is not worth a comment.
Mickey
@ mickeyobe:
Thanks for the poetry. Democrats war on women,they want to be sluts not smart.
It seems That Sarah Palin is one American who learns from history. The history of the Crimean war.
Half a league, half a league,
Half a league onward,
All in the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!
Charge for the guns!’ he said:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
‘Forward, the Light Brigade!’
Was there a man dismay’d?
Not tho’ the soldier knew
Someone had blunder’d:
Their’s not to make reply,
Their’s not to reason why,
Their’s but to do and die:
Into the valley of Death
Rode the six hundred.
Cannon to right of them,
Cannon to left of them,
Cannon in front of them
Volley’d and thunder’d;
Storm’d at with shot and shell,
Boldly they rode and well,
Into the jaws of Death,
Into the mouth of Hell
Rode the six hundred.
Tennyson