Posted by
Always To The Right on Friday, September 12, 2008 9:04:59 PM
Totally untrue, but that’s what he gets for relying on the Associated Press, which took the liberty of bowdlerizing her quote mid-sentence in order to make it fit the narrative they were trying to build of her as some fundie who thinks she can read God’s mind. Here’s my post on the subject from last Thursday. Read it and see just how egregious the distortion here is.
Update: They’re also exaggerating what she said with their
teaser, which makes it sound like she wants to unilaterally guarantee
the security of Russian satellites. Read the excerpt linked above and
you’ll see she simply means admitting Georgia and Ukraine to NATO and
bringing them under the aegis of the all-for-one principle, which is
McCain’s position. In the meantime, here’s what she says we should do:
“It doesn’t have to lead to war and it doesn’t have to lead, as I said,
to a Cold War, but economic sanctions, diplomatic pressure, again,
counting on our allies to help us do that in this mission of keeping
our eye on Russia and Putin and some of his desire to control and to
control much more than smaller democratic countries.”