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A 'rogue' with the truth? Sarah Palin's Irish controversy

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Niall O'Dowd

Published Sunday, November 22, 2009, 9:36 AM
Updated Monday, November 23, 2009, 4:13 PM

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Sarah Palin: Does a refuelling stop count as a visit?
Sarah Palin: Does a refuelling stop count as a visit?

Sarah Palin, in her new book 'Going Rogue,' talks about her Irish Catholic mother and the fact that she was raised in that faith before leaving it for more-conservative denominations. Palin's mother was Sarah Sheeran, whose grandparents came from Roscommon in Ireland.

But the biggest Irish controversy for Palin surrounds her claim on the campaign with John McCain that Ireland was one of the countries she visited overseas.

This goes back to an answer given to Politco during the campaign in 2008, when a spokeswoman said that Palin had been abroad in Germany, Kuwait and Ireland.

However, it turned out that Palin's stopover in Ireland was a refuelling stop in Shannon Airport en route to military installations in Germany and Kuwait.

Democrats and left-wing bloggers jumped on the Palin statement and accused her of buffing up her foreign policy resume. Palin, through a spokesperson, denied doing so and the matter became quite controversial for several days.

What do you think? Does a refuelling stop in Ireland constitute a visit?

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Posted by IrishAndProud on Dec 24, 2009, 05:06 AM EST
For all of you who continue to attack Sarah Palin: all you are doing is elevating her. I'm not exactly a die-hard Palin fan myself (though I am certainly conservative), but with the current political climate in the USA as it is, any attacks on a conservative figure will only rally the vast base even more. Liberalism and socialism are deeply -- I do mean DEEEEEPLY -- unpopular in the USA right now...and conservatism is currently rather electrified and on the offense...so any attacks on conservatives only intensifies their commitment. It is truly counterproductive to the liberal cause. If you despise Palin so much, you're really better off ignoring her. She's been subjected to virtually every kind of ridicule imaginable already, and yet she's vastly more popular than the U.S. Congress, and only increasingly popular as time goes on.
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Posted by pmmccarthy on Dec 09, 2009, 01:42 PM EST
No way can you count a refueling stop as a visit to a foreign country. Politicians will say anything to try to look good such as Hillary Clinton's landing under fire.
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Posted by FastEddy on Dec 01, 2009, 08:08 PM EST
" ... Does a refuelling stop in Ireland constitute a visit? " No body hurt here. Move along, move along.
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Posted by 2BorNot2B on Nov 29, 2009, 03:32 PM EST
QueenofKells sez: >>Palin is so full of herself and doesn't understand that you need some brains to be the POTUS<< By all appearances you've got it wrong queen. Apparently brains were not a factor in the last election, when just a tad more than 50% idiots saddled us with the worst POTUS ever to have moved into the WH, bringing along an even less brain endowed VP. O'Vomit can't manage a coherent word without his constant companion, Mr. Teleprompt, while Biden makes a door knob look possitively ingenious by comparison. Both of them only look passably intelligent by virtue of the glam and glitter the fawning MSM adorns them with, and both avoid gaffes only when their lips aren't moving.
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Posted by REM1875 on Nov 28, 2009, 09:31 PM EST
If a state visit from Hillary to Former Yugoslavia equals dodging sniper attacks and a helicopter landing in Afghanistan equals combat time for Joe Biden then I think we can excuse actually landing in Ireland as being in Ireland- no matter how briefly.
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Posted by johhnyb on Nov 28, 2009, 09:23 AM EST
Yes Padraig8 you've nailed it. One of the most important issues in the world is Irish Unity. Don't you just hear the clamour for it everywhere? Seriously, who possibly cares whether 4 million paddies want to live together or have a border? (Speaking as one of them).






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