Sunday, May 23, 2010

Sarah Palin to Obama: Israel is a friend and we’d like to see her treated as one

(Coloradoindependent).In a highly anticipated speech here coming the night of the Republican state assemblies, tea party star Sarah Palin rallied a crowd of 6,000 conservative Coloradans that included a raft of state Republican politicians at the University of Denver’s Magness arena. She railed against President Obama and heaped praise on Ronald Reagan...

...Palin’s remarks were framed as a conversation she would have with Pres Obama if given the chance. She would repeal and replace recently passed health care legislation, which she argued violated the constitution and threatened democracy. She would advise him to secure the borders of the country. She would attempt to persuade him to limit all government interference with business– to “end the bailouts and government spending” so the economy could “roar back to life.” She would tell him to be proud of America and to end the “apology tour” that she said defines his foreign policy, where our enemies are coddled and our allies alienated.

Referring to the strained relations between Israel and the U.S. that grew out of defiant Jewish settlement expansion in Jerusalem this year, she said Obama had escalated a “minor border dispute” into an international affair.

“Iran wants to get nukes; Jerusalem isn’t merely a settlement; and Israel is a friend and we’d like to see her treated as one,” she said to loud applause...and She also labeled the nuclear sanctions against Iran and North Korea as "symbolic" and ineffective.