Palin: War with Iran would help Obama’s re-election

By David Edwards
Sunday, February 7th, 2010 -- 11:45 am
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sarahpalinalaska Palin: War with Iran would help Obamas re electionPresident Barack Obama won't be re-elected in 2012 unless he can "toughen up" on national security, according to Sarah Palin. The former Governor of Alaska believes that declaring war on Iran could help the president get re-elected.

"Say he decided to declare war on Iran or decided really to come out and do whatever he could to support Israel, which I would like him to do," Palin told Fox News' Chris Wallace Sunday. "That changes the dynamics in what we can assume is going to happen between now and three years."

Palin clarified that she doesn't think that Obama would cynically "play the war card" to help his 2012 bid. "I'm saying if he did, things would dramatically change if he decided to toughen up and do all that he can to secure our nation and our allies," she said.

Palin said she doesn't think Obama would be re-elected if he ran today.

Obama could find himself going up against the former governor when he runs for re-election. Palin told Chris Wallace that she wasn't ruling out the possibility of running for office. "I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future," she said.

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This video is from Fox's Fox News Sunday, broadcast Feb. 7, 2010.



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  • NOMoreWars
    I know many people who voted for Obama BECAUSE they wanted Bush's disasters in Iraq and Afghanistan to stop. I am one of them. I am not voting for Obama if he starts another war. He's supposed to be ending the ones we got.

    I don't know if Iran is really building nuclear weapons, I am skeptical looking at the government's track record on Iraq, Vietnam, the Spanish-American War,... Even if they are its NOT a justification. It isnt good but its not an iminent threat. No country builds nuclear weapons to use them, they build nuclear weapons because they are afraid of getting invaded and want a deterrent. Nuclear proliferation is bad, but there's a greater risk of some nutjob just setting one off without orders than there is of a regime actually ordering an attack. And that could happen in any country, in fact given the number of nukes in America its more likely to happen here than anywhere else. Also considering that mental health in America is worse than most other countries and our military has relaxed mental health standards to raise enlistment numbers(I know a schizophrenic who wants to be in the military, since no public medical records are kept anywhere because of "patient confidentiality" all he has to do is not mention it. He seems normal, functions fine in society(but what will the stress of military life do to that?), and can be very persuasive so he'd probably pass the psychological examination and get in!) our country having nuclear weapons is much more dangerous than Iran.
  • Easy for her to talk favoring more wars in the Middle East, because she won't do the fighting but the poor folks we got here in the USA. That's "patriotism" for these fascist conservative republican pigs. Wipe your asses with the USA flag, pleasse!
  • marsh53
    Your Nic is interesting Christlove.....did we forget the Jesus said to Love Your Enemies thingy?
  • antineocon
    Sarah is one of the neocons - chicken-hawks, like Bush was/is. Her support for Israel is no surprise, but please follow this link and see what she is asking you to support....
    http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-245190...
    War with Iran? can we afford it? The war with Iraq is a costly one and for what? Just to kill?
    STOP the neocons, cause they will destroy this country. They are not patriots or conservatives, they are opposite of it.
  • daniel_cobb
    Simply HILARIOUS! Palin fancies herself a Presidential contender!!! This would be the funniest moviee EVER made!!! She is her own SNL show, she should do standup! Im rolling on the floor! And she gaurantees a Republican loss... Right? Right? Holy crap. You mean I have to wager on the intelligence of American voters to NOT elect this idiot?? Uhoh.
  • daniel_cobb
    Simply HILARIOUS! Palin fancies herself a Presidential contender!!! This would be the funniest moviee EVER made!!! She is her own SNL show, she should do standup! Im rolling on the floor! And she gaurantees a Republican loss... Right? Right? Holy crap. You mean I have to wager on the intelligence of American voters to NOT elect this idiot?? Uhoh.
  • Ellen Nugent
    Did this woman ever take a government class? My eighth graders know the president doesn't declare war - Congress does.
  • KNW
    Didn't her 15 minutes of fame end two years ago?
  • John Hagee
    Jesus loves the smell of burning Palestinian and Iranian children.
  • inbows
    I just wonder what kind of people really believe Sara is Mana from god.? It is scary. Is she the top choice for the Republican Party? Don't forget, Hitler was elected by the people too.
  • eve
    Americans ask yourselves, do you REALLY have a true choice?
    Now ask yourselves, how long has it been this way?
  • This is the most asinine reasoning I've ever heard. This lady is as unqualified and unprepared for her 'position' as Obama-the-highly-overrated. Before she opens her mouth anymore, she REALLY ought to get an education on foreign affairs and world history.
  • NadePaulKuciGravMcKi
    Sarah Palin TelAviv
    Glenn Beck TelAviv
    Media Cheerleading
    All Israel all the time
    Israeli perks & junkets way up
    Sociopathic warmongers world war III
    Bloodthirsty AIPAC Neocon prostitution
    Corporate war profiteers Wall Street FED
    Selling hatred & murder wrapped in a flag
    Increasing censorship to protect the guilty
    War distracts a populace from the 9/11 liars
    Likud openly threatens "preemptive" nuclear strikes
    Worldwide ionizing fallout more cancer more birth defects
  • Lafayme
    It is absolutely comical to read those commenting how SARAH WANTS TO GO TO WAR WITH IRAN..."as if". I think I can safely say anyone who gets that from what she says is like someone who answers the 100th question only on a test and expects to get 100. I appreciate David Edwards (although his title baits this assumption) does go on to include that she "clarifies" that she is saying that IF OBAMA WERE TO SHOW SOME TOUGHNESS IN HIS FOREIGN POLICY ...such as a declaration of War of any kind that people might begin to believe he is not BOWING TO OUR ENEMIES and using tip-toe thru the tulips approach to such enemies as IRAN who are 12'ers...meaning they WANT TO JUMPSTART THE ONSET OF ARMAGADDON.
    Sarah also goes onto say in her talks that the Iranians need our support against their crazed ruler. Sarah has compassion on the people of Iran who know their leader is leading them on a path to slaughter.
  • Sandi
    Sarah Palin's attempt at getting job security for her son in the military?

    This woman's thought process is frightening.
  • willb
    I won't close the door that perhaps could be open for me in the future
  • PalinIsPoliticallyIrrelevant
    Wait...why do we care what she says?
  • rporter314
    Should I conclude if you do not condone bombing everyone who doesn't think like you do then you must have a weak foreign policy?
  • Franklin Thomas
    This lady is just a sound-bite for others. She knows how to talk when people feed her information, but listen to her. She has NO SUBSTANCE and very little intelligence. The lights are on, but no one's home. You might like what she says, but come on, she's a political joke.
  • Terrible
    So is the dope volunteering to lead first wave of ground troops? I didn't think so. Republican/Conservatives = sniveling cowards.
  • jimbeaux
    I guess this is a "glimpse" into a Palin Presiduncy?
  • musashi1
    ahhh,so many christians..........so few lions.....such a shame!
  • musashi1
    christlove talking about how much he would love a war with iran?THATS YOUR TYPICAL
    BLOOD THIRSTY CHRISTIAN NAZI. at least he admitted the reason was to protect
    israel AKA AMERICAS BLOOD SUCKING PARISITE! i cant believe you can call yourself
    a christian while advocating the butchering of innocent people, but thats todays hypocritical
    chrisitians that turn the teachings of christ upside down. THEY ARE ISRAELS USEFULL IDIOTS! but most of all they are enemies of our constitution, they have surpassed the jews
    as the number one international shit disturbers, thank god they are too fucking stupid to
    figure out how to steal the worlds money.....jews got that one down to a science, christians
    dont believe in science..........dipshits!
  • musashi1
    YUP, NOTHING FIRES UP AN AMERICAN CHRISTIAN MORE THAN BUTCHERING SOME
    MUSLIM CIVILIANS FOR NO GOD DAMN REASON AT ALL! this woman is truly a cunt!
    a word i dont use often but today its totally appropriate! whats even more disgusting is the
    fact that american nazis oooops i mean christians, just adore this blow up doll!
  • me
    holy shit, it's hard not to want to smash my computer whilst watching this.

    she makes dan quayle looks smart :- D
  • me
    stupid neo-con talking point spouting bitch, here's some advice for this Israel firster, GO LIVE THERE .

    By the way, this "obama needs to bomb Iran to save his presidency" thing was started by daniel pipes, and Palin has such an empty head and none of her own thoughts on things she's just echoed it because it sounds good.

    A question for this dumby, did bombing afghanistan and iraq save bush presidency from going down as one of the very worst is US history ? .
  • turo62
    re i no way sahara












    there is no way Palin could win in 2012. Reason she would have to have at least one one hour debate with Obama. The people would demand it. Of course she would get crucified and look ike the complete fool. She is a nice pleasant circus like diversion from the ugly hard realities we have facing us today.
  • andreros
    She is as dum as Bush was. Go work at a titty-bar. Suits you more
  • hobocopagitprop
    War is business...and business is GOOD!

    If you're left scratching your head at these folks, check out "Why We Fight" and allow for some serious introspection. It's mildly "depressing", but if you believe there is a difference between left/right, democrat/republican, liberal/conservative, NWO/tinfoil brigade - you are a total tool.
  • genius
    ron paul in 2012
  • dave w
    more TOTAL insanity!!!.... war? ANOTHER one? woman you ARE in-sane!!!....YEAH, crazy lady we need you. werent you bitching about fiscal responsiblity? and now want killing on a massive scale. and something she said about divine intervention? .... HELLO!!! her time is OVER!!!... everyone, this woman is crazy...cant you see this? ....beyond RATIONAL thinking and earthly reality... do i walk alone on this?
  • DaL1844
    Why would anyone pay any attention to this woman? What makes these people put her on Television? Is it just to see her say incredibly appalling things?

    - Dave
  • bohopkins
    why can't she get a job with the FAA and go find a plane with a defect
  • gadsdengurl
    Too bad Kissinger and ZBiggy got to her, but she will learn once she is voted in.
    Obama can't say anything without him being a liar, he's such a puppet.
  • uupinko998
    Amazing, her ignorance really shows. She truly is dumb as the day is long.

    Jess
    www.private-surfing.be.tc
  • airjackie
    Sarah cleared up the fact she cares nothing about our troops even her own son as illegally invading another country this time for Israel is sick. Now Israel gets billions in US tax dollars and now they want the US to start a War and lose thousands of US soldiers while Israel sits back and does nothing but watch. Are Americans that stupid to allow our soldiers to die for another country? Will Israel then take over the USA as we see our Law Makers and stupid Sarah give this country to Israel.
  • Mikailus
    Shutting the mouth would help Palin. A lot.
  • A "W" on every compass point ... boxed in ... war is the only cathartic.

    http://blogdredd.blogspot.com/2010/01/w-on-ever...
  • We should be organizing to resist her right now in advance of her possible presidency. Two years of her squirming-toad-brain could completely destroy us and half the biosphere. She would make Bush 43 look like Thomas Jefferson. That corporatist-lite Obama is going to do what he's going to do, 65% of it wrong, but we'd better just accept what we've got for now because if the Republicans get a president, especially the baby from Eraserhead, Sarah Palin, we are all doomed.
  • I don't get liberals! On one hand you say how weak and nonsensical the conservative movement is, and on the other you're worried that the same movement is going to elect this lady to the office of president?!
  • malikk
    palin is one dumb bitch damm
  • Palin should run for President. This way we will know exactly how many racist, white trash swine live in the U.S.
  • Well, she's a idiot, because even if he declared war on the entire middle east and made all the republicans get tingles up their legs, they still wouldn't vote for Obama. But she can't say that because then all of the liberal news sites would call her a racist, because anyone who doesn't support Obama is a racist pig.
  • Lyman
    Obama should "declare war" on Iran????
    If the queen of the teabaggers wants us to return to the Constitution,
    then maybe she should read it.
    The constitution does not permit the president to "declare war".
    What a dingbat !!!!
  • dabubba
    Lyman , I agree . I'm just amazed that so many people seem unaware that the constitution does not allow one man to decide that we all go to war . Yet we still get played .
  • eldurado
    When is someone going to take this woman down. She's a joke. In a dreamworld. Why do they give her a forum. She knows nothing about international relations and they ask her opinion. Pathetic! If you gave her an outline of Iraq, Iran, and Afghanistan...asked her to identify them....I seriously doubt she could get one correct.
  • Scorchy
    She is given a forum because the establishment is giving you the false choice of Palin or Obama in 2012. The game is rigged.
  • thomasmathew
    I never knew that Sarah Palin is this silly
  • thomasmathew
    I never knew that Sarah Palin is this silly
  • kscitydude
    Elect this woman President and she will bomb Iran within a month. Scary thought!
  • Sprint
    Oh god I hope she wins the republican nomination. Then we will definitely have 4 more years of actual leadership. If anybody has forgotten how a PRESIDENT should act, refer to the Q&A session at the House GOP Convention.
  • vince J
    Please God... strike this stupid aberration of a woman with a deadly lightning bolt! ... and on the process, strike the War Crminal Obama too because he is a lier and deceitful.

    Obama is a one term, lame duck, War Criminal. He is not competent enough to hold to the presidence. Besides, he doesn't realize yet, how pist off by his betrail, the poeple really are!
  • unclejoe40
    you do know that if obama doesnt get a second term, we will be stuck with a wingnut fuck for 4 years...right?

    moron
  • Scorchy
    Obama is a wingnut. If you can't see that you're deaf, blind, and dumb.
  • Scorchy
    Palin is Obama's ticket to re-election which is why the controlled MSM is shoving her down our throats. Liberals, despite being betrayed by Obama, will pinch their noses and vote for Obama again as he is the "lesser of two evils." This is how the establishment maintains control.
  • PalinsGotNoBrain
    PALIN 2012: More War, You Betcha!
  • gr0o
    War with Iran would increase our deficit and isn't that one of the main things the teabaggers are worried about?
  • omop
    Ms. Palin seems to be guided into promoting two characteristics/venues that may get her elected in 2012.

    The first one is that will she do whatever AIPAC/ISRAEL orders her to do thereby promoting the one characteristic that sets her above others and that the first female President of the USA with balls.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    She's a joke and i bet you the RNC is wishing every day that she'd STFU and I bet they're kicking themselves for selecting her as McCain's running mate.

    Now, I bet you if America were unlucky enough to have her win the R primaries in 2012, I bet you they themselves would leak information showing that she was neither a D nor an R until 2000, before that she was a member of the AIP, that is, Alaskan Independence Party, wanting to secede Alaska from the US.
  • walt
    wow someone said these titles for stories on this web site were too mis leading and i was skeptical. not anymore. if the title had said PALIN SAID WAR WITH IRAN WOULD SAVE OBAMA'S RE-ELECTION i would never of read it. i am very disappointed at my favorite web site. sarah is completely irrelevant anymore. why do they [raw?] keep pushing her on to us?
  • Phil E. Drifter
    Like it or not, hundreds or thousands of morons support her.

    People like you boggle the shit out of me because all you do is complain Raw this and raw that and you add nothing substantial.

    If you don't like RS then don't fucking read it and don't fucking leave stupid pointless moronic comments.
  • steelpony
    Sarah has no validity, except that given by those who hate her so much!
  • stev1
    Sarah Palin reads Pat Buchanan.
    Websters new definition of "Circle Jerk"
  • jimbo92107
    Good to know Republican political calculations haven't changed. Start a war, win an election.
  • an84u
    Well, here comes the New Messiah---all shithead, mouth, ass, warts & all! Make straight! Make straight! the path to Salvation at last! Our country hangs in the balance.
  • johnnybbad
    Palin AND Obama...bought and paid for by the state of Israel.
  • rider3
    Nice.... more war. She's insane.
  • Scorchy
    No, she's a puppet, much like Bush and Obama. Pay no attention to the men behind the curtain.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    She's not a puppet, she's too stupid to be a puppet. She's small time, nothing on the national stage, and she was selected by the RNC to sink McCain's election chances because, hey, they already got away with their illegal war, what do they care if they embarrass doddering old McCain with whimsical hopes of sleeping in the white house? He's next to die, they don't mind humoring him with false hope of the presidency.

    First off, he stole 2 elections. Do a little googling and you'll see that 2 people were recently convicted of 'vote fraud' in Ohio re: 2004 election, and of course the famous 2000 FL recount that was stopped by SCOTUS.

    Bush wasn't really a puppet though, he was more of an instigator. He's the greatest actor on earth, as far as I'm concerned. Who else could have played 'the dumb guy' better? He outed Plame's hubby for finding evidence of gov corruption, he got his illegal war to take Saddam's oil which Saddam didn't want to share with the world, only took 8 years for contracts to be signed to divvy up Iraq's oil. (Before Russia or China could get it.)

    When he said 'history would judge [him]' he was right because in history books, 200 years from now, they'll sanitize it and say America honestly thought iraq had WMDs (they did; the ones Reagan sold them; old, dilapidated WMDs that could not be used.)...

    Bush Family's Partnership w/ Killers of Americans:
    http://tinyurl.com/carlylegrp
    http://thewebfairy.com/killtown/911smokingguns....
  • Scorchy
    Your argument makes no sense. She's too stupid to be a puppet? That quality would make her an ideal candidate to be a puppet. And she's small time? Then what's with all the media coverage? She is being built for 2012 by the media. The media selects the candidates. You would have to be blind not to see this.
    http://bx.businessweek.com/creative-commons/vie...

    It's obvious you're biased so you give Bush the Lesser too much credit. It was the people around Bush that made these things possible. I know about the Bush family's history and am aware of the voter shenanigans. But in the grand scheme of things the Bush family has always been the water carriers for the Rockefellers and the other banker scum that control both parties.
    http://hubpages.com/hub/The_Bush-Nazi_scandal_b...
  • winski
    So..she wants ANOTHER WAR?? This lame excuse for a human has NO IDEA what that means, nor does she seem to care. She just reads the talking points. Sister turd-blossom has no clue that this would probably be the beginning of a true World War 3 and that SHE would be one of the first targets. AND, that it would not only kill millions (both in the middle-east but here as well) but would bankrupt us as a country..

    This woman is SO stupid, it's hard to imagine even being around her for more than 5 minutes - ever.
  • Phil E. Drifter
    Send your children to enlist first, Sarah. Then we'll see how pro-war you are.
  • zardoz
    Palin is an embarrassment to any conservative thinker with half a brain. I sincerely hope she runs in 2012, she'll make such a laughing stock out of the GOP. RUN SARAH, RUN!
  • Phil E. Drifter
    She'll never make it past the primaries.
  • Scorchy
    They said the same thing about Bush. She is being pushed down our throats for that reason.
  • Scorchy
    That's the point. She's Obama's ticket to re-election which is why she's being shoved down everyone's throat. Thanks for playing your part in the false left-right paradigm also, Raw Story!
  • Phil E. Drifter
    They're just reporting the news.
  • Scorchy
    Every time Palin opens her dumbass mouth Raw Story has an article on it. That is not reporting the news. Raw Story is doing their part to perpetuate the false left-right paradigm. Why should any of us give a damn about Sarah Palin?
  • rose
    Hey CL, you calling christ a puny liberal? Cause he was not about attacking anyone. |In fact he said to turn the other cheek. Even atheists know what Christs said better than weirdos calling themselves Christians. Go read the bible and stop trying to hide behind God for your demon-inspired hatred. Every single thing written in your post is backward, not just your user name..
  • Gorgeous George Orwell
    She's been smoking moose turd again...
  • nancy drew
    HA HA HA ... whew that was good
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