Chuck Hagel Sarah Palin

Republican Senator Chuck Hagel of Nebraska sharply criticized Alaska Governor Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy experience in remarks on September 18, 2008. Hagel said Palin didn't "have any foreign policy credentials" and called Palin's justification, "I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia," as "insulting to the American people."Omaha World Herald: Sen. Hagel Doubts Palin's Ready (September 18, 2008)
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"You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don't know what you can say. You can't say anything."Omaha World Herald: Sen. Hagel Doubts Palin's Ready (September 18, 2008)
"I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, 'I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia. That kind of thing is insulting to the American people."Omaha World Herald: Sen. Hagel Doubts Palin's Ready (September 18, 2008)
"But I do think in a world that is so complicated, so interconnected and so combustible, you really got to have some people in charge that have some sense of the bigger scope of the world. I think that's just a requirement."Omaha World Herald: Sen. Hagel Doubts Palin's Ready (September 18, 2008)
"I think it's a stretch to, in any way, to say that she's got the experience to be president of the United States."Omaha World Herald: Sen. Hagel Doubts Palin's Ready (September 18, 2008)