James P. Lucier, Sr. is a former Staff Director of the U.S. Senate Foreign Relations Committee. Here's his take on Governor Palin.
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Would you trust Sarah Palin to negotiate with Mahmoud Ahmadinejad without preconditions?
Well, why not?
Palin
came into the governor's office and found a mess on her desk. The oil
deal struck by defeated Republican governor Frank Murkowski wasn't
working. Through creative accounting by big oil and ambiguous reporting
standards, the Murkowski plan just wasn't giving the State of Alaska
the pay-off that was expected. So the former mayor of Wasilla
(population 9,000, as the MSM always points out) demanded that the
agreement be renegotiated and the terms be nailed down. They laughed
when she sat down to negotiate, but in the end she had a new deal that
delivered 50 percent of the oil revenues to the Alaska Permanent Fund,
and enabled Palin to send a check for $1,200 to every qualified Alaskan
citizen. [More]
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