Asking King Narcissist to not focus on himself? Might as well ask someone to stop breathing the air.
Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin said Sunday that President Obama should have carried a “big stick instead of a selfie stick” during his visit to her state last week amid recent reports of Chinese and Russian aggression.
“Let’s take his recent trip up here, which was pretty much a tourism jaunt, really,” said Ms. Palin on CNN’s “State of the Union.” “How about if he while he was up here he had as a president carried a big stick instead of a selfie stick? He could start publicly berating these countries that are sticking it to us with the messages that they’re sending.”
Five Chinese warships sailed into U.S. territorial waters in the Bering Sea near Alaska during the president’s visit last week to promote his climate-change agenda, while Russian bombers were intercepted July 4 off the coasts of Alaska and California.
During his visit last week to Alaska, in which he promoted his administration’s effort to combat climate change, Mr. Obama was shown using a selfie stick to take pictures of himself against the backdrop of the Alaskan wilderness.
Ms. Palin, the Republican vice-presidential nominee in 2008, accused Russian President Vladimir Putin, whose country has planted a flag on the seabed of the Arctic Ocean, of “flagging undersea our resources [and] claiming them as his own.”
“What’s America doing about it? We don’t even have a seat at the table at the Law of the Sea treaty, we’re not even participating in fighting back, putting America first, saying, ‘No, these are our rich resources along our coast,’ and ‘No, Russia, hey, you lost out, man, you sold the territory of Alaska for 2 cents an acre way back when, you don’t get it back.’”