Flashback: Palin After Obama Accepts Pres. Nom: What Exactly Is His Plan?

Six years to the day after he accepted the Democratic presidential nomination in 2008, President Barack Obama announced that he did not have a strategy to combat ISIS, which recently beheaded American photojournalist James Foley.

“I don’t want to put the cart before the horse,” Obama said of ISIS at a Thursday press conference. “We don’t have a strategy yet.”

After Obama accepted the nomination in front of Greek columns on August 28, 2008, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin asked, “But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed, when the roar of the crowd fades away, when the stadium lights go out and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot, when that happens, what exactly is our opponent’s plan?” 

Palin also predicted in 2008 that Russia could invade Ukraine if Obama became president. She was mocked for these prophetic remarks:

After the Russian Army invaded the nation of Georgia, Senator Obama’s reaction was one of indecision and moral equivalence, the kind of response that would only encourage Russia’s Putin to invade Ukraine next.

Six years after all of the soaring rhetoric and mainstream media tingles, Obama’s “strong disapproval” rating doubles his “strong approval” rating, according to Gallup.