Washington: Sarah Palin the top Republican leader and former vice presidential candidate on Sunday blasted US President Barack Obama on his handling the situation in Egypt.
"It's a difficult situation, this is that 3am White House phone call and it seems for many of us trying to get that information from our leader in the White House it seems that that call went right to um the answering machine," Palin told the Christian Broadcasting Network in an interview.
In her interview, which was recorded on Friday and would be telecast on Monday, Palin refereed to the 3 am phone call advertisement of Obama's then primary adversary Hillary Clinton, now his Secretary of State.
The advertisement claimed that Obama was not well equipped to handle major crisis.
"Nobody yet has, no body yet has explained to the American public what they know, and surely they know more than the rest of us know who it is who will be taking the place of Mubarak and I'm not real enthused about what it is that that's being done on a national level and from DC in regards to understanding all the situation there in Egypt," Palin said.
"In these areas that are so volatile right now because obviously it's not just Egypt but the other countries too where we are seeing uprisings, we know that now more than ever, we need strength and sound mind there in the White House.
We need to know what it is that America stands for so we know who it is that America will stand with.
And we do not have all that information yet," Palin said according to the transcripts of the interview.
"We want to be able to trust those who are screaming for democracy there in Egypt, that it is a true sincere desire for freedoms and the challenge that we have though, is how do we verify what it is that we are being told, what it is that the American public are being fed via media, via the protestors, via the government there in Egypt in order for us to really have some sound information to make wise decisions on what our position is," the former Alaska governor said.
"Trust but verify, and try to understand is what I would hope our leaders are engaged in right now.
Who's going to fill the void? Mubarak, he's gone, one way or the other you know, he is not going to be the leader of Egypt, that that's a given, so now the information needs to be gathered and understood as to who it will be that fills now the void in the government," Palin who is one of several potential candidates for the Republican 2012 primary said.
"Is it going to be the Muslim Brotherhood? We should not stand for that, or with that or by that. Any radical Islamists, no that is not who we should be supporting and standing by, so we need to find out who was behind all of the turmoil and the revolt and the protests so that good decisions can be made in terms of who we will stand by and support," Palin said.
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