And I now have more foreign policy experience than Sarah Palin.
The transcript from last night’s interview with Katie Couric:
Katie Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the land-boundry that we have with Canada. It’s funny that a comment like that was kinda made to … I don’t know, you know … reporters.
Couric: Mocked?
Palin: Mocked, yeah I guess that’s the word, mocked.
Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.
Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there…
Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, we do. It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia. As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state.
The transcript doesn’t do her bumbling, half rambling tirade justice, the video is at the bottom of the page here. I can do nothing other than shake my head, I’m just flabbergasted — really this is the best you’ve got John?
Picking her to be your running mate isn’t America first, it’s McCain’s campaign first.
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What was Bill Clinton’s foreign policy experience before becoming President in 1992? What was Jimmy Carter’s foreign policy experience before becoming President in 1976? What was Geraldine Ferraro’s foreign policy experience before being tapped by Mondale in 1984?
Haven’t you, Chris, long argued that Obama lacks experience?
Or is that argument dead now?
The problem here isn’t so much her lack of experience, its her complete lack of knowledge. And the fact that she is stupid enough to think she is fooling anyone.
The difference, Chris, is that Clinton, Carter, and Ferraro could all talk coherently about the subject. Even Dubya in 2000 was more lucid on foreign policy than Palin.
McLameStunts should have stuck with Pawlenty.
Nitro,
To be fair, Obama is on the Foreign Relations Committee so that gives him exposure to foreign policy. In his case, he’s been dead wrong about foreign policy, but he has been exposed to those questions before. My argument is that Obama is the overall least qualified and least accomplished Presidential candidate in modern history.
And you’re entitled to your argument, even though Obama has as much state political experience as another Illinois politician that became President.
And both Obama and that other Illinois politician are noted for their oratory skills.
Governor MooseMeat is noted for bein’ an embarassing doofus.
Chris, watch this interview, and then tell me Governor MooseMeat makes you proud of the pick: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Vbg6hF0nShQ&feature=related
Embarassing doofus? Would that be when Obama said he had been to 57 states or when he said that we didn’t have enough translators in Afghanistan (where they speak Farshi and Pashto) because they were in Iraq (where they speak Arabic) or when he called his grandmother a typical white person or when he called the rest of us bitter clingers? Is that the embarassing doofus you’re referring to?
lolols Chris.
More childish back and forth. That’s your specialty isn’t it?
You must enjoy He Said She Said Crap Sandwiches.
Chris.
Ahem: Bush.
Also, you are a bitter clinger.