PALIN ON FOREIGN POLICY: You know, it’s like, um, well, Russia is next door.
25 September 2008 3:07 pm by Taylor Marsh
*@*$!!! How Katie kept a straight face during this one I’ll never know.
Transcript compliments of Ambinder:
COURIC: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?
PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land– boundary that we have with– Canada. It– it’s funny that a comment like that was– kind of made to– cari– I don’t know, you know? Reporters–
COURIC: Mock?
PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.
COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.
PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our– our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They’re in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia–
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We– 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– 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 there. They are right next to– to our state.
Stunning ignorance multiplied by blithering stupidity gets you nominated for vice president? If you’re an attractive woman with a good set of legs, yes. The new standard for women being taken seriously on foreign policy. We’ll simply disarm the dictators with our beauty, as Palin did with Pakistan’s president. Oy, what a setback.
Worst case of gender affirmative action in U.S. political history. She’s George W. Bush in a skirt. Intellect not required.
As for Russia, Sarah’s never been there or done that or anything else for that matter. Via the AP:
Palin has never visited Russia and until last year the 44-year-old Alaska governor had never traveled outside North America. She also had never met a foreign leader until her trip this week to New York. In the CBS interview, she did not offer any examples of having been involved in any negotiations with the Russians.
Poor Joe Biden. This woman is so incomprehensibly ignorant on foreign policy that no matter what he does he’ll come off as either showing off, showing her up, or simply not respecting her, because she’s just that uneducated on national security. I honestly don’t see any way he can beat what will likely be a spin blizzard of platitudes from Sarah’s lipsticked mouth unless he simply ignores whatever she says, which will bring cries of SEXISM! from the babewatch police for not taking this national security nitwit seriously. What a revolting state of affairs.
