The Russian Route
Some puzzling remarks from Sarah Palin on her foreign policy credentials:
Real stumper here: “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 very hard to say what this is supposed to mean. When I flew from Moscow to New York, my flight path didn’t take me anywhere near Alaska. Indeed, Moscow is closer to New York than it is to Anchorage. And yet nobody would say that David Paterson has extensive foreign policy experience thanks to his proximity to Russia. I think Palin may have gotten a briefing that told her that Alaska is in the flight-path for some Russian nuclear missiles that go over the arctic en route to destinations in the United States. That, I believe, is true though it’s certainly not what she said. It’s possible that all this cramming is causing Palin to become less coherent — instead of just parrying questions she knows she doesn’t have good answers to, she’s trying to remember canned lines but it’s too much all at once to actually get right.
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September 25th, 2008 at 2:40 pm
As with many stupid people, she seems to think she is a brainiac.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
But this one goes to eleven!
September 25th, 2008 at 2:41 pm
Your ignorance of our Missile Defense facility in Alaska is showing. That facility is exactly what she was referring to. I could see that in her eyes.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Palin is presumably referring to Russian exercises off the coast of Alaska. Presumed purpose: twist the US’s nose for domestic propaganda.
I don’t think those national security issues are decided in the Governor of Alaska’s office, though.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
It sounded as if she was trying to say that, if Putin wanted to make a move on the United States, he’d come through Alaska. Although she maybe should have been less chipper when speculating on that. Except maybe she was just happy that she sort of hit on something like one of the talking points she was given. Maybe she gets a cookie now.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:43 pm
Wow, Couric has a lot more gravitas than Palin.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:46 pm
Also, Putin can fly? And rear his head… is he a dragon man? Or maybe just a dragon?
September 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
I guess all Alaskans have great foreign policy credentials. Unfortunately they’re also distinctly unqualified on domestic policy in the lower 48.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
Here answer is silly but less silly than you think here. All during the cold war, and somewhat again recently, Russia (then the Soviet Union, of course) would send long-range bombers (mostly prop-jet “Bear” bombers) to fly around near US airspace, probing the defense system. These bombers were armed with nuclear-tipped cruise missiles. We’d then scramble fighter-jets to “escort” them away from our airspace. This was mostly over Alaska. Russia has been doing similar things again lately though I don’t know for sure if its been over Alaska or not. That’s the sort of thing she’s clearly referring to. And, of course, if there were a war bombers would come from the Russian far east, too. This still doesn’t give her any foreign policy experience and still makes the “close to Russia” answer silly, but not because of the reasons you give here.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:48 pm
My favorite part: Couric needing to provide her with the word “mock”.
Honestly, it’s impossible to watch that and not conclude that Palin’s not very bright. I fear for the children.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:49 pm
Couric has been really good in the clips I’ve seen simply by honestly and earnestly asking the questions to which Palin has no answer.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
This woman is stupid. Period. This is what happens when you went to five colleges in six years.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:51 pm
Ouch. I like how she at one point dismissively says “reporters!” like they’re the ones that kept bringing up this ridiculous point. The more I see of this, the more I believe all of McCain’s zigging and zagging was intended to bury this interview and possibly get Palin off the hook for the Oct. 2 debate.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:52 pm
Philly, by the way, she herself was for a time a reporter!
September 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
Such as with the airspace, and the US Americans, like with the Iraq, and the South Africa, the Mr. Putin will fly his planes here, such as with the airspace, and the maritime border.
September 25th, 2008 at 2:54 pm
I think it is quite clear that Vladimir Putin has been affected by some kind of mutation that allows his neck to stretch thousands of miles and, mid-sentence, caused his head to duplicate.
I think it is naive to underestimate the gravity of the Russian Intercontinenttal Ballistic Hydraform Prime Minister program..
September 25th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Ah, yes, a sportscaster if I remember the clip. Well, to borrow an old line of hers then: “Facing Couric, Palin went zero for three, swinging wildly at every pitch.”
September 25th, 2008 at 2:59 pm
Is there any person with an IQ of over 90 who thinks Palin is qualified? I don’t mean that they will vote for her — rich people who think the stock market tanking is fine as long as they get their tax break — but who actually think she’s not the biggest insult to the American people ever.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
re: matt (not the famous one)
Regardless, the governor of Alaska didn’t scramble the Alaska Air National Guard (if there is one) in such an instance, that was handled by the Strategic Air Command.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
Jake, I noticed that, too. I think she was going for the word ‘caricatured’ but couldn’t quite pull it off (lots of syllables you know). Very cringe-inducing for me; she’s making women look bad.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:01 pm
The more I see of this, the more I believe all of McCain’s zigging and zagging was intended to bury this interview and possibly get Palin off the hook for the Oct. 2 debate.
I keep thinking I must be crazy for thinking this. And then I watch videos like this. Dear god.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:02 pm
This is a pet peeve of mine, but David Paterson’s name is spelled with one T, not two.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:03 pm
I can’t remeber where on the Web I saw this comment but I think it’s appropriate:
“I can see the moon from my house, does that mean I am qualified to be an astronaut?”
September 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
It’s beginning to look like Quayle.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:04 pm
Everybody knows that the route to Kamchatka goes through Alaska.
http://flickr.com/photos/greenvelvet/80590189/
September 25th, 2008 at 3:05 pm
Moose Lips Sink Ships
September 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
I think she was going for the word ‘caricatured’ but couldn’t quite pull it off (lots of syllables you know).
Graduate of the Norm Crosby School of Electrocution (I think George W. Bush was commencement speaker that year).
September 25th, 2008 at 3:06 pm
It’s beginning to make Quayle look like a genius.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:08 pm
Teh stoopid, it hurt
September 25th, 2008 at 3:09 pm
Saying she has foreign policy experience because Russian bombers would poke around Alaskan airspace is like saying someone from Nebraska is an expert on nuclear disarmament because of all the missile silos there.
If this osmosis theory actually worked, I would have gotten a 4.0 in college.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
Palin has clearly given much thought as to what she would do as Gov. of Alaska should Putin cross into Alaskan airspace riding a missile bound for the U.S. (a la Dr. Strangelove).
September 25th, 2008 at 3:10 pm
49 senators, 22 governors, about 200 representatives, and many more that used to fill these positions and this is the best the Republicans can do?
September 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm
Graduate of the Norm Crosby School of Electrocution (I think George W. Bush was commencement speaker that year).
I think that’s the education you get when you attend 6 different colleges in 5 years shopping for a degree.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:13 pm
“I fear for the children.”
There is no reason to fear for the children, we already know how they’ll turn out. The girls will get knocked up in high school, and the boys will become drunken rednecks. Fifteen years from now, they will all live together in their own trailer park. There is no reason the fear the known, it should simply be accepted.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:15 pm
Palin is obviously a manchurian candidate programmed by CBS news and sent on a top-secret mission to make Katy Couric look like a gravitas-filled anchor. Success!
September 25th, 2008 at 3:16 pm
Me talk pretty some day!
September 25th, 2008 at 3:17 pm
When you cram it in… it all comes spilling out – SPLAT..
Based on the Couric – Palin interview, my vote is for Couric for VP..
Couric demonstrated that she is far more ready to lead on foreign policy issues than Palin… but that, really, was never in any doubt.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Palindromism = A sentence which read either backward or forward makes no sense at all.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:18 pm
Oh my god I can’t believe you people don’t understand what’s going on. Bush, McCain, Palin, they’re geniuses. They’re allowing subliminal hints of the future to leak through, spamming you through your Bayesian filters. Your logic is belong to us. Now kneel down before Zod.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:20 pm
In comment #9, Matt “not the crazy one” is exactly right. Palin was referring to the fact that Soviet and then Russian military aircraft have periodically probed into the fringes of U.S. airspace up by Alaska, and that the U.S. Air Force has had responsibility for sending out interceptor aircraft to politely push them back. All true. We’ve done it to them, too — each side checking the other’s detection capabilities and reaction times. Just one catch as far as Palin is concerned: the Governor of Alaska has absolutely nothing to do with any of that. Her national security experience still amounts to zero, and that is well matched by her understanding of what constitutes such experience. Her attempts to claim national security credibility based on examples like this, or because she is nominally the commander of the Alaska National Guard, or has been on one dog-and pony-show trip to a few military bases overseas are beyond silly. They are insulting. God, to think I used to respect the man who selected her — of all the people in this country! — to be his running mate…
September 25th, 2008 at 3:23 pm
You morons, she’s talking about Russia’s latest spy technology! Putin has been detaching his head and flying over Alaskan air space to reach sensitive sites in the lower 48!!
Just the other night, I saw him peering into a sorority house.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
Palin is someone who devoted all her intellectual energy to mastering the feat of political advancement by climbing over the PTA volunteers and Wassila council members. She has no aptitude for or interest in policy matters.
She spends all her time figuring out how to properly execute personal vendettas against her targets, leaving no time for her to actually read about what’s going on in the country and the rest of the world.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:24 pm
the cbs web video thing now says “this content is unavailable”!!! the vast right wing conspiracy is shutting down the internet as we know it!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 3:26 pm
Putin says that you have to go pretty far into East Siberia to find a frozen welfare-consuming shithole as miserable as Wasilla and he’d give it back to the Inuits if he was us.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
Well, okay #9 & #40, but if that’s the best answer they’ve got, *why* for the love of moose can’t she teach herself to at least say it in a comprehensible and intimidating-sounding way? I mean, any answer with “nuclear-tipped missiles” in it, even if it ignores the fact that the governor of Alaska has exactly zip zero to do with commanding the U.S. Air Force, would be far superior than “Putin stickin’ his head up”, wouldn’t it?
JayDenver, permission to steal and use liberally?
September 25th, 2008 at 3:27 pm
While she blathers about Putin “rearing his head” into Alaska’s airspace, any sane American voter must be left worrying about the airspace in the head of this would-be president. This, really, is a sad disgrace.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:28 pm
Well, let’s say that the Russian “probing” of US airspace is what she was referring to. Pretty far stretch to count that as foreign policy experience, but hey, it sounds impressive enough. So why not say that in some kind of coherent way? It’s an obvious enough question, right? But she can’t even roll out a believable dissembling or misdirecting argument for Katie frickin’ Couric. Painful.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
Matt, she’s talking about Putin attacking the US in a Red Dawn style scenario.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:31 pm
If you don’t pay attention to the words she speaks, but rather focus on reading her mind, it becomes clear what she meant to say, and it’s perfectly reasonable.
She’s a very quick study, Sarah Palin. Very quick.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:32 pm
What does she mean when she tells Couric “we have trade missions back and forth” when responding to Couric’s question about “negotiations?” Can anyone decipher that one? What “trade mission” does the Palin have w/Russia? I seriously want to know but I can’t resist some snark…could it possibly be moose? Furs?
September 25th, 2008 at 3:33 pm
If that’s the case, we should invade Nicaragua now as a preventative measure. Wolverines!!!
September 25th, 2008 at 3:35 pm
jibeaux:
JayDenver, permission to steal and use liberally?
With my compliments.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
“She spends all her time figuring out how to properly execute personal vendettas against her targets, leaving no time for her to actually read about what’s going on in the country and the rest of the world.”
Mostly true, although I would say that she spends at least some time developing exciting new hand gestures to convey her political points, like the “Obama Tests the Wind” and the classic “Putin Rears His Head.”
September 25th, 2008 at 3:36 pm
And yet nobody would say that David Paterson has extensive foreign policy experience thanks to his proximity to Russia.
That’s because Paterson cannot actually see Russia from his house.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:38 pm
As a once-proud Alaskan, I can only agree with the observations of Neil and Jibeaux about Governor Palin’s extremely poor ability to articulate a thought. I don’t think it’s the fault of her syntax, grammar, or pronounciation though, so much as it is a failure of intellect. She just isn’t really smart enough to speak coherently about anything that is even even moderately complex. Works well enough for her up in our strange corner of America, but doesn’t seem to travel very well.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:39 pm
It’s still available on YouTube
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iv6CRObROV0
September 25th, 2008 at 3:40 pm
Where have all the trolls gone?
Long time passing…
September 25th, 2008 at 3:45 pm
Goddammit she’d piss on a sparkplug if she thought it’d do any good.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:51 pm
Why should we be worried about Putin? Bush looked into his soul. Everything is good.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:57 pm
Suddenly it all makes sense. Compare the number of women running for office as Democrats to the number running as Republicans. It is clearly in the interest of Republicans to make women look bad.
September 25th, 2008 at 3:58 pm
I just want to point out that Alaska and Moscow are precisely 12 time zones away from each other. So middle of the day in Wasilla means middle of the night in Moscow.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:04 pm
Middle of the night? Like 3 a.m.? Oh, she’s qualified.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:06 pm
All –
I am a female with excellent oratory skills, I also sit in board meetings with both US and International Regulatory agencies on various pharmaceutical drug manufacturing and clinical study reviews. I have a degree in Chemical Engineering, Have worked about 20 years in the petrochemicals, pharmaceutical and bulk chemical manufacturing sectors of buisness. m I guess that makes me qualified to negotiate nuclear arms,weapons and anti-drug smuggling treaties with foreign countries.
Oh, it also helps that I am extremely attractive and I wear glasses and can wear the heck out of a low cut business suit with a skirt that just reaches my knees.
Oh, I am also a woman of color…. so I know I can impress some of these foreign diplomats with my exotic looks.
Give me a break. Sarah Palin is not qualified to be VP or President. There are plenty more beautiful, articulate, andeducated women in this country that could do as good and better than Palin
NOW WE ALL KNOW WHY THEY KEPT HER AWAY FROM THE MEDIA AND PUBLIC
September 25th, 2008 at 4:07 pm
SHF: “she’s making women look bad.”
Nah, she’s making every other female politician look like a genius.
-j
September 25th, 2008 at 4:09 pm
Someone mentioned that Couric had to supply her with the word “mock.” She was reaching for a word that starts with cari-. She couldn’t think of the work “caricature”!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:10 pm
Palin is blessed with the gift of blissful ignorance. Without such good fortune, her fierce confidence would be instantly shattered.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:13 pm
She couldn’t think of the word “caricature”!
It’s clear she never carries on particularly sophisticated conversations with colleagues, friends, or relatives. She talks with people about a lot of parochial topics using a very limited vocabulary.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:18 pm
CNN just showed the moment she met the new leader of Pakistan. He kept saying over and over how pretty she was. Very strange
September 25th, 2008 at 4:26 pm
Please, PLEASE can anyone make a video where we hear these words and we see “Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of (…) Alaska”?
I’d so love to see that…
September 25th, 2008 at 4:29 pm
The obvious follow up:
Couric: Ok. I assume you also believe, then, that Hulk Hogan is qualified to be Vice President of the United States?
September 25th, 2008 at 4:38 pm
Palin is obviously a manchurian candidate
You can see Manchuria from the part of Russia you can see from Alaska, so this makes sense.
September 25th, 2008 at 4:40 pm
“Moscow is closer to New York than it is to Anchorage”
Er, sorry Matt, no it isn’t. Great circle distance Moscow to New York 4667 miles . . . Moscow to Anchorage 4340 miles. Seventy comments deep and nobody thought to check you on that? Jeez!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:46 pm
Mitch # 68 you said….
CNN just showed the moment she met the new leader of Pakistan. He kept saying over and over how pretty she was. Very strange
Hey…but Sarah looks well… she looks…. Gorgeous but without a Clue.
No world leader said she was intelligent of accomplished.
Awful … She is not ready for the number 2 spot….
Wake Up America… She is not ready or qualified
September 25th, 2008 at 4:47 pm
I still say Trig is her grandson or a high school math class.
What do you think!
September 25th, 2008 at 4:49 pm
Wow…that was awful. Not just awful, stunningly awful.
I think I now understand why McCain decided to rush back to DC and is hoping to postpone (cancel) the VP debate next week. I think I also understand why the McCain campaign is doing everything possible to keep her away from the press. Yikes!
On another note, Biden has had a rough couple of days here as well, saying the type of dumb things I worried he say when he was picked for VP….hopefully he’ll stop that.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:08 pm
Not a big difference, but Anchorage *is* closer to Moscow than New York. Something like 6,000 miles vs. 6,500. Not that that explains the Putin air space comment.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:14 pm
#76 Right, Black Cat. Check my post #72 above for the correct distances.
September 25th, 2008 at 5:18 pm
I have no interest in defending Palin but I can tell you that what she’s talking about are Russian observation flights that do indeed occasionally enter U.S. airspace over Alaska (whereupon the U.S. promptly scrambles fighters to intercept and take pictures). It’s pretty routine. It’s nonsensical for her to use that as a foreign policy talking point but that statement was, in and of itself, perfectly legitimate.
as well, the statement is coherent since anyone who’s actually informed on national security matters (and, presumably, any Alaskan) knew immediately what she was talking about. I’ll grant that it’s probably not common knowledge but it is probably common knowledge for Alaskans.
if you hunt around online you can find some lovely pictures from the new F-22 squadron stationed at Elmendorf flying next to Russian Bears and Badgers in the last month or so.
btw, SAC hasn’t existed for years. but neither does Palin have anything to do with it.
September 25th, 2008 at 6:16 pm
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
The Emperor Has No Clothes!
Wake UP AMERICA!
September 25th, 2008 at 7:18 pm
Has anybody noticed that Palin abuses passive voice? “An eye is kept on,” “the State I am an executive of,” “a solution must be found here,” etc?
September 25th, 2008 at 7:41 pm
Wow. Are you sure that wasn’t really Tina Fey mocking Palin? Cause that was pure satire.
It would be funny if it wasn’t so sad.
September 25th, 2008 at 8:37 pm
This may not be the venue for a thoughtful response, but I found the following comment posted on a site called Political Animal, nestled among other comments almost entirely hostile to Palin:
I have no idea who authored the interior two-paragraph quote, except it’s clearly somebody with an Alaska connection. I do think it’s worth noting that Palin has in fact been running this diverse and complex state, though not for very long. She is said to have an 80% approval rating there, which suggests–to me, anyway–that her inability to communicate doesn’t imply an inability to discharge executive responsibilities or deal with cutting-edge issues. Finally, it’s hard to resist comparison with Biden’s Delaware, second smallest state in the Union, same number of electoral votes, whose whole raison d’etre seems to be to serve as a flag of convenience for corporations that, for whatever reason, don’t want to incorporate where they actually do their business.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:02 pm
Chrome: Fine; if the entire state of Alaska, rather than this one obviously incompetent woman, is the VP nominee than I’d call that reasonable.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:17 pm
Chrome, the proof is in the pudding: Palin can’t speak very coherently about anything outside of the parochial and idiosyncratic issues unique to her own state. Biden, by contrast, spent his life trying to gain expertise in foreign policy issues that are in no way specific or even directly relevant to the state of Delaware, to the point where is a recognized authority on those issues in Washington. People like Biden are people I respect: people who look beyond their nose when it comes to learning and expertise.
September 25th, 2008 at 9:51 pm
TJ @ #7: Dragon Man? Pretty sure that’s Trogdor you’re thinking of.
September 25th, 2008 at 10:36 pm
But how do you walk in high heels, hon?
September 25th, 2008 at 10:58 pm
I agree: having a narrow slit of water separate your state and the most uninhabited part of Russia does not give you foreign policy experience.
NYC is not closer to Moscow.
Anchorage – Moscow: 4,354mi
NYC – Moscow: 4,671mi
September 25th, 2008 at 11:08 pm
I don’t know…it looks pretty close. Maybe New York is closer.
September 25th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
#83 Tomemos, you’re confusing talking with doing. There’s no evidence she’s incompetent at what she does, which is run Alaska. Haven’t you ever had a professor, say in math or science, who mumbles his way through lectures, nobody can understand anything, but he has a good non-pedagogical success record in his field?
#84 Tyro, it’s good to learn stuff, and when you’re young, when you’re in the student phase of your life, that’s all there is. You demonstrate your mastery by how you do on exams. But most of us come to childhood’s end one day, when you start to apply what you’ve learned to the real world. When you’re judged not by whether you correctly solve the equation on the math test, but by whether the bridge you use it to design falls down. Biden is like the guy who has hung around campus all his life. Came to the Senate when he was 30, the youngest you can be. Never left. Thirty-six years now. What’s that about?
You know, fellas, I don’t agree with Sarah Palin on much. I’m pro choice and obviously I’m not a creationist. But I’ll tell you, I think it’s just stunning that here in about a minute one of this year’s two Mutt ‘n Jeff-lookin’ nitwit candidates is gonna be President of the United States. I’m not sure I wouldn’t take Sarah Palin over either of them, if for no other reason than that she is the least well-integrated into the political class that is parasitizing our country to death.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:08 am
Tyro, it’s good to learn stuff, and when you’re young, when you’re in the student phase of your life, that’s all there is.
As all of us should realize once we’ve been out of school, we will always need to master new topics. Biden made his life in the Senate as the guy who “knows everything” when it comes to a large number of foreign policy issues. Palin lived her life not thinking about much other than what was going on in Alaska… and now Palin, at the age of 44, is paying the consequences for her provincialism– she is mainly concerned with a few idiosyncratic issues that affect an atypical state, and less knowledgeable than your average middle-class daily news reader when it comes to issues of national and international importance. She’s not the sort of person who’s interested in the world outside her immediate concerns. Her personal/political history as well as her public statements bear that out. And that’s really not what I’m looking for in a Presidential or Vice Presidential candidate, in part because I believe that’s not a good way to live one’s life.
Biden could have spent his career over the past 30-some years in the senate focused solely on securing earmarks to expand the Port of Wilmington (and I’m sure he’s done plenty of that). He didn’t– he instead became an authority figure on a whole host of foreign policy issues. It shows an inclination to think and be considered about the wider world in a way that Palin simply isn’t. He looked beyond his nose. Palin hasn’t. I’m sure she could tell me all about snowmobiling, moose-hunting, and policies towards fisheries, as well as what pipeline issues are best for Alaska. That’s great, but I need someone with a little bit more of a broad horizon for me to respect them as a national leader.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:33 am
Jake: “Moose Lips Sink Ships”
Jake wins the thread.
Marcia: What’s your phone number?
Once again, anybody here think Angelina Jolie couldn’t beat the crap out of Sarah Palin in any sort of intellectual sense? And certainly in common sense and honesty.
Hell, Angie’s had WAY more experience dealing with all levels of foreign governments and situations in foreign countries! WAY more experience! She’s been to practically every foreign country. She’s dealt with the senior leaders of those countries as Goodwill Ambassador for the UN High Commission on Refugees. She’s BEEN in places so dangerous she had to have UN military armed with silenced assault rifles escorting her. She’s been to Iraq, Pakistan, Cambodia, India, Russia, Sierra Leone, Tanzania, Thailand, Ecuador, Kosovo, Kenya, Namibia, Sri Lanka, Egypt, Jordan, Chad, West Darfur, Lebanon, Haiti, Costa Rica, and Syria, at least. And she’s talked to the PEOPLE – as well as the governments – of all those countries.
Wikipedia says: “Jolie has received wide recognition for her humanitarian work. In 2003, she was the first recipient of the newly created Citizen of the World Award by the United Nations Correspondents Association, and in 2005, she was awarded the Global Humanitarian Award by the UNA-USA.[51] Cambodia’s King Norodom Sihamoni awarded Jolie Cambodian citizenship for her conservation work in the country on August 12, 2005; she has pledged $5 million to set up a wildlife sanctuary in the north-western province of Battambang and owns property there.[52] In 2007, Jolie became a member of the Council on Foreign Relations,[53] and she received the Freedom Award by the International Rescue Committee.”
Hell, Angie’s had more experience dealing with politicians, corporate heads and law firms in THIS country in pursuit of dealing with refugee and poor children. She’s addressed groups of journalists, lawyers, politicians, and met with Congressmen more than 20 times.
Palin can’t even come CLOSE to that much foreign policy experience!
September 26th, 2008 at 3:34 am
Biden made his life in the Senate as the guy who “knows everything” when it comes to a large number of foreign policy issues. (…) he instead became an authority figure on a whole host of foreign policy issues.
Yeah, he sure became an authority on lying to the public about Iraq and bullying his fellow Democrats into signing off on the greatest foreign policy disaster since Vietnam – great VP pick.
September 26th, 2008 at 4:27 am
Not to mention that Biden is owned by AIPAC and the rest of the Zionist freaks in Israel. If a war starts with Iran, guess which side Obama and Biden will be on – Bush and McCain’s side.
September 26th, 2008 at 10:46 am
I was stationed in Alaska. It is not like the lower 48.
Russia is in the back of the minds of alot of people.
When they talk of bears it is either Alaska bears or Russian Bears(they carry nuke)
They will be the first hit. The whole place if full of defensive weapons and I hope first strike too.
The Governor of Alaska has more responsiblities when it concerns defense of the USA than any other. I hope that Palins handlers will come out with a list of duties when they can figure out what is not clasified and most of it is.
September 26th, 2008 at 12:49 pm
Maybe Palin has been letting her husband handle it.
September 29th, 2008 at 8:42 am
This Palin woman is a real piece of work. Nothin’ upstairs and nothin’ downstairs but a hard workin’ uterus. Put her out to pasture.
September 29th, 2008 at 11:45 am
I don’t think she is stupid in the literal sense, having an IQ less than 85. I’m sure she can give a riveting interview if the topics were: dressing moose, fixing snow-mobiles, etc.
Her problem is that she is a small town hick that grew were people move to get away from liberal influences, from too much “diversity,” from the moral sewer that the rest of the United States is becoming. She may be a wonderful Mayor for the town of Wasilla, just not for one located in the lower 48 states.
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