good retort my friend.

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






....i once sat next to a Chinese guy and now i know kung fu

By mocking her further you are just illustrating the validity of her point. AL is merely one of the many states in the US like AZ, TX, CA, NY etc. who DO have real international dealings with their neighbors and YES, that does count as some minor albeit not too intense international experience...

You also by inference point out Obama's vacancy of
credentials in this area among others...one which he
is trying to fill by "sitting next to Joe Biden" on
the ticket supposedly headed by the one with no
experience! Obama is actually hoping that some eau de
"Joe Biden" rubs off on him!



The fact that Palin's thin resume is still thicker
than Obama's is just the stuff from which great comedies
are made!!



But we are living it in our choices for presidential leadership experience...

OMG... I really feel bad for Sarah Palin. They are pumping her with so many talking points that the all come tumbling out in a incoherent way. I cannot imagine the pressure she's under and I think her confidence is gone.

No by mocking he i am mocking her. you yourself point out that it is not real foreign policy. I can only imagine the republican out rage and fire store that would happen if Obama equated his foreign policy knowledge with his states proximity to Canada...

I am not concerned with Gov Palin's lack of expeiriance. what i am concerned with is that she is unable to talk inteligently and in detail about the issues that we face in the world today.

she basically sticks to what sound like pre-rehearsed generic responses. Obama may have a thin record but he has been answering questions about EVERY issue for over a Year and a half.

I personally have more confidence in Sen. Obama and his ability to lead the country than i do With Gov Palin.

Your IQ is showing and Republican arrogance is why we are in the economic toilet.

Her physical appearance is no reason to vote for her. I've notices a rapid decline in her face just in the short time she's been the nominee. The pressure on this poor woman has to be unimaginable. She's away from her kids... All that responsibility left to her husband... She's bombing in her interviews... She's and McCain are sinking in the polls... A debate with Joey the Shark coming up...

Scary.

You know... no BS... i agree with you. I've seen clips of her before she was the VP nom. and she is able to put together sentences. she was relaxed and seemed to know what she was talking about. i think she is a fish out of water right now. she is floundering.

the bad part is that as a VP you are there to talk up the top of the ticket. she dosent seem to know McCains record so what other VP's have done is talk about their own record on the question being asked. So if Joe Biden is asked about foreign policy he can go to his own experience to help bolster Obamas. Sarah Palin has no such option because her lack of record.

I really believe all she ever wanted was to just be Gov. of Alaska.The American people should allow her to stay there.

I find no substantial difference between Palin's responses and Obama's. He's just been doing it longer since he has been campaigning for the nomination for the last two years. Sadly he has shown no more substance over the last two years than Gov. Palin has in the last two weeks.

She gives one version of pre-packaged BS and he serves up another version of the recipe. Illinois not having a border with Canada does not directly deal with cross border immigration and trade issues so that is a silly "comparison". She has little. He's got nothing. Who would be the better president? I don't think you or anyone else could do anything but guess.

But Palin is the VP nominee and would likely have a purely supportive role in a McCain administration. Obama would have the responsibility of actually being president of course - fueled with his vacuous platitudes and lack of experience and thin resume and backed up by his empty assertion that he will be ready.

Palin's oldest is 18.

She graduated in 1987.

She was not having children and fitting school around family life.

And all she's going to do is babble incoherently. It's painful to see now.

Do you think she babbles so she won't have to just answer, "I don't know."? Publicly admitting that you don't know something that you should know is a hard one to swallow.

if you think Obama is "vacuous" i dont know what to tell you. i dont work for the campaign its not my job to change your mind... but you obviously havnt been listening to the substance of what he is talking about. i know where he stands and why he believes what he believes because he speaks clearly and thoughtfully. There is absolutely no diresct comparison with him and Palin. Obama has talked in detail about why me must protect Isreal, the finacial crrisis, health care, the war, in fact every major issue i know where he stands... Palin babbles like a kid who didnt study for the test but is trying not to fail the class.

I do not have confidence in her. period.

But you make the point that she is not the presidental nom. fair enough.

McCain is impulsive, tempermental and, unpredictable. I do not want a president whos idea of diplomacy is to sing "Bomb Bomb Bomb, Bomb Bomb Iran!" If i was in Iran, after hearing that i would be biulding as many Nukes as possiable. I do not trust a man who says i dont understand the economy and then tries to tell me how he can fix things.

I do not have confidence in him. period

I am not even going to go back to find the poster who said this.
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well...she is beautiful...you sound jealous young lady...like most of the women on here...as I've said before...women are so catty....
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This statement should anger every woman on this site!! To insinuate that women are not capable of intelligently assessing another persons fitness for the office of the vice presidency because we are jealous and catty is insulting and belittling.

I am so glad you made this statement on a dating site. I hope every woman on the site reads it and remembers you belittling women like you have.

Additionally, if you are voting for this woman because she is beautiful...well that says it all doesn't it?

Yes women are capable of being catty. So are men, you just proved it.

He said it to me.

I didn't say it, but I don't even think of this site as a dating site anymore. I've never dated anyone from here. I just like the forums.

I know no right wingers will be hittin' me up.

Then go ask out some liberals.

I am sorry to hear that Winx. You definitely did not deserve a condescending and belittling remark like that. No one on these boards does. Not you or Lindyy or even Quickstepper.

Dismissing someone's intellectual abilities based solely on their sex is wrong.

If I'd posted a this remark, basically patting a male poster on the head while dismissing their opinion based on their sex, saying something like this, "well he is handsome and sexually appealing...you sound jealous little boy...like most boys here..you must think only with your d**k..." I bet I'd be banned in a quick second.

I don't want him banned. I am not a fan.

Don't let him or anyone else get you down.

I will not go back to look for the author of that statement because I am afraid it would be difficult for me to contain my temper if I did.

Hint: Poster often cuts/pastes right-wing drivel w/o attribution... You know, plagiarism.

we call em partisan bomb throwers

same applies to the liberal ones who do it too

I post articles here frequently and try to include the site and author. I post articles or opinion pieces from liberal, conservative and independent sources.

Why? Because I am fairly sure there are posters here who never read anything that doesn't already agree with their viewpoint.

I also include them with my comments because in past when I haven't I have been accused of "making things up" or have had to answer questions about my sources.