Foreign Policy Experience: What Americans don’t know about Sarah Palin

-Russia (few miles off AK’s coast)

You cannot be serious. That’s what you can say about her Foreign Policy Experience?

The only foreign policy experiance Nobama has is a brief trip to the middle east where he refused to visit wounded soldiers because he wasn’t allowed to take his media along and an appearance in Berlin where he had to book the most popular band in Europe to draw a large crowd. If that qualifies him to be POTUS than Sarah Palin is way over qualified. Biden’s only claim to experiance is sitting in senate committee hearings for 36 years and regularly sticking his foot in his mouth.

Yes, Russia. Even before entering politics (in 1992, a bit before BHO if at a lower level) being involved in commercial fishing operations meant being VERY aware of Russian, Japanese, and Canadian outfits fishing in the waters off her State. And the geo-politics of those countries. Once in politics she had to negotiate deals with Canada, and again with Japan and Russia, on several trade issues.

I think BHO may have downed some sushi with imported vodka at some time…

Blagojevich Says It’s A Mistake To Question Palin’s Experience
by Josh Kalven on September 12, 2008 - 10:17am

In an interview on WGN’s Spike O’Dell Show yesterday, Gov. Rod Blagojevich expressed his support for Barack Obama, but also chided Democrats for questioning Vice Presidential nominee Sarah Palin’s experience. He said: “It’s an executive position. And it’s a position that is like what you’re going to do when you’re president,” adding: “[G]overnors make decisions, and I think it’s a tactical mistake for the Democrats to question Gov. Palin’s experience when she’s been a governor of a state.” Listen here (courtesy of the Tribune):

Blagojevich suggests that by raising questions about Palin’s experience, Democrats are somehow denigrating gubernatorial experience in general as a prerequisite for the presidency. But that misses a crucial distinction at the heart of the Democratic criticism — the distinction between a two-year governor deciding to run for president well in advance of the election and a two-year governor being tapped as a running mate nine weeks before voters go to the polls.

Imagine an alternative scenario in which a female governor from Alaska, after nearly two years in office, decided to run for president. Most likely, she would make this decision at least 18 months — if not more — before the actual election was to be held. Just like Obama in early 2007, her entry into the race would be met with questions regarding her experience and qualifications. But in the period leading up to the primaries, she would have the opportunity to dispel such concerns by boning up on a variety of issues that didn’t fall under her purview as governor — particularly in the foreign policy arena. By the time she made it through the primaries and into the general election, those worries about her breadth of knowledge would have mostly subsided and she would be on equal footing with her hypothetical opponent (say a veteran U.S. Senator).

But when a governor with less than two years experience is tapped as the vice presidential candidate in late August, there’s no adequate window to get familiar with the full scope of issues being considered at the federal level. This is why, as Steve Benen recently noted, no presidential candidate has picked a governor as their running mate in the last 40 years:

To be sure, there have been plenty of governors at the top of the ticket in the post-Watergate era — Carter, Reagan, Dukakis, Clinton, and Bush — but none, until Palin, in the #2 slot.

Of course, when a governor seeks the presidential nomination, he or she has plenty of time to get familiar with national/federal issues while on the campaign trail. But those governors then tend to pick someone for the ticket who is already familiar with Washington. Clinton picked Gore; Reagan picked Bush; Bush picked Cheney; Dukakis picked Bentsen; etc.

Here’s another interesting tidbit that puts the choice of Palin in historical perspective: she was sworn into office as governor in December 2006, two months before Obama began his presidential campaign.

Excellent Article. Further proof of media bias and the lefts inability to comprehend factual information.