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Food For Thought

September 26th, 2008. Published under General. 3 Comments.

[Another politics post - skip it if you want to]

You know, the more I think about it, McCain’s desire to “postpone” tonight’s Presidential debate with Obama is less of “he’s scared to face Obama” and more of “he’s scared for Palin to face Biden.”

Think about it. He’s proposed to move tonight’s debate to next Thursday, October 2nd. The night the ONLY Vice Presidential debate is scheduled to be held. After watching this softball of an interview with Katie Couric, I can see why they’re scared:

The transcript if you don’t want to watch it:

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.

Um….WHAT?!

By that reasoning, I should be qualified to be president because I live in MN. Granted I can’t see Russia from the top of my freshly killed moose carcass, but I’ve been to Iowa. That’s the same thing, right? I also enjoy watching British comedies, so that gives me experience with the UK and I drive a Japanese car, so that gives me great ties to Japan. Right?

The guy on WCCO radio this morning said it best: “Palin shouldn’t be getting pointers on how to answer questions from Miss South Carolina.”

True.