Posts Tagged ‘russia’

Here’s another clip from the couric interview. This is just b-a-d, and is really indicative of the education given to today’s ‘leaders.’

Katie Couric: You’ve cited Alaska’s proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?

Sarah Palin: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border
between a foreign country, Russia, and, on our other side, the
land-boundry that we have with Canada. It‘s funny that a comment like
that was kinda made to … I don‘t know, you know … reporters.

Couric: Mocked?

Palin: Yeah, mocked, I guess that’s the word, yeah.

Couric: Well, explain to me why that enhances your foreign-policy credentials.

Palin: Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door
neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the
executive of. And there…

Couric: Have you ever been involved in any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?

Palin: We have trade missions back and forth, 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 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 next to, they are right next to our state.

By the way, Anchorage, AK is around 4,350 miles away from the capital of Russa, Moscow.

Please take a moment to visit boingboing’s coverage of Putin rearing his head.

John McCain apparently hasn’t seen a map of Eastern Europe in the past 15 years, as he’s referred twice this week to a nonexistant country there. From iDNES.CZ:

Republikánský kandidát na amerického prezidenta John McCain dvakrát
během dvou dnů hovořil o České republice jako o Československu. Chyba
může podle amerických médií zpochybnit jeho tvrzení, že je v
zahraničních otázkách zkušenější než jeho demokratický oponent Barack
Obama.

Yeah, I don’t speak Czech, but in english that probably means something like:

Republican candidate for U.S. President John McCain twice within two days, talked
about the Czech Republic as Czechoslovakia. Error maybe, according to
U.S. media questioned its claim that it is experienced in foreign
affairs than his Democratic opponent Barack Obama.