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NY and Sarah Palin celebrate Alaska, the last frontier:
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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.
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Totally confused: wouldn’t that purchase have been made with tax dollars, spent by the government? how does that square with her stance that the government should not really do anything more than pay for her tanning bed, but otherwise butt out?
Oh, and explain exactly how Alaska has “helped” the USA? Sounds to me like we’d be better off selling it to, say, Canada or some other well-heeled welfare state…
Fine. Let the oilies finish scraping up all the remaining extractables – coal, oil, gas, timber, bears and the like – and then tell the fucking Russians to fucking take it back. With her and her degenerate fucking snowbilly Snopes, Beans of Juneau, AK excuse for a family wandering through the abandoned strippings. Goddam fucking retarded fucking murderous fucking buttwipes.
Receiving back from the federal government more than two bucks for every dollar of income tax paid in by Alaskans helps us exactly how? If the fed just started returning AK’s tax money on a break-even basis tomorrow the population of Seattle would double by August.
Sarah really puts the ”twit” in ”twitter,” doesn’t she.
As a Californian, I demand a refund. Cough it up, Sarah baby. (I’m sure she’s heard THAT before…)
A nice cup of cocoa and a nap.
You know, I keep hearing conservatives rail against Katie Couric’s “gotcha” technique, but it’s been awhile since I’ve read these transcripts, and I gotta say – these are the softest of softball lobs.
“You said this, can you explain what you meant?” Wouldn’t any candidate worth their salt, even a school board candidate, have a stock answer that made sense memorized, just for a follow-up on a statement that made national headlines? Did she honestly think she’d never get asked about that statement again – is that why she didn’t prepare?
“Have you ever been involved in negotiations?” – Wouldn’t any politician be able to say yes, and then bury the interviewer in banal trade treaty/fishing rights detail and move on? She just jumped into the scarey stuff about airspace and “keeping an eye on Russia” – did she seriously think that would burnish her national security cred?
Palin’s answers, in addition to being plain stupid on face value, reveal even more about her unfitness for office just by how she chose to approach the interview.
I think Katie was as surprised at what she got as we all were.
You know, for all the knocks against her, God bless Katie Couric for this, it may have seriously been a game-changing moment at a pivotal point in the election.
Then also that makes me a foreign policy expert too then. Since I live in IL and there is a maritime boundary between my state and KY, again also called the OH River too, that means again I can see KY from my house then also. Again IF the north lost the civil war then that would mean that KY would probably also be a member of the CSA then too. That would make KY a foreign country again also. Do you know what I’m trying to say again too? Cause I’ve lost track then also too again then, or something.
You should start your own blog. I’m thinking you’d make even the Rude Pundit blush.
Apparently, you got the gist.
Ya gotta wonder if President Gingrich mentioned anything about the festivities honoring Alaska — that’ll determine whether Palin is going to remain VP during the Newster’s second term…
She’s a dumbass I wouldn’t even pay any attention to her except that trumping her word salads and debunking everything she says is fun
But the sad truth is people believe the garbage she spits out,And this is what has to watched out for! the more people that nail her on her stupidity, the more they realize what an idiot she really is.I tell her every chance I get on twitter,I can’t believe the stuff twitter lets you say!!!!! I flood her Gov site, but I do say that I have copied everything to them, just in case.You never know what she’ll say I did lol.
I asked if she even knew what the word Autism meant? I got no response,The I asked if she knew what fruit Flies were used for in research.(being she made an ass of herself at Childrens Hosp).in front of all those medical people, myself included.