sarah palin foreign policy "experience"

OMG. Are you kidding me? Read Palin's response as to why she didn't have a passport until last year:

"Couric: In preparing for this conversation, a lot of our viewers … and Internet users wanted to know why you did not get a passport until last year. And they wondered if that indicated a lack of interest and curiosity in the world.

Palin: I'm not one of those who maybe came from a background of, you know, kids who perhaps graduate college and their parents give them a passport and give them a backpack and say go off and travel the world.

No, I've worked all my life. In fact, I usually had two jobs all my life until I had kids. I was not a part of, I guess, that culture. The way that I have understood the world is through education, through books, through mediums that have provided me a lot of perspective on the world. "

I've worked all my life. I don't have a college degree. I didn't have parents who gave me a backpack and told me to go travel the world (well, they did tell me to travel the world). But I've traveled the world ANYWAY. And besides, most kids who travel via backpack through europe after they graduate are staying at youth hostels for real cheap. She's making it sound like they're staying in five star hotels and the backpack just holds money.

Arrrggghh.

Look, I know that a LOT of americans do not have passports or travel outside the country. I don't understand it, but it's a fact. And I know that some of it has to do with many of the reasons she cites: parents who don't inspire that kind of travel, money, having a family, etc. But I cannot take seriously a candidate for the vice presidency who has only gotten a passport a year before she was nominated. I just feel that a vice president (or president) should have traveled to other places on the planet over the years. Especially if they are going to claim they have foreign policy experience.

Posted by jennj at September 28, 2008 08:24 AM