Five Top Reasons Why You Need Background in Today's Foreign Policy

Why is everyone squawking about Sarah Palin's background not providing enough expertise in the international arena of today's world???

1. She was mayor of a remote town with less than 9,000 people. No doubt, Osama bin Laden is hiding in a remote cave somewhere with even less people.
2. She can simultaneously fly a plane, shoot reindeer, caribou, and polar bears. She'll get him!
3. According to her recent Vogue interview, Palin stated that she enjoyed hunting, and felt no qualms about shooting caribou. "That caribou has had a good life. It's been free out there on the tundra, not caged up on a farm with no place to go," she said. This is good, because her same reasoning can be applied to foreigners as well.
4. She was a former beauty queen. This means she will get along well with Carla Bruni Sarkozy, and help our relations with France.
5. She is a hockey mom. Everyone knows that high school hockey fights always get quickly resolved, so her expertise in this area will be wonderful in resolving our conflicts with Iran, North Korea, Israel/Palestine, and Russia. After all, they are just a bunch of over-age kids, right?
6. And finally, an observation: has anyone asked her if she can spell potato?

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Comments

[charon]

Lookit, Palin larned everything she needs to know about fereign policy from watching Fox News. And anyway, is fereign policy really very important? America is the greatest country in the history of the universe, so isn't American policy more important? I mean, fereign policy has to do with fereigners, and we really don't want them here anyway, right? Let fereigners deal with fereign policy, let's have Americans deal with Amercan policy.

[Insightful1]

Obviously, you can't spell potato right either, much less other complex words like American and foreign. So, can I rightly conclude that the Palin contingent is equally illiterate about spelling and the Rules of English as they are about foreign policy and the Rules of Engagement?

[charon]

Hahaha, you din't spell potatoe right. You left off the e! hahaha.

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NEWSWIRE--With John McCain's selection of Alaska Governor Sarah Palin as his running mate, voters will elect either the first black president or the oldest elected president and the first female vice president.

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Although someone's assured to make history,
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