I'd be careful pointing too many fingers here lefties; your camp still believes that Palin said she could see Russia from her backyard. My husband had to correct his new manager on that just last week; the tool box made a point to argue about it in front of all the employees, attempting to make my husband look bad, and is now forever labeled a dumbass.
It's easy to fool people and I dare say everyone alive has been fooled by someone at some point in their lives. This is the normal human condition and thus not really a "flaw" in anyone. As the Chinese would say - "mei ban fa" (which basically means "shit happens and there's not much you can do about it")
Why don’t you tell us what Palin actually said?
It was funnier than the “I can see Russia from my house”
I guess if you find the truth "funny" sure...
"They're our next-door neighbors, and you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska, from an island in Alaska."
This is true.
As Slate has pointed out, on a clear day, those on the Alaskan island of Little Diomede can see the Russian island of Big Diomede, located across the International Date Line some two and a half miles away.
~shrug~
That’s the funny part
When asked about foreign policy experience she brought up that you can see remote parts of Russia from remote parts of Alaska.......as if that counts as foreign policy experience
You didn’t vote for that twit .....did you?
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-boundary 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 there, they are right next to our state.
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That said, she did have experience with the Russians in many ways. We, my family even, hosted Russian military during joint training missions and I have personally spoken to many of them; a number of my friends married Russian soldiers. It is also true that many "Russians" actually stayed here in Alaska after it was sold to the USA and continue to live here. So, depending on how one wants to view it, I think it is fair to say that Palin had more experience with actual Russian's than quite a few supposed diplomats - who really only deal with the official shit from the Russian government. Alaskan's have long pushed for Russia to embrace freedom and leave communism, we have actively attempted to in a sense subvert the people, and I dare say it did somewhat work; certainly the Russia of today, while problematic, is much better than in the past. If such a things are "politically" valid "experience" or not is merely a matter of conjecture and opinion when one gets down to it. ~shrug~
Not that it matters to the topic, but no, I never voted for her, I found her too elitist and quite frankly "Valley trash" which is a fairly common "divergence of political opinions" up here. Most of us up here are not "Republican," though we might be properly labeled as "Capitalist" or "Conservative," we are mostly "Independents" who vote right nationally, and typically left locally. I could not say how many D's I've voted for in my life, but I can say that they were all "classical liberals" - as opposed to the modern "activist" D party (whom I quite frankly have nothing in common with anymore.)