From the Sarah Plain thread: http://www.vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=100&id=40294
This is awesome - you need to see how a person just one pacemaker away from the presidency.
From the Couric interview - read her responses.
On the ``CBS Evening News'' on Thursday, Katie Couric asked Palin, Sen. John McCain's running mate, what she meant when she cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as foreign affairs experience. Palin could have anticipated the question - the topic of their interview, pegged to her visit to the United Nations, was foreign affairs. Yet Palin's answer was surprisingly wobbly: her words tumbled out fast and choppily, like an outboard motor loosened from the stern.
"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,'' she replied.
She mentioned the jokes made at her expense and seemed for a moment at a loss for the word "caricature.''
"It - it's funny that a comment like that was - kind of made to - cari - I don't know, you know? Reporters -''
Couric stepped in. "Mocked?''
Palin looked relieved and even grateful for the help.
"Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.''
Couric pressed her again to explain the geographic point.
"Well, it certainly does,'' Palin said, "because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of.''
Couric asked the governor if she had ever been involved in negotiations, for example, with her Russian neighbors.
"We have trade missions back and forth,'' Palin said. "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 airspace of the United States of America, where - where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border.''
Palin, looking at Couric intently, kept on going. "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.''
Here are the quotes with no fluff and all 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 -''
"Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.''
"Well, it certainly does, because our, our next-door neighbors are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of.''
"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 airspace 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.''
For anyone who thinks she's still fit to lead they need an friggin mental exam.
