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Cutting Both Ways

By The Daily Dish
Aug 29 2008, 12:05 PM ET

Sonny Bunch says I am confused:

Andrew has this exactly backwards. The McCain campaign is hoping and praying that someone will say that Palin is unready for the job. “Please,” John McCain is praying right now AS I TYPE, “Let a Democrat say that an executive with 2 years of experience and no foreign policy expertise isn’t ready for the presidency. Oh pretty please. Because you know what I’m going to do? I’m going to take that soundbite, put it in an ad, slap Obama’s mug up there, and run it over and over and over again.”

Because Palin has exactly as much experience as Obama–arguably more, since she’s an executive. The only difference is that she isn’t running for president.

I can see that. But still: there's inexperience and inexperience. Has Palin ever even said anything about foreign policy in her entire career? That's all I'm asking. What have been her views on Iraq and Afghanistan? Darfur? Georgia? Russia? The EU? I'd like to see evidence that she has addressed these issues or has substantive views on them. That's all. Is that too much?



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