I wonder what Sarah Palin thinks about the situation in Pakistan or the Balkans or Lebanon?

[Douglas Carpenter]

I wonder if she is a foreign policy, realist, or a neoconservative or a liberal internationalist or perhaps even a paleo-conservative like Pat Buchanan who she was once strongly supported?

I wonder if she would have any idea whatsoever what these terms mean.

I could be wrong. You can't always judge a book by its cover. Perhaps Gov. Palin is a real foreign policy buff and spends her spare time reading national security and foreign policy journals. But somehow or other, and not to sound too elitist, but I kind of doubt it.

The late Tim Russert had a reputation for putting would-be presidents on the spot and sometimes embarrassing even somewhat knowledgeable people.

It would seem like sometime soon she will be asked some of these questions, perhaps on Face The Nation or Meet the Press or even in an open press conference.

I wonder how she will handle questions like:

Gov. Palin, how do you feel about Russian objections to the expansion of NATO into Eastern Europe and areas of the former Soviet Union?

Gov. Palin, how do think the U.S. should help facilitate peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians?

Gov. Palin, much of Latin America seems to be rejecting American supported free trade policies. Do you consider this a serious development?

Gov. Palin, with the departure of General Pervez Musharraf, Pakistan seems to be going through a period of tremendous instability. What do you feel the United States can do to promote stability in this nuclear armed nation?

[Jackpine Radical]

1. I wonder if she can find them on a map,

let alone have an opinion about them.

[thunder rising]

2. Biden V Palin ... deer meet headlights.

[dkf]

3. She has no opinion on Iraq. Sounds like her intellectual curiousity on foreign policy issues is 0.

[bdamomma]

4. Well she seems happy about her son being deployed to Iraq

[TahitiNut]

13. She thinks he's going to Eyerack.

:shrug:

[TwilightGardener]

5. They'll coach her along in the neocon school. Just enough to get

through the debate. She should not have accepted, and the job shouldn't have been offered to her--this is an affront to all Americans, and potentially dangerous if McPervert dies.

[kiva]

6. Yup, I'm looking forward to the first time the press asks her

about something meaningful, rather than just show pics of her looking adoringly at McCain.

[valerief]

7. The press ask something meaningful? C'mon, you can't be serious. The RW press???

[Fumesucker]

8. She couldn't possibly be any more wrong about any of it..

Than foreign policy expert Joe Biden was about invading Iraq.

I'm just a lower middle class dude with an internet connection and a passing knowledge of history and I knew Iraq was going to end up as a disaster.

Hell, Dick effin' Ctheney knew Iraq was going to end up as a quagmire and said specifically that in this interview in 1994.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6BEsZMvrq-I

[Muttocracy]

9. Perhaps they'll let Biden go first on all the questions and she'll just agree with him. nt

[ChazII]

10. Isn't Google our friend? evil grin n/t

[givemebackmycountry]

11. Where? Who? What?

OMG - They have finally gone off the REALLY deep end.

[Douglas Carpenter]

12. that's exactly what I am wondering

[leftofthedial]

14. their taxes are too high

and not enough of them have accepted jeezis christ as their lord and savior.

[TahitiNut]

15. Is it possible she'll make Miss Teen South Carolina look like a policy wonk?

:rofl:

[Errrica]

16. I find some comfort in knowing

That Biden will absolutely destroy her in the VP debate.

[Douglas Carpenter]

17. some of the Pundits are saying that Sen. Biden will have to take it easy on her or he will look

like an elitist male bully picking on a humble working class woman