On Oct 18, 8:11*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:
* On Oct 18, 7:27 am, *wrote:

Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 10/18/2010 2:00 AM, Stephen Young wrote:

almost comical! Even examples of teabaggers...

Teabaggers comical?

To which teabagger might you be referring?

- the expert in International relations because she can see Russia?

You must be one of those left wing wackos that think Sarah Palin said
she could see Russia from her house. Sarah Palin did not say that.

* * Charles Gibson: *What insight into Russian actions, particularly
in the last couple of weeks does the proximity of this state give you?

* * Sarah Palin: They're our next door neighbors, and you can
actually see Russia from land, here in Alaska.

* * Not exactly Kissinger. But hardly the stuff of which such
derision is made.

* * The actual 'I can see it from my house' line came in an exchange
about an island within Alaskan territorial waters.

Yes - Most of the derision made about this exchange comes from the
Saturday Night Live sketch - although I disagree that proximity of a
single state to another nation necessarily gives anybody in that state
a leg-up on international issues.

On 10/18/10 13:52 , bpnjensen wrote:
On Oct 18, 8:11 am, "D. Peter wrote:
On Oct 18, 7:27 am, wrote:

Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 10/18/2010 2:00 AM, Stephen Young wrote:

almost comical! Even examples of teabaggers...

Teabaggers comical?

To which teabagger might you be referring?

- the expert in International relations because she can see Russia?

You must be one of those left wing wackos that think Sarah Palin said
she could see Russia from her house. Sarah Palin did not say that.

Charles Gibson: What insight into Russian actions, particularly
in the last couple of weeks does the proximity of this state give you?

Sarah Palin: They're our next door neighbors, and you can
actually see Russia from land, here in Alaska.

Not exactly Kissinger. But hardly the stuff of which such
derision is made.

The actual 'I can see it from my house' line came in an exchange
about an island within Alaskan territorial waters.

Yes - Most of the derision made about this exchange comes from the
Saturday Night Live sketch - although I disagree that proximity of a
single state to another nation necessarily gives anybody in that state
a leg-up on international issues.

I didn't say it was, or wasn't. I was merely underscoring the
point that she didn't say what's been attributed to her.

The actual 'I can see it from my house' line came in an exchange
about an island within Alaskan territorial waters.

Yes, that is correct. However, let the record show that Palin has NEVER
been to that part of Alaska (Little Diomede Island).

- although I disagree that proximity of a
single state to another nation necessarily gives anybody in that state
a leg-up on international issues.

On this we agree; however, Palin doesn't think so (see below)

On 10/18/2010 4:15 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

I didn't say it was, or wasn't. I was merely underscoring the point that
she didn't say what's been attributed to her.

Yes she did say it. Not from Saturday Night Live, not from her living
room, but she [Palin] clearly stated on an ABC interview with Charlie
Gibson and a CBS interview with Katie Couric that Alaska's proximity to
Russia enhances her foreign-policy credentials.

This is a DIRECT QUOTE from Palin's interview with Couric on CBS News:

Couric: Well, explain to me why that [nearness to Russia] 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.

What part of "Palin: Well, it certainly does...[enhance her
foreign-policy credentials]" didn't you understand?

On Oct 18, 3:32*pm, Joe from Kokomo wrote:
The actual 'I can see it from my house' line came in an exchange
about an island within Alaskan territorial waters.

Yes, that is correct. However, let the record show that Palin has NEVER
been to that part of Alaska (Little Diomede Island).

- although I disagree that proximity of a
single state to another nation necessarily gives anybody in that state
a leg-up on international issues.

On this we agree; however, Palin doesn't think so (see below)

On 10/18/2010 4:15 PM, D. Peter Maus wrote:

I didn't say it was, or wasn't. I was merely underscoring the point that
she didn't say what's been attributed to her.

Yes she did say it. Not from Saturday Night Live, not from her living
room, but she [Palin] clearly stated on an ABC interview with Charlie
Gibson and a CBS interview with Katie Couric that Alaska's proximity to
Russia enhances her foreign-policy credentials.

This is a DIRECT QUOTE from Palin's interview with Couric on CBS News:

Couric: Well, explain to me why that [nearness to Russia] 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.

- What part of "Palin: Well, it certainly does...[enhance her
- foreign-policy credentials]" didn't you understand?

Actually Alaska does share a common Border with
a Foreign Country; and Sarah Palin often sounds
like she is from there . . .

Sarah Palin = Box-of-Rocks = Barack Obama

D'Oh ! What Foreign Policy Experience did/does
Barack Obama have other than he grew-up and
live in : Hawaii -oops- that's a US State; and as
a young child when to Muslim School for a few
years in Indonesia; and all his International Work
experience in the 'inner city' of Chicago, IL -oops-
that's a US City and State too . . .

Plus Barack Obama is ever so smart as to claim
57 United States . . . Plus One To Go . . .*
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EpGH02DtIws
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/wash...triotic-o.html
* Note - Not made-up but from BHO's Own Mouth
in his own words; live on video; and recorded for
history . . .

On Oct 18, 11:52*am, bpnjensen wrote:
On Oct 18, 8:11*am, "D. Peter Maus" wrote:



* On Oct 18, 7:27 am, *wrote:

Joe from Kokomo wrote:
On 10/18/2010 2:00 AM, Stephen Young wrote:

almost comical! Even examples of teabaggers...

Teabaggers comical?

To which teabagger might you be referring?

- the expert in International relations because she can see Russia?

You must be one of those left wing wackos that think Sarah Palin said
she could see Russia from her house. Sarah Palin did not say that.

* * Charles Gibson: *What insight into Russian actions, particularly
in the last couple of weeks does the proximity of this state give you?

* * Sarah Palin: They're our next door neighbors, and you can
actually see Russia from land, here in Alaska.

* * Not exactly Kissinger. But hardly the stuff of which such
derision is made.

* * The actual 'I can see it from my house' line came in an exchange
about an island within Alaskan territorial waters.

- Yes - Most of the derision made about this exchange comes from the
- Saturday Night Live sketch - although I disagree that proximity of a
- single state to another nation necessarily gives anybody in that
state
- a leg-up on international issues.

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