Sarah meet Henry, Henry meet Sarah

Obama should be doing this too, as he has zero experience... except he is running for the Presidency. Crazy!

Nothing like learning a lifetime's worth of foreign policy experience in a two-week cram session.

Sweet baby jebus help us if they win.....

Well, now we know that Sarah Palin is experienced in foreign policy. Thanks so much for filling us in on her exchanges, particularly the one with Hamid Karzai.
Perhaps hearing the translation of his infant son's name (Light of the House) will influence her to choose more appropriate names for her family. Let's see, Trig, Track, Bristol -- I forget the others.

This is like the "Gidget Show" of the 1960's, she even looks and sounds like a young Sally Field. Only Sally's acting and intellenge appeared sharper. Today it was "Gidget does the UN" only in record speed.
Do people think the people of the USA are so stupid to see Sara Palin running from person to person like a cheerleader all day never doing formal interviews and just smiling into the camera.
It was a sad day for US politics. Even speed dating does not go this fast!
I am a mother for sex education, birth control, and abortion if is the choice for my daughter and any woman who wants or needs these services.
VOTE OBAMA FOR CHANGE AND CHOICE

Why are you giving this charade any credence or coverage, when they disrespect journalists and use the media to promote their campaign lies and spins?

This is so absurd !!!

I can't believe this is happening in America. The press is not allowed to ask questions to a person who might be in the White House next year. This is ridiculous. And the press, it seem, is not doing much about it.

It makes me sick.

Henry Kissinger and Sarah Palin. I wonder what old Hank thought about this. He can't really think she is credible, but, then he did tutor George W. Too bad he couldn't tutor McCain on whom to chose for VP.

Great article

Never been outside the country until last year. Not scary at all.

I've been to New York, and I met some people with accents there.

I can be your vice-president!

IF OLD McCAIN , AGE 72 IS PRESIDENT AND DIES BEFORE HIS TERM IS OVER,WHAT IN THE WORLD WILL BECOME OF OUR COUNTRY WITH SARAH DUH AT THE CONTROLS?

It is just like CNN the, left wing news agency, to pout and threating to pull out if they don't get their way, so this was not big thing,
What they are afraid of is Gov. Palin will get up to speed on world afairs too quick for Obama and Biden, and will show them up in any debates in the future.

I can see Afghanistan and Columbia from NY! I (heart) NY

Foon Rhee is, according to this article, deputy national political editor for Boston.com, a branch, I presume, of the Boston Globe. Well, this political editor said something that let me scratching myhead. What does he mean by, "Kissinger and Palin two spoke about Russia, Iran, and China, . . ." What does it mean, "Kissinger and Palin two spoke"?
Yes, I also, sensed the tinge of irony with which he wrote about Governor Sarah Palin. Enough said

A sad day for American politics...

Good thing Palin met with Afghanistan and Colombia - biggest exporters of heroin and cocaine to America. She had to be schooled on that international drug-war-money laundering thing.

This is so funny! Why isn't the Mooseville Bubble Girl meeting World Leader George W. Bush? Let's see that photograph!

MANCHURIAN CANDIDATE

Her voice sounds like the wicked witch of the west.

Why is Palin being allowed to take on the press even in debates only on her terms. ABC/Gibson pandered to her in exchange for TV ratings. In that regard, she must hold a no-holds-barred real press conference or we must assume she is a lightweight and can't cut it. Enough of this "walking on egg shells" nonsense. We need to know what someone who says she has foreign relations experience because she can see Russia on a clear day, and is ready to go to war with Russia at the drop of a hat really thinks. By the same token, she needs be in a debate that is not designed to let her off the hook yet again. Photo-ops with Bush puppets like Karzai or with Dr. Strangelove, is no proof of any trait but being photogenic. Only she can demonstrate that she is not an airhead. So far she has not even tried.Maybe they need to manage McCain as tightly as they manage Palin and rehearse him more before putting him in front of the public. Maybe he could use the remote prompter like they gave to Bush for the debates. Watch for the bulge this Friday.

After Gov. Palin meets with all the foreign leaders today and tomorrow, she will end up having more foreign experience than Obama.

The "right questions"? Hmmm.

(Palin) "met with Afghan president Hamid Karzai today for about a half hour. He said later at the Asia Society, "I found her quite a capable woman. She asked the right questions on Afghanistan. She was concerned and she said how can she help, so I'm very pleased with that meeting.

Reporters were allowed in for less than a minute, and heard the self-proclaimed "hockey mom" of five discussing Karzai's only child, who was born in January 2007."

"What is his name?" Palin asked, according to a pool report.

Karzai replied that the boy's name is Mirwais, which means, "The Light of the House."

"Oh, nice," Palin responded.

Oh My! This is a surprise? Duh!!! Especially when the Media has been such a bastion of trust and unbiased questioning so far. Maybe when the press gets off their high horse and journalists quit trying to play gotcha, politicians will open up. What you sow is what you reap.

Dana Pintago

Why is the McCain campaign restricting press access to Palin, it seems there is something to hide about her. Americans have the right to know about their possible vice president.
So all Palin discussed with Karzai was to inquire about the name of his son!
Sarah did you remember to tell Karzai that you can see Russia from your window? And how well you can shoot mooses while in the air.

Palin is the ant-feminist FEMINIST. An authentic American woman we can all be proud to call the first woman president some day. This is a big letdown for the Seven Sister College Sisterhood.

So make fun ALL you want.... But REAL working mothers ( as opposed to the Ivy League indoctrinated feminist elite "journalists" who hire Caribbean women to take care of their little Masters of the Universe while they are perusing a "career" in "journalism".....are far more important than the bloodthirsty press the old guard feminists work for.

Sarah Palin LISTENS and asks questions - how refreshing. Most politicians just talk, talk, talk. That is true for both Democrats and Republicans. You learn by asking questions and listening carefully when dealing with foreign countries. You try and learn their culture and what it means. You need some good common sense and be able to look at the whole picture! It also helps to look at a country's history.

Ah well, that settles it. She is now a foreign policy expert. Asking the childs name clinched it.

What a great piece of propaganda of the Bushies/McCainites. Show her in the same room with leaders (pay no mind that they are leaders we own and who agreed to go along with the charade) and Viola' she becomes a whiz at foreign policy.

Sorry but....Just because she can see Russia from her porch? duh... she lies constantly, she was for the bridge before she was against it, she was going to co-operate with the investigation into her abuse of power. A first impression is very important...she is done...she came out like gangbusters but it didn't take long to realize that it was all smoke and mirriors. She is a cookie cutter Republican, aka Bush/Cheney/McCain.

I am so reassured now that she has some foreign policy experience...

Here's the thing.....obama has a little more foreign policy experience than palin; he visited Iraq and other countries before he became the nominee......

but obama evened out his ticket by getting joe biden who is on foreign policy committees and the like......

So on the Obama/Biden ticket you have a great visionary with bottom-up democratic views, with a foreign policy powerhouse

On the other, Mccain/Palin you get a person who has adopted the "shoot from the hip" philosophy of the current failed administration coupled with a person who has 1/50th the domestic experience as her boss and that of obama and biden

Being a governor is not equal to a senator, Palin has never been able to vote for huge issues, like the bailoutplan, she cant vote for it or against it...McCain can, Obama and Biden can, but not Palin......when you become a senator, you are in the middle of what is facing Americans, the laws and bills that are being produced to help America.....like i said, Palin has 1/50th that experience....and she is being shielded from the media because she cant answer any questions with any conviction.....and her past history of corruption in Alaska is being investigated

PAINLIN, FAILIN,MCSAME

They're just two good people who want to continue along and be part of the world's current positive progress.

I wonder if they drank tea....

I couldn't get much sicker of this faux-candidate and the crybaby campaign that is promoting her. Can you imagine how our press freedom founder Benjamin Franklin would react to their insistence that the media show proper "deference" to her in order to win an audience? An utter embarrassment.

she did a good job her goal was to meet foreign leaders and discuss matters important to them, not feed the media frenzy. my advice to reporters foaming at the mouth to try and get sarah off balance, get a hobby

It's amazing how in the tank you are for Obama who did the exact same when he met with leaders on his over seas tour. Where is your report on that? While your at it explain how Obama knows anything about foreign policy with only 143 days as a mere Senator?

SHE IS AN IN SULT TO THE AMERICAN PEPOLE
PRECIDENCE-ATWATH PRICE?

She is an idiot

I'm with the sweet baby Jesus comment coz it would have to be God biggest belly laugh to put these two in, have time or health issues make her president. Then agian, the Bush presidency has made people aware that you can put Alfred E. Neumann in office and get by. Then again, we're not getting by.

Obviously, if you haven't ever met with the UN and every other national leader in the world, you aren't qualified to be Vice President.

I wonder if Lincoln knew anything about African countries when he was president.

Ever heard of ... advisors?

Speaking of experience, why does nobody in the media talk about Obama's lack of experience, but everybody in the media talks about Palin's presumed inexperience? (assuming answer: because Obama has experience!). I'm not referring to his claimed Community Organizer experience. I mean, let's say, legislative experience where he actually did something, since he was a legislator. Or perhaps actual governming/decision making experience, not just sitting and arguing in the Senate.

By the way, speaking of "lies constantly," I don't know about the whole lie constantly thing with her, but I can point to you to quite a few Obama quotes that directly contradict, or him saying that he didn't say something that was just quoted to him (and shown on tape).

Also: Palin is NOT a cookie cutter Republican. IMO, Bush became more moderate and on the liberal end; I'm not honestly sure about Cheney; McCain is as liberal as I could put a republican, essentially. Palin is much more conservative than the cookie cutter Republican. Stop citing Obama ads as if they were The Truth.

however, if you do want to talk about cookie cutters, Obama is a cookie cutter liberal democrat, and voted with his party almost 100% of the time in his short two years experience in the federal legislative branch. Furthermore, Republicans are blamed for Democrats mistakes with even the economic crisis (Fannie Mae/Freddy Mac, as if Republicans were the ones operating them into the ground; it was liberals/democrats).

This is a living nightmare!!! WAKE UP PEOPLE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If I started out as ill prepared as Sarah, I would not have lent my name to it. But, she does not seem to have the necessary sense of honor to make that decision. That is the scary part.

We Americans have a very short memory. John F Kennedy was very inexperienced and almost got us into a nuclear war. Our enemies were not afraid of us. I would be much more worried about Obama than Palin. As to the media. With the vast majority of their work being commentary and not reporting I hope all of you are being careful with what you read. Look at the candidates web sites and multiple sources. You will see that Bush, McCain, and Obama all have the same beliefs concerning foreign affairs. And you thought we were going to see change? All I can hope for is that our national debt does not destroy us. Let's see who has the guts to be against the bail out!

I shop at Walmart. When my daughter was 17 she got pregnant. Not only can I see Mexico from my house , but I have actually vacationed there. I have had a passport for the last 4 years. I know people who were born in other countries and I have eaten at the International House of Pancakes. I have never been either a Mayor or Governor but I have run my own successful business for the last 23 years. Alas I am a Democrat and I expect their standards for a vice-presidential candidate are higher than the Republicans.

I couldn't agree anymore with the first comment, OBAMA has no experience either, and he's running for P R E S I D E N T....

Another article noted that this list of leaders, which Councilwoman Palin is meeting with as part of her advanced-placement world politics class, is basically a stable of America's trophy allies.

The depth and breadth of these meetings are such that she may as well have met with cardboard cutouts of world leaders in a cafeteria made up to look like the UN. With McCain's "from-the-gut", reactionary style and increasingly befuddled manner, coupled with Palin's rah-rah white trash pro-life gun-nuttery, there's NO WAY we could ever go wrong!!

You Boston Libs are such a hoot.

No one, No one can touch the hem of the garment of the most merciful, annointed one His Holiness Barack Hussein Obama.

You have Palin Derangement Syndrome, and you wear it so well. ;-)

two day crash course is waaaay more than what obama's got. so how many world leaders has obama met again? that's what i thought.

everytime i hear the left talk about how inexperienced gov. palin is on foreign policy i can't help but wonder just how 'experienced' obama is on that. that's what i thought.

fact is, he's just as inexperienced. and HE'S running for president?

jesus christ!

I wonder how many meetings that State Sen. Barack Obama had with foriegn leader before 2004. The guy has NEVER run anything in his life. He spent the vast majority of his time in the U.S. Senate running for President. It is like interviewing a job seeker with a one page resume compared with another job seeker with a 50 page resume.

Hopefully, McCain takes him apart this Friday night. He killed him at Saddleback and I expect the Messiah is going to learn that he isn't going to waltz into the White House without a fight. People are starting to wake up to this fraud.

Hey, I once pumped gas into the Prime Minister of Canada's car - that qualifies me for expert status in (a) international affairs, (b) border security, (c) energy policy, (d) cold weather - ask anyone in the Yukon about global warming - they'll tell you its bunk, (e) family planning policy - the gas pump didn't need a condom - why should Bristol and Levi - and (f) hockey. As my parents always told me - when I grow up, I can become president!

I can just imagine Palin asking the King of Jordan the names of his kids... and over in Eastern Europe, I bet they're practicing up on their moose-whacking skills to invite her to a competition. Yeah, well, maybe the US press should start tracking some foreign political cartoons to see how well she fares in the world press-- and maybe they might be much harsher on her than anything she could take at home. Maybe Putin is gone, but she's no match for his successor. Duh...

McCain-Palin- international disaster.

That is a step forward for Sarah Palin as the vice president candidate for John Mccain and the Republican Party.The best and right time to meet world leaders is when a candidate become the chosen vice president after the general election.All this questioning whether Governor Palin or any other candidate for that matter have any foreign experiences is immature.I know the liberals and the leftwing media fit that descrption especially the manner they reacted when Mccain picked Sarah Palin as if the whole world is falling down on them.Open your eyes liberals this is the twenty first century and politics has change worldwide since you were last in office.skmj

Americans should ask themselves why they're not seeing footage of these meetings on CNN-- its because they pulled out their camera crews after being denied the right to have reporters there to ask Gov. Palin questions (the campaign wanted photographers and cameramen there for the photo-op, but did not want to risk her being asked any questions). With the McCain campaign going to such great lengths to shelter to their VP from media exposure, the American people should be asking what they are hiding and even more, what does it say about McCain's judgement when-- out of all of the talented and experienced GOP senators, governors and policymakers-- the best choice he could find to lead the country in the event of his untimely demise is someone who is trying to cram a lifetime of foreign policy experience into the last few weeks before the election.

I am not sure why she should be treated different from Obama, who did not allow press coverage, only photo op's in select areas when he met with foreign leaders, but then he is running for President and not VP and I suspect you can see Pakistan from his home.

The people talking about Obama "not having as much foreign policy experience" as Palin obviously have been living under a rock (or in one of their several vacation homes) the last 4 years. It is such a preposterous claim and utterly false.

Almost as preposterous as her saying that being close to Russia gives her foreign policy cred. What a lightweight. What a trophy-mate. What a Repbublican.

If some of you would get off your rear and do some actual READING instead of being spoon-fed by "fair and balanced" TV, talk radio and blogs, you would actually have to sadly admit that the concept of Palin's surpassing Obama's foreign policy and executive experience is LAUGHABLE. Good propaganda, but it doesn't hold up under scrutiny.

But what would you expect of talking points from a campaign that has been hijacked by Rove operatives. I used to respect McCain. He has truly gone to the dark side. Now THAT'S a change I can truly believe in.

Why is it that when Obama met with foreign leaders, McCain fans were saying "Oh look, Obama's grandstanding." "He thinks he's a world celebrity." "He's running for President of the United States, not President of the world." "Does he know foreigners don't vote in our elections?" "He's just going for the cheap photo-ops." etc.

OK maria and sorryhillary, did you even know that Obama is on the Senate Foreign Relations Committee? Have you been paying attention? You are the guys who ridiculed him for going to Iraq a couple of months ago and now you're saying he should meet with foreign leaders? You're as inconsistent as your hero McNasty!

This was Sarah's first Field Trip since grade school. Just one more cause for us to be a laughing stock. When everyone knows we are teetering on the brink of financial meltdown, in strolls the VP candidate for the Republican Party, the party for who the wold disdains and views as "America".

You bet this was not serious negotiation. Small talk. I would like for her to give one of her fiery, trashy, robotic, caustic, "speeches", full of personal attacks and lies in front of her so they can get a preview of how she will speak to them if they do not agree with her or is she is in any contest with them.

She is a disgrace and so are the Republicans. The rest of the Republicans just went along with this, the Great Silent Majority, just the way they went along with all the rest of the mismanagement and incompetence.

This party and these candidates need to "bail out"!

it's really not a question of what will happen to our country if mccain passes and palin takes over it's really a question of what happens to our country if obama gets elected.

For all you libs out there who are feigning fear if McCain/Palin win,because of her relative foreign policy inexperience, how afraid are you that a community organizer from the South Side of Chicago is going to President? I've been to Germany, France, Italy, Coatia, Turkey, Greece and India and Pakistan. Does that give me the same foreign policy experience as Barack? Even if McCain only lasts six months, Palin will have six months experience that Obama will not have had.
Oh and Shirley baby...thank God she is a cookie cutter Republican, like about 75% of the country. Traditional, Conservative, God Loving and Life revering...we need more of those around, so the government can be kept out of our lives.
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And Sarah said in her prayers at the White House, "Oh God, you have placed me into this position, so sorry John had to go to be with you, but this is your will... now tell me LORD, what shall I do... speak LORD, for your servant listens."

Then she picked up her Bible, opened it and read, "Hesitate not, go into the furthest places, conquer all the lands that fear me not, doest thou this in MY name, for I shall embolden thy hand and turn all thine enemies into thine own vassels."

And so, it came to pass...

Quote:

"Nothing like learning a lifetime's worth of foreign policy experience in a two-week cram session.

Sweet baby jebus help us if they win....."

Sounds like she knows more about foriegn policy than Obama does at this point simply due to these meetings. Or maybe you were talking about Obama? Who is actually running for President of the United States by the way.

Filologo: when you criticize someone for grammar errors, make sure you are grammatically correct yourself. What does "let scratching my head," mean?

You used to be the stones, but now you are the glass.....

She is just another definition of "The Bridge to Nowhere". Why are American allowing themselves to be called STUPID. I am feeling so scared with this Republican stunt. If for the sake of the party, I should vote the REP Party, not this time. I have a brain. I see and think.

I really think you liberals are hysterical. You might as well be reciting the talking points of the democrat party with regard to Palin. True there was political calculation in selecting her on McCain's part, but at least she's not a walking gaffe machine like Obama and Biden. These lefty loons think paying more taxes is patriotic??? They will probably loose based on that perception alone.

Obama would never have been given this much slack. He is held to a MUCH higher standard, as far as what he's expected to know, than McCain and Palin. Technically she needs to be prepared, right now, to be the president. the media nicely withholding questions until sarah is done cramming (never) is a crime against the american public. her generic, yet comically certain statements are completely devoid of any real information, and sound just like W back in 2000. we only have six weeks to go, and the republicans are doing everything they can to keep the public's attention away from the fact that Sarah is just like W., a "regular joe" candidate who is actually just a neocon puppet. SAD SAD SAD. Obama/Biden '08 THEY'RE BOTH READY ps conservatives! you've had your way for 8 years, and here we are! the definition of insanity is repeating the same thing and expecting a different result!!

Lay off the woman! She may or may not have the head to be president, but at least she is a breath of fresh air to politics and has demonstrated the desire to learn. Obama is no more qualified than she is to run this country. All he has done is given one speech years to ignite the flames of liberals everywhere. If Obama wins God help us all!

The press is overrated, and a lot of these sounds like CNN democrats.

To SorryHillary who posted at 6:28 pm:

You simply repeat the Rove/Republican untruths ("Obama has no experience") in defense of a person who really doesn't have experience. Look, Obama has been speaking (without teleprompters) on his own for 20 months on all kinds of international policy issues. He started with being right, for goodness sakes, on a big one: the war that Palin and McCain supported, the war by the way that has sucked up all the money we don't have to fix our serious financial problems. Obama is smart, he debates ideas, he knows some history, he knows law, and he get it. Your team is so good, why won't they face the press? Caldwell Young

i can see, moon from my backyard. I am an astronaut.

Shirley et al.:

You guys are a bunch of jerks. Unlike most politicians, she told the truth. She never said she had foreign policy experience. She said a person could see Russia from Alaska. Saturday Night Live made a joke about it, and you think she said it.

If you get your information about the world from television comedy programs, then you are very ignorant.

I think the real problem is that you people are afraid of a smart, powerful woman.

Sheesh people lay off the "she banned the media" tripe. Obama refused to give interviews to Fox for months. He also barred reporters from his meetings with Britain's Brown and France's Sarkozy.

This is not a bad thing, this is normal. It's a lot easier to have meaningful diplomacy without worrying about Charlie "Exact Quote" Gibson breathing down your neck waiting to distort anything you say.

This is not about making her an "expert" in foreign policy, and no-one from their campaign is claiming it is. She has exactly the same amount of foreign policy experience that Clinton and Carter had when they assumed the Presidency, for those of you with selective memories.... and they weren't in the V.P. slot either.

Sarah Palin is an idiot. Also, CNN is not a leftist news organization. Anybody who thinks this is either sadly misinformed, trying to misinform other people, or is an idiot himself. Also, should we clap for Palin, because she listened to a "lecture" by Henry Kissenger? Excuse me, I have to pinch myself, I thought for a moment, I was watching a sequel of Legally Blonde.

We should be very, very afraid of this puppet theatre that is going on. All the puppet leaders are doing their little puppet dance. Nice one, Karzai. Nice one, Kissenger, Bush regime, Mccain pull those strings and let the doll talk.

You left-wingers are hilarious. In the scariest way. But it's so cute that you've got just about every network behind you. How...so full of shit.

We are in deep trouble if the Dems win. I wonder how you're going to explain the crash of everything if they do. I'm sure you'll find an insane way.

What a refreshing change. I for one am tired of Washingtion and the Inside-Beltway group running the country. Palin doesn't speak down to us, as the press does, and most politicians who have been around long. We need term limits - new blood. Isn't it funny the hypocracy: McCain? Been around too long. Palin? Not been around long enough. I truly enjoy seeing the voice of Americans involved in the political process. Finally we can all have our say, even if we don't agree with each other. It is good for America. One thing I can say is that we do need to change the people sitting in the chairs in Washington - stariting with the leadership of the house and senate.

Reading these gives me a clearer picture of Democrats: mean spirited, negative, destructive, and disgusting. Almost gave up, but came upon Dana Pintago, Dr. Danna, and The Traveler and found a ray of hope in the dross. It's funny, they come across as levelheaded and sound thinkers, instead of the slime slingers that populate these blogs most of the time. History will tell about Bush & Co. It will tell that by following all the rhetoric of Clinton & Co. with a dose of reality we will have brought reality to Iran and North Korea's doorsteps. Remember, more GI's died during Clinton than have under Bush. Another Mainstream Media 'oversight'.

Is it my imagination--or does Palin somehow resemble her presumed historical role model, Leni Riefenstahl??

Does anyone else see the complete irony if this woman is elected?

The first women to be elected to the White House will actually work to reduce one of the most precious freedoms American women fought so many years for... our right to choose.

This is our freedom here girls. Should religion actually have control over that???

What century do you want to live in?

This women is not interested in moving the rights of women forward!

Do you really want to go backwards?

Think really hard about that before you vote Republican this time around.

I would be impressed if Sarah Palin was my kids girl scout leader but that's about as much credit as I can give her. The whole McCain/Palin combo would be funny if it wasn't so frightening to think that there is even a slight chance they could be elected. People wake up!!! This country can't handle another 4 years of arrogance.

Wow! Sarah Palin had a Photo Op with Bush's bag man in Karbul while he is here to ask for more money to prop up his puppet regime for another year. Good thing the one photographer was ushered out after 30 seconds so he couldn't ask Palin to find Afghanistan on the map.

Well, well, well, we all know where this visit with foreign leaders is going. The Fascist Republicans Big Lie machine will try to paint Palin as having foreign policy experience. Buy this, and I will sell you some ocean front property in Wyoming, right next to cheney's large land holdings. Just call me at BR 549 and I will sign you up!

Wanna know what's stupidest about this? We just waltzed out a total neophyte of a possible VP or even prez to be sized up by partial allies and even competitors (India being the foreign power best positioned to eat our economic lunch). Now they know for certain how lightweight she is - before we do. Repugs, do you really not see how downright traitorous that was? Are you really so blinded by your "party first" ideology that you would rather throw America to the wolves rather than lose to Democrats? Though I guess we already have the answer to this as we see the Bush economy crashing around our ankles. Insanity piled on insanity.

Oh the poor media, I feel so sorry for the vitriolic, self-righteous media and left-wingers. They coddle Obama and then thrash McCain and certainly Palin.

I'll take Palin over any one of the three other candidates. I want someone who really has changed things and who has no previous ties to the Washington elite

Obama, the only thing of significance that he's changed is his name.

Go get 'em Governor Palin!

Is her campaign management so daft that they believe these meetings will give her credible foreign policy experience? Their ploy is an insult to anybody who is intelligent.

Most Americans have read enough and heard enough about Scary and Secretive Sarah to know she is not what this country needs waiting in the wings, should McCain- God forbid - get elected (and get cancer for the 5th time or any other possible ills).

American Idol spends a heck of a lot more time on the selection process for their winner than McCain did in picking a potential Vice President. Palin may be able to fool some of the (less intelligent) people some of the time, but not all of the people all of the time. Folks now have her number and can see past all of her bluster and the facade of these meetings.

Headlines read Palin gets crash course in diplomacy. Headlines SHOULD have announced that Palin gets crash course in etiquete, for there is no way this novice could learn anything as complicated as diplomacy in a week. Heck, Sec. of State Rice is still getting hoodwinked by the Iraqis, Iranians, Koreans. Palin only got a passport and travelled outside the lower forty eight states just over a year ago. Republicans cry God Bless America while the rest of us moan God Help us.

do none of you realize that it doesnt matter what you think?
you can say all you want.
the country is safe with McCain in office.
the country is safe with Obama in office.
the country is safe with Palin in office.
the country is safe with Carrot Top in office.
you do realize that these people are running merely for the position of 'figurehead' of the USA. there is no "red button" sitting on the presidents desk for whenever he wants to nuke someone. democratic and republican strategys arent what got us into the financial problem were in. we are a country run by shadows and puppeteers behind the curtains. if Bush has a brilliant idea...it probably came from someone else. and the same goes with every great idea that any president has had since, i would say, the wilson administration.

it is funny watching you get up in arms about this though...

The vacuum gets larger. Why is Sarah wasting her time on this foreign nonsense? Why isn't she getting her teeth (nice, pearly, perfect) into what are we going to do about the small economic crisis the country is facing, or about how she plans to constructively end the lack of any focus on energy independence for the past eight years, not to mention just getting it done in New Orleans, and I am sure there are one or two other domestic things that escape me at the moment. I know from her deep experiences in Alaska (taking them at face value that is) that she simply has an incredible amount to contribute to these issues. Quite right! that people should be angry about the press trying to get her into some form of interview where she has to reveal these strategic secrets to us ... let people wait for the surprise. There will be many if the Republicans get elected. Patience people! patience!

Palin talking with Kissinger? Worst thing she could have done up until now. I have NEVER trusted him. I hope she isn't too badly damaged. He has a bad habit of imposing too much of his ego on people. No one should seek after him, especially the new leadership of this country.

Obama did do this. McCain has also. Biden? Yep, many times. This is entry level foreign affairs 101. NBD. The wird thing is the lack of press. What are they hiding?
That should raise many cautuion flags and put this country on national alert.

It's curious to me that no matter what Sarah Palin does, there is always someone who wants to belittle her or try to make her seem less capable than she is. She has not lied about who she is or what experience she has. She has never been involved in national politics before this experience and she hasn't tried to hide that fact. But she is also not the first Governor to possibly make it to the White House and she is not running for President, she is to be the VP. So give her a break ... she is a very capable person and clearly puts the citizens first before her party , she is exactly what this country needs. I'm just sorry she isn't at the top of the ticket.

The biased, sexist liberal media has tried to destroy her since she was put on the ticket and they have to nerve to keep running stories suggesting that "race" may play a part in this election and possibly prevent Obama from getting elected. Give me a break ... The media is so clearly sexist against female candidates and biased towards Obama that it is sickening to watch. God, I will be glad when this election is over and I'm praying that Obama doesn't win, because if he does I'm sure his adoring liberal media will never let us have a single day without praising and glorifying their "Black Jesus".

Journalists should support a blackout of Palin.

No photos published without a Q&A session to accompany them.

How low have we become with the politics in this country. God help us.
I worry that McCain is even sane at this point - he will say and do anything to get elected. He says de-regulation has helped this country. - if he and Sarah get in - we are only one supreme justice away from overturning Row vs. Wade - the back room abortions with continue.

VOTE Obama for President - a former Republican

There is no media bias here; It is the American media's responsibility to be honest with the public about what Sarah Palin's candidacy really is:

Sarah Palin is nothing but a meat puppet. She is a slimy element in McCain's Rove-designed plan to capture the White House at all costs. Trot her out in front of the cameras, make her into America's Sweetheart. Game Over.

It would be great if she were only like Brunette Barbie in a "Politics Outfit." It would be simple to reduce her this easily: Sarah Palin:Politics as Paris Hilton:Acting--All style and no substance.

But don't be fooled: she is dangerous. She comes with a plethora of dogma that only represents a small but powerful constituency--the christian conservative right-wing. She is a prime example of McCain's shoddy judgement: pandering to that rich tiny subset of the US population with their medieval ideas of what America should be.

Their ultimate goal is to win. It does not matter what they need to hide or how many lies they need to repeat, nor does it matter how much propaganda they need to serve up. Rest assured they would keep America's ship sailing on its present course--destination: No more middle class.

I'm amazed at the lengths Repubs will go to protect their delusional beliefs that this woman is capable of being a VP much less President. Dr. Danna, I would not be proud to call this woman President, I'd be embarrassed. She met two foreign leaders today and now she's qualified to manage foreign affairs? She's qualified because her state is a neighbor to Russia? That would be a knee-slapper if it weren't so sad for our country.

This woman is a joke! She has a brief carefully scripted meet and greet photo-op with a few heads of state and this qualifies as foreign policy credentials? Compare that to Biden who was chairman of the senate foreign relations committee. I hope he tears her up one side and down the other in the debates and exposes her for the inexpirienced incompetent Miss Teen South Carolina beauty queen she is.

The only people sillier than the democrats are the republicans.

Gov Palin has the media, libs, and Hollywood in a panic!... Obama Baby, you are a good public speaker, but you are also the most liberal candidate that is the product of Chicago Southside Political Machine which has a long and rich history of political corruption of the first magnitude. You are indeed a child of that system and I don''t want you anywhere near the Oval Office...have a nice day.

This is preposterous: that she would even be considered as a VP candidate by anyone. American politics has devolved into a world of cardboard cut-outs and felt-lipped hand puppets. Makes you wonder who is really running the show.

We The People - the apathetic minions who are too busy monitoring and manipulating the phantom imagery of our pathetic, vapid and manipulated lives - deserve whatever hellish nightmare befalls us next.

Just keep watching the newest installment of "Survivor". Everything will be fine.

It's amazing how unfair, colored and opinionated the press is. They say their objective is to inform the public, but they indoctrinate and brain wash the public. with their tainted writings. They think the politicians are playing a dirty game, how about news reporters? Could it be that the politicians learned this behavior from the press? Bad company infects!

People have a tendency to critique others on the exact same sin they are struggling with... its like the kettle calling the pot black because its been in the fire. We might be disappointed in our politicians, but I am even more so in our press. I am not amazed they are not invited, their integrity lacks. When are we going to see a true reporter rise up out of the ashes of society? Someone that truly informs on facts and knows how to shut up about what he/she thinks, because its not part of their job description or office. Just because we have the liberty of freedom of expression, doesn't mean we can abuse it, especially being a reporter. My opinion is that's what the majority of the press has done, abused the great freedom of expression... turning reporting into manipulation or mind control.

After Gov. Palin meets with all the foreign leaders today and tomorrow, she will have more foreign experience than Obama

Ralph L. Gibbs said:
"What they are afraid of is Gov. Palin will get up to speed on world afairs too quick for Obama and Biden, and will show them up in any debates in the future."

This made me laugh out loud! Sure, she can "catch up" in two days of introduction and light chit-chat, Sarah of the mediocre IQ.

I'm shaken by the vicious tone of these posted comments. There is so much blind hate wrapped up in the fabric of patriotism, we have lost sight of the importance of our government as an institution. Ignorance will be our downfall if we do not educate ourselves on the issues and stop being guided by the media sound bites. This isn't reality TV, the future of our country and our way of life is at stake.

Don't we need to focus on the educational backgrounds of our candidates?
McCain - graduate from US Naval Academy. All members in Naval Academy major in marine engineering. Graduated the 894th out of 899....

Obama- graduate from Columbia then from Harvard with a Law Degree

Biden - graduate from Univ. of Delaware with a history and political science double major. Law degree from Syracuse Univ.

Palin - degree from Univ. of Idaho after switching from Hawaii, Alaska, and back and forth to Idaho with a journalism degree - yet she never did any journalism work.

As McCain himself said, the chief job of the VP is to replace the president if necessary. McCain is 72. What are the chances of him maintaining great health for four years?

Biden is definitely more qualified.

Remember we are comparing Obama with McCain, and Biden with Palin.

It is already obvious that Obama is ready to lead this country back to security in all areas that concern all of us!

The only appropriate action any individual can take to oppose this joke of a candidate is to go out and vote. Palin is grossly inexperienced and underqualified, and blog postings only go so far when in the end the number of votes is what brings home the bacon.... November 4th matters most.

i can't believe the press is falling in line with the mccain and palin show.
no questions for sarah palin. how stupid . who will she answer to if she and mccain are elected?
how can a person who is being investigated for abuse of power become the nominee for vp? how is it she and her husband are able to violate a court ordered subpoena?
how is mccain allowed to obstruct justice- by interferring in the investigation?
isn't this against the law? mccain and palin are governed by a different law? i 'm certain 100% certain, if barak obama"s vp had done the same, his nomination for president would be over, would'nt it?
why isn't the press reporting this?

Some of you guys are so funny. Barack Obama does not have to meet with all of these foreign dignitaries; he has a presidency to win. He can develop relationships once he is in office. Our economy is pretty bad, costs of food and gas are crazy, the financial systems are in near crisis mode, etc. John McCain and Sarah Palin will make things much worse. Those two are NUTS! John McCain is playing the part of the Joker and Sarah Palin is the Riddler. Change We Can Believe In......We need it badly. Barack Obama for President.

It's truly hilarious that some Republicans keep whining, "Lay off the poor woman!"
What better way to prove her weakness and inefficacy than portray her as a victim?

If she can't speak for herself to the American public, then can we rely on her to speak for America? Let her speak up and defend her own foreign relations credentials (as Obama has done so well for so long) if she's a REAL feminist (choke, splutter).

There is no media bias, here. This story states the facts which prove beyond doubt that Sarah Palin is, indeed, a meat puppet of the McCain Campaign. We now see how very tenuous the "America's Sweetheart" bull really is. Appearing to be what she actually is--frighteningly uneducated--will sink the GOP Good Ship Lollipop. I'll personally buy a huge round of beers for the press crew that succeeds in gaining proof of her total unpreparedness for the White House. It shouldn't be so hard to do--which brings us back to the point of the article.

Same old same old--Karl Rove and his smoke and mirrors. McCain/Palin=More of the Same.

The hypocrisy is just palpable here. The candidate for change decides on a card carrying member of the good old boys network and the lemmings in the press shout "brilliant". If this country can survive Carter and Bush we can survive anything. After four years of Obama people will be HOPING for some spare CHANGE. I think this country deserves a little more than someone who votes "Present", wow what a leader...

And enough with the one heartbeat nonsense. We have three branches of government and if congress had done their job we wouldn't be in Iraq.

Obama wants to renegotiate NAFTA. Canada is the only truly friendly and stable source of foreign oil and America's greatest trading partner. What do you suppose would happen to that relationship? Oil tariffs, anyone?

Gov. Palin knows better than to make that mistake, especially with her knowledge of the oil & gas industry. She negotiated a gas pipeline deal to deliver Alaskan gas to the lower 48. What country do you suppose that pipeline needs to cross to get there? In foreign affairs, Gov. Palin, the free trader, has already has demonstrated better judgement than Obama, the protectionist.

Honestly, palin hasn't shown me anything that says she has the experience or capability as mccain seems to promote wich would qualify her for such a position espescially with the critisisms he has made against obama. does anyone else find something wrong with this...

It's true, James #69, these dems get their news and world views from SNL and Jon Stewart. Some of the real intellectually curious ones watch The View as well. Then, they are totally informed and equipped to vote against whoever Jon and Joy and Baba Wawa and tina fey make fun of. That's the democrat way. They even want a no talent, insane-crazy former SNL writer to be a US Senator. ANd it's not just the idiots on here who mix up reality with comedy - even that stalwart democratic representative, charlie rangel, repeated the line that "She can see Russia from her house" doesn't qualify her to be VP. And we all wonder why we're in such a mess. Charlie writes the tax code - and is now guilty of tax evasion. Joe Biden - their genius VP cand - today said that FDR went on TV during the great depression to calm fears. HELLO JOE - FDR was not the president in 1929 and Al Gore didn't invent the TV til the 40s. Geez, and these dolts make fun of Palin.

JUST AMAZING!!!!

The Obamaniacs whine about Palin's inexperience in foreign affairs, and CONVENIENTLY seem oblivious to the fact that Obama himself has NEXT to --0-- foreign policy himself. Only he's running for PRESIDENT!#*!#*!#*

A-M-A-Z-I-N-G

So if we took a homeless guy out of the gutter and introduced him to some World leaders I guess that would qualify him to be the Vice President too..

What a charade! Did Carl Rove set it up or maybe it was Lush Limpbaugh? She is no more qualified to be VP than I am. You folks need to start researching her background to include the church she attends and the pastor. What is she afraid of with Troopergate? She and her hubby (copied on most state emails) are trying to hide something, apparently with McCain’s approval, until after the election. Speaking of research, we all need to start researching the truth about McCain and Palin and give it wide distribution through the email network. Do you remember McCain as part of the Keating five? Wake up America!

Praise The Lord!!!!!!!!!!! How refreshing to have a born-again spirited filled woman who loves the Lord,loves her family and loves her country and its people. She is more than qualified to lead this country. I only pray God will show grace and mercy to America and give us someone who has morals,believes babies should have a voice and not be murdered and is not ashamed to love and defend her God. We must pray for Sarah,our country and that America would return to the values it once had and revival would fall on America.Thank you Lord for Sarah.She is more than qualified because she serves a mighty God. God Bless America!!!!!!!

no one has really asked this yet, so I'm going to:
Isn't Governor Palin's treatment of the press, her refusal to appear before the majority of reporters, do interviews, and answer questions after important meetings (such as this one), and even talk about allegations of her potential abuse of power DIRECTLY CONTRADICTORY to what McCain has said his plans are to make a more transparent government , which answer questions more openly and honestly, and takes responsibilities for its actions? Has McCain just totally abandoned that idea?

So-called "journalists" played their last hand and lost when Palin was announced.

Like the Reformation spurred by Gutenberg, the information age has made the press irrelevant. The public realizes they no longer need the "priesthood" of editorial boards and their minion reporters to "interpret and present" the news to the masses. We have near direct access online without you.

No more will the public put up with blatant excesses, with bias in what to cover and how that often descends into outright advocacy for candidates and issues. All we need a modern day Martin Luther nailing the 95 Thesis of press abuses to the front door on Morrisey Blvd. Maybe the McCain campaign just did it. We can hope.

There's a rumor out there that Joe Biden is near exiting the race as Obamas running mate.The weight of gaffes Biden brought to the democrat ticket has Obama camp revisit his decision on selecting him(Biden) the first time.The biggest problem is Obama saying one thing while Biden said something different or disagree with Obama on the kind of ads they should run.What a ticket all right,these two by the look of things will get into a fist fight if they end up loosing.

The fact of the matter is that Americans want a vice president / president who is more like them............ STUPID ........ like say ski1966...

Boston, home of my birth and regrettly going down the shoots. Stand up and quit babbly about things you know not. Palin could be answer to our energy problems. Obama hangs with Ayers, a devout communist. He goes to UCC church which bashes whites and stumps for the Black Muslim movement founder.
Obamanation fails to take a stand on abortion,"above my pay grad", didn't come up with an answer to the financial mess this weekend. And goes on and on without saying anything of substance. Just listen to him answer Rick Warren, little sounds bites, each soundly wonderful, but by the end have no ties to reality.
I bet he doesn't know the bible, and is a closet Muslim. His relative is a leader in the Muslim Ugandan movement. My God people of Massachusetts wake up and seek the truth and stand for leadership not opinion makers.

Isn't it interesting how OBAMA blames Bush and the republicans for the war, economy, gas prices, and every other thing they can think of . But Bush doesn't legislate from the bench like some activist Judges do. The Congress is to make laws. And who has been running the House and Senate for at least the last two years? Obama nor did Biden create a bill to stop the abuses in lending. They want to blame the big companies who are faltering on BK and give the greedy speculators who wanted to make a buck in real estate, a free ride.

No matter how many crash courses she takes (she needed 5 universities to get one diploma), you cannot change a narrow mind that only reads the fiction from the bible. That is the wrong training. She would have to read lots of history, and with five kids, I don't think it is possible. Foreign policy, foreign politics, dealing with leaders, etc. requires a great deal of knowledge and comprehension. You have to know where places are, their history, etc... This gal never even gave the Iraq war much thought until recently... She should be tested about where things are on a map. Nor MCain, he is unsure of where Pakistan is, Spain seems to be a blank (he is vindictive there) . Obama doesn't suffer from that.

Pbama grew up with a single mom, he ploughed his way assiduously to the top, he is remarkably intelligent, cool and has a grasp of things. Elite? That word coming from a man who had his whole life planned and who doesn't even know how many houses he owns??? (See below)

Warren Buffett is pro-Obama, and that is enough for me. Plus this (McCain supporters don't read further it might shatter your carefully nurtured illusions): In my work, I have interviewed a number of fairly "high-up" individuals, some off the record. Many are for Obama, many others don't care about the USA one way or another, as long as the country doesn't act like a rogue nation. One individual in particular, a famous American from the Boston area, came out flatly for McCain (at a press conference). Why?
1) He is against unions and labor laws (workers beware, even in the service industry!)
2) He is less concerned with the environment
3) Privitization of social security

If you think McCain and whatshername are pro-small guy, you obviously have, I am sorry to say, vour head in some very dark place.

McCain is a total ignoramus, he just hopes that "business" will take care of itself. In the current crisis, we see where that took us. This is a late-19th century prescription and it doesn't work anymore. He is great at doing the Washington cakewalk, but he lacks the poise to be a president and so does his gal, they both have bad tempers, though Palin covers it better. I am really sorry, I would LOVE to see a woman up there, but that one is the wrong pick.

Folks: In spite of what the alleged liberal media say, there is a big wide world out there and our allies, ´like Europe, are keeping the chair warm that Mr. Bush in his infinite stupidity vacated like a little hissy teenager. We are either going to regain our place at the international table and then develop synergies with other nations to solve major environmental problems (they are real, believe me, I have spoken to some scientists about this), to solve the oil-problem by focusing on innovative technologies, to put pressure on countries like Iran or North Korea, or we are going to vote for a Washington connoisseur of the first water and a very provincial kitty and believe me, within a few years, we will be either at war again or completely irrelevant in the scheme of things.

The fellow I mentioned above, by the way, when asked about where his money is.... India. China. He never really mentioned his "beloved America." That is typical GOP real-time, folks. They epitomize the statement "Patriotism is the last refuge of the scoundrel."

That's why I am for Obama.

I was recently riding around and saw a sign for McCain and Palin only this one was different. In large letters it said SARAH and under that in small print was McCain Palin. Not sure who is running for President.....Palin or McCain. God help us if the republican ticket wins.

Anyone who thinks a 30 day news blackout when it comes to the National Press Corps interviewing Scary Sarah is dumber than a bag of rocks. This has nothing to do with sexism, and everything to do with not being Major League material. She's 20 months removed from being mayor of a village of 5700 frozen souls in Alaska, where the whole state only has less than 700,000 inhabitants and that may include some caribou and moose. The McCain campaign machine never vetted this lady properly, and they know she's flip-flopped with the best of them, and has used nepotism and cronyism to populate her government. The first dude is her unofficial chief of staff? Give me a break, the guy is a radical secessionist!

The crash course at the "CLOSE COVER BEFORE STRIKING SCHOOL OF FOREIGN RELATIONS" yesterday is just proof that she doesn't have a clue about that topic, so next they'll let her visit Wall Street and she'll morph into an award-winning economist???? Give us a break.

Lets face it... McCain thinks the economy is fundamentally sound, he thinks the surge is the most important issue of the day, and he thinks Sarah Palin will get him the gender vote. That's why he will lose this election... BIG TIME.