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September 25, 2008 | 4:29 pm

Sarah Palin discusses foreign-policy experience

Posted by Brad A. Greenberg

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Rod Dreher continues to be disappointed with Sarah Palin. (In other bad news from the base, Richard Cizik, VP of the National Association of Evangelicals, said John McCain “seems to be waffling on issue after issue.) His latest grievance is courtesy of Palin’s interview with Katie Couric; the video is below. He writes that Palin mechanically follows talking points and at times appears to be just babbling.

“She makes George W. Bush sound like Cicero,” Dreher writes.

Yikes.

After excerpting what he thought was the most coherent portion of the interview, Dreher offered these remarks:

I remember the morning I woke up in my college dorm room and went in to take my final exam in my Formal Logic class. I knew I was unready. Massively unready. And now I was going to be put to the ultimate test. I sat down in Dr. Sarkar’s class and resolved to wing it. Of course I failed the exam and failed the class, because I had no idea what I was talking about. I wasn’t a bad kid, or even a stupid kid. I was just badly unprepared, and in way over my head. Seeing the Palin interview on CBS, I thought of myself in Dr. Sarkar’s exam. But see, I was a college undergraduate who had the chance to take the class again, which I did, and passed (barely). I wasn’t running for vice president of the United States.

Watch the entire interview here or a portion, in which Palin explains her comment that being neighbors with Russia has given her foreign-policy experience, is after the jump:

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Sorry, you ought to read the comments on the CBS link for a real-time sampling of opinion, not just from people who get paid to take the time to polish theirs up.

I see what you’re saying. My reaction is that Palin fell into a trap or more than one. Was she tired or unprepared? Who knows? What she really needs is more media experience, not foreign policy experience. As far as I can see, Palin was picked more for her domestic experience and appeal. Here is what I would have told her to do: Don’t get down in the weeds of these issues. Deal with them on the level of detail you want to discuss them. Don’t try to fake anything. Rather put them into proper context.

When asked about Rick Davis or some such, she should simply say “That is pending litigation, and all I can say is that we need to follow the trail where it leads and hold the responsible parties fully accountable.

About foreign policy she just had to say, “Despite our differences, people are all just people and issues that need discussion in the national interest are relatively few and well defined. In a sense nobody is prepared for the top office in the land, and we have had both surprises and disappointments from many we thought were so prepared. I certainly found that to be true in relation to the Governorship, and I thank God that I have been successful in meeting those challenges and retaining and building the support of the constituents who know me best.

An administration does not act in a vacuum; like every leader since George Washington, for any interaction I may have in the foreign policy I intend to evaluate the best viewpoints and analysis obtainable and work as a team member with a full complement of selected staff specialists. That’s what I do in Alaska; that practical approach has been validated every day and I want to bring it to Washington.

Blah, blah, blah.

Comment by Ben Plonie on 9/25/08 at 11:29 pm

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