Stunning Lack of . . . .

. . . take your pick - candor, spontaneity, national security creds, foreign policy creds.

UNIDENTIFIED FEMALE: Governor Palin, there has been quite a bit of discussion about your perceived lack of foreign policy experience. And I want to give you your chance. If you could please respond to that criticism and give us specific skills that you think you have to bring to the White House to rebut that or mitigate that concern.

PALIN: Well, I think because I’m a Washington outsider that opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize and they can kind of try to beat the candidates here, who chose me as his partner, to kind of tear down the ticket. But as for foreign policy, you know, I think that I am prepared and I know that on January 20th, if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly we’ll be ready. I’ll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness.

And if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead and you can ask me. You can even play stump the candidate if you want to. But we are ready to serve.

Um, Governor? I think that she DID just ask you. I guess she "stumped the candidate."

Note to the governor: Bill Clinton didn't have any foreign policy "experience," when he ran for president, and neither did George W. Bush, and Barack Obama has very little (you have to count his "loose nukes" legislation with Repulican Senator Richard Lugar as "foreign policy" experiece, which is kinda thin . . . but I digress). But they've all managed to form responses to these sorts of questions. Why not LEARN something about foreign policy, so then you can at least admit no "experience" but deflect to "judgment" or "knowledge."