Is Sarah Palin Smart? (More Reasons Not to Vote for McCain)

John McCain's running mate, Governor Sarah Palin, goofed big time. Again.

Associated Press reports that Palin just misinformed a group of third graders, saying "that the vice president is the president's 'team mate' but also 'runs the Senate' and 'can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes.'"

The AP report clarifies that her description oversimplifies the VP's role, and that it does not "match the office's traditional role in Senate activities."

In other words, Governor Sarah Palin is exaggerating and getting it plain wrong about the office she's running for.

She can't name any renowned newspapers or national magazines on policy and politics for CBS news reporter Katie Couric. Palin also thinks being the executive of a state next to Russia gives her deep foreign policy credentials. Now this.

Is this the mentality of a person who must be capable of replacing the President and running the nation in case of a tragedy?

An analogy on the foreign policy expertise: I live in the Detroit, Michigan area--right across the river from Canada. Since I have visited a couple of bars in Windsor, Canada, carry Canadian quarters in my spare change and camped overnight in Ontario twice--I must be an expert in foreign relations! I love my new-found expertise! Yippee McCain, hire me for VP! (For one thing, I'm smarter than Palin--and so are you.)

We don't need a Caribou Barbie making mistakes all over America in the Veep's office. Wouldn't this just be Bush all over again?

We don't need doddering old McCain trying to remember the name of--gee, who's running Russia today?--and failing to exercise diplomacy by refusing to meet with foreign leaders in the office of President of the United States of America.

Elect Obama/Biden in 2008 for a safer, smarter America.

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