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Sarah Palin explains her foreign policy credentials

Look. One of my aims on this blog is hopefully to be a bit amusing sometimes. It's not for me to judge whether it works or not, of course — that's a different matter. But it sure as hell gets incredibly hard to add anything remotely humorous when the material you're working with is utterly absurd to begin with. A case in point: I can think of literally nothing to say about this extract from the second part of Katie Couric's interview with Sarah Palin, which will be broadcast on CBS tonight. Couric wants to know why Palin's Alaska experience "enhances your foreign policy credentials":

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our next-door neighbours are foreign countries, there in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia --
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We do -- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia -- as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America, where do they go? It's Alaska. It's right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there, they are right next to our state.

Here's what some other people can think of to say about it:

Greg Sargent: "Anyone know what this means? Again, that's not snark. Never mind the image of Putin rearing his head as he floats into Alaskan airspace. Is she saying that American spies who keep an eye on Russia take off from Alaska? And what does that have to do with being Governor of the state?"

Ezra Klein: "Has there ever been a national politician this incoherent? And how has the McCain campaign organisation not helped her memorise a better answer to the Russia question?"

Klein also notes a poll showing that Alaskans, by a majority of 43% to 37%, think Joe Biden would make the better president.

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