Palin foreign experience limited to Canada

[RamboLiberal]

Source: Anchorage Daily News

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who touts her state's proximity to Russia as part of her foreign policy experience, has not met with Russian leaders or delegations, negotiated any Russian issues or visited the country, according to an Associated Press review of records from the governor's office.

The review showed that the Republican vice presidential candidate has negotiated with only one country, Canada, and until last week had met with the leader of only one other, tiny Iceland. Her portfolio expanded last week when she went to New York and met seven foreign leaders attending the U.N. General Assembly.

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But Steve Smirnoff, the Russian Federation's honorary consul in Anchorage, said Palin never accepted his invitation to open a dialogue with Alaska's neighbor.

When Palin took office in December 2006, Smirnoff says, he sent her a letter suggesting "she could be instrumental in reviving relationships between Alaska and Russia, and the rest of the world."

Smirnoff said he'd met Palin years before, when they both worked on then-Gov. Frank Murkowski's campaign. Smirnoff had hoped for some rapport, but "I never received a response," he said. "I don't know if it was taken to heart or thrown in the trash basket."





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[corporatemedia]

1. I always respond when Smirnoff calls me ......

[beac]

4. THAT must have been what she was referring to when she claimed they had

"trade missions back and forth."

She's been hauling haunches of frozen moose across the icy tundra to swap for bottles of freezer-chilled vodka --- all the while dodging Putin's scary rearing head!

[happygoluckytoyou]

2. In alaska there is a small island where you can see a russian island...she never even did THAT!

какая гребаная шутка

[dipsydoodle]

3. Yes - Canada Dry

and that's about it.

[Eugenian]

5. Though limited to Canada,

her foreign policy experience is actually quite extensive: Alaska frequently is subjected to airspace incursions by Canada Geese.

[struggle4progress]

11. don't forget the illegal immigrant mooses. fortunately she is ready to shoot them at the border

[liberal N proud]

6. But she can see Russia from Alaska

:rofl:

[DeeDeeNY]

7. So she didn't even see Putin's head rearing up?

[marshall]

8. Does Canada even count?

Isn't it a de facto territory of the United States?

[TrogL]

15. Do you remember what happened LAST time you pissed us off?

[damntexdem]

9. But, but, she's repeatedly stared from her front porch!

And I'm sure that she's written letters to Santa Claus!

[LeftHander]

10. But Putin reared his haed and flew into Alaska air space......nt

[leftrightwingnut]

12. She came to the lower 48.

That's a foreign country according to her Alaskan independence ideals.

[Eugenian]

13. To be fair,

please note that she did once watch a Yakov Smirnoff HBO special.

[Crowman1979]

14. Sorry but turnarounds in the Yukon don't count!

I've been to Toronto twice and Windsor once! My experience in American-Canadian relations was over a night of drunken karaoke. Therefore I have better foreign policy expierience than she has.

Plus I was actually in Iraq for 6 months, working around hundreds of tons in explosives while getting fired upon with rockets.