More from the Palin interview: "...you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska."

[lolamio]

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/09/11/palins-abc-interview-stum_n_125818.html

PALIN: We have to keep our eyes on Russia. Under the leadership there.

GIBSON: What insight into Russian actions does the proximity of the state give you?

PALIN: They're our next door neighbors. And you can actually see Russia from land here in Alaska

Am I allowed to say that she is dumber than a box of rocks?!

[Curtland1015]

1. Sure you can... if you're holding a map.

What a dumb ass that lady is.

[begin_within]

2. The Bering Strait is 53 miles wide

guess she has damn good vision

[lisainmilo]

38. got to love those pics!

They are great!

[begin_within]

52. thanks

distribute freely

[Happyhippychick]

3. Wow. She really sucks, doesn't she?

[AzNick]

33. Why are you so sexist?

[yardwork]

40. LOL! good one. welcome to du!

[Heather MC]

50. I agree with Palin,

Once I went to the top of the Eiffel tower and I learned all I needed to know about the french
Government, why I could have been VP that day.

and then once I went to the top of the fake Eiffel tower at Kingsdom Dominion and I could See DC
SO McCAIN SHOULD HAVE PICKED ME TO BE HIS RUNNING MATE!!!!

[Thrill]

4. I agree with Randi Rhodes. This has to be a SNL skit

[RichGirl]

54. She IS an SNL skit.

She's a spoof of herself.

[Somawas]

5. You certainly are not allowed to say that!

It is incredibly insulting and offensive to rocks.

[Colobo]

6. Gary Coleman > Sarah Palin.

[Motown_Johnny]

7. Yes, you can say that... Clearly the sight of eastern Siberia can't be foreign policy credentials

[Hepburn]

8. Faaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaauck!!!!

Mega dumber than a box of rocks!

:wow:

[donna123]

9. that is so funny

omg, can there be people in this country truly nutty enough to vote for mccain and her just cause she's a hockey mom or a soccer mom or a handball mom or whatever

omg

[codjh9]

10. Even if you could, WTF does that have to do with anything?!?! It's that scare-mongering bullshit.

[Riddler]

11. You can see 7 states from Rock City, Ga. too, but that doesn't mean

you know shit from shinola about what's going on in them

[SwampG8r]

43. rock city is on lookout mountain

in tennessee

[falcon97]

12. It's the same effing reason that they dish on energy.

"Well, she's an energy expert because Alaska's got a bunch of oil in the ground." People CAN'T be that stupid....they CAN'T be.

[Kool Kitty]

62. I eat at a Portuguese restaurant every week.

Can I be the ambassador to Portugal?

[VoodooGuru]

13. The Spectator weekly (the british one) had this to say

Ah, just when you pro-Republican monkeys were beginning to think that John McCain was looking a pretty good bet, he goes and chooses a backwoods polar-bear-strangling Britney Spears manqué as a running mate — a woman who appears to believe that the earth was created precisely 4,004 years ago and who, in earlier times, found the Republican Party inclined at far too shallow an angle to the right. A sort of Alaskan version of Pauline Hanson, except with a better embonpoint. These desolate wide open spaces full of biting things and stinging things always seem to push people toward the reflexive and unforgiving political right; cities, by contrast, tilt towards the left. Except Jerusalem, obviously.

And this:

You sort of wonder what they discussed, John and Sarah, at that first meeting on 28 August. Foreign affairs? Palin has absolutely no track record there whatsoever. It has been suggested that she will be very good at foreign affairs because Alaska is so near to Russia, just a short hop across the Bering Strait. So she must know what it’s like there. Cold, snowy, lots of bears, etc. Brilliant. The advantage which John McCain held over Barack Obama in terms of experience and worldliness is, at the very best, somewhat diluted by the revelation that his running mate is a complete and utter ingénue whose previous attitude to foreigners has been one of peremptory hostility.

Here's the full (hilarious) article:

http://www.spectator.co.uk/the-magazine/features/2057361/what-possessed-mccain-to-take-a-punt-on-palin.thtml

[chappydog26]

14. Quite possibly the dumbest thing ever uttered by Palin

And we still have 54 days left!

[RoadRage]

17. Now Now Now.. I think "The diff. between a hockey mom and a pitbull" deserves a nod.

[SwampG8r]

45. you can say that again!

[RoadRage]

18. Now Now Now.. I think "The diff. between a hockey mom and a pitbull" deserves a nod.

[SwampG8r]

46. thanks

[RoadRage]

58. Hahaha.. I really didn't post that twice... DU duped.. but that's friggin funny! NT

[Lancer]

19. I can see the moon from my house.

Doesn't make me an astronaut.

[Punkingal]

22. Bwahahahaha!

:rofl:

[codjh9]

24. Bwahahaha #2 !!! Yeh, so's let's attack thet there MOON!

[Starbucks Anarchist]

30. AHAHAHAHHAA!

:rofl: :rofl:

[Sparkly]

39. Hahaha!!!!

:rofl:

[yardwork]

41. Very, very good!

[SemiCharmedQuark]

ZOMG! I promote you head of Moon/Earth Relations

:thumbsup:

[Canuckistanian]

51. LOL

Good one!

:rofl:

[Beaverhausen]

60. great!!!

:rofl:

[Zorro]

15. To be fair

the distance between Diomede and Little Diomede Islands is only a couple of miles.

[LiberalFighter]

57. But how far is it from Anchorage or Juneau?

From Anchorage it is about 640 miles.

[truthisfreedom]

16. Sarah Palin is the most cynical joke ever purpotrated on the Republican Party's own people.

They have to vote for this ridiculous nitwit?

[mitchum]

20. "And whenever a place is out of ranch, I always order Russian dressing!"

[texas1928]

21. Technically she is right, if you are looking from Little Diomede Island toward Big Diomede Island.

The islands are separated by an international border and the International Date Line which is approximately 1 km (0.6 mi) from each island. At the closest distance between the Little Diomede, US and the Big Diomede, Russia, the two islands are only about 4 km (2.4 mi) apart. The small habitation on the Little Diomede Island is centered to the west side of the island at the City of Diomede.

But they are islands covered in ice. Not much going on there that really involves international relations. Still 2.4 miles is a pretty good distance.

[Crunchy Frog]

23. Technically, you can see Big Diomede Island from Little Diomede Island.

That's definitely sufficient for foreign policy expertise.

[AzNick]

31. Diomedes Islands: satellite view

Palin's foreign policy credentials seen from the sky

[Crunchy Frog]

35. All those poor people living on Little Diomede.

Living in the shadow of the Red Menace all these years. :scared:

[AzNick]

37. Yes, the 147 (2007 census) of them

Darn, I am quoting Wikipedia, I feel like an expert too.

[Frisbee]

25. Actually, this kinda makes sense...

Since she wants to teach creationism in school, she's probably also of the opinion that the Earth is flat.

[jazzjunkysue]

26. I can see my toes when I lay down after eating a bag of potato chips.

That makes me qualified to join the olympic ice skating team. yep.

[Crunchy Frog]

36. That makes you a fully qualified podiatrist.

:)

[Starbucks Anarchist]

27. Yet she can't find her ass with two hands and a flashlight.

[pinkpops]

28. I can see Mars from my back porch.

[AzNick]

32. Palin: I can see Uranus from my porch

I won't tell what I could tell when I saw it...

[aint_no_life_nowhere]

29. Wow, Palin is America's first VP psychic

I wonder if she can tell things about people from just touching their rings and watches, like the later Peter Hurkos said he could do. Maybe she could perform in night clubs if she doesn't get the VP gig. Condi Rice could be at the piano, playing dramatic music.

[codjh9]

34. She must be standing on top of the 900-ft. Jesus Oral Roberts claimed to have seen

several years ago. :^)

[saltpoint]

42. "Look, Peter -- you can see your house from here!"

[pinkpops]

48. Wendy - is that you?

[saltpoint]

49. : )

[Monk06]

44. Palin on Russia US relations

[mokawanis]

47. Lawd have mercy

that is just unfucking believable! That's her insight into Russia, it's a place people can see. She must know all about Canada too, since she flys over part of it when she goes home to hide from the press.

[RichGirl]

53. I used to live in Michigan.

I could look across Lake Huron and see Canada. Magically I learned how to speak Canadian!

[Az_lefty]

55. My God, she really is that shallow.

[krkaufman]

56. That should be combined with McCain saying the same thing ...

... and run continuously. Demonstrates both as not taking the VP selection as serious.

[Frank Booth]

59. This exchange neatly sums up the Palin campaign.

McCain has been hiding behind Ms. Clueless the past few weeks.

[1corona4u]

61. That was such a STOOPID comment....

she's an idiot.

[Phx_Dem]

63. Is she for real? ROLF. Can you spell L.O.S.E.R.? n/t