CARIBOU BARBIE CLUELESS ABOUT BUSH DOCTRINE

As if this needs to be said ... Sarah Palin is not ready to be vice president. After more than 6 years of the Bush Doctrine (preemptive strikes/war are OK) Sarah Palin could only offer an empty look and an incoherent thought when asked about it by Charlie Gibson. Here's the magical moment ...



Fortunately for Palin, Gibson bailed her out rather than press the issue (Why? I have no idea). Later Palin suggested that because "you can actually see Russia from land" in Alaska she has certain insights into Russian policy. What a joke. I guess that makes everyone living on the U.S.-Mexico border experts on Latin American and Mexico.

As the Baltimore Sun put it, "ABC anchorman Charles Gibson came across as a stern, no-nonsense senior professor putting a graduate student through a tough exam in the first part of his interview with Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin."

Palin failed.

And for those of you who might think otherwise. A doctrine is not a "world view." It is a specific policy explaining how you plan to conduct foreign policy. It is what you plan on doing, not an ideology. There's a difference. She should know this.

You would think she and John McCain would be embarrassed. They're not. They're republicans.

- Mark

P.S. In the full disclosure/FYI category, I first heard the "Caribou Barbie" reference from Stephanie Miller.