[Vision2020] Gov. Palin Foreign Policy Experience

[Jeff Harkins]

Well, that was a helpful and enlightening comment.  I will keep it 
handy for ..... Well, I will keep it handy.

At 07:53 PM 8/30/2008, you wrote:
>Alaska also borders the North Pole, Jeff. Which gave her extensive 
>experience dealing with Santa Claus, who is an ambassador to every 
>nation in the world with boys and girls that have not been naughty, but nice.
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>She is also a hunter, maybe she can help feed the millions of 
>Americans that lost their jobs under the current Bush Administration.
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>Best Regards,
>
>Donovan
>
>--- On Sat, 8/30/08, Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com> wrote:
>From: Jeff Harkins <jeffh at moscow.com>
>Subject: [Vision2020] Gov. Palin Foreign Policy Experience
>To: vision2020 at moscow.com
>Date: Saturday, August 30, 2008, 7:16 PM
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>
>After much diatribe about Sarah Palin's lack of foreign policy
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>experience, it occurred to me that many must be overlooking the fact
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>that Gov. Palin is Governor of the only state separated from the
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>mainland by a foreign country.
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>Hmm, the ranters must have failed world geography, assume that Alaska
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>and Canadian officials never talk or both.
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>
>Wonder how she ever managed to make progress on the gas pipeline
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>(which would cross sovereign Canadian territory).
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>It is also interesting to realize that Gov Palin's state is only 58
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>miles across the Bering Strait from Russian territory. I suppose she
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>never has to think about that as she wanders through her daily
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>"governor" routine.  Wonder if the feds ever talk to her about that
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>issue - wonder if the Georgia conflict has any impact on her thoughts?
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>She is closer to "potentially hostile" foreign relations than any
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>governor in the US - followed closely by AZ, TX, NM, CA
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>Guess she would never have to ponder the stakes associated with our
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>huge energy deposits only 58 miles from Russia.  Yeah, right - she is
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>never brought up to date on those types of relations.
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