I’m sure someone will come along shortly to tell us why this moment is evidence of Sarah Palin’s grand expertise. Check it out for yourself, and see what you think of Palin’s knowledge of the "Bush Doctrine" of preventive (not preemptive) warfare:
I am tired of having leaders without breadth or depth of knowledge, no matter what they look like or what equipment they carry in their hockey bag. George Bush was just the same kind of disaster–an affable governor who got by on scant briefings and his much-celebrated gut. He was my governor, and I saw him do a far better job as governor than as president, though I didn’t like him then either. (And being governor of Texas is akin in its duties to being Miss Jalapeno in the Cinco de Mayo parade.) That gut may lead him to successfully divining the home of the best jelly donut in Abilene, Texas, but it’s done nothing to aid our foreign policy.
In an age when science is considered optional (or worse), such lack of knowledge is perhaps not surprising. But it’s no less dangerous to let such people have control of anything beyond, say, the local country club. James Fallows nails it here for the thickest among us.
I bet Bush already has a nickname for her. Wonder what it is.
