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Sarah Palin is my mom, without the foreign policy experience
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — ... Which got me thinking. Sarah Palin has met no world leaders, and she's visited a whopping total of 3 countries in her entire life (and at least two of those in the past year). I've attended meetings with 2 current or former heads of state, have been in the same room with at least 3 more, and have visited around 28 or so countries. Mom hasn't met any heads of state, I think, but she's probably visited almost as many countries as I, if not more. So basically, mom and I (and probably my entire extended family) are far more qualified than Sarah Palin to be vice president during ...

Palin lied about visiting Ireland as part of her foreign policy experience
AMERICAblog News| A great nation deserves the truth — She didn't visit Ireland, which is what the McCain-Palin campaign claimed to Politico's Ben Smith on Saturday. She had a short refueling stopover, which means at best her extensive Irish diplomacy amounted to buying a sweater and a beer mug in the Shannon airport. Why does Sarah Palin's duty-free-diplomacy matter? Because John McCain, who is 72 and has had 4 bouts of cancer, just picked Sarah Palin to replace him as commander in chief should he die or be incapacitated in office. Sarah Palin, in an effort to bolster her non-existent national security ...

Palin's Trip To Ireland? A 'Shannon Stopover'
The Huffington Post | Full News Feed — ... . See, back when Palin was announced as McCain's Veep, inquiring minds wanted to know: had she ever traveled abroad? Her spokeswoman told Politico's Ben Smith that she had been to Germany, Kuwait, and Ireland. ...

Palin’s Ireland trip was just a refueling stopover.
Think Progress — Last week, Politico’s Ben Smith asked the McCain campaign if Gov. Sarah Palin (R-AK) — who was first issued a U.S. passport in 2007 — had ever traveled abroad. A spokeswoman for Palin said the Alaska governor had been to Germany and Kuwait in 2007 and had visited one other country, Ireland. It turns out that the Ireland trip was just a refueling stopover on the way to Europe and the Middle East. But she has been to Canada, another campaign spokesman noted. (HT: AmericaBlog)

Sarah Louise Palin lied about her Ireland trip
The Latest on Air America — By GottaLaff AmericaBlog says Caribou Barbie has even less "foreign policy"experience than we even thought, if that's even possible: She didn't visit Ireland, which is what the McCain-Palin campaign claimed to Politico's Ben Smith on Saturday. She had a short refueling stopover, which means at best her extensive Irish diplomacy amounted to buying a sweater and a beer mug in the Shannon airport. [...] Sarah Palin, in an effort to bolster her non-existent national security expertise, claimed she had visited 3 countries: Germany; ...