At the encouragement of a few posters here (tell us more about trade missions, please), I will try and flesh out the current outrageous assertion that Palin has made. This time she choose to assert that her foreign experience was, in part, based on ongoing trade missions between Russia and Alaska, which she was part of.
COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians?
PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We -- we do -- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where -- where do they go?
When I first heard that comment during the Couric interview, it seemed plausible and I forgot about it. For me, Palin is way out of her league, however popular now, and destined to find herself hung out to dry soon.
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