Colombia's Uribe gives Palin a taste of the world

Colombia's President Uribe was one of the heads of state who met with the Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin yesterday.

Palin, a small-town mayor turned Alaska governor turned national candidate, has traveled very little outside of the United States and boasts few foreign-policy credentials.

"Tuesday's tutorials were with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai and Colombian President Alvaro Uribe. Palin, wearing Alaska-shaped gold earrings, also consulted for almost 90 minutes with former Secretary of State Henry A. Kissinger in his Park Avenue office.

The candidate's staff carefully choreographed her debut onto the international stage, starting each meeting with a brief photo opportunity and allowing no questions. Unscripted moments were kept to a minimum," reports Geraldine Baum.

Click here for the full report of Palin's debut into the world of international affairs.

Comments

[Steve]

McCain keeps making stupid moves. The latest on CNN is that Palin agreed to troopergate investigation, but there is a CATCH. She does not agree to cooperate with the bi-partisan investigation, instead she wants to be investigated by her OWN committee. What crap. That is like those stupid congressional committees who investigate themselves. There is no ethics in politicians. They give themselves their own raises, investigate themselves and the only time there is any transparency is if they are in complete control.

McCain is especially an idiot and hypocrite. He doesn't put country first, he doesn't want transparency (unless it is transparency for someone else), he wants control. What happen to leading by example, McCain? He drips of Bush political secrecy in his campaign with his two faced rhetoric. Can you imagine if he was President -- the lies, distortion and secrecy that would prevail if he was in office. He hides Palin from the press or controls the press by ensuring he has a mouth piece like republican fox news to do an interview. Look out Foreign leaders, Palin won't talk with you unless you agree with her politics and won't ask her any tough questions -- yea, she is ready to be President alright. Worse, McCain's camp must think the American people are stupid and don't see through his obvious political ploys and lack of honesty. McCain needs to retire and live in one of his eleven homes and spend time driving one of his seven cars instead of driving America into the ground. He has no creditability simply by his own campaign tactics. No wonder his status as a politician drops every day, yet amazingly, he doesn't get it and continues with lies, distortions and not being upfront with American people.

He is worse than a politician....a dishonest man with an ego that thinks he and his cronies are above the law while he condemns others. A Hypocrite with a capital H