Apparently, Palin received first Passport in 2007

[mikeylikesit]

It seems to me Republicans are better at campaigning for office than actually running government.

[OWC Jamie]

[quote Black Landlord][quote billb]
If she was a Democrat the rules would change and Alaska itself wouldd be considered far enough away for foriegn policy experience.
Jesus, don't you ever tire of this?
You demean yourself by defending her.

If you get 'defending her' out of that, take two steps out of the middle of your back yard.

[mjgkramer]

[quote rgG]Ms. Palin appears to have traveled very little outside the United States. In July 2007, she had to get a passport before she visited members of the Alaska National Guard stationed in Kuwait, according to her deputy communications director, Sharon Leighow. She also visited wounded troops in Germany during that trip.
I lived in Oman from 1992 through 1995 and the Netherlands from 1996 through 1999 and during that time visited 30 countries, some multiple times. If I wanted to go anywhere outside the US right now, even to Canada or Mexico, I would have to get a passport. Does that mean that I have never been outside the US. No, it would mean that my old one has expired.

Of much more importance in Sara Palin's case is whether she knows anything about world history and current events. You can travel and party all over the world and not know a thing about the countries you visit.

[Lux Interior]

[quote mjgkramer]
I lived in Oman from 1992 through 1995 and the Netherlands from 1996 through 1999 and during that time visited 30 countries, some multiple times. If I wanted to go anywhere outside the US right now, even to Canada or Mexico, I would have to get a passport. Does that mean that I have never been outside the US. No, it would mean that my old one has expired.
Unless you are claiming that Ms. Palin traveled extensively in foreign countries before she received her 2007 passport, your example has no relevance.

[mikeylikesit]

Well she thought the Founding Fathers not only wrote the Pledge of Allegiance but put God in it. Is that the understanding of history you look for?

[rgG]

[quote mjgkramer]I lived in Oman from 1992 through 1995 and the Netherlands from 1996 through 1999 and during that time visited 30 countries, some multiple times. If I wanted to go anywhere outside the US right now, even to Canada or Mexico, I would have to get a passport. Does that mean that I have never been outside the US. No, it would mean that my old one has expired.

Of much more importance in Sara Palin's case is whether she knows anything about world history and current events. You can travel and party all over the world and not know a thing about the countries you visit.
Note: they said she had to get a passport, not get her passport renewed. She has lived in Alaska since she was a baby. She attended college in the lower 48, Iowa I think. My point is that she has not traveled, apparently, and unless she can show that she has filled that gap with studies in History/Political Science/Current Events, then I feel she does not have enough experience to be a good decision maker in foreign affairs.

While travel alone is not enough, it does at least let you see that everyone isn't the same as in your remote little corner of the world. Don't you think your life outside the US has given you a better perspective on the similarities and differences between life and people here and in other places?

[OWC Jamie]

Too bad she doesn't hail from a family of georgia peanut farmers.

Oh wait, Jimmy had more experience than Obama.

[Lux Interior]

Well, then! It's settled! Lets put Jimmy back in the White House!

[samintx]

[quote Lux Interior]My 4 YO daughter got her first passport in 2007, too!

I guess she didn' t make the list because of the age requirement.
Don't you live in England? a passport because of travel is more common in Europe than the large areas of the US. There are not many USA people, if you checked, I bet have passports. Europe is small and like traveling in and out of the various states here in the USA and a passport is necessary in Europe.

How can this be a fault of Palin?

[mikeylikesit]

She seems as inquisitive of the world as our current chief executive. Not at all.