Is she qualified?

If you have not seen the Katie Couric interviews of Sarah Palin, then here they are. They speak for themselves.

Watch her extraordinary confidence and ease when she gets a question which she (or her handlers) anticipated and what happens whenever she's asked for a deeper explanations on unexpected subjects.

(In case you don't have the time here are some short summaries:

This is a quick (somewhat biased) summary of the highlights:




This is SNL's take some of her more interesting answers (there are more such versions on youtube):



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Here are the longer clips.

These are clips on the economics:







In case you missed it, here's Cafferty on one of the more lucid bits. I mean talk about liberal bias:




Did you get all that? I mean, I studied this stuff for years and even I didn't follow what she said about why the $700 Billion is necessary! What an intellectual!


This is her on foreign policy:




Here, among other things, she tries to remember newspapers she reads. Remember she's a journalism major:




This is what she said on Supreme court cases:




Here's the transcript of what she said on her foreign policy credentials:

COURIC: You've cited Alaska's proximity to Russia as part of your foreign policy experience. What did you mean by that?


PALIN: That Alaska has a very narrow maritime border between a foreign country, Russia, and on our other side, the land-- boundary that we have with-- Canada. It-- it's funny that a comment like that was-- kind of made to-- cari-- I don't know, you know? Reporters--

COURIC: Mock?

PALIN: Yeah, mocked, I guess that's the word, yeah.

COURIC: Explain to me why that enhances your foreign policy credentials.

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our-- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia--

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? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. It is-- from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there. They are right next to-- to our state.


Here is CNN's attempt to verify whether she can see Russia from Alaska: