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Does Palin's foreign policy experience come from her time with the Alaska Independence Party?

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http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2008/sep/02/uselections2008.republicans20085?gusrc=rss&feed=networkfront

"Alaska First, Alaska Always" VS. "Country First"?

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  1. She wasn't a member and that smear has already been put to rest.  Try another.  How about her state being only 50 miles from Russia.  She has as much foreign policy experience as the top of the Democratic ticket.  


  2. They have been unable to find any record of her ever having been a member, and she says she wasn't. But hey why let a few facts gets in the way of a good story.  

  3. People who love to inflate Palin's early experience (Romney/Giuliani) and mock Obama's should bear in mind this:

    " Starting at age 23, Obama ran a faith-based charity called the Developing Communities Project.

    It was made up of eight Catholic parishes when he got there and had one staff member. He was its director, meaning he was in charge. He made decisions about it, including staffing, budgets, etc. And when he left in 1988 to go to law school, he had grown its budget from $70,000 to $400,000, its staff from 1 to 13 people. More important, he created a job training program for this community and a college prep tutoring program.

    As mayor, she built a hockey rink/rec center using eminent domain (because apparently there just isn't enough land in Alaska).

    And keep in mind the timeline here: Obama did this as a young man BEFORE going to law school, becoming a successful lawyer and a law professor.

    I don't think it's right to attack someone for working in a faith-based charity out of college. I think we all have some embarrassing first-jobs in our past. I would not make fun of Palin for being a beauty queen and sports reporter out of college during these same years. Although, I do think Obama's experience shaped his political future a bit better "...

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