How many stamps does Sarah Palin have in her passport?

Question

Sarah Palin's Passport. I think it tells a lot about a person and their ability to get along with different groups of people, cultures and diverse opinions on how many countries they have visited.

Answer 1

I don't agree with you.  I don't have a passport and I don't have a problem getting along with anyone.  Shoot, the internet is your passport to the world if you want to have insight to the diversity of different peoples.  It takes someone being able to empathize with people to understand where they are coming from.

Answer 2

Following your logic, repeated trips on Spring break to Cabo would qualify you on foreign policy. I think your thinking is in error.

McCain in '08!

Answer 3

What does that say about them? The most famous man that ever lived and is still famous, loved and worshiped throughout the world today, after 2000 years, never traveled more than 200 miles from his own home.

Answer 4

So does Obama's where he went to predominately Muslim countries that tells me alot about him.

Answer 5

Kuwait, Germany and Ireland. She doesn't sound interested in learning about other cultures, foreign affairs seems quite foreign to her.

Answer 6

Havent asked her but at least she isnt country hopping at the taxpayers express so she can tell people that she has foreign experience like another candidate has been doingl

Answer 7

To all of you people who think that NOT owning a passport is not a big deal: think again. THINK about it.

She is one step away from the President of the United States: the most powerful nation on Earth. We live in a diverse, globalized society and for a person to not have at least SOME international experience/perspective is frightening. It really does matter.

It is perfectly fine for a person to not have a passport - but not someone who is vying for the second office in the nation. Are you kidding me? My husband just got his passport in 2007 and he is 30 and NOT running for office. He was the one who broke the news to me because he was extremely shocked by it.

Not having some significant experience traveling outside of the U.S. is a vivid indication of the scope of her experience. If McCain dies or something happens to him - as has happened to other presidents in this nation's history - then this individual will become President.

We are already falling behind because of the policies of the Bush Administration. (Bush, by the way, is another "non-traveller") We really can't afford someone like her on the ticket.

I am a registered Independent. I can tell you that Obama is a risk (worth taking). His credentials far outweigh hers (besides the traveling):

(Source DailyKos)

1980 - 1984

Obama: B.A. in political science with a specialization in international relations from Columbia University.

985 - 1990

Obama: moved to Chicago; became a community organizer as director of the Developing Communities Project (DCP), a church-based community organization on Chicago's far South Side. During his three years as the DCP's director, its staff grew from 1 to 13 and its annual budget grew from $70,000 to $400,000, with accomplishments including helping set up a job training program, a college preparatory tutoring program, and a tenants' rights organization.

Moved to Boston to attend Harvard Law School. Selected as an editor and then elected president of the Harvard Law Review, a full-time volunteer position functioning as editor-in-chief and supervising the law review's staff of 80 editors.

1991 - 1995

Obama: graduated magna *** laude from Harvard Law School; received contract and advance to write a book ("Dreams from my Father") as well as a fellowship at the University of Chicago Law School. Directed the Illinois Project Vote from April to October 1992, a voter registration drive with a staff of 10 and 700 volunteers that achieved its goal of registering 150,000 of 400,000 unregistered African Americans in the state, leading Crain's Chicago Business to name Obama to its 1993 list of "40 under Forty" powers to be. Appointed as a Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago. Joined Davis, Miner, Barnhill & Galland, a 12-attorney law firm specializing in civil rights litigation and neighborhood economic development. Active in several community organizations, usually as a board member.

1996 - 2000

Obama: promoted to Senior Lecturer in constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School. Elected to the Illinois Senate.

Sponsored more than 800 bills. In 2000, lost a Democratic primary run for the U.S. House of Representatives to four-term incumbent Bobby Rush by a margin of two to one.

2001 - 2004

Obama: reelected in 2002 and became chairman of the Illinois Senate's Health and Human Services Committee.

2005 to present

Obama: Sworn in as the fifth-ever African-American U.S. senator. Worked with Republican Senator Lugar to author and implement a program to locate and dismantle stray Russian WMD's. Designated by Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid as the party's point man on ethics. Worked with Russ Feingold to pass a major ethics/lobbying reform bill. Cosponsored, with John McCain, the Secure America and Orderly Immigration Act. Called for increased fuel efficiency standards (3 percent every year for 15 years). Assignments on the Senate Committees for Foreign Relations, Veterans' Affairs, and Homeland Security. Chairman of the Senate's subcommittee on European Affairs. As a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, made official trips to Eastern Europe, the Middle East, Central Asia and Africa. Waged a tremendous battle to become the Democratic presidential nominee. Currently manages 2,500 campaign employees and a budget of $40-$50 million/month.

Answer 8

So you are saying that only members of foreign relation committees' are eligible for office?  It is not a requirement for every governor/senator/congressman to frequently travel around the world.  There is no rule that a VP candidate has to be a foreign policy expert.  It is not a requirement for one person to be an expert on all topics - that is why there is a government of MANY put in place.   That said, do you realize how culturally diverse the state of Alaska is and how sensitive to "different groups of people, cultures and diverse opinions" you have to be to be GOVERNOR of a state, or for that matter, mayor of a city?  I would bet she is better skilled at getting along with different groups than most of us with a book filled to the brim with passport stamps.  Your question makes me wonder if you think everyone that hasn't traveled is ignorant and ethnocentric.  

Answer 9

She doesn't carry a passport.  She's never been out of the US.  The trips to see the troops don't count because she travelled with the military.  

Answer 10

I am not really sure, but her job requires that she communicate with both Russia and Canada, along with other foreign countries, due to the oil in Alaska.  Also, she is the commander of The National Guard in Alaska and has been with her troops in Kuwait.  Her son will be deployed to Iraq soon, so she understands and agrees with the surge.  I have dozens of stamps on my passport, but I would not have been able to accomplish what she has done.  Life experience in governing and running a state is much more hands on than being a Senator.  The news has stated that for every week that she was in her job in Alaska, she made more executive decisions than a Senator makes in one week.  It isn't just foreign policy experience that one needs to make a good VP.  With her experience managing one state, it is micro managing compared to a president, who manages 50 states.  Plus, she has invaluable experience in payrolls and the economics involved in balancing a budget. John McCain's experience in foreign policy, as well as having been The Chairman of the Commerce Committee in the Senate, which deals with the economy, makes this appear to be The Dream Team.  Both McCain and Palin are considered Mavericks and will join together to shake Washington up, which has been McCain's main aim in running for the presidency.  He knows Washington is broken.  Alaska was broken until Palin challenged the corruption and won, which incidentally was in the Republican Party in Alaska.  Palin has more than an 80% approval rating, so I guess Palin has an unbelievable ability to get along with others.  In contrast, let's compare that to our Democratic Congress, which has certainly earned their 9 percent approval rating. Together these two will fix what is broken in Washington. Of course, we all know that the President's cabinet, as well as the military will play a huge roll in the advice that is given for  decision making.

Answer 11

In case you hadn´t noticed, Alaska is a very diverse state.  Alaska is God´s country, why would you want to go anywhere else?

Answer 12

Palin needs to take her family back to Alaska to take care of her mentally ill child an help her daughter to go through that emotional moment!What kind of mother is she?

Regarding judgment! McCain was reckless. Endangering the country!

Answer 13

I traveled more than her.. Wow!  

Answer 14

Seems like a valid question to me.  Foreign policy knowledge and/or experience should be a requirement for someone who wants to be the Vice President of the United States.  

Answer 15

To the idiot above who said this:

"What does that say about them? The most famous man that ever lived and is still famous, loved and worshiped throughout the world today, after 2000 years, never traveled more than 200 miles from his own home."

Okay honey, there were no trains or planes 2000 years ago. 200 miles is a long way to go without such technology, wouldn't you say? Nice argument you have there.

Answer 16

Considering that she got it in 2007 for a trip where she went to Kuwait and German.  So two.

Answer 17

Why are you trashing her? This is pathetic. there are even sites devoted to sarah palin dirt like http://sarahpalindirt.com. http://sarahpalindirt.com is a disgusting example of what is wrong with liberals today.

Answer 18

2 the us and antartica

Answer 19

Pailn is only a strategy for McCain. It is supposed to win the women voters who are disgruntled about the Obama/Clinton battle.

Pailin will have no real role, no real job in his cabinet. They already have a set agenda. Not even McCain has a lot to do.

Answer 20

Clearly recent history is not the OP's forte. As I recall this same argument was used against Clinton when he was running for office. Let's just say he made up for it along the way......

Answer 21

she lived in alaska. how many people live there?

Answer 22

her entire state has less than half the populace of the COUNTY I live in, i want to know how she can manage a large population and their needs, i could care less how many stamps she has in her passport.