I can see Russia from my house!
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/09/25/AR2008092502171.html?hpid=topnews
From the interview with Katie Couric:
Katie: Explain to me why [being near Russia] enhances your foreign policy credentials.
Palin: Well, it certainly does. Because our…ooh…our next door neighbors are foreign countries…they’re in the state that I am the executive of. And they’re…
Katie: 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 when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and …ah… comes into …ah… the airspace 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, um, to our state…
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This woman is seriously living on another planet. Did anyone ever say that Bush had foreign policy experience for governing a state next to Mexico? No, because that would have been absurd.
If Palin had any relations at all with the leaders of a nation bordering the state she governed, it was done so illegally. The constitution specifically assigns foreign relations responsiblity to the federal government.