If you’ve read any coverage of Sarah Palin’s interview with ABC, you know that she is continuing to insist she has foreign policy credibility because you can “see” Russia from her state. Mike Tomasky takes the idea for a test run.
“Russia,” as a political entity, isn’t a bunch of rocks in Siberia. It’s Moscow. We don’t dispute that, right? Right.
So let’s do a little experiment. How close is Juneau, Alaska’s capital, to Moscow? It’s 4,559.6 miles. Meanwhile, how close is, say, Boston, the capital of Massachusetts, to Moscow? It’s 4,498.8 miles. (Distances calculated using this site.)
So there you have it. Massachusetts governor Deval Patrick is more geographically qualified to speak of matters Russian than Palin is. I wish someone would make this into a commercial. They’d never trot this argument out again.
