Palin Leaves the US For The First Time In 43 Years!

from http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/

Sarah Palin did not visit troops in Iraq, a spokesperson for the Republican VP nominee confirmed Saturday, as new details emerged about the extent of the Alaska governor’s foreign travel.

In July of last year, Palin left North America for the first time to visit Alaskan troops stationed in Kuwait. Palin officials originally said her itinerary included U.S. military installations or outposts in Germany and Kuwait, and that she had visited Ireland. An Alaska spokeswoman for Palin had said Iraq was also one of the stops on that trip.

The Boston Globe reported Saturday that Palin visited the Iraqi side of a border crossing — but never journeyed past the checkpoint.

Earlier, campaign aides confirmed reports that Palin’s time in Ireland on that trip had actually been a re-fueling stop.

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Do you realize that Palin has never left the United States before last year? How can someone like this have any sort of worldly experience? Wait, isn't that necessary for someone in her potential position? This makes me want to vomit.

Why does she have to lie about the places she thinks she visited? Is she that unintelligent that she can't tell the difference between visiting Ireland and sitting on the plane while it refuels?

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Oh and this just in.

Sarah Palin's reputation for rarely deviating from a scripted stump speech as she travels from city to city is not entirely accurate. She’s open to changing a few lines here and there — depending on the audience.

Consider her speech Saturday in Nevada, site of the proposed Yucca Mountain Repository, a controversial project that would store radioactive waste in Nevadans’ backyard. At nearly every campaign stop over the last two weeks, Palin has touted McCain’s plan to expand nuclear energy, including storage and reprocessing of spent nuclear fuel.

“In a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to expand nuclear energy, expand our use of alternative fuels, and drill now to make this nation energy independent,” she said to cheers last week in Lee’s Summit, Missouri.

But in Carson City, where the Yucca issue hits closer to home, that remark about expanding nuclear energy disappeared.

Palin also gave a pair of modified stump speeches during her recent Welcome Home tour through Alaska that failed to mention the notorious Gravina Island Bridge, subject of her usual applause line on the campaign trail that “I told the Congress ‘thanks but no thanks’ for that Bridge to Nowhere."

The Alaska governor routinely cites her opposition to the bridge on the trail to reinforce her reformer reputation, but fact-check groups and the Obama campaign have noted out that Palin supported building the bridge before she came out against it.

At rallies last week in Fairbanks and Anchorage, where Palin's original position in favor of the bridge is well-known, her “thanks but no thanks” was left behind in the Lower 48.

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So let me get this right, she ditched the "thanks, but no thanks" line when in her own state because everyone there knows her original position of supporting the bridge yet she still lies about it to everyone else in the Lower 48? That's incredible. If she has no problem lying about this then think about everything else she'd be inclined to lie about.

Oh and she lies to the communities closest to Yucca Mountain because she knows they're against the fuel dump yet she boasts about it everywhere else? Okay, so she lies, we know that, but now she lies to people's faces? And they don't feel the need to stand up and shout? I know she's not intelligent, but the citizens of that town needed to stand up and scream.