Ethics

Alaskan Trade Missions to Russia? Not So Much

By Ed Brayton

Salon.com exposes yet another lie from Palin, this time about those mythical trade missions with Russia that she allegedly oversees. That was the only thing she could come up with when asked by Katie Couric why being close to Russia "enhances your foreign policy credentials."

PALIN: Well, it certainly does because our -- our next door neighbors are foreign countries. They're in the state that I am the executive of. And there in Russia --

COURIC: 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 you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space 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 -- to our state.

Full post as published by Dispatches from the Culture Wars on October 02, 2008 (boomark / email).