Wouldn't eating food from foreign places some kind of foreign policy experience?

[zulchzulu]

Let's say you are in Alaska looking at Russia. Your eyes are looking at an area that is considered a foreign place.

In Sarah Palin's world, that IS foreign policy experience.

You haven't talked to anyone in Russia. You haven't stood on Russian soil. If anything, you share the same weather patterns and perhaps the same breezes that come from Russia go into your lungs. Hence, you have breathed in foreign policy.

So how is that any different than going into a Thai restaurant where the menu is in Thai and English and the staff is from that country? You are breathing the same air they are and putting food that represents Thailand (or whatever it's called these days) and thus are experiencing foreign policy.

Likewise, going to a Russian restaurant where the staff is Russian and the food is from that area could also be like standing in a location near Russia while not being there or talking to any of their leaders.

Food for thought, no pun intended...


:sarcasm:

[The Magistrate]

1. For The Record, Sir

My modest command of Middle Eastern matters derives almost entirely from a taste for couscous and Moroccan sardines...

[zulchzulu]

5. Give Sarah a ringy dingy

Fannie and Freddie told her they like Couscous. Is that a leader?

:rofl:

[Happyhippychick]

2. Mais oui! I had french toast for breakfast!

[zulchzulu]

8. I bet you had coffee from a foreign country too!

Add it to the list of countries you have foreign policy in! Wow, this is easy!

[Happyhippychick]

11. And while drinking it, I saw my neighbor out the window. She's Czech!

Oh, also I saw an ad for Japan Airlines on TV. I'll add that to my list also.

[zulchzulu]

13. The Maverick always talks about Czechoslovakia! Oh wait!

Sarah's a maverick too! I think it's a Czech word.

[Blue_In_AK]

3. Oh, indeed.

That makes me an expert on India, because I can cook dishes from all the regions. I even have chana dal in my pantry. :wow:

[FatDave]

4. You're right!

Feel free to call on me for any matters regarding China, Mexico, or Italy. Or at least the very Americanized parts of those countries.

[BelgianMadCow]

6. Some of these foreign gastro-entorological challenges are a foreign experience alright

[Speck Tater]

7. I had a Vienna sausage and an English muffin yesterday. I'm good to go. NT

[avaistheone1]

10. You are far beyond presidential material then.

You are Master of the universe.

[zulchzulu]

12. You betcha! Now that experience can come in handy with those British-types

But Vienna is in Ohio! Sarah was there!

http://blog.luciolepress.com/2008/09/17/mccain-campaign-clamps-down-on-questions-in-alaska-palins-normal-press-secretary-now-turns-away-inquiries-from-any-reporter-who-isnt-permanently-based-in-alaska-referring-questions-to.aspx

[Dulcinea]

9. I like Chinese, Thai, Mexican, Vietnamese food....

Can I be Secretary of State? :sarcasm:

[brooklynite]

14. Why not just go the the International House of Pancakes...

[ITsec]

15. I am an expert on Mexican foreign relations...

I went to a nudie bar in TJ one time many, many years ago, drank a lot of Mexican beer, breathed the Mexican air, interfaced and had a dialog with a few employees and other local patrons, and left a substantial tip for the "entertainment".

I am well versed in the ins and outs of the Mexican economy, ways that many people don't know exist.

:smoke: :beer: :evilgrin:

[trof]

16. BINGO! I love clear thinking like yours.

I have foreign relations experience in China, Japan, Germany, France, India, Israel, Saudi Arabia, Canada, Greece, Spain, Mexico, Texas, Alabama, and Caja.
(Isn't that where Cajuns are from?)
:rofl:

[depakid]

17. Years ago, I found a little hole in the wall Ethiopian restaurant

The owners were refugees (highly educated ones as it turned out)- supporters of Haille Selassie who had to flee the country when Mengistu overthew the government.

The food was strange and exotic (and delicious -. especially for Portland in those days). There were rarely many people there, so the owners, his friends and I used to sit back over brews and talk Ethiopean history, culture and politics. They were eager to teach and share- and was eager and appreciative to learn).

The take home message is that there are a lot of sources of information out there, if you seek them out. Over time, I'm sure I knew considerably more than most "spoils system" amabassadors do when they when they receive ther patronage appointments.

People like Palin & Bush- et al. -they're disinterested and incurious, and won't seek out knowledge or enrich themselves where opportunities arise. It's not their nature. Aside from being ethnocentric, they gravitate toward intellectually safer and more simplistic things.