So, Palin thinks that being able to see Russia from a far-flung island in Alaska (which she has most likely never even visited) qualifies as foreign policy experience, and McCain thinks that Spain is in Latin America and Putin is the president of Germany*. Seriously. Observe:



And the McCain camp has the gall to question Obama's handle foreign policy?

*To be fair, the journalist who interviewed McCain at El Pais believes he was just trying to avoid the question, and the Putin comment was most likely a verbal gaffe. (Though, really? That's a pretty awful gaffe. Mistaking the name of Putin, of all people, for Kohler, the actual president of Germany? I know how easy it is to say the wrong thing as your background thoughts distract you when speaking publicly. I just don't want a potential future president making a gaffe that blatantly ridiculous.) At any rate, regardless of how these two incidents can be spun, if they play dirty, then so can I.