Olympia, WA: In an
interview with Katie Couric that was recently broadcast on CBS, Vice Presidential hopeful Sarah Palin dropped a bombshell when she suggested that Alaska's next door neighbors were foreign countries. This provoked a string of similar revelations from around the United States as governors of other states on the nation's borders reacted to the idea that they, too, lived near countries other than their own. The Couric/Palin interview was followed by a hastily arranged press conference in which the governors of Washington, Idaho and Montana banded together to formerly acknowledge the foreign policy experience they have earned from time spent in such close proximity to Canada. Washingon Governor Christine Gregoire was especially eloquent concerning the leadership potential that comes with living on the edge of America:
[Gregoire]: I remember all too well one of my first foreign policy experiences. Crossing back into the United States after spending a long weekend at a family logging camp with my husband and children, the border crossing guards asked me if I had anything to declare. Of course we had a variety of souvenirs picked up on our travels. It took considerable negotiation, but we were eventually able to keep the maple syrup we'd picked up in Vancouver. Unfortunately, my daughter's hockey jersey had to be left at the border. But that's international diplomacy for you; it's all about the give and take.
Florida Governor Charlie Crist was more succinct:
Did you know that Cuba is, like, thisclose to Miami? And did you know that Miami is totally in Florida? And that I'm the governor of that state? I practically have foreign policy experience oozing out my eyeballs. Thankfully, they make drops for that. But I do have to sleep with a tissue. For the oozing, I mean.
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