Everyone knows that Republican Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, Governor of Alaska and former Mayor of Wasilla, spent most of her life passport-less. We are told that she visited Mexico and Canada (hell, you can probably see Canada from a high building in Juneau; there's a Canadian site trying to confirm if in fact she did visit, and where). There is apparently a controversy over whether you can see Russia from anywhere else than an Alaskan island in the Bering Strait. But seeing from binoculars is one thing, and visiting in person is another. In any case, Wasilla is almost a thousand miles from Russia, and Juneau is even further away.
So why did Governor Palin, whose state has a dozen sister cities and provinces in Russia, never visit even one? Not even Mirny, sister city of Wasilla, her home town? Here's a missed opportunity:
Sarah Palin was Mayor of Wasilla at the time. Where's her sense of initiative? There are diamonds in Mirny - think of the trade opportunities! Not to speak of the shopping during breaks in the festivities.
Seriously, governor of a state for all these years and she never led a trade mission to a foreign country? This confirms her innate lack of curiosity about the world outside Wasilla. But then we knew that too.
War with Russia? "Perhaps," says Palin. Travel to Russia? Don't have the time, got to go debate Biden...