Sarah Palin's introduction today to the world of international relations strikes me as not much more than a lame form of high level speed dating for the former beauty queen from Wasilla.
The phrase Speed Dating sums it all up. Superficial, an attempt at quantity with no pretense of quality and depth the length of your fingernail which adequately describes today's round of photo ops for Sarah Palin and a laundry list of world leaders and celebrities. For a person who just got her first passport last year, meeting international figures of consequence must be exciting but it is decidely less thrilling for the rest of us who must live with the possibility of another incurious ignoramus becoming our leader who cares little of the outside world and believes that the Lord moves through her. Indeed, we live in scary times...