MO DO AT IT AGAIN...

Is there anyone still at the NYT HQ in New York City? Apparently not.

The nation's biggest Cougar Maureen "MO DO" Dowd has joined the rest of the NYT scribes and bivouacked herself at the local No Tel Motel in Anywhere, Alaska. The Queen of Cougars has opined on the MIss Sarah's foreign policy expertise, or lack there of. In her column today she compares the interview of Governor Sarah, by Charlie Gibson of ABC NEWS, with early interrogations of "W".

Queen Cougar writes about Governor Palin, "She had the same flimsy but tenacious adeptness at saying nothing, the same generalities and platitudes, the same restrained resentment at being pressed to be specific, as though specific is the province of silly eggheads, not people who clear brush at the ranch or shoot moose on the tundra."

Look, as one who wrote in Johnny Mac in 2000 and 2004, you won't get much of a defense of "W" from me. But, really, when will my girlfriend figure things out? As soon as she begins to make some sense she makes a statement so preposterous, so idiotic, so lacking in "gravitas" one begins to wonder if old Mo has gotten well---to use a ever present negative mentioned against MAC---too old?

One of the key talking points for those opposed to the Palin record is her "lack of foreign policy experiecne". I agree. I do think that the Governor of Alaska is lacking in the basics of foreign policy. So is Senator Obama. No better example of Senator Obama's limited grasp of foreign policy was his staggeringly incoherent response to the Russian invasion of Georgia. He bobbed and weaved and changed his answer more times than a husband caught with the family au pair.

MO DO, interestingly enough, highlights Governor Palin's use of Russia's geographic locale, "they're our next door neighbors" as an example of her weak foreign policy expertise. MO continues, "she might have realized that as heinous as Russia’s behavior toward Georgia was, it was not completely unprovoked. The State Department has let it be known that it warned McCain’s friend, Misha, the hotheaded president of Georgia, not to send troops in to crush the rebellion in two breakaway states."

MO, the reason "Misha" put troops into those regions was after the Russians, led by Mr. KGB, Valdimir Putin, had flooded the indigenous populations with Russian passports, arms and money. Georgia's mistake was falling into the trap. The idea that MO DO would place the blame of the invasion of Georgia highlights Ms. Dowd bias against the electoral system and the left's reflexive love of all things socialist. MO suggests we take Mr. KGB's rational for his invasion over our "allys" reasons to defend his country.

Sarah Palin has a lot to learn about foreign policy. So does Senator Obama. Difference is Senator Obama IS running for president. John McCain understands Mr. Putin. The next president needs to.

MO DO needs to leave foreign policy to the pros. Check out of that No Tel Motel in Anywhere, Alaska. Get back to NYC and resume her nocturnal cougar pursuits in the Meat Packing District.