Today's CBS 'exclusive' Sarah Palin interview is frightening. She cites what most people thought was a comment in jest: "living next-door to Russia" as her serious answer for what constitutes her foreign policy experience. Oh, and it's not just Russia. Canada is a foreign neighbor too!

Then there are the rambling comments about the "good guys" and "bad guys" in the Middle East. As part of her accelerated preparation for VP, Palin had a private tutorial on diplomacy with Henry Kissinger. She said she would use the Kissinger approach in dealing with the "bad guys", but she got the whole strategy backwards when she described it!

When I was teaching American History in a privileged high school environment, my students knew I respected each of them without reservation. But they also knew I could lose patience with those who answered that Abraham Lincoln was the President during most of World War II. I have nothing but respect for Sarah Palin, but her comments are just like those high school airhead answers.

That's scary!