Palin: "as for foreign policy, you know I think that I am prepared"

http://www.cbsnews.com/blogs/2008/09/17/politics/fromtheroad/entry4456592.shtml

(GRAND RAPIDS, Mich.) Standing beside John McCain at her first town hall meeting since being named to the Republican ticket, Sarah Palin was asked what specific skills she would bring to the White House to “mitigate that concern” of her perceived lack of foreign policy experience.

"Well, I think because I am a Washington outsider that opponents are going to be looking for a whole lot of things that they can criticize and they can kind of beat the candidate here who chose me as his partner to kinda tear down the ticket,” Palin said. But as for foreign policy, you know I think that I am prepared, and I know that on January 20th if we are so blessed as to be sworn into office as your president and vice president, certainly we'll be ready. I'll be ready. I have that confidence. I have that readiness and if you want specifics with specific policy or countries, go ahead. You can ask me. You can play stump the candidate if you want to. But we are ready to serve."

McCain then offered Palin’s experience in negotiating a $40 billion natural gas pipeleine and serving as the commander of Alaska’s National Guard.

“In fact, you may know that on September 11th a large contingent of the Alaska guards deployed to Iraq and her son happened to be one of them,” McCain said. “So I think she understands our national security challenges and we've had many conversations, and I believe I'm convinced she understands the challenges this nation faces from the threat of radical Islamic extremism as she already talked about earlier energy issues and other challenges this nation faced, and I believe she is absolutely totally qualified to address every challenge of this next vice president of the United States, not just our national security needs."