No Foriegn Policy Experience, But She Does Speak . . . "Gibberish"

After last week's impassioned and genuine Late Show, in which, as we've all seen by now, David Letterman abandoned all pretenses and told us what he really thinks about the McCain camp, it seems that a lot of analysts and journalists have also decided to say, "You know what? This isn't funny anymore." (Conservatives, too, as I've mentioned below.) Even Tina Fey and Amy Poehler's brilliant portrayals of Sarah Palin and Katie Couric feel a bit more horrifying than humorous after this sobering thought occurs to the viewer: The girls didn't write this skit. Sarah Palin actually reasoned that, hey, you can see Russia from Alaska and "I'll look it up and get back to ya." It was just there for the taking.

A coworker, fortunate enough to be released from work at 3:00, just IMed me from home and said that he "just listened to Fareed Zakaria on CNN just really sum it all up about Palin." While the video link is not up yet, there is lots from Zakaria from this past weekend, including his Newsweek commentary "Palin is Ready? Please," and this Q&A on the piece.

Though a fan of McCain's, Zakaria bluntly admits that Palin "has simply never thought about these subjects before and is dangerously ignorant and unprepared," answered Katie Couric in "gibberish," and "has never spent a day thinking about any important national or international issue."

Our country just ran out of money. And okay, while I exaggerate a bit (case in point) it is absurd, especially now, that Zakaria isn't.

UPDATE: Here's the clip, Zakaria with Wolf Blitzer. I like how he essentially says any financial success Palin's given Alaska is from spreading out money earned by digging holes.