"What has laid Ms Palin open to ridicule on this statement is not the detailed veracity of the literal statement but the fact that she brought it up to suppoert an argument that proximity is the same as understanding, "

THAT is not what you have been saying-

""Just when you thought the whole "I can see Russia from Alaska" thing couldn't get any funnier...CNN's Gary Tuchman delivers the goods: it turns out that Sarah Palin has never seen Russia from Alaska.

Tuchman went up to the part of Alaska from which you can actually see Russia, a remote island called Little Diomede located just 2.4 miles from it's Russian twin, Big Diomede.

It turns out Gary Tuchman's trip to Little Diomede sets him apart from Sarah Palin -- because she's never actually been there, nor has she set eyes on its neighbor in Russia.

...

It's going to be fun watching McCain-land spin this one, and it's going to be even more fun watching Tina Fey parody it. "

Feel free to criticize her experience- as I will Obama's- but your statements are that she should be criticized for saying something that Tuchman has proven wrong- EVEN IF SHE DID NOT SAY IT!


So, Obama can get the same treatment, and you have no reason to complain.