"Knows More About Energy than Probably Anyone Else in the United States of America"

Submitted by Melissa Merz on 9/11/08

No, the headline above is not a match.com entry for a lonely scientist at Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico.  

Simon wrote last night about the surreal nature of U.S. Sen. John McCain's campaign in which reality has taken a back seat to fantastic claims that have no basis in truth. I've been through a lot of campaigns, but I am fascinated -- in a car wreck-kind-of-way -- by McCain and his campaign's willingness to make outlandish claims they know are ridiculous.  In an interview yesterday with a Portland, Maine, TV station (and neatly summed up by Politico's Jonathan Martin), McCain faced some unexpectedly tough questioning. And he came up with a real whopper.  Asked what specific national security credentials Palin had, McCain cited her experience dealing with energy issues and went so far as to say she was the country's foremost expert in the field.

"She knows more about energy than probably anyone else in the United States of America," McCain said. 

WHAT? Someone better let the fusion energy and carbon sequestration folks over at the U.S. Department of Energy know they've got competition. 

McCain then helpfully added that Alaska is next to Russia to round out Palin's foreign policy creds.

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Submitted by Ahmad C on 4/1/09.

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