Fareed Zakaria on Palin

“85% of the Alaskan budget is derived from oil revenues, and it is basically the Governor’s job to distribute money from digging holes in the ground. This is good training to be President of Saudi Arabia, not the United States…

What has become absolutely clear in watching Sarah Palin in her responses during interviews, and the Katie Couric interview was frankly just the most recent example, is not that she, when asked these complicated questions, didn’t know the right answer, its that she clearly does not understand the question. This is way beyond anything we have ever seen from a national candidate…

The most scary answer of the Katie Couric interview was not on foreign policy, the foreign policy stuff was funny, the scary answer was on the economy, because it was absolutely clear that she did not understand any of the issues involved, she did not understand the question, and this is a woman who is going to be a heartbeat away from a 72 year old man.” -Dr. Fareeed Zakaria