Sarah Palin on Wikileaks and North Korea: not ready for POTUS

Once again, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin, who says she's considering running for President of The United States (POTUS) in 2012 and thinks she can beat President Barack Obama, is showing why she's not ready to run the United States. Her lack of understanding of foreign policy details and facts is matched only by her willingness to talk openly and publicly and show it.

First, on Glen Beck's Show last week, Sarah Palin said that North Korea, long an enemy of the United States, is our ally; Beck corrected her, to witch she said "We're bound by prudence to stand with our South Korean allies, yes." Stop for a moment to consider that error. If one's as politically aware and ready to be leader of the Free World, as Palin wants us to consider her to be, how can she think that a leader of the non-Free World would be America's ally.

Even more disturbing is that we, you and I, get a good part of our information from the World around us, including our peers. Palin's error says two things: first, that she wasn't paying attention to what was on the TV news, and second, that her peers weren't either. On top of all that, Palin's angry the media pointed to her error!

The reason people in the media, and in social networks, have done so is because anyone who dreams of being President, and has the reach to express it to millions, should expect that we're going to hang on her every word. Sarah Palin's pedestrian view of America in the World - in other words, she's only paying attention a quarter of the time - is not the stuff of a good presidential candidate, let alone a good congressional elected official. (Remember, Palin wanted to be a U.S. Senator.)

But that doesn't stop Palin from talking almost every day, or from her supporters pushing her. Palin now blames the Obama Administration for Wikileaks' latest cables, and says on her Facebook page that Obama should have "done more," or words to that effect, to prevent their release.

She writes: "We all applaud the successful thwarting of the Christmas-Tree Bomber and hope our government continues to do all it can to keep us safe. However, the latest round of publications of leaked classified U.S. documents through the shady organization called Wikileaks raises serious questions about the Obama administration’s incompetent handling of this whole fiasco."

That statement shows Palin has no clue of the limits of Presidential Power (appropriate to cap here) or understanding of the spread of information in a democracy. Moreover, that statement, combined with the North Korea view, which, while reported to be a "gaffe," I think was a sincere misunderstanding of foreign political geography, prove that the real incompetent is Sarah Palin.

But hubris fuels people to do stupid things, which is why Sarah Palin just may run for President, ready or not.

What's so dangerous about Palin is her lack of willingness to admit when she's wrong.  That's going to come back to bite her in the rear come 2011.