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There’s a bit more on Georgia and Ukraine and NATO. What Obama and Biden favor is for NATO to offer these two countries accession to the “Membership Action Plan” (or MAP), a process set up in the late 1990s to help aspirant countries prepare for possible membership in the Alliance. MAP isn’t a promise of membership, and the last members to join NATO were in MAP for nearly a decade. It would take at least as long for Ukraine and Georgia to become members of NATO, not least since one of the criterion for membership is that there are no territorial disputes involving the country that is requesting membership…

A lot of mumbo jumbo on NATO accession procedures, this. But here’s the kicker: What Palin said is that Ukraine and Georgia should become NATO members now. Not even Bush is arguing that. (He, too, favors MAP.) McCain was with Bush on this until recently and, I assume, if asked still is. Palin didn’t know the distinction, and is suggesting that these countries get into NATO tomorrow. She may not realize that this is a decision that NATO members need to make collectively, all 27 of them, which won’t happen, given that MAP was denied the countries just a few months ago…

Rep. Zack Wamp (R-TN), on Palin’s performance with Charlie Gibson:

Governor Palin is confident, smart, disciplined and while not yet totally prepared on the issues, she clearly is getting there….The country likes her so she will get a pass or two. If she holds up beyond that, she could be a transformative woman in American history. If not, we will all be disappointed.

That’s not an endorsement we can believe in.

This is not the most consequential answer Sarah Palin has given Charlie Gibson so far, but it’s indicative:

GIBSON: Have you ever met a foreign head of state?

PALIN: I have not and I think if you go back in history and you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer.

If you look back at the 10 vice presidents since 1960 — Johnson, Humphrey, Agnew, Ford, Rockefeller, Mondale, Bush, Quayle, Gore and Cheney — which of those would not have met a head of state before becoming VP?

Based on their pre-veep resumes, only Agnew jumps out as a possible candidate for Palin-level isolation. But I’m curious about this. Would Palin be the only veep in the last half century to have had no contact with a foreign head of state before taking office?

I’ll update this as readers offer new info.

Late Update: On it already, ABC News’ Lisa Chinn reports every veep in the last 32 years has met a head of state before taking office.

With a hurricane bearing down on Galveston, I’d be remiss in not recommending to the uninitiated Erik Larson’s 2000 book on the great Galveston hurricane of 1900, which killed more people than any other single natural calamity in U.S. history. Isaac’s Storm is an easy and engrossing read; I raced through it on a transatlantic flight. Worth your time.

Obama leads on foreign policy; Bush eventually follows; and McCain is too proud to admit he was wrong.

Fallows explains why it matters that Palin had never heard of the ‘Bush Doctrine’.

Earmark factoid of the day.

How much money would it take to provide earmarks for all Americans at the same rate that Sarah Palin bagged them for Wasila? On an annual basis?

A mere half a trillion dollars.

Exact number $422,302,519,152.