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“Somebody on TV the other night was saying about Palin that it's much easier to study for a few years and catch up on things “

You mean like Comrade Obama, who had spent just 153 days in the US Senate before runing for president did, right?
Exactly what did Obama know before he started running for president? Nothing!
This is a guy that was so clueless, he had to take an emergency trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Europe, just so he could appear to know anything at all about foreign policy, just a few months before the elections.
Gov Palin knows more about international relations(since she's had to deal with the Canadians), than Obama did when he started running to be president.

Gov Palin knows more about international relations(since she's had to deal with the Canadians), than Obama did when he started running to be president.

I watched Palin's final debate from her gubernatorial race. She did awesome. But on the national scene she raised a lot of questions in people's minds about her readiness. I get the impression that she is quite well prepared to deal with Alaskan issues but for some reason she had not focused on or followed the national and international scene even as much as many visitors to this website.

This is a guy that was so clueless, he had to take an emergency trip to Iraq, Afghanistan and Europe, just so he could appear to know anything at all about foreign policy, just a few months before the elections.

Obama's trip didn't give him time to learn very much. It was just a big PR job to show that he could converse with foreign leaders and the military. Aside from not visitng the soldiers at Landstuhl, he pulled it off extremely well. If he was entirely clueless about foreign policy, he would have screwed it up in some more obvious way.

Exactly what did Obama know before he started running for president? Nothing!

Let's say that you are right and that Obama knew absolutely nothing about the international scene when he started running for president, and furthermore that he is as clueless as you say. Then all Palin will have to do is study for a couple of years and she will be more than caught up with where Obama is at this point.

But people don't learn about foreign affairs just by negotiating with foreign countries (e.g. Canada). They learn by being curious, by reading and talking to people. A leader should have more intellectual curiosity than the average person.

Palin's problem at this point, if she wants to continue at the highest level of politics, is that voters still have to be convinced that she actually has the ability to catch up on foreign affairs.