Insisting that a governor should have vast foriegn policy experience is even more stupid. Palin did work with Canada on the natural gas pipeline. The proximity to Russia and the shared fishing waters is a real issue that requires working with them. No, it isn't negotiating a missle treaty, but it is experience, and all governors work at times with potential business relocations from other states and other countries.
Texas's proximity to Mexico established a relationship between the state and Mexico, and certainly affected Bush's positions and credentials. It would have been foolish for her to fail to bring up this international experience.
I think Bill Clinton's foreign policy experience, prior to his election, consisted of negotiations with Oklahoma.
Actually, he spent two years in England in Oxford’s graduate program where was so busy smoking dope and shagging British Lefty chicks that he never earned his post graduate degree.
While attending Oxford he also found time to tour the USSR but details about his time there are sketchy and he has never been willing to expound on the trip - where he went and the people he spoke with are clouded in typical Clinton double-talk and misdirection.
Bill Clinton - Rhodes Scholar and Vietnam Draftee
"Just prior to his graduation from Georgetown, he won a prized Rhodes scholarship to study at Oxford University in England for two years. However, he faced being drafted for the Vietnam War due to a change in federal policy that eliminated almost all college deferments. His local draft board in Arkansas, however, allowed him to sail for England.
While in England, Clinton received his draft notice. He then returned to Arkansas, and with the help of Fulbright's office and that of Governor Winthrop Rockefeller, managed to persuade the admissions staff of the Reserve Officers' Training Corp (ROTC) program at the University of Arkansas Law School to accept him the next fall. Instead he returned to Oxford"
So it is clear that while in England he received his draft notice but was able to avoid the draft with some political influence and chicanery.
This is when he wrote his infamous CYA letter denouncing the draft and the Vietnam war and thanking the commander of the University of Arkansas ROTC Program for pulling strings to get him set up with a ROTC deferment that he never earned.