Local Reporter Grills McCain About Palin’s Foreign Policy Experience
Politicians, take note: "Local" interviews are no longer all that local. In this interview, Rob Caldwell, anchor for WCSH in Portland, Maine, asks Republican presidential nominee John McCain about his running mate Sarah Palin's credentials when it comes to "national security, diplomacy, foreign policy" and "the fight against Islamist extremism."Politicians, take note: “Local” interviews are no longer all that local. In this interview, Rob Caldwell, anchor for WCSH in Portland, Maine, asks Republican presidential nominee John McCain about his running mate Sarah Palin’s credentials when it comes to “national security, diplomacy, foreign policy” and “the fight against Islamist extremism.”
Watch Caldwell’s McCain interview below — via The Huffington Post.
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