SARAH TO THE UN

Posted at 10:50 a.m. ET

I don't think we've ever run a story at Urgent Agenda where the real meat was in the comments sent by readers, but here's one that will prove that Palin Derangement Syndrome is now an accepted and medically recognized disease.  By the way, Medicare will cover it, but Blue Cross has doubts.

Andrew Malcolm of The Los Angeles Times reports:

Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin will meet in New York next week with Afghanistan President Hamid Karzai, among other world leaders scheduled to visit the United Nations annual autumn General Assembly Session.

She'll also meet with the president of Colombia, Alvaro Uribe, and former secretary of state Henry Kissinger.

A spokesman for the McCain campaign confirmed the surprise visits tonight as well as hinted at as yet unannounced sessions between the Republican Party's surprise vice presidential pick and other foreign leaders.

And...

Introductions by the well-traveled McCain of his running mate to numerous world leaders, they hope, are clearly designed to help draw voters' attention back to her, as well as to establish some photographic foreign policy creds, much the way their Democratic opponent Barack Obama traveled all the way to Paris to be photographed patting the French president on the back.

I'm glad he reminded readers of Obama's let's-get-to-know-the-foreigners tour.

I suggest linking to this story, and then reading the comments below, starting with "Is this Take Your Daughter to Work day?"  You'll get a real taste of what psychiatrists see every day.  Show your friends.

September 21, 2008.