(From AP via HuffPo)

While Palin explains the deep foreign policy gained because she can see Russia and has now gazed into the stare of Karzai ....back home in Alaska:

Parnell, meanwhile, said he has taken over giving many of Palin's speeches and has taken a more active interest in Alaska's budget and the governor's legislative agenda.

"I'm speaking several more times a week _ like, for instance, I'm about to go meet the president of Iceland," Parnell said.

Sooooo ... while Palin has 10 minute photo-ops with two puppet heads of state, her deputy is out doing real international business? 

Am I the only one who finds that ironic?