Hagel: Palin Pick ‘Insulting to the American People’

Nebraska Senator Chuck Hagel isn’t impressed by fellow Republican John McCain’s pick of Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin (R) as his running mate, calling attempts to make her seem more qualified than she is “insulting to the American people.”

“I think they ought to be just honest about it and stop the nonsense about, ‘I look out my window and I see Russia and so therefore I know something about Russia,'” Hagel said in an interview with the Omaha World-Herald. “That kind of thing is insulting to the American people.”

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” the Nebraska Republican added. “You get a passport for the first time in your life last year? I mean, I don’t know what you can say. You can’t say anything.”

“I think it’s a stretch to, in any way, to say that she’s got the experience to be president of the United States.”