I have, like, foreign policy experience

I always thought it was too easy to pick on Britney Spears. I mean, hey, she has her fans and in twenty years she'll be the answer to a series of trivial pursuit questions while living in a comfortable retirement; there is nothing wrong with that. Then I found out she is a premier political pundit of the "hear-no-evil, see-no-evil, speak-no-evil" variety, according to this Drudge Report transcript of an interview with CNN's Tucker Carlson. In case you missed it, Britney advocates keeping yourself ill informed about current events while just blindly supporting the President. Was it really so long ago that celebrities (pick one: Tim Robbins, Susan Sarandon, Dixie Chicks, Sean Penn, Ed Begley Jr., R.E.M, etc.) were being admonished for daring to GASP! have an opinion about the war in Iraq that essentially amounted to: we shouldn't go? Britney is the perfect choice for Secretary of State (since Powell is apparently stepping down to a lifetime soliloquy of: "My God, what have I done?") should Bush actually win the next election: she possesses the same intellectual acumen as the Commander-in-Chief.

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