Sorry…no sarcasm intended.

Nebraska Republican Sen. Chuck Hagel said his party’s vice-presidential nominee, Sarah Palin, lacks foreign policy experience and called it a “stretch” to say she’s qualified to be president.

“She doesn’t have any foreign policy credentials,” Hagel said in an interview published Thursday by the Omaha World-Herald. “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,” Hagel said.

Hagel, a senior member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, traveled to Iraq and Afghanistan with Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama in July and had said he would have considered serving as Obama’s running mate.

Seems the Palin-ization of American is beginning to fade.