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I didn't read this thread, assured as I was that there'd be a lot of silliness in it from all sides. I'll just add my two cents worth. Speak in public often enough for long enough and you're gonna say something stupid. I don't care who you are or how smart you are. It's gonna happen. I sincerely don't think Barack Obama really thinks that there are fifty-seven states in the union any more than I think Sarah Palin really thinks the North Korean government are our pals. Neither side advances its own cause or any worthy cause when they've nothing better to go on than waiting for someone on the 'other side' to misspeak.
By not correcting her mistake she is paying the American public the compliment of not assuming they didn't already know what she meant. That's all.
I had a hard time figuring out what you meant with all these double negatives. I think in a situation like this, Sarah should clarify. She doesn't like to admit she's wrong (who does?), but she could reiterate support for SOUTH Korea.
A book on the 2008 presidential election campaign, Game Change, had some revealing if unsourced claims about Palin's lack of knowledge, presumably coming from one of John McCain's advisors. Page 397 of the paperback edition described events from September 2008:
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[M]embers of her traveling party met Palin at the Rtitz-Carlton near Reagan airport, in Pentagon City, Virginia – and found that, although she'd made some progress with her memorization and studies, her grasp of rudimentary facts and concepts was minimal. Palin couldn't explain why North and South Korea were separate nations. She didn't know what the Fed did. Asked who attacked America on 9/11, she suggested several times that it was Saddam Hussain. And asked to identify the enemy that her son would be fighting in Iraq, she drew a blank.
I had a hard time figuring out what you meant with all these double negatives. I think in a situation like this, Sarah should clarify. She doesn't like to admit she's wrong (who does?), but she could reiterate support for SOUTH Korea.
It would be every bit as pointless as asking Obama to come out and explain that he doesn't really think there are 57 states in the union.
I don't . . I say, I don't think Sarah Palin believes or thinks.
She's been living free of those encumbrances for years, maybe her whole life.
She is like a vagina with cloth covering.
That's just misogynistic.
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