Okay, maybe our headline above is a little harsh.
Maybe when Sarah Palin confused Iraq with Iran in an interview with Fox News' Sean Hannity this week, it was just a slip of the tongue and we should back off.
Yet when you're talking about a woman who noted Alaska's close proximity to Russia to bolster her foreign policy credentials, benefit of the doubt is lacking.
Check out her geographical blunder below and see what you think. Maybe she's a visionary and we should crack down on Iraq to prevent a nu-cue-lar Iran.
Whether she's the future of politics or just another random d-lister trying to bolster her own celebrity, Sarah is the gossip world's gift that keeps on givin' ...
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November 20th, 2009 12:38 PM
But when Obama refers to the language of Austria as "Austrian", that gets a free pass. I would think that slipping on two linguistically similar countries (Iraq/Iran)reflects more of a slip and less likely to be sheer ignorance than making up a new language like "Austrian".
November 20th, 2009 1:25 PM
Or when Obama said referred to "all 57 states" when he was campaigning - he's smart. And of course we would need an entire blog devoted exclusively to the "I say one monumentally stupid thing each and every week" Vice President Biden. Then of course, there are all those hollywood celebrities that make comments on other people's intelligence! Gimme a break...
November 20th, 2009 1:43 PM
Well, everyone makes slips, even the Harvard educated. But Sarah Palin doesn't get the benefit of the doubt because she has consistently shown an ignorance of world policy, geography, economics, and original thought. She is a talking head for trite conservative views.
November 20th, 2009 1:43 PM
"Who calls a shot like that? Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend." –Sarah Palin, pushing a conspiracy theory that "In God We Trust" had been moved to the edge of coins because of the Obama administration (the change was made by the Bush administration in 2007 and was later reversed by Congress, before Obama took office), West Allis, Wisconsin, Nov. 6, 2009
"All of 'em, any of 'em that have been in front of me over all these years." --Sarah Palin, unable to name a single newspaper or magazine she reads, interview with Katie Couric, CBS News, Oct. 1, 2008
"[T]hey're in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes that will make life better for Brandon and his family and his classroom." --Sarah Palin, getting the vice president's constitutional role wrong after being asked by a third grader what the vice president does, interview with NBC affiliate KUSA in Colorado, Oct. 21, 2008
"They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan." --Sarah Palin, speaking at a fundraiser in San Francisco, Oct. 5, 2008
"I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out." --Sarah Palin, referring to a department that does not exist while attempting to explain why as president she wouldn't be subjected to the same ethics investigations that compelled her to resign as governor of Alaska, ABC News interview, July 7, 2009
November 20th, 2009 1:51 PM
And a few more quotes...
If [the media] convince enough voters that that is negative campaigning, for me to call Barack Obama out on his associations then I don't know what the future of our country would be in terms of First Amendment rights and our ability to ask questions without fear of attacks by the mainstream media." --Sarah Palin, getting First Amendment rights backwards while suggesting that criticism of her is unconstitutional, radio interview with WMAL-AM, Oct. 31, 2008
"She's not prepared to be governor. How can she be prepared to be vice president or president? Look at what she's done to this state. What would she do to the nation?" ―Alaska State Senate President Lyda Green, who is a Republican
"[McCain] knows, in his gut, that he put somebody unqualified on the ballot. He knows that in his gut, and when this race is over that is something he will have to live with... He put somebody unqualified on that ballot and he put the country at risk, he knows that." ―Matthew Dowd, former chief strategist for President Bush's 2004 reelection campaign
"If BS were currency, Palin could bail out Wall Street herself. If Palin were a man, we'd all be guffawing, just as we do every time Joe Biden tickles the back of his throat with his toes. But because she's a woman — and the first ever on a Republican presidential ticket — we are reluctant to say what is painfully true." ―conservative columnist Kathleen Parker, writing in National Review
"This is what the Republican Party has done to us this year: It has placed within reach of the Oval Office a woman who is a religious fanatic and a proud, boastful ignoramus. … On Nov. 4, anyone who cares for the Constitution has a clear duty to repudiate this wickedness and stupidity." ―conservative writer Christopher Hitchens
"There is a fine line between clever and stupid." ―an anonymous Republican, quoting a line from "This Is Spinal Tap" is describing McCain's choice of Palin as his running mate
"I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative." ―Sarah Palin's mother-in-law, Faye Palin, indicating she may vote for Obama
November 20th, 2009 1:56 PM
Sarah Palin is a formidable force who so frightens the liberals and threatens their agenda based on a minority mentality that they will resort to any means to discredit her. It's not working. In fact, it has created more positive interest in her than not.We have a president who is attempting to run the country like an old southern plantation. Provide the basic needs and don't allow any semblence of truth and independence to exist, thereby creating simpletons incable of accepting responsibility.Obama is a total failure on every level. He is an affirmative action product who hates the USA. He, like so many of his peers, was deserted by his father and dumped on his white grandparents to raise at a time when multiracial issues found life difficult at a minimum. Another maladjusted, angry man.
November 20th, 2009 2:20 PM
I lived in austria, THEY refer to it as Austrian rather then German.
BUT who cares....Palin is an idiot and Prsident Obama is NOT!
Sarah Palin/Fabio
SARAH PLAIN & SIMPLETON 2012!
November 20th, 2009 4:13 PM
thanx for the hate, she wouldn't be as popular if you morons didn't help elevate her to rock star status! wasn't she supposed to be a footnote by now? hahahahahaha......all the way to the bank
November 20th, 2009 4:15 PM
BTW, Sarah ANSWERED the question that she was so miffed about when Katie Couric asked. WHAT DO YOU READ?
HER actual answer a year later is WORSE then her non answer! M'lady READS NEWSMAX, actually she ABSORBS it, she SEZ.
What a freaking maroon this lady is, what a side show, what a tap dancing vaudevillian news whore.
November 20th, 2009 8:12 PM
Next please.