I think that’s going to require a wooden stake.
As my father would say, she has diarrhea of the mouth.
Aka, logorrhea
I really don’t think so… even her comment about NAFTA suggests she was involved in some training exercise and asked a question, and that things were “taken out of context”. So, it wasn’t entirely fabricated… which leads to the question of what exactly was said. Possibly – “Sarah, what countries are part of NAFTA?” “All of them!”
I don’t understand what you mean by “I really don’t think so”; I wasn’t implying that it was entirely fabricated. I was suggesting that it may have originally arose from a mere slip of the tongue later misinterpreted, and that her statement now about “the continent vs. the country” may just be a rather unfortunate second slip of the tongue. (If only because I am so reluctant to accept the alternate possibility)
Except that everybody knows “Australia” is actually an island, and that the name Australia itself is a conspiracy of the liberal media - it is actually New Zealand’s west island.
I read your comment to mean that it was impossible that Sarah STILL didn’t understand that there is no country called “Africa”. I think that is still possible – I think she is interpreting this controversy as being that she was referring to the “wrong” Africa. As in “I mis-spoke and referred to Africa the country instead of Africa the continent. Really, I know there is a difference between them – it was just a slip of the tongue.”
Gotcha. That may be what is happening, and that even is what her words make it sound like, but it would be so amazingly ignorant for one in her position that I’d prefer to think she knows what she’s talking about and is just caught in an ever-growing morass of slips of the tongue.
Wait, that sounds ridiculous. Fuck, the strain required to maintain this position is getting to be too much…
:dubious: Better count again
50 states
1 DC
1 PR
1 Guam
1 American Samoa
1 Virgin Islands
1 Overseas
56
Here’s snopes on Obama’s claim to have visted 57 states.
Oh, I am sure it was just a slip of the tongue. But here at the dope if you post the equation 50+1+1+1+1+1+1=57 somebody is going to call you on it. 
I gotta say - i dont understand. Palin is a shining example of the American Dream - that ANYONE can get to be president. Given the right friends, being in the right place at the right time and with a bit of luck thrown in.
Millions of Americans are stupid. If you are saying that dumb people cant become president, then your American Dream is but a vapour.
You guys had better think about this soon, cos in the next 20 years some fit bird is gonna come along and make you all drool. Soccer marms will want to be friends with her. Soccer dads will want to screw her. She might not be very knowledgeable or have much ‘experience’ but people are gonna vote for her and the American Dream WILL be played out.
Repeat: at some point in the near future, the USA will vote in someone who is more celeb hotty than experienced senator. You wont be able to stop it.
We did it this time, why can’t we do it again?
Oh snap!
Megan Fox/Lindsay Lohan 2012!
Not that I doubt Sarah Palin’s stupidity, but it looks like we’re really seeing Republican elements turning on each other. Betrayal, insinuation and scapegoating. Pure Shakespeare, Man.
It appears that our other commonwealth, Northern Mariana Islands, is missing from the list. That would make 57.
There’s an AP story out headlined Palin blames Bush policies for GOP defeat.
My favorite quote, though, is Sarah going Valley Girl:
There’s gotta be a famous valley in the Bible where Sarah can play Bible Valley girl.
first off, that still does not alter the fact that 56!=!57.
Secondly does the Northern Marianas send delegates to the DNC? The wiki link does not mention them.
Okay, now I’ve got, “I’m a Bible Valley Girl” to the tune of “I’m a Barbie Girl” by Aqua stuck in my head for that. The legion of flying monkeys will be there to carve out your spleen with coconut shells in a few minutes.