Fox News: Palin Thought Africa Was a Country, Not a Continent
To hear Fox News's Carl Cameron tell it, Sarah Palin had John McCain's staffers pining for the cosmopolitan enlightenment and urbane wisdom of Dan Quayle.
According to Cameron, campaign insiders allege…
* Palin couldn't name the three countries in NAFTA.
* She refused preparation for the Katie Couric interview. (You don't say?)
* She threw temper tantrums when faced with bad press clippings.
* She had some very interesting beliefs about Africa…
According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern within the McCain campaign that Palin lacked "a degree of knowledgeability necessary to be a running mate, a vice president, a heartbeat away from the presidency," in part because she didn't know which countries were in NAFTA, and she "didn't understand that Africa was a continent, rather than a series, a country just in itself."
That's right: A country, not a continent.
And yet still not as bad as her husband, Todd, who until 2002 seemed equally convinced that Alaska was a country, not a state.
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To the Republican National Committee: the next time you vet a potential candidate for vice-president, arrange for her/him to appear on "Are You Smarter Than a Fifth-Grader?". Any candidate who fails is eliminated from consideration. This should help you to avoid some future embarrassment. Some of us have had great fun lampooning Ms. Palin, but her persistent failure to be even adequate to the demands of the office made her ridiculous in the eyes of everyone save the most stubborn of anti-intellectuals.
She wanted to appoint Michael Steele ambassador to the nation of Africa.