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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