Palin: Didn't know what Federal Reserve did,or why North and South Korea were separate nations..

[HipChick]

http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2010/01/revisiting-the-palin-farce.html#more

In the days leading up to an interview with ABC News’ Charlie Gibson, aides were worried with Ms. Palin’s grasp of facts. She couldn’t explain why North and South Korea were separate nations and she did not know what the Federal Reserve did. She also said she believed Saddam Hussein attacked the United States on Sept. 11, 2001.

[dkf]

1. This may be ok for Joe the plumber. Not so ok for a potential vp.

Pathetic for a presidential contender.

[treestar]

2. Repukes are idiots

There was no way this woman could be president.

[JVS]

3. I so would have told her that it was because South Korea has slaves and seceded.

[csziggy]

10. !

:rofl: :yourock:

[JVS]

14. "President Palin shocked the world today by joining an alliance with Kim Jong Il and issuing a...

fierce denunciation of the Republic of Korea concerning slavery. She underscored her commitment to human rights by sending 90,000 troops to bolster Pyongyang's forces on the Pyongyang's side of the 38th parallel. This deployment should make easy work of the 30,000 US troops already deployed to defend the southern side of the line in the case of a military confrontation. Kim Jong Il is reportedly elated at this reversal of longstanding US policy, and has indicated that Palin's actions "will help bring a rapid close to this sad and divisive chapter in the history of the Choson people by the beginning of Juche 99 (the year starting 4/15/2010)"" Ahh, what could have been!

[Vinnie From Indy]

15. What a missed opportunity!

LOL!

How much fun would it have been to feed her a few "fun facts"?

The Fed was initially formed by the founding fathers as a bakery to deliver bread and sweets to the Treasury Department. The Fed later took on greater significance when it was tasked with counting, sorting and hand rolling all of the nickles and pennies sent in by children left orphan after The Great Gopher Rebellion of 1805. Currently, the Fed mails suckers and dog biscuits to every bank in the nation for the customers at the drive-up windows with children and dogs.

Cheers!

[proud2BlibKansan]

16. LOL

:rofl:

[tammywammy]

27. LOL!

Best reply eva!

[Bitwit1234]

29. Well one thing is for sure

you don't want to send your kids to public school in Alaska. They are pretty darn good on how to skin a moose and use a shotgun, but when it comes to history, if it AIN'T republican praise they ignore it.

[unkachuck]

4. she didn't?

....man, that's our next president!

[Frank Booth]

5. I don't think I'll ever tire of stories about how stupid Palin is.

Except, I guess they won't be so funny when she's our president.

[progressoid]

6. Run Sarah, run!

:eyes:

[rhett o rick]

36. I dont want her to run. I want the republicans to run a decent (like Eisenhower) candidate to draw

the right of center out of our party. If Palin runs then the right of center will have a lot of influence in our party and our candidate will have to acknowledge them. That would cut the left out entirely. This is exactly why CorpAmerica wants Palin. She will guarantee a corporatist Democrat the victory.

[tinrobot]

7. Most Republicans seem to have an 8th grade intellect

She's dumber than a 5th grader.

[Stinky The Clown]

8. Every time I hear these stories I become more angry at McLame and the other GOP "leaders"

These craven motherfuckers were willing to foist this NITWIT, this fucking TWIT, on the country. We would have been simultaneously a laughingstock nation and a nation in grave danger.

[csziggy]

26. Hey it got my 87 year old conservative mother to vote for a black Democrat

So it was not all bad. At Christmas, Mom made a snide comment about how we could have President Palin down the road and kind of looked sideways at me to see my reaction. We both laughed when my reaction was, "I'd rather have a sharp stick in my eye!"

2009 was the first time we've both voted for the same candidate ever and it is all because McLame and the GOP picked that ignorant twit.

[Kaleva]

9. Palin speaks for the masses.

Let's face it. Most people probably don't know what the Fed does or why the Korean peninsula is split into two nations and they may not really care either. If she hits the notes on God, guns and gays, plus follow the KISS principle, she could become a serious contender.

[Bobbieo]

11. I cannot understand why so many people on DU want her to be on the next big ticket.

The people who support her are as dumb as she is and I'm afraid they outnumber us. She has a damn good chance of being the next president of the U.S.

Keep in mind if she gets on the ticket the Dick Cheneys will take her over in a heartbeat and run her campaign like the McCain crew did. She may want to quit but they won't let her. She will be so programed she won't know her own f---in name!

[Kaleva]

12. She could be a female Ronald Reagan.

[demosincebirth]

19. My thoughts, exaclty.

[JVS]

17. After Bush, I am never rooting for the Republicans to get another idiot candidate.

Because I know that the idiocy often plays well for them, and I think that it's damaging to the national political discourse for them not to have someone who is at least sane and predictable.

[muriel_volestrangler]

31. She's a quitter, though, and those 'masses' won't like that

She quit from her job as governor because she needed more time to market a book. The people you describe may have a suspicion of anyone intelligent, but they expect people to work hard, and finish a job. I'm confident the Democrats could destroy her in an election.

[Meldread]

13. The sad part is most elected politician's don't know the answer to those questions either.

Grab several random Republican and Democratic Congressmen and ask them those questions, and I'd bet at least half of them couldn't answer one or the other. Some of them might not even be able to locate North and South Korea on a map. It's sad but true.

This statement is not a defense of Palin, but rather a sad indictment on the state of affairs. There is a serious lack of intellectual curiosity in America as a whole.

[SmileyRose]

18. Mark my words

that vapid power mad nutjob is going to be the first female president. It pains me to say so. The economic predators who pick our leaders are going to put her there and set her up to fail, and fail big. There will be no more talk of women in the presidency and we will be reduced to 3rd world - two birds with one stone...... China is now the marketplace, we will soon be the slaves.

[demosincebirth]

20. Possibility...we elected GWB twice, er, once.

[SmileyRose]

21. No we didn't

the field was winnowed down by the predators to 2 choices, either of which they knew they could control. IMHO the reason 2000 had to be stolen was because Gore could not be bought. - but I could be wrong on that.

From what I see, every president since I came of age has either been in the pocket of the predators or else has been a useful idiot - and looking back the "runner up" on the losing side was equally either a useful idiot or one of them.

I admit, I thought Obama was different at first, but when the media chose him long before the primaries were over, I knew. I hoped he would at least throw us a few scraps. It's too soon to know whether or not he actually will in the greater balance.

[lady lib]

22. She kind of reminds me of Chance the gardener from "Being There."

nt

[DeschutesRiver]

23. No wonder she refuses to do real interviews, both before the election and even now

it wouldn't take any more than an interviewer of average skill to ferret out exactly how stupid this woman really is.

[roguevalley]

25. if she runs, she can't duck and deflect. it will come out and she and

her supporters will be laughed out of dodge.

[rhett o rick]

24. Palin has a chance of being the rube-lican candidate only because CorpAmerica

will support her knowing she will lose. CorpAmerica has their money on Pres Obama for a second term.

So CorpAmerica will support Palin because the die hard rube-licans will never vote for an uppity woman. They like their women to be subservient. She didnt at all get along with McStrange because she got too uppity.

[ima_sinnic]

28. +1000 she is a useful idiot who ensures that voters run screaming to vote for the democrat

in our present one-party system, if not Palin on the republican "side," it will be someone equally unqualified and ridiculous.
thus, the democrat has no need to worry about the votes of liberals and progressives--"who else are they going to vote for?"

[rhett o rick]

34. I agree. There are at least two of us. nt

[Orsino]

30. Bush's cheerleader fumbles toward redemption by dismantling Palin.

Keep it up, Sully. Hundreds of thousands of war dead whisper that you're fashionably late to this party.

[no_hypocrisy]

32. Wouldn't have matter if George Stephanopoulos had inteviewed her instead of Gibson.

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/01/09/business/media/09abc.html

[spanone]

33. and the republicans still offered her to america to be 'one heart beat away'

yea, they fucking love america, don't they?

[earth mom]

35. Palin is a fucking idiot!

:freak:

[troubledamerican]

37. Ein Volk, ein Reich, ein Führer

[spanone]

38. ...and we all saw congressfolks & senators saying she was qualified to be president.

that's how obscenely partisan the political system in this country has become.

[tblue37]

39. Frankly, I don't think she was signifiantly less informed or incurious

than the other nitwit they ran for president--and then managed to get into office for 8 long, long years. There was never any indication that W had any knowledge about history, current events, or public policy, either (despite his ridiculous legacy "gentleman's" degree in history from an Ivy League school).