The Palin Mistake

Sorry, just concentrating on one particular statement (too late and too much tequila tonight to do otherwise): Do you have any concept of what "deploying" means? That means to field the weapon/unit ready to engage. Whether you actually engage or not. Do you understand that? You deploy, but that does not mean that you actually engage. Do you understand that?So, Pakistan had deployed nukes. Does that mean that they had actually nuked anyone (ie, "engaged the enemy")? No! Deploying a weapon system does not automatically mean that they had actually used that weapon system.

Err, Ludo, you're not thinking of running for president are you? The idea that the guy on the button doesn't know the meaning of the word 'deploy' scares the f'ck out of me Why do Republicans insist on making themselves such easy targets for ridicule?

I'm NOT a leftie, all my friends consider me a righty, and so do I. Biden did NOT say Pakistan nuked somebody, as pointed out by Nosyned and a bit by myself, he said "deployed" which DOES NOT mean "fired", but "ready to fire at any minute". Palin on the other hand, well, let's just say she gave me the immpression of not being the brightest one there is.That's it for now

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I hunt for the truth

Say, that sounds like a great name for a series of youtube vidoes!

That has got to be the stupidist reason not to vote. I have often said that in voting one picks the "lessor of 2 evils." No candidate agrees with me on everything. My vote is for the person who agrees more. As for the religious beliefs of a candidate, who cares as long as they keep their beliefs in the church. Idon't care if a candidate is Penticostal, Mormon, Catholic, Presbyterian, Baptist, Jewish, Muslim, Hindu, deist, agnostic, atheist or anything else as long as he uses the good judgement toward an idea and not be pro or con solely on religious beliefs.

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There is no better love between 2 people than mutual respect for each other WT Young, 2002Who gave anyone the authority to call me an authority on anything. WT Young, 1969

I don't think they insist, I think it's inevitable...

And that is why Republicans will be a minority party for the next several generations.That is of course unless they move to the center.

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If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be. --Thomas Jefferson

Does anyone have a link to where, or a quote of how, Palin didn't know the countries in NAFTA and thought that Africa was one country?

That is going to be hard to come by since it seems these new things are all alleged leaks from McCain staffers. There is a possibility that they are trying to assign blame elsewhere but this seems like an odd way to go about it so I would give some credence to this. (it isn't inconsistent with what I've seen of her)

I wish one could do that. However, some ideas are so dumb that holding them betrays a lack of intelligence, or at least an alarmingly tenuous grasp of reality.Perhaps it might depend on the office sought. It would be seriously weird to have a YEC in charge of a nation's science programs, for example, but a dog catcher could have any number of crazy notions and still do a good job.Edited by Woodsy, : quote tags corrected

Are there links to the leaks then?This is the first place of heard of it. Its hard to believe.I suspect its another mis-quote and/or taken out of context... a spin. What happened to:

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That is why important things need to be checked over and over.

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Or is that only for things that you don't want to be true

The opposite: if it is important that it be true you'd better check that it is doubly.

It seems, otherwise, that people double check the things that they do not want to be true (Biden's quote) and just accept as true the things they do want to be (Palin's quote).

All I could find was this,Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter (VIDEO) | HuffPost Latest News

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However, perhaps one of the most astounding and previously unknown tidbits about Sarah Palin has to do with her already dubious grasp of geography. 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."

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Well, it's coming from FoxNews so it may still be hard to believe.[abe:]http://blogs.reuters.com/...hanistan-our-neighboring-country

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SAN FRANCISCO - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called Afghanistan “our neighboring country” on Sunday in a speech that could revive questions over her tendency to stumble into linguistic knots.

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Three days after a mostly gaffe-free debate performance, the Alaska governor fumbled during a speech in which she praised U.S. soldiers for “fighting terrorism and protecting us and our democratic values”.

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“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.

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Palin adds,

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“I was just trying to give Tina Fey more material ” job security for Saturday Night Live,” Palin said.

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Edited by onifre, : add other source

Thanks for digging those up.Without the quotes in proper context, its hard to decide whether or not I believe that she siad those things. From these, we can't really know just how stupid she is.While we're on the subjects of gaffes though, this is from the bottom of your first link:

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Palin’s opponent, Democratic vice presidential nominee Joe Biden, has also committed high-profile gaffes, including claiming in a recent interview that President Franklin D. Roosevelt calmed fears in a TV address at the beginning of the Great Depression. There was no TV in 1929 ” Roosevelt wasn’t president at the time.

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