Palin Calls Afghanistan Our Neighboring Country

[ThePhoenix]

In slip up, Palin calls Afghanistan “our neighboring country”

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/05/in-slip-up-palin-calls-afghanistan-our-neighboring-country

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.

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”.

“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.

The gaffe could add fuel to comedians and late-night talk show hosts who have seized on her linguistic infelicities to portray her as someone not to be taken seriously.

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1. No Sarah, that's Belize

[Whoa_Nelly]

2. She meant Africa

Right?


:P

[Tutonic]

3. Please someone dig a hole and push her into it!!!! I shudder to think

that she has birthed five children--all of whom will likely have the intelligence of a turtle.

[Dr.Phool]

5. Her family was featured at the begining of Idiocracy.

[Raschel]

4. Notice how the tide has turned.

Most people simply can't stand her now. She is so disliked that it's hard to even laugh at her stupidity.

McCain was/is stupid. He should have let her continue to have that harmless, idiot image. Instead he has her attacking any and everyone.

Before she was stupid and ridiculed. Now she's stupid and despised.