Recent Fox News reports have cited McCain staffers picking on Palin as being remarkably dumb. But an ABC News report dug a little deeper and found that – shocking, I know – Fox News took things out of context. The story describes how the notion that she didn’t know which countries were in North America was twisted from the actual incident where she didn’t know which countries were in NAFTA. Yes, that’s almost as bad for a VP candidate, but that just proves the point that she wasn’t a qualified VP candidate rather than indicating that she was just plain dumb. (And before you say “duh” to which countries are in NAFTA, which countries are in NATO?)
And as for the issue of whether Africa is a country or a continent, that was a simple verbal gaffe. She meant to speak about the continent and accidentally used the word country. That’s a simple error and certainly one we could all imagine Joe Biden making – right after he asked a guy in a wheel chair to stand up for the crowd.