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> "FDR" wrote in message
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>> WQ wrote:
>>> On Nov 6, 9:47 am, WQ wrote:
>>>> On Nov 6, 5:25 am, Mills wrote:
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>>>>> On Nov 6, 3:22 am, "Taylor [cloy]" wrote:
>>>>>> http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/11/05/palin-didnt-know-africa-i_n_...
>>>>>> Palin Didn't Know Africa Is A Continent, Says Fox News Reporter
>>>>>> (VIDEO)
>>>>>> Huffington Post | Nicholas Graham | November 5, 2008 07:40 PM
>>>>>> Now that the 2008 election is over, reporters are spilling all the
>>>>>> juciest, and previously off the record, gossip from the campaign
>>>>>> trail. Much of it is about the infighting between Palin and McCain's
>>>>>> staff, as Newsweek's treasure trove of post-election gossip reveals.
>>>>>> 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."
>>>>>> Palin was apparently a nightmare for her campaign staff to deal with.
>>>>>> She refused preparation help for her interview with Katie Couric and
>>>>>> then blamed her staff, specifically Nicole Wallace, when the interview
>>>>>> was panned as a disaster. After the Couric interview, Fox News
>>>>>> reported, Palin turned nasty with her staff and began to accuse them
>>>>>> of mishandling her. Palin would view press clippings of herself in the
>>>>>> morning and throw "tantrums" over the negative coverage. There were
>>>>>> times when she would be so nasty and angry that her staff was reduced
>>>>>> to tears.
>>>>>> Watch the clip from The O'Reilly Factor below.
>>>>>> [see link]
>>>>>> Cameron also reports, along with CNN, that McCain's senior foreign
>>>>>> policy adviser was fired a week before the election for attacking, in
>>>>>> defense of Sarah Palin, various McCain aides who he felt were
>>>>>> undermining Palin.
>>>>>> ---
>>>>>> Look. You guys REALLY dodged a bullet there, w/ _that_ _one_ (her)!
>>>>> Yeah, she shoulda known that Africa is a continent... but someone
>>>>> would have to be a real geography buff to rattle off all 23 countries
>>>>> in North America without looking it up.
>>>> --- I'll give it a shot, and I swear on everyone's graves that I
>>>> haven't looked it up:
>>>>
>>>> Mozambique, Somalia, Egypt, South Africa, Nigeria, Chad, Congo, Ivory
>>>> Coast, Rwanda, Libya, Morocco, Uganda, Zimbabwe, Botswana, Sudan,
>>>> Ethiopia.... Hmm, now I'm beginning to struggle a bit too much. I'm
>>>> sure there are a few others that are familiar enough to me but they're
>>>> just not registering right now. Ok, so that's 16 out 23 that I've
>>>> been able to rattle off easily enough. And I'm not a governor of any
>>>> state or in politics at all.
>>> --- Oops, I rattled off countries in Africa, not North America. And
>>> there are 47 countries in Africa, not 23. Oh, well. But ok, now for
>>> North America.
>>>
>>> Canada, U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Venezuela, Chile, Brazil, Argentina,
>>> Costa Rica, Panama, Belize, Uruguay, Honduras, Bolivia, I know there
>>> are a few tiny ones in Central America I'm still missing out on, maybe
>>> also another couple of large ones in South America. Ok, it's becoming
>>> a strain again. So that's 14 out of 23.
>>>
>> Guatemala is in there too. And then Puerto Rico, Cuba, Hati, etc.
>>
>> I enjoyed geography in school. I wonder what Pain liked.
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> Puerto Rico isn't a country. It is a US territory.
>
> But are they counting all the Caribbean island countries? And what about
> Greenland? And just where do you put Iceland.....
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