aren't you glad HER finger isn't going to be on the button?

how many countries ARE in north america? how the hell hard is that to answer? a five year old can answer that.

how the hell did she get elected governor of ANYWHERE if she thought africa is ONE COUNTRY (ahhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh. )

i STILL can't believe how many millions voted for this box of rocks. she's dangerously ignorant

Fox News: Palin Thought Africa Was a Country, Not a Continent

Carl Cameron talking to Bill O'Reilly just now on Fox reveals that McCain aides were truly "shocked" at the "gaps in knowledge" Sarah Palin displayed once they were stuck with her. He said that, in the most startling shortcoming, she actually didn't "understand that Africa was not just a country, but a continent." This led, among other things, to her asking how, in that case, South Africa could be a separate country. She also could not name all of the countries in North America, he said, not even the NAFTA partners. And she did not know many of the basics of civics and local/state/national duties. O'Reilly pooh-poohed all of this.

But the "gaps" explain, Cameron said, why tensions erupted as McCain aides were truly alarmed by all of this -- yet Palin wanted to speak out freely. So in the closing week or so, they reveal, she took to yelling and screaming at aides over her press clippings, even "tossing papers" around. She was so out of touch she actually refused coaching before the Katie Couric interviews, then yelled at staffers for not preparing her better or warning her off the interviews. "Temper tantrums," etc. Then there were the clothes bills and greeting McCain aides in a bath towel...................