NAFrica-gate.
It seems a number of people, whatever they think of Sarah Palin, are not prepared to believe what has been alleged in recent days about her by anonymous McCain campaign stooges–i.e., that she thought Africa was a country rather than a continent and that she couldn’t name the three nations involved in the North American Free Trade Agreement. I notice that co-workers, family members, the women who write the XX Factor blog at Slate–even my own good lady–have trouble crediting either of these claims. And I was initially tempted myself to dismiss them as spurious. They seem to be textbook apocrypha: slightly too perfect, overly fragrant of caricature, just the drift you would expect the inevitable exaggerations to take. Not being able to name the three signatories to NAFTA–remember what the “NA” stands for–is just too much like not being able to say who’s buried in Grant’s tomb. Then, too–why should we care? There’s nothing at stake. McCain lost, and it’s not as though we needed any further evidence that Sarah Palin is an ignoramus. But what the hell. There is still that chance that the national proscenium hasn’t seen the last of her, and she’ll be back sooner rather than later if it’s she who replaces felonious trout Ted Stevens in the Senate. And I’ll tell you something else: I don’t feel like being a chump about this. I’m damned if I’m getting caught overestimating Sarah Palin. Once upon a time, I would have been just as skeptical of a hearsay account of her inability to name a single newspaper or magazine that she reads, and not because I find it impossible to believe that she reads nothing. Forget the reading. She couldn’t name even one periodical. She couldn’t fetch up a Time or a Newsweek, a New York Times or a USA Today, an Anchorage Daily News–nothing! No. If I’m going to take a position at all on NAFrica-gate (if I may), every presumption must go against her. Sarah Palin stands condemned of being less well-informed than a middle schooler until further notice.
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Know that feeling all too well!
You still write on here! Thanks
You are thinking, lots of hard work, much clearer, super progress, I am proud of you, showing your stuff, that’s the way, keep studying, almost there, so close, better than ever, I knew you could do it, way to go.