Sarah Palin: "We gotta stand with our North Korean allies"

[News_Editor]

Sarah Palin: "We gotta stand with our North Korean allies"

2010-11-25 01:42:01 GMT+7 (ICT)

NEW YORK (BNO NEWS) -- A painful slip of the tongue for former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin on Wednesday when she accidentally mixed up North and South Korea during a radio interview.

Palin has recently said she is considering a run for the presidency and told ABC News that she believes she can beat Barack Obama in the 2012 presidential elections. On Wednesday, Palin was asked during a radio interview with Glenn Beck how she would handle the current situation on the Korean peninsula.

"This is stemming from, I think, a greater problem when we are all sitting around [and] asking; oh no, what are we going to do?" Palin said. "We aren't having a lot of faith that the White House is gonna come out with a strong enough policy to sanction what it is that North Korea is gonna do."

But a few seconds later, Palin got the countries mixed up. "But obviously we gotta stand with our North Korean allies," she said. "We are bound to treaties," Palin continued, before Beck corrected her.

The mistake set off an immediate firestorm on the Internet. "Please [keep] doing interviews. Each one provides more evidence that you are utterly clueless," one user wrote on Twitter. Others were less critical about the small mistake. "She misspoke, it happens all the time, this is a slip up that can be easily made," another user commented.

Palin was U.S. Senator John McCain's vice presidential nominee during the 2008 presidential elections. And while she seemed a good choice at first, reports later indicated that it was very different behind the scene.

In the book 'Game Change', political journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin said that Palin had to be taken through World War I, World War II, the Korean War, the Cold War and the War on Terror.

"After the [Republican] convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea," Heilemann said during an interview, while adding that Palin believed Iraq's Saddam Hussein was behind 9/11.

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[SergeiY]

"After the [Republican] convention was over, she still didn't really understand why there was a North Korea and a South Korea,"

A slip of the tongue that could happen to anybody. And who cares if she know the things exactly. At least she says she is ready to drop some bombs there somewhere in Asia and pretend to defend whoever they declare to their ally. The Nobel prize dude said exactly the same.

[phaethon]

Idiots are like baht buses - one pulls away, there's another one right behind .

And to think I was afraid there might not be a successor to the non-partisan Quail-Bush tradition

[hammered]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

[cdnvic]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

Probably depends if she shows up at the right convention.

[onnut]

oh dear! this could be bad if she goes ahead to stand for President and wins

[venturalaw]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

Probably depends if she shows up at the right convention.

And Obama said in 2008 that he had been to 57 states with one left to go. We all are capable of making mistakes when under pressure and/or tired. So what?

[GarryP]

I've heard it said, "one slip of the tongue and your in the sh*t!"

[Wallaby]

Yes Obama makes a slip of the tongue, most people do. But the magnitude of stupidity from Bush/Quale/Palin just seems to go that little bit further.

[PhilHarries]

Well actually she is probably correct. Now that China effectively owns the USA any friend of China is a friend of the US.

[phaethon]

Yes Obama makes a slip of the tongue, most people do. But the magnitude of stupidity from Bush/Quale/Palin just seems to go that little bit further.

Ooops, yes QUALE... <blush>

[phaethon]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

William Hill are offering 5:1 she gets the Republican Nomination and 14:1 on becoming President.

(Lady Gaga - 500:1 )

Edited November 25, 2010 by phaethon

[DP25]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

Almost zero. The Democrats are praying that the Republicans will nominate her, they'd win the Presidency and win back the House of Reps

[phaethon]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

Almost zero. The Democrats are praying that the Republicans will nominate her, they'd win the Presidency and win back the House of Reps

George Bush Junior... Two-term President... Almost zero is not zero enough.

[up-country_sinclair]

I'm not sure who is less intelligent: Sarah Palin or the people who think she's qualified to be President of the United States.

[Ulysses G.]

Yes Obama makes a slip of the tongue, most people do. But the magnitude of stupidity from Bush/Quale/Palin just seems to go that little bit further.

He has made quite a few slips of the tongue - as have other Democrats - but the rather biased media only highlight these common mistakes in people that they want to marginalize. All that said, I am not a Palin fan.

[Ulysses G.]

Why do you think countries are dependent on Australia?

For the world's best Vegemite and pickled beets. Stand proud!

Edited November 25, 2010 by Ulysses G.

[lannarebirth]

I'm not sure who is less intelligent: Sarah Palin or the people who think she's qualified to be President of the United States.

That's an easy one. It's those people you mention, not her. Thankfully I think they are about 2% of the populace.

[SergeiY]

What are the latest odds on her becoming prez?

Does it matter? Would there be any difference from a previous president or some other choice? No - when it comes to 'world news' they are all same same.

[cdnvic]

In what should have been a lighthearted topic about a comical slip of the tongue, I've had to delete half the responses, take away one person's posting rights, and suspend another. It's like a frikin' daycare around here some days.