Originally Posted by Slappin Fish

"....According to Fox News Chief Political Correspondent Carl Cameron, there was great concern 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."

When asked about it, when given the chance to explain herself she came up with the nugget above.

Oh, and she carried on saying this. "I don't know, because I remember the discussion about Africa, my concern has been the atrocities there in Darfur and the relevance to me with that issue, as we spoke about Africa and some of the countries there that were kind of the people succumbing to the dictators " WTF?