In slip up, Palin calls Afghanistan “our neighboring country”

[LynneSin]

http://blogs.reuters.com/trail08/2008/10/05/in-slip-up-palin-calls-afghanistan-our-neighboring-country/\\

SAN FRANCISCO - Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin called Afghanistan “our neighboring country” on Sunday in a speech that could revive questions over her tendency to stumble into linguistic knots.

Three days after a mostly gaffe-free debate performance, the Alaska governor fumbled during a speech in which she praised U.S. soldiers for “fighting terrorism and protecting us and our democratic values”.

“They are also building schools for the Afghan children so that there is hope and opportunity in our neighboring country of Afghanistan,” she told several hundred supporters at a fundraising event in San Francisco.

The gaffe could add fuel to comedians and late-night talk show hosts who have seized on her linguistic infelicities to portray her as someone not to be taken seriously.

[Muttocracy]

1. Reuters! I was expecting The Onion! nt

[jkshaw]

2. Palin EXEMPLIFIES The Onion

[JenniferJuniper]

9. Well, ya know, if Alaska was a country like Todd would like and

you were listing countries, ya know, like in alphabetical order, you betcha Afghanistan and Alaska would be practically neighbors.

[Historic NY]

3. buy that ignorant person a map....or a Starbucks with one on it.

[Richard Steele]

4. Wow- how high would you have to be to see Afghanistan from here? K&R

[dkf]

5. What was she thinking about anyway?

That is so far out of left field.

[BearSquirrel2]

6. If you noticed ..

If you noticed during the debate, Palin was reading her "question responses" off of notecards.

[Raine1967]

7. In other news, Palin had Chinese food tonite

and her fortune said she had asian experience... look for THAT on tomorrows campaign trail!

[Cha]

8. She didn't have a gaffe free debate, at all..

that's bogus. It was full of fucking gaffes.

[complain jane]

10. She's such a fucking moron.

[jmondine]

11. It must be just south of us, next to Spain