Quote Originally Posted by Lord Orwell
Let's face it, Palin was given a raw deal by the press anyway. I seriously doubt ANY of the candidates could have answered the questions given her by Katie Couric. That woman's a real piece of work. "So Mrs. Palin, You were given notice yesterday that they want you to be a running mate as VP! Please give us SPECIFIC directions how you are going to destroy Al-Queida. Then Specifically tell us how you will fix the economy, etc etc." The result was she got a bum rap as someone that was not intelligent. And so what if she mistakenly called africa a country and not a continent. Al gore couldn't even spell potato. Does anyone remember the fiasco of asking Bush some questions about foreign countries? But he got elected anyway. The truth is: Sarah Palin is a strong woman with strong leadership skills (as a governor of the largest state) who just happens to have a strong accent and was running for the wrong party. So the press slaughtered her. Every single study done to this effect showed that the press wasn't being unbiased this time. And if 3 out of 4 reports on the news you see about the republican ticket are negative (a proven ratioo) then eventually it's going to brainwash people. The obama ticket had a more even ratio of close to 50/50.
http://www.journalism.org/node/13307
Too late now...
You're just making excuses for a Republican.

Also it wasn't Al Gore that couldn't spell potato, it was Dan Quayle.

Not being able to spell potato concerns me less than not being able to name a single newspaper or know that 150k on clothes is excessive, no less some of it were for her family, an obvious breach of ethics.