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Originally Posted by whell
But i suspect Obama's comment about traveling to all 58 states, or thousands of people being victims of a tornado in a town of 12, or accusing police of acting "stupidly", got far less mileage here.
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Yeh, but he's done plenty of things that have resulted in people from both parties accusing him of being too intelligent or too cerebral. He was also a constitutional law professor and editor of the Harvard Law Review. So he gets the benefit of the doubt on verbal gaffes.
AFAIK, Sarah has never come close to showing a lick of intelligence. Accordingly, her gaffes undergird assertions regarding her ignorance. Fair or not, it is what it is.
BTW, admitting you don't know the signatories to NAFTA or who Maggie Thatcher was is not a gaffe. It's an open admission to cluelessness, a trait that seems to endear her to her flock of similarly-minded people.