Actually, Biden was elected when she was a 3rd grader. She couldn't even get that right.

I'm guessing she figures he was elected in '72 and since she graduated HS in '82, 10 years earlier would have been 2nd grade. But elections are in the Fall, not the Spring, so when Biden was elected in November '72 and when he took office in January '73, Palin would have been in THIRD Grade.

This is of course ignoring the nonsense that she would have heard anything about the speeches of a Freshman Senator when she was in 3rd grade - 6 years before C-SPAN existed.

Palin is clearly a loose cannon who won't be told what to do. The result is and will be, that they stuff her full of talking points (it won't sink in or be "organic"; it will be like lipstick on a Cheney), and she agrees to spout them. Then when in front of the camera she wings it, saying whatever comes into her head that is either "organic" or appears to her to bolster her image a a "tough broad".

That's what happened when the stranger asked her about Pakistan: her answer agreed with Obama's, not McSames. So when they got together, she listened to him in order to repeat what he said, while he was also floating the bullshit that it was a "gotcha" question -- which it wasn't -- as if the question were to blame for the "Wrong" answer.

She clearly believe she is smart; and her "method" might work in Alaska. But it won't work nationally. And there is no way, in this short a time, she can digest and begin to remember all the stuff they have to stuff her with.

The debate will be a disaster, after which the effort will be to arouse pity for her. While also, of course, attacking both female Ifill and male Biden as being a male sexists.

she has been so tuned into politics at a tender age that she couldnt name one newspaper that she reads regularly...did you see that clip? she said she learned foreign affairs through books/reading different "mediums"..that is right folks, she said mediums and then she was asked to name a source as in a newspaper she reads regularly...she responded by saying "many variety" but couldnt name one!!!!

by now, you know she couldnt think of a single supreme court case apart from roe vs wade....nada zilch niente rien....i am beginning to wonder if this lady ever attended school and if so, was she under the desk during all lectures!!!!

It's hard to remember the names of the newspapers that you read when you read ALL of them, as she noted. Since she was able to wire up her own cable system to listen to Biden's Senate speeches as a mere lassie, she has a lot--a whole lot--of information in her head and it's just hard to pull out the exact points when needed.

I think I know why McCain is so angry now. "How did I ever pick Palin?" Except, probably, it's "Rove--the idiot! He should have let me pick Lieberman, because since I'm a loved war hero, the people will follow me to the ends of the earth."

I'm an Obama supporter, but I'll go easy on Palin on this issue. Her words were, to my mind what we like to call in my neck of the woods, "A joke." There's enough Palin ridiculousness out there without us grasping at every little thing. The Little Green Footballs wing-nuts do this all the time. We don't have to.

She must not have been paying attention or some knowledge would have rubbed off.
How long has C-span been on?

Oh whatever...I clearly remember watching the Democratic National Convention and the presidential debates in '76 and I was 3 at the time. I remember staying up for election returns that same year. Since then, I was a political junkie and have never missed a convention or debate.

My point, is that it's possible she remembers hearing Biden speak when she was a child. I don't. Biden didn't come on radar until the late 80s when he first ran for president, but whatever.

Sure. She listened on her radio and then rode to school on a dinosaur.