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Did the media force Sarah Palin to say these things?
You see,it goes with what I said.Simply having this experience: "a college graduate with a degree in journalism, a Mayor, a Governor" certainly doesn't mean she's got what it takes common sense wise to do the job.Her statements,not what any media source presented,made my mind up about her.Just my honest opinion but her own statements are what made voters simply say no to her.
Here's some of them:


"But obviously, we've got to stand with our North Korean allies. We're bound to by treaty,"
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When asked about how as President she would avoid investigations similar to the one compelling her resignation as Governor of Alaska she responded, "I think on a national level your Department of Law there in the White House would look at some of the things that we've been charged with and automatically throw them out."

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.
During her 2011 "bus tour" across America, Palin stopped in the city of Boston, where she took in some of the local historical sites. Included in the tour was a stop at Paul Revere's shack. While there, Sarah explained to local TV cameras the significance of Revere's famous 1775 "midnight ride," undertaken just before the battles at Lexington and Concord. Unfortunately...she sort of got the entire thing backwards.

According to Palin, Revere rode on horseback and "warned, uh, the British that they weren't going to be taking away our arms, uh, by ringing those bells..."
Her Sputnik moment:

Palin, in a discussion with Greta van Susteren on Fox News the following night, took issue with the President's reference to the infamous Soviet satellite that became the first manmade object launched into orbit back in 1957. Calling it a "WTF moment," She argued that Obama "needs to remember that what happened back then with the former communist USSR and their victory in that race to space, yes, they won, but they also incurred so much debt at the time that it resulted in the inevitable collapse of the Soviet Union."
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In May of 2010, Palin appeared on Fox News' "The O'Reilly Factor" to talk about the controversy over the "National Day of Prayer." During the discussion, she boldly announced that the US should base its laws on The Bible, just as the Founding Fathers intended. The full quote:
"I think we should keep this clean, keep it simple, go back to what our founders and our founding documents meant. They’re quite clear that we would create law based on the God of the Bible and the 10 commandments, it’s pretty simple."

While running for the governorship of Alaska back in 2006, Palin - along with all the other candidates - was asked to fill out a questionnaire about some of her basic political beliefs. One of the questions asked if she was offended by the use of the phrase "Under God" in the Pledge of Allegiance.
Palin responded: "Not on your life. If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."
But, of course, the Pledge wasn't "good enough" for the Founding Fathers. It was not written until 100 years AFTER the Revolutionary era, in 1892, by a man named Francis Bellamy.
Making this slip-up even more ridiculous, the phrase "Under God" wasn't part of Bellamy's original work, and was inserted into the Pledge in 1954!
In a Facebook post in support of New Hampshire Senate hopeful Kelly Ayotte in July of 2010, Sarah Palin remarked that she and her family were getting ready for a trip to Alaska's Kodiak Island. She wrote:
"As we work and sightsee on America's largest island, we'll get to view more majestic bears, so now is a good time to draw attention to the political equivalent of the species."

Kodiak Island, while quite large, does not actually win the title of America's Largest Island. That honor goes to Hawaii, which is about 500 square miles larger.
During a speech at a Right to Life fundraising banquet in Wisconsin in November of 2009, Sarah Palin discussed the redesign of US coins. Specifically, she took issue with the decision to move the phrase "In God We Trust" to the very edge of the coins.
"Who calls a shot like that?," she asked. "Who makes a decision like that? It's a disturbing trend."
The implication was clear - Democrats and the Obama Administration were to blame for the decision, part of a recent "trend" de-emphasizing the importance of God in America. The argument echoed a common conspiratorial e-mail that had been circulated among conservatives for years.
It turns out, the new coins with the moved slogan were not the work of fiendish anti-God Democrats, but were commissioned by Congress back in 2005...when it was controlled by Republicans. Also, President George W. Bush had signed off on the redesign.
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During a 2008 campaign stop in Laconia, New Hampshire, Palin elicited some boos and jeers from the crowd when she referred to the Granite State as part of America's "Great Northwest".
Palin had her first significant sit-down interview after accepting the VP nomination with ABC News on September 11th, 2008. During the interview, she was asked about meeting foreign heads of state. Palin responded that she was just one of many who had never met a foreign head of state before running on the presidential ticket:

"I have not, and I think if you go back in history and if you ask that question of many vice presidents, they may have the same answer that I just gave you."

It turns out, this is not just false, but spectacularly so. In the last 32 years, EVERY vice president had met with a foreign head of state before taking office. Every one. In fact, since WWII, the only VP likely to share Palin's lack of familiarity with meeting heads of state was Spiro Agnew. And we all know how well HIS tenure as VP worked out. Well, maybe Sarah Palin doesn't. (Sarah, he resigned from office after pleading no contest to not reporting 1967 income to the IRS!)