Posted on 11/26/2010 4:41:29 PM PST by Babu
US conservative standard bearer Sarah Palin has accused critics of unfairly singling her out, after a slip of the tongue rekindled questions about her credibility. After mistakenly urging radio listeners to "stand with our North Korean allies," the Alaskan, who looks increasingly likely to run for the White House in 2012, protested that President Barack Obama had made similar slips and not been singled out.
"They couldn't resist the temptation to turn a simple one word slip-of-the-tongue of mine into a major political headline," Palin wrote on her Facebook page late Thursday.
The former governor pointed to instances in which Obama had mistakenly said there were 57 US states, instead of 50, and claimed the country was founded 20 centuries ago -- without, she said, stirring up the same kind of criticism.
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Palin was particularly criticized as a vice presidential candidate at the last election in 2008 for her alleged lack of knowledge on key foreign policy issues.
In the Facebook posting Palin tried to beef up her foreign policy credentials, claiming she was often "ahead of the curve" on issues relating to the Korean peninsula.
"The one word slip occurred yesterday during one of my seven back-to-back interviews wherein I was privileged to speak to the American public about the important, world-changing issues before us."
"I corrected myself seconds after my slip-of-the-tongue, and... made it abundantly clear that pressure should be put on China to restrict energy exports to the North Korean regime."
(Excerpt) Read more at breitbart.com ...
Hmm.
The media made little mention of Obama’s pronunciation of “CORPSMAN”.
LOL! I remember that. Another unreported obama gaff. How many are there now. That may be an interesting thread.
Bush absorbed this crap like a sponge. It ois great to see someone fight back.
AND she is right too.
The liberals are a pack of suck butt for the Dem party.
Not to foeget BO & “My muslim faith” which the MSM let pass without comment of course.
Palin mentioned North Korea, fine, I am furious with Bambi’s lack of everything to allow South Korea to spit in our face whrn they turned down the treaty with America in order to do business with Europe. He is so damn weak and ineffective to allow those Koreans to insult the US and now they want our help staving off the North, just incredible.
Indeed. She is all of that and much much more.
She could add,”I think it’s fair to say, No. 1, any of us have had slips of the tongue; and No. 2, that the mainstream media acted stupidly.”
Maybe Christmas."
By Christmas we will be at war with the lame duck Congress. We will need General Palin with all that she can muster.
Cripes - I can't find anything in this article Obammy said about her gaffe....
LOL... Is that a picture of a Nobel Peace Leaurate looking at which countries to be ‘converted’ to US states?
“So thats what America looks like”Oh and only 50 states.
She hits back, like this guy did at the European Union meeting last month:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fyq7WRr_GPg&feature=player_embedded#!
If it wasn't for Sarah keeping the focus on what is important we would just have the media telling us how nicely Nerobama plays while the fires rage.
“My Muslim faith”,
I’m thankful that someone is finally talking about the 57(Muslim states) That was just the worst. The first thing every school child learn in America is how many states there are-oh yeah BO was in Indonesia learning about Muslim states. This needs to get out there. Now it will.
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