Sarah Palin: “We Gotta Stand With Our North Korean Allies”

[mistersandman]

Sarah Palin’s choosing sides in the conflict between North and South Korea–and picking Kim Jong Il?

Couldn’t be. But there she is on Glenn Beck’s radio show saying just that: “This speaks to a bigger picture here that certainly scares me in terms of our national security policy. But obviously we’ve gotta stand with our North Korean allies.”

The host helpfully corrects her, “South Korean allies.”

The scrambled tongue moment–as that’s surely what Palin will say it was–does bring up a charge made in John Heilemann and Mark Halperin’s book, Game Change, which portrays Palin as dangerously uninformed–a candidate for the vice presidency who didn’t understand that Korea was divided:

 

She knew nothing. She had to be taken through World War I, World War II, the Cold War, and Palin was not aware there was a difference between North and South Korea. She continued to insist that Iraq was behind 9/11; and when her son was being sent off to Iraq, she couldn’t describe who we were fighting.

Now, in fairness to Sarah Palin, she’s got a lot on her plate right now–a book tour, a reality show, and a daughter who landed in third place on Dancing with the Stars–so remembering arcane international details like which country has a lunatic dictator with nuclear weapons and which one has American troops can be difficult.

Maybe it’s time to make some notes on her palm?

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This is pretty much a travesty.  This is not the time for the potential GOP presidential candidate to be making these kinds of diplomatic mistakes.  Without significant political maneuvering, we could find ourselves embroiled in a nuclear conflict.

Comments

[hnsnrachel]

To be fair to Sarah Palin, her comments in the build up to that slip makes it clear that she was talking about South Korea and that it's a slip of the tongue. It's still not a great thing to say, but less a sign of not knowing her stuff and more one of those moments everyone has, even Obama with his "57 states" claim. Even though I'm a democrat, I feel sorry for Palin when she gets jumped on with so much more anger and derision than i've really ever seen heaped on any other politian than maybe Hillary Clinton once people had decided that she couldn't win the nomination even though mathematically she actually could. Palin should have thought for just a second longer before she answered the question, knowing her propensity to have words she doesn't really mean come out, but I think it's far from the news story it's being made into (as were most of the silly things Obama said). They all do it, not just her.