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Originally Posted by buggyone
I do not know either of you but I would seriously doubt if Sarah Palin is smarter than either of you.
The 54 states by Pres. Obama was a gaffe and anyone can slip. However, Palin did not know where Germany is on a map, thought she had foreign relations skill because Alaska is close to Russia, thought the Queen of England was the head of government, did not know of two Koreas, etc.
She can orate with the best of them - but dumb as a box of lint.
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I will take the middle ground here. I think that many people on this board have as much intellectual capacity as Ms. Pallin. At the same time, she is not dumb or she could not have fooled as many good people as she has. My feeling is she was rather insular, having spent many years in a small town in a very small state which is isolated from the rest of the U.S. geographically. She did not, in my opinion, posess the gravitas to be the Vice President of the nation. I think calling her dumb is not giving her enough credit for the things she has accomplished, but did she have enough intellectual capacity, or the ability to work through the kind of weighty issues a President would have to handle, not close in my opinion. (I'm guessing this will elicit several responses as to the current POTUS's intellect, experience, etc. so knock yourselves out).