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Sarah Palin Incompetence

Date	Type	Summary of Incompetence
04/12/09	Incompetence	Alaskan Republicans' biggest complaint is that Governor Palin is disengaged from the legislative process. She won't take positions on bills, includin...
11/05/08	Ignorance	Palin did not know that Africa was a continent or what countries were in NAFTA
10/20/08	Ignorance	Palin overstates the power and role of the Vice President with the US Senate
When asked by a student what the Vice President does, Palin erroneously replied: "They’re in charge of the U.S. Senate so if they want to they can really get in there with the senators and make a lot of good policy changes."
09/30/08	Ignorance	When asked she could not [or refused to] name a specific newspaper or magazine she reads
09/30/08	Ignorance	Palin was a journalism major in college, but in her Katie Couric interview, she could not name one specific news source that she reads. "Um, all of t...
09/25/08	Ignorance	Palin gives a rambling & convoluted response to a question about Russia
09/18/08	Ignorance	Palin gave a rambling, clumsy, convoluted response to a question about energy, her supposed area of expertise.
09/17/08	Incompetence	Palin refused to share an emergency dispatch operation with Palmer, Wasilla's town rival, so she got earmark money for her own system. "Now we have 2...
09/17/08	Failure	She put higher priority on a $15 million sports complex rather than a sewage treatment plant. The sports complex is now viewed as a budget-busting wh...
09/14/08	Incompetence	Palin was the first mayor of Wasilla with a full-time city administrator who did most of the actual, real work.
09/12/08	Ignorance	Palin Links Iraq to Sept. 11 In Talk to Troops in Alaska
09/11/08	Ignorance	When Charles Gibson asked "what insight into Russian actions does the proximity of the state give you?" Palin replied, "they’re our next door neighbo...
09/11/08	Ignorance	When interviewed, she was unable to explain Bush's foreign policy principles commonly called the "Bush Doctrine."
09/11/08	Gaffe
09/08/08	Ignorance	She incorrectly believed privately owned Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae were run by the government and said they "Got too big and too expensive to the ta...
09/02/08	Incompetence	She was forced to hire a fulltime administrator as she faced a recall vote for precipitous firings.
09/02/08	Incompetence	As Governor, she provided little guidance and direction to the Legislature on budgets.
09/01/08	Ignorance	Palin had to use detailed notecards to directly read answers to questions in debates when she ran for Governor.
09/01/08	Ignorance	Incorrectly thought the Pledge of Allegiance was written by our founding fathers (it was written in 1892)
08/29/08	Failure	When Palin took over as mayor, Wasilla had zero debt; when she left office 6 years later it had $20 million in debt ($3000 per resident).
07/25/08	Failure	Palin proceeded with construction on a Wasilla sports complex without closing on the land, ultimately costing the city $1.5 million.
07/11/08	Incompetence	She allocated $500 million subsidy for a gas pipeline project awarded to a Canadian company, TransCanada, rather than negotiate with an existing priv...
06/25/08	Ignorance	She asked when interviewed, "What exactly does the VP do every day?"