Sarah Palin 'believed Queen was in charge of British forces in Iraq'

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http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/sarah-palin/9094048/Sarah-Palin-believed-Queen-was-in-charge-of-British-forces-in-Iraq.html

It's nice to know there are people who still consider the British Queen somehow relevant.

Well she's more relevant than Sarah Palin is now at least.

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I'm noticing a pattern with J. J. defending every inane thing that should be indefensible which is quite similar to his inability to own up to any erroneous statements or predictions he makes...

And "many Americans might make that mistake" is not an excuse, most Americans probably don't know anything about the differences between Sunnis and Shi'ites or tribal politics in Pakistan, but that does not mean that it's OK for the Vice-President to be just as ignorant on those topics. And it's pretty obvious from other statements Palin has made she's just as ignorant in those areas as well. That Palin is anything other than a completely clueless bumbling fool in regards to foreign policy is a position I do not understand why anyone would even bother defending today, especially as Palin is no longer relevant at all to electoral politics...

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Sheesh if you want to defend the woman for whatever inexplicable reason (as noted she has no relevance to electoral politics anymore), you might as well do it from the more logical position noted above that McCain's aides might have some bad blood against her and this isn't a completely accurate account. It's certainly more likely than that Palin said "the Queen" really meaning "the Crown" intending to inaccurately use that term as a stand-in for the government especially with the aide's reply.

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By the way, this has officially become a J. J. thread now, hasn't it?

J. J.'s devotion to defending things that can't be defended by any facts or logic is kind of inexplicable (see also Joe Paterno or the Bradley Effect nonsense). If some unpopular figure to people on the forum claimed the sun rose in the west and set in the east, we'd probably end up with a multi-page thread with him explaining either how they were probably just misinterpreted or how they could be considered correct in a sense.