Country Second

What did he know and when did he know it? I mean Senator John McCain. Now we learn from Fox News (!) that Sarah Palin, the Heartbeat Away lady, thought that Africa was a country rather than a continent. As Andrew Sullivan says, “Now all I want to say here, ahem, is that they realized all this about this person within a few days of picking her and yet they went ahead for two months bullshitting us ...and risking the live possibility that she could be president of the United States at a moment's notice after next January.”