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Old 09-08-2008
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Re: Palin Makes Huge Gaffe: Doesn't understand Mortgage Bailout.

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Originally Posted by TheLastBoyScout View Post
It's an indefensible gaffe....

She cited that the companies had "gotten too expensive to the taxpayers" as the reason for the bailouts.

It wasn't a poorly phrased statement, it was a poorly thought and factually incorrect statement. If people start excusing her lack of understanding it smells intellectually dishonest to me.
okay well, I 'll have to put this into the file, so when someone inevitably makes a remark about obamas “Freudian slip” yesterday, we'll have to parse that too.....come on LBS.
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