Nuclear like Bush Posted by Moira Whelan

A little fun with Sarah Palin's pronunciation of "nuclear"...remind you of someone?

Seriously, Carter was attacked for this, as was Bush, and there's a reason: it's used as a metaphor for mastery of this very basic foreign policy issue: non-proliferation. The question is fair game: If you can't pronounce it, how will you handle it? We can have a debate about the validity of that claim, but at very least, it's something debate prep should have corrected.

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[Peace]

Palin also said that nuclear war was "very bad," and she stated that the civil war general McClellan was in charge in Afghanistan instead of General McKiernan.

[Howl]

Palin couldn't pronounce 'nuclear'; Biden couldn't pronounce 'characterize.' Remember that? Probably not. Confirmation bias strikes again!

[Bridger]

He got tonguetied at the end of a long response, and you're equating that with Palin's continual issues with grammar, word choice, and pronunciation?

Amazing. Stupid. But amazing.

[Diodotus]

Should have corrected... unless they're having her ape bush on the theory that his "folksiness" got him elected in the first place against a smart, liberal elitist. Could be figuring that's what she's got going for her.