Clueless

Hey, remember when you were back in school, and final exam week was coming up, but there was a lot of cricket on, and so you didn't study as much as you should have - though you felt confident that you had all bases covered - and then you sat down for the first one, in Economics, and froze when you realized you didn't even understand the basis of the question let alone know anything about answering it, and decided the best option would be to babble something about demand and supply, and hope Mrs. Dhanani was senile enough to not notice that you had no idea what you were talking about? Well, I didn't remember all that, until I saw this:



I also love the NYT's description of that little exchange:

At times visibly nervous, at others appearing to hew so closely to prepared answers that she used the exact same phrases repeatedly, Ms. Palin most visibly stumbled when she was asked by Mr. Gibson if she agreed with the Bush doctrine. Ms. Palin did not seem to know what he was talking about. Mr. Gibson, sounding like an impatient teacher, informed her that it meant the right of “anticipatory self-defense.”

I love that instead of sugar coating it, they flat-out said that she "did not seem to know what he was talking about." Well, I guess there's only so much you can learn about international affairs and security studies in two weeks.