Palin don't know much about history

Here we go, everyone!

Sarah Palin is hands-down the strangest vice-presidential pick by a major American political party not just in my lifetime but also in my parents' lifetimes - even more so than Dan Quayle. Palin is a bit like Quayle, in fact. She's a gaffe-a-minute, laugh-a-minute character.

If you're running for Vice-President, you should at least know a little about the Pledge of Allegiance. But Palin doesn't.

When Palin was running for Governor of Alaska for the first time in 2006, the right-wing Eagle Forum sent her a questionnaire about what she thought about the phrase "under God" in the Pledge.

She replied, "If it was good enough for the founding fathers, its [sic] good enough for me and I'll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance."

A big problem with this: The Pledge wasn't written until 1892, and "under God" wasn't added by Congress until 1954. The Founding Fathers were history by the time the Pledge was penned.

This Sarah Palin is just weird. Really weird. Right-wing? Certainly. But more than anything else, weird.

(Source: http://journals.democraticunderground.com/top10/350)