Most of her answers remind me of how I would react in college when faced with an essay question and I knew that I had spent too much time carousing to study for it beforehand, with one crucial difference: when in that situation, I would use the question to start to frame an answer.
Q: "Where is Paris? Discuss."
A: "The location of Paris near the central portion of the European country of France, which as its capital the city of Paris."
That at least shows that I know something about the topic, just not enough, so I padded the answer. I wouldn't get full marks but I would get at least something.
Sarah Palin, on the other hand, knows so little about most things that the Rove boys tried to make her cram some stuff, and she's too dimwitted to try and relate what she has crammed to the question being asked. Which is why when Katie Couric asked her to simply compare and contrast the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, she started spouting keywords like a Google AdSense bot gone wild: "stay the course", "don't blink", "victory", "9/11", "they want to get us". All fine and dandy, but not an answer to the question.
Why do we focus so much time on how ill-prepared she is? It wouldn't matter if she was running for mayor of Bumblefuck, Alaska, or to be the governor of a huge state (geographically) with a smaller population than most state college systems (the University of California probably has more students enrolled than live in the entire 49th state). But she was chosen to be the person who could conceivably have to take over should the worst happen. Her choice speaks to the bad judgment of the chooser. Her choice speaks to the cynicism of her party (we can put a trained monkey in the VP slot and people would vote for her, plus we can manipulate her behind the scenes and still run this country bwahahahahaha). Her choice speaks to the undereducated voting population of this country (because in a civilized country, her nomination as the VP for a major party would have had her been laughed out of town).
Hm. These must be those interesting times that those Chinese people are always talking about.