This Is What They’re Calling “Stopping The Bleeding”

Say it ain’t so, Joe, there you go again pointing backwards again. You preferenced [sic] your whole comment with the Bush administration. Now doggone it, let’s look ahead and tell Americans what we have to plan to do for them in the future. You mentioned education and I’m glad you did. I know education you are passionate about with your wife being a teacher for 30 years, and god bless her. Her reward is in heaven, right? I say, too, with education, America needs to be putting a lot more focus on that and our schools have got to be really ramped up in terms of the funding that they are deserving. Teachers needed to be paid more. I come from a house full of school teachers. My grandma was, my dad who is in the audience today, he’s a schoolteacher, had been for many years. My brother, who I think is the best schoolteacher in the year, and here’s a shout-out to all those third graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School, you get extra credit for watching the debate…

— Sarah Palin, on education

Uh, nucular [sic] weaponry, of course, would be the be-all, end-all of just too many people and too many parts of our planet so those dangerous regimes again cannot be allowed to acquire nucular [sic] weapons, period.

—Sarah Palin, on nuclear proliferation

UPDATE: Oh, and next time someone uses the “Palin’s just as, or more qualified, than Obama” line, keep this in mind…

Before they were into politics
Obama: Community organizer and activist (1985 – 1988)
Palin: Miss Alaska beauty contest (1984)

Education
Obama: Columbia University and Harvard Law School, President of the Harvard Law Review (1983, 1988 – 1991)
Palin: Bachelor of Science degree in communications-journalism from the University of Idaho (1987)

Jobs pre-politics
Obama: Civil rights attorney, taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law School (1993 – 1996)
Palin: Sports reporter for a local TV station, worked in commercial fishing (1988-1996)

First elected offices held
Obama: 7 years in the Illinois State Senate (1996 – 2004)
Palin: City council member and the mayor of Wasilla, pop. less than 10,000 (1996 – 2002)

Next elected office held
Obama: Congress as Senator from Illinois (2005 – Present)
Palin: Governor of Alaska (2006 – Present)