Palin Punk'd, the Annotated Version

Correction: U of Michigan tution for Arts/Science undergrad is $16,440/year. Still pretty high!

I find it really sad that people like “Equalityrpt” who call Canadians filthy are so narrow minded that they can’t see that they are being told “they’re the best” to keep them from seeing how much better off they can be.

I am Canadian. I have free health care. I can go to any part of Canada and see ANY doctor, surgeon, or specialist, or go to any hospital and pay nothing. I can get an MRI, CAT scan, mammograms, blood work, get my children delivered, chemo if I need it, medical checkups and even JUST reassurances from a doctor and it costs me nothing. My medication costs much less than in the US and if I lose my job I can still go to the doctor and don’t have to worry about how I am going to pay for my or my children’s medical care.

Universal health care is standard in Canada, UK and even in developing countries like Brazil.

Even Canada’s education system provides greater access. As an example, university rankings put the University of Michigan at 18 and the Canadian university McGill at 20. Pretty equal in a ranking of 100, so shouldn’t costs for students be similar too? Just tuition and fees for an out of state student interested in Arts/Science to attend Michigan is $33,069/year. While at McGill it is $5,378.40. This doesn’t include room, boarding food etc.

Minimum wage in Canada is set at the provincial level and ranges: $8.00-$10.00/hr In the US, it’s $6.55. Even with a lower dollar Canada seems to be in a better situation.

Canada has THE best banking system in the world, followed by Sweden. The US’ banking system is rated 40.

Canada is a FREE and DEMOCRATIC nation. We are not Socialist. We watch the same TV shows, buy the same stuff off our shelves and are both Capitalists countries.

So Wake UP America! Wake UP!

On the name of the Canadian PM, I'll cut just a bit of slack because of the accent ("Stef Carse"-"Stephen Harper"--spoken with that goofy accent over the phone by someone believed to be French) and because of the protocol calling for not "gotcha-ing" a foreign leader. I can picture a frog screwing something like that up.

Tapper said Quebec has a premier, not a PM. The two terms are used interchangeably. Now who's the screwup. As for not knowing the PM/Premier of Quebec, that province has nothing to do with Alaska, and I suspect most Canadians premiers don't know who the governor of Utah is. (They might know Louisiana, though.)

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Talk about fishy timing....here it is and from Canadians? Tell them to keep their filthy crude humor north of the border....we Americans do not appreciate it one bit!!

I think Sarah Palin's reputation as a ding-bat, airhead, small-mind, extreme right-wing, creationist, ignorant, fruitcake has been solidified.

How can any hardworking, REAL American want this woman to have even the smallest possibility to balance the budget, send troops into battle, and negotiate treaties?

$500 bribe? What are you drinking? McCain is after you with a $5000 bribe that he calls health insurance. You know how much health insurance that will buy a family of four? About 3 months' worth. Plus he will have to raise taxes (and start a patriotic draft) to pay for the invasions of Iran, Syria, Pakistan...all in the name of security. Yup, let's keep torturing prisoners, holding people illegally in Gitmo, making friends all around the world just like Bush. How can so many people think that will work?

I do not expect President Obama to save me from anything, nor do I expect huge tax cuts. the truth is, this country is in horrible shape, as are many of the states, and when the government is so far in debt, state funds are cut, which means city funds are cut, which translates to jobs and services. We need a tax increase, and if it doesn't happen federally, you can bet your town is asking for more. Mostly, we need to get out of the Middle East and put that $10 BILLION dollars a month to work at home.
Do you McCain supporters foresee anything other than bombs and troops in his administration? If a war economy is so great, how comes ours is tanking? If we're saving the world, why do they hate us? It's time to step back from the Bush isolationist, everybody wants a democracy theory and get back to the Constitution. I do not want to be spied on, taxed for a wrong war, nor watch my grandchildren grow up paying the debts of this President. Obama is not perfect, but compared to the alternative, he's damn close.

Isn't it reassuring to know that if that prank call comes at 3:00 AM, our dear Sarah will be ready??? God forbid this airhead gets anywhere near the presidency!

If the left wing media were really after Palin, they would be investigating the Alaska Independence Party and her and Todd's connections. They would be investigating the building of their mansion at city expense. They might investigate why a couple who are millionaires only paid 15% in taxes on a reported $160,000 in income. They would be investigating her medical records, which she promised to produce. They might be investigating her ties to felon Ted Stevens, who was her mentor in getting all that pork money to Wasilla and Alaska. And how about the ethics charges? What if the Personnel Board ALSO finds her guilty?
Palin put herself in the spotlight, and has a ton of personal baggage that I bet McCain wishes he had known about. None of this is the media's doing...they put her put there and people found out things on their own..the media followed the stories and did not create them.

All of you republicans can dream on about this election and this bimbo.

History, and the entire world, will laugh in your face for the mere suggestion that this moron is in any way capable of anything but stealing from the very people she is supposed to represent.

But wait, isn't France a big bad socialist country? And Miss Sarah called Obama all kinds of names and got all kinds of ugly crowd reactions when she brought up his horrible "socialist" ideas. I guess it's only OK in Alaska and France, or maybe if Sarah Ok's it. otherwise, beware the demons who want to take from the rich and give to the needy...that would be way too Christian, and that sounds like...the progressive tax structure in the USA!

The left really is out there. If Palin had responded to the misidentification of Stef Carse instead of Harper as the Prime Minister of Canada, you all would be screaming, "OMGOMG what if that HAD been the real Sarkozy and she had corrected the President of France!!!1!11! She would have caused an international incident!! This woman is too stupid and undiplomatic to lead!!"

Biden mispeaks regularly. Obama has changed his positions so many times you need box scores to know what position he is playing today. But, if Palin or McCain were eating and asked for grape jelly with their biscuit and then called the waitress over and asked instead for strawberry jam, the headlines on ABC, CBS, MSNBC, etc and every liberal blog would be, "Republicans so indecisive can't order breakfast". Then there would be 200 responses about how stupid Palin is and that if she can't be decisive about jelly at breakfast how can she make policy decisions. The worst part is that the left is completely oblivious of their own hypocrisy and double standards.

I think millions of BO supporters are about to be punked if he gets elected.

He's not going to save you.

You won't be able to pay your mortgage, go to college, buy a computer, pay for food and gas with that $500 bribe.

I feel sorry for you.

Jamba,

I just wish we had one more week before the election, so SNL could do a skit on THE PHONE CALL FROM FRANCE.

The fact that she was pranked is no big deal. It was the childish way she spoke with Sarkosy that was scary.

She could be the VP!

Sarah Palin lives in a delusional fantasy world where adults are still in charge. She just doesn't get the new reality of a world run by perpetual teen-agers. Was Harry Truman ever pranked? Obviously no one is going to prank Obama. That would be racist. Think about how low we're stooping nowadays.

And too think.. this woman.. could have been our next VP.. and may sooner or later the President. To the rest of the world.. we are one big joke! Someone wake me up on Wednesday.

Palin as VP... LOL!

Why did she stay on the line? Didn't she realize something was up?

I stood in line 3 hours Tuesday to hear Obama in Norfolk, Va, 4 hours Thursday in Virginia Beach to hear Obama and 3.5 hours in Virginia Beach yesterday to vote for him. We do not hear Obama ridiculing McCain or Palin. Come on folks, we need to be GRACIOUS WINNERS!

Palin's ignorance was on display and now will be broadcast world wide. She is so clueless that she thinks it is proper protocol for her to receive a personal call from Sarkozy, and she addresses him as "Nicholas", instead of "Prime Minister" as if he were the waiter or busboy. She never picked up on the tasteless clues that this was not a real call. Her ego surpasses McCain's, her handlers are even more stupid and inexperienced than she is and she deserves to go back to Alaska in shame for thinking she is in any way qualified even to be Mayor of Wasilla, much less VEEP.

This performance of hers give new meaning to "ignoramus". She is too ignorant to even know she is ignorant.

No wonder she thinks she is the second coming of Christ.