Fifteen Things I Learned on the Campaign Trail*

By Sarah Palin


1.The vice president is customarily listed second on the ticket.

2. A size 4 in an Escada is more like a 2 in a Valentino.

3. The prime minister of Canada is Stephen Harper.

4. The premier of Quebec is Jean Charest.

5. How to pronounce “nuclear.”

6. I need to find a better security question for my Yahoo! Account.

7. Real plumbers join unions.

8. We are not at war with Iran.

9. Afghanistan is not a neighbor of the United States.

10. The vice president is not in charge of the Senate.

11. The First Amendment protects the press from politicians, not the other way around.

12. The New York Times, the Washington Post and the Anchorage Daily News are all newspapers, and many people read them.

13. “Going rogue” is not necessarily a good thing, either for elephants or Republicans.

14. What a community organizer does.

15. And I found out who the real Barack Obama is: He’s the President-elect of the United States of America.

*copyrighted by Tim Blunk