"I personally believe that US Americans are unable to do so because some people out there in our nation don't have maps and I believe that our education such as South Africa and the Iraq, everywhere, like, such as. And I believe they should, our education, over here in the U.S., should help the U.S., or help South Africa, or help the Iraq and the Asian countries, so we will be able to build up our future."
- Miss Teen South Carolina Lauren Caitlin Upton
I couldn't have said that better myself.
I don't think that clip needs any analysis. It's just a little frightening - she's obviously not alone; this bizarre response was an answer to the question, "Recent polls have shown a fifth of Americans can't locate the U.S. on a world map. Why do you think this is?"
That means more than 60.4 million people living in this country don't know where it is. Something tells me that this 20 percent and those who make up the bulk of President Bush's approval have a lot in common. Even more depressing, by some polls, more than half of all Americans believe that the world is less than 10,000 years old and that humans were hand-crafted by God.
So don't laugh at her. Much.
In related news, something else important happened. But it's the strangest thing; I don't recall what.
Oh, right. Alberto Gonzales stepped down. He played stupid in front of Congress.
At least Lauren Caitlin Upton learned that stupid is not cute at an early age.
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