After puzzling through her answer for a while, I think I've decoded what she meant to say, or was trying to say:

I personally believe that many Americans are unable to do so because some people in our nation don't have maps... a situation that is even more dire in countries like South Africa and Iraq. Our education system should improve, which would benefit the US, but we should also make efforts to export our education system to help countries like South Africa, Iraq, and Asian countries, so we will be able to build a better future for our children.

The critical connecting element that makes the whole speech hard to understand is that when she says "everywhere like such as", she means "this situation is as common or worse everywhere, and here are some examples."

I won't comment on the intrinsic irony of her desire to export the US educational system.

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No matter what, she sounded a lot smarter then Bush!

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I don't know what to say but somehow I fell better for having seen this post.

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And you've had personal experience way over there in Singapore, a country that doesn't even have a true democracy?

I'd have to refer you to the no politics rule that Head-Fi has. Even Bush is smart enough to read the sticky and adhere to it. Must be that Harvard education (in which he had a higher GPA than his opponet, John Kerry).

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I'm not sure calling out a truly horrible public speaker that happens to be a politician is inherently about politics any more than this thread is inherently about beauty pageants. And do you need personal experience to judge how intelligent someone sounds??? How many posters here know Miss South Carolina?

I have to respectfully disagree though. Miss South Carolina makes Bush seem like Shakespeare (or at least Kerry).

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I was thinking the same thing.

COLUMBIA, S.C. (AP) - This time, the question was a little easier for
Miss Teen South Carolina.

After being stumped by a Miss Teen USA pageant question on live
television Friday night, Lauren Caitlin Upton's confused, mangled
response has been drawing a lot of attention.

The 18-year-old got a chance to redeem herself Tuesday on NBC's
"Today" show when she was again asked why one-fifth of Americans can't
locate the U.S. on a map.

"I would love to re-answer that question," Upton said. "Well
personally, my friends and I, we know exactly where the United States
is on our map. I don't know anyone else who doesn't. And if the
statistics are correct, I believe there should be more emphasis on
geography."

That was much better than her previous response, which included "U.S.
Americans" and mentions of South Africa and "the Iraq."

A YouTube video of Upton has drawn a couple million hits and thousands
of comments, many of them with harsh remarks for the Lexington High
School graduate who plans to attend Appalachian State University in
Boone, N.C.

Upton was taking her flubbed answer - and the attention - in stride.

"Everything did come at me at once. I was overwhelmed and I made a
mistake. Everybody makes a mistake. I'm human," she said Tuesday. "I
seriously think I only heard about one or two words of the actual
question."

Upton's former principal Creig Tyler remembered her as a well-rounded student.

"She took college-prep and honors courses and performed well," Tyler
told The (Columbia) State newspaper.

Miss Teen Colorado Hilary Carol Cruz won the crown. Upton was third runner-up.

I don't care how good of a student she was, when the question is about locating the US on a map and you start talking about South Africa and the Iraq, something is clearly wrong.

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The same people who came up with "Smuckers"???

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I get what you are saying, but I don't thing you will find many Canadians who refer to themselves as American. While Canada is in North America, the term American [on its own] generally only refers to those from the United States.

As for the video, someone at work sent it to me today and, WOW.