There are mistakes that speak of ignorance, and mistakes that come from speaking without a teleprompter. Here is the sentence again:
“He who warned, uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.”
That is your mind going faster than your tongue. Yes, she KNEW that Paul Revere wasn’t warning the British. Her mouth combined two thoughts - Paul Revere gave warning, and the British were not going to get the guns. Let me help you:
1 - “He who warned, uh...uh by ringing those bells and making sure as he’s riding his horse through town to send those warning shots and bells that we were going to be secure and we were going to be free and we were going to be armed.” and
2 - “uh, the British that they weren’t going to be taking away our arms uh”
Significantly, there are uhs present. Anyone who speaks a lot in front of people will sometimes combine sentences in an ugly manner. If she had WRITTEN this, I’d be freaked.
But SPEAKING, with a thousand people listening (or even 2-3 in my living room, for example), using no notes and not reading a prepared script, then yes, you will get combined thoughts at times.
To be honest, I’ve never accused Obama of thinking there were 57 or 58 states. That was a tongue getting several things twisted, just as Palin now did.
What would worry me, in an election, is that we have a baby-killing, anti-free enterprise, union thug who hates America in office. And Palin is just one of the candidates I’d be proud to vote for to throw the bastard out. For the record, I’m GLAD she speaks from the heart and not from prepared transcripts. Can you imagine our socialist in chief? He speaks to little kids while using a teleprompter!
That is all your own fantasy of her thoughts. While that might be so, it is more likely she had recently heard an astute docent’s story of Paul Revere’s ride which went into how he was captured by the British and at that time did indeed warn the British that all the sound of church bells and gun shots they were hearing meant that hundreds of militiamen were turning out, and the small British force would not be able to act against them.
She said what she said. And what she said was all 100% historically accurate.