The Side Eye: 'Africa Is A Country'

The Side Eye: 'Africa Is A Country'

Rick Santorum at the 'Republican National Security Debate' last night said: "Africa was a country on the brink of complete meltdown and chaos" - naturally. He's no better off than his primary rival Michele Bachmann, who doesn't know that Libya is in Africa (below). We loooove our GOP candidates in this country.



​Photo illustration by Kaushik Kalidindi, Okayplayer.
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