So, to recap.

The Vice Presidential candidate said that it was time for “no more ‘politics as usual’ and somebody’s big, fat resume maybe that shows decades and decades in that Washington establishment” without realising that she was describing the Republican nominee for the Presidency.

She had never left the North American continent until last year.

She has never met a foreign head of state.

She initially said the war in the Middle East was “a task that is from God”, tried to claim she didn’t say it, and then conceded “I don’t know if the task is from God.”

And these are just the initially-released highlights.

I didn’t think the world could fall into more dangerous hands than John McCain’s, but……