I should point out that you are complimenting her there. You say that she is the 'impersonation of everything wrong', not the embodiment of. Which also shows that the Germans don't know anything about the US.
As an American-- Arrgh! Arrgh! God, we can be such a bunch of clods.
I admit, I'm biased against Palin, for her wishful-thinking politics, her paint-peeling voice, her surfer-dude/ski-bum academic record, and all the rest. So I realize I won't convince anyone who doesn't already agree with me.
But, Jeez! I'm willing to bet that most Europeans, and educated people in most of the world-- let's say, in the countries that bought our fraudulent investments, just to draw a line-- know gobs more about us than the average US college graduate knows about all their countries put together.
And if you want to play Language Policeman, let's try this experiment: you go ahead and post an opinion writing in a language you've learned, other than English, and we can let a native speaker judge your opinion based on grammar, word choice, and so on.