It ain't what she said, it was the setting and circumstances. While they were flying around the lower 48, she didn't have the balls (yep, balls)
to say that. All country, patriot, salt of the earth American. She gets in front of a foreign crowd and low and behold - she seeks to gain approval and praise by trashing her country. Yeah, Bush was bought and paid for. But dont you Fracking dare stand on foreign soil in front a foreign crowd and seek their approval by throwing any part of this country under the bus.