US vice-presidential hopeful Sarah Palin has become the victim of a prank phone call by a Canadian comedian posing as the French president.

Marc Antoine Audette convinced Alaska's governor she was speaking to Nicolas Sarkozy during a six-minute chat aired on a Montreal radio programme.

Topics discussed ranged from the beauty of Mr Sarkozy's wife, Carla Bruni, to the prospect of a joint hunting trip.

A spokesperson for Mrs Palin said she was "mildly amused" by the prank.

At one point during the phone call, aired three days before the US election, Mr Audette told Mrs Palin he could see her as president one day.

Laughingly, the Republican candidate replied: "Maybe in eight years."

BBC News

Cool - she's human.

If someone sets out to deceive well the results may be temporarily what they wanted but not for the long term they need.

I see her as president.. in 2012.

Once Obamaclause fails to show and pay people's electric bills, etc, I firmly expect the needle to swing the other way.

If that is all the Republicans have to offer in 2012, I see 4 more years of Obama.

You'd be surprised what people will do when they're pissed because they've been lied to - especially when money's involved.

It's all moot anyway... Aztec calendar ends in Dec 2012 - something about 'collision with a comet' comes to mind.

If that happens, I'm afraid I'm going to have to dump acid in my ears so I don't have to listen to that godawful annoying as hell voice of hers. Yikes.

I feel the same way about the current President-Elect Barack Hussein Obama.

Don'tcha hate when you're stuck listening to someone whose voice is apparently the frequency of your third vertebrae?

Hmmm ... perhaps, that is why people that have plugs in their ears doing music, i.e., didn't hear what was said by anybody-sounds almost like an eternal LSD space out-maybe, burn out would be a better discription?

What?

Damn, that's right. I forgot about the world ending in '12.

I just personally hope the reps have something better to offer than Palin, but that is just me.

Couldn't agree more.

and I suppose that you don't like car salesmen either.