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Anyone else think she is starting to campaign more for her own future aspirations and not her and McCain.
GREENVILLE, N.C. - After weeks of limited contact with the news media, Republican vice presidential hopeful Sarah Palin ventured to the back of her campaign plane Tuesday and answered several questions from reporters.
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The Alaska governor discussed why she and the McCain campaign have made an issue of Democrat Barack Obama's relationship with 1960s-era radical Bill Ayers amid a market meltdown that has many voters fearing for their investments. Palin repeatedly has claimed during the past two days that Obama had launched his political career with help from Ayers, a founder of the violent Weather Underground group responsible for bombings during the Vietnam War era.
Obama campaign aides said the Illinois senator did not know of Ayers' past when they first met in Chicago. Palin told reporters the lack of clarity about their relationship was precisely why it was relevant to raise it on the campaign trail.
"It's relevant to connect that association he has with Ayers, not so much he as a person Ayers, but the whole situation and the truthfulness and the judgment there that you must question if again he's not being forthright in all of his answers, "Palin said. "It makes you wonder about the forthrightness, the truthfulness of the plans he's telling Americans with regards to the economic recovery."
Pressed on whether she was saying Obama was dishonest, Palin said no.
"But in terms of judgment, in terms of being able to answer a question forthrightly, it has two different parts to it, that judgment and that truthfulness," she said.
Palin said also claimed her husband, Todd, is "an open book" on the controversy back home involving allegations that the couple pressured state officials to fire the governor's former brother-in-law, a state trooper.
"Nobody has anything to hide," she said.
Both Palin and her husband had refused to be interviewed in the state Legislature's probe, and Palin said the inquiry "has been kind of a goat rope, very partisan and very controversial type of investigation."
Palin reiterated her disappointment that John McCain's campaign had pulled out of Michigan, saying she had hoped to share the GOP ticket's economic message with blue-collar voters there. And she said she'd love to appear on "Saturday Night Live" with Tina Fey, who's made famous a hilarious caricature of Palin.
"I love her, she's a hoot and she's so talented. It would be fun to meet her, imitate her, and keep on giving her new material," Palin said of Fey.
Reflecting on the campaign in which she was transformed from relative obscurity into a visible national figure, Palin said she'd been "energized" by the experience and had high hopes for victory in the Nov. 4 election.
"We're at the halfway point and there is a lot that can happen and will happen in this campaign still to go," Palin said. "I've been in an underdog position quite often in my life and so has John McCain and we've both come out victoriously from that underdog position."
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Anyone else think she is starting to campaign more for her own future aspirations and not her and McCain.
Her own aspirations? Of what? She'll never win anything big in the lower 48.
She's the flavor of the month because she came out of nowhere, is a good looking woman and that's about it.
She's the political equivalent to any person who goes on Dancing With the Stars.
Anyone else find it disturbing she went after Biden on the same day he buried his mother-in-law?
no since they are 28 days before the election
she will be a good public speaking in 4 years
She can't take a day off of attacking the VP candidate while he buries his mother-in-law? I see you're objective.
most people hate their mother-in-law
Most people hate you.
Ergo... you are a mother-in-law?
That would actually make ducks most people's mother-in-law.
I see you haven't lost your touch ducks.
I bet you put a poll up here
over 70% here hate their mother-in-law
And over 70% hate this movie.
Who ing cares?
He's not objective. He is a compassionate conservative.
She started that at the vp debate, as I've said.
What world are you living in? Palin dominates the entire election coverage. Even overshadowing Obama's huge "celebrity" status. We just had a presidential debate and the talking heads still can't keep themselves from mentioning Sarah Palin. Has there ever been a vp candidate with so much draw power? You'll be hearing about Sarah Palin long after election day.
Sarah is going to need to hit the gym as much as the communication courses. She ain't getting any younger and there's so much botox can do for you. The other drawback is that shes not going to have the 'Im new' factor going for her then. That said, Im pretty sure she'll be the next Rep prez candidate. I would pay to watch a race between her and Hillary.
That would've been one fun catfight to watch. Probably no chance of ever seeing it after tonight though.
Hillary / Palin would be a nightmare. It would make me long for the days of Bush / Gore.
I really like how you edited my post and let out how I said SHE'S THE FLAVOR OF THE MONTH.
She's not dominating (though that is subsiding) the election coverage because she's such a great politician that EVERYONE likes.
She's the flavor of the month because a month ago she became a household name the day she was announced as the running mate of John McCain. That has never happened before in American politics, that someone of such little relavence, little stature was selected to become the first female VP selection on the repub ticket, not to mention she's good looking and somewhat charismatic in a "gosh darn it" kind of way.
We live in a world were people who make youtube videos get 15 minutes of fame, where people on reality shows are relevant for a few minutes until that show ends and they're off it.
When the repubs lose the election in November, a month after, she will be on NO ONE's mind.
I like my mother in law.
She has her flaws, but is a nice gal.
At leaste they could attack each other mercilessly without being seriously accused of being sexist.
Very possible, and I at this point hope she becomes our president in 2013. It definately helps to put McCain in the White House. She is then second chiar.
SaraCuda '12
Wow, being a bit sexist, aren't we?
I have seen many women who age well, and she appears she will be one of them. She definately has more Charisma than Biden or McCain.
Who whould she be against in 2012, 0r 2016? Charisma is a key factor, and goes beyond appearance. How many people have that quality more than she does?
Unless you are suggesting that tax increases on small business killed his mother in law, then I'm not sure what's so disturbing about it.
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