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Palin, accepting Republican nomination for VP, jabs at Obama

Thursday 04 September 2008

Sarah Palin, in accepting the Republican vice presidential nomination, talked up her small-town roots and took several swipes at the Democratic nominee for president, Barack Obama. Her running mate, John McCain, made a surprise appearance.

Thursday 04 September 2008

Read our special report on the Republican National Convention

 

Vice presidential pick Sarah Palin emerged from a political storm to bask in a rapturous welcome from the Republican convention on Wednesday, and took a swift swipe at Barack Obama.
   
Alaska Governor Palin, who will be formally anointed as John McCain's running mate on Thursday, styled herself as a scourge of the Washington elite in her high-stakes convention debut.
   
"I will be honored to accept your nomination for vice president of the United States," Palin said at the convention in Minnesota, after receiving a raucous standing ovation of several minutes.
   
"I accept the call to help our nominee for president to serve and defend America," she said.
   
Palin painted herself as an outsider, and a maverick in McCain's image, primed to go to Washington to launch a wave of reform.
   
"I'm not a member of the permanent political establishment and I've learned quickly, these past few days, that if you're not a member in good standing of the Washington elite, then some in the media consider a candidate unqualified for that reason alone.
   
"But here's a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I'm not going to Washington to seek their good opinion -- I'm going to Washington to serve the people of this country."
   
Democrats have questioned whether Palin has enough experience to serve a "heartbeat" from the presidency, but she defended her credentials, saying she was steeped in executive leadership experience.
   
"Here's how I look at the choice Americans face in this election," the 44-year-old mother of five said in her intensely anticipated address, the highlight of day three at the convention.
   
"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."
   
The speech represented a key moment in a Republican bid to quell a personal and political storm raging around Palin, which led Democrats to question McCain's judgment and the extent to which he vetted his shock choice.
   
Palin also noted she had served as a smalltown mayor in her native Alaska, saying in another swipe at Democratic presidential nominee Obama that the job was like being a community organizer "except that you have actual responsibilities."
   
Obama got his start in politics as a community organizer in Chicago after law school.
   
Since she was picked on Friday, Palin has disclosed that her unwed teenage daughter was pregnant, faced claims she abused her power as governor and mayor of a small town, and sought federal cash for programs opposed by McCain.
   
But Palin has managed to do what McCain could not in 18 months on the stump -- electrify the crucial core conservative base of the Republican Party, based on her staunch opposition to abortion and position on key social issues.
   
McCain flew into Minneapolis-St Paul airport on Wednesday, and gave Palin a warm embrace, and in full view of television cameras hugged her pregnant daughter Bristol and shook hands with the father of her child, Levi Johnston.
   
Republicans meanwhile rode to Palin's defense.
   
"Governor Palin represents a new generation," said former New York mayor Rudolph Giuliani, describing McCain as a "true American hero."
   
"She already has more executive experience than the entire Democratic ticket. She's led a city and a state."
   
But just before Palin was due to speak, new revelations about her past made headlines, as it emerged she had told ministry students in Alaska in June that US troops in Iraq were sent on a "task that is from God."
   
Former Republican presidential candidate, Mike Huckabee, meanwhile lashed out at Obama's foreign policy.
   
"Maybe the most dangerous threat of an Obama presidency is that he would continue to give madmen the benefit of the doubt," Huckabee said.
   
"If he's wrong just once, we will pay a heavy price."
   
Palin's speech comes amid signs of rising political pressure on McCain as a new poll in battleground states Iowa and Minnesota showed Obama pulling out a wide lead with only two months to go to the November 4 election.
   
A new CNN-Time poll showed Obama leading McCain 55 percent to 40 percent in Iowa and 53 percent to 41 percent in Minnesota.
   
In Ohio, the race was a statistical dead heat, with Obama, who appears to have grabbed a significant polling bounce from his convention last week in Denver, up by just 47 percent to 45 percent.

 


 

  • 08/09/2008 07:22:37 Alert a moderator

    The President has no real power anymore.

    The President of the US is just like the Queen of England. A figurehead that does what they are told, by the real power holders. In the US, that would be Wall Street, the Pentagon and mostly the WTC and the Federal Reserve.

  • 04/09/2008 18:51:35 Alert a moderator

    Hell in a handbasket

    In the US religious fundamentalists have been taking over…
    Perhaps anyone with a brain should be asking for political asylum
    Because look at whose running this insane asylum

    These people do have a chance of winning our presidential election
    This is not good…

  • 04/09/2008 18:10:08 Alert a moderator

    McCain and Palin get results

    I'm pro-choice, I opposed the Iraq war at it's beginning, and I supported the surge and reconstruction as a responsible way to bring it to a close. I choose my candidates based on character, competence and a proven record of accomplishment - not trivia, hype & gossip. I'm voting for McCain and Palin.

  • 04/09/2008 17:36:16 Alert a moderator

    We need change!!

    No matter how they try to protray themselves, bottom line is that we've seen and lived through 8 years of downward economy. Moreover, they try to defend the country from a war they created in the first place. We need change "Big Time". Can't 4 more years of this nonsense!!

  • 04/09/2008 17:24:56 Alert a moderator

    American elections

    Unfortunately, Americans do not realize that they can not win in this election. If McCain wins, they get at least 4 more years a la Bush (McCain voted > 90% with Bush in the Senate)/ If Obam,a wins he will not be able to find the money to pursue the social programs he advocates, thanks to Bush' $3.1 trillion accured deficit.

  • 04/09/2008 16:49:57 Alert a moderator

    To McCain AND PALIN

    THIS US ELCTION IS BETWEEN TRUTH & REALITY AND THE TACT OF FALSEHOOD MANIPULATION OF THE POOR BY THE INFLUENTIAL. ALL AMERICANS SHOULD BE AWARE OF THIS IN THEIR INNERMOST BEING N DO D RIGHT THING.

  • 04/09/2008 16:36:31 Alert a moderator

    To McCain AND PALIN

    I BELIEVE AND ALL AMERICANS SHOULD KNOW THAT THIS PRESIDENTIAL ELECTION IS BETWEEN TRUTH, REALITY AND HUMANITY ON THE ONE HAND (DEMOCRATS) VERSUS THE TACT OF LIES AND THE MANIPULATIVE POWER OF WEALTH AND AUTHORITY OVER THE POOR AND LESS PRIVILLEGED (REPUBLICANS) SO WE SEE WHO WINS.

  • 04/09/2008 16:25:55 Alert a moderator

    mccain

    I WANTTO KNOW THE ROLE MCCAIN HAS PLAYED SINCE THE INCEPTION OF THE BUSH REPUBLICAN ADMIN. WHAT HAS HE DONE AND HOW HAS HE PERFORMED TO HELP AMERICANS IN THEIR SOCIO ECONOMIC LIVES? SEND THI TO HIM.

  • 04/09/2008 15:40:18 Alert a moderator

    John McCain will lose the election.

    I will not vote for a trigger-happy millionaire that will bring war & devastation to the world. Another Republican Presidency will bankrupting the U.S.A.

    Vidéo

    • PALIN'S PERSONAL TOUCH

      "If we're elected, you'll have a friend and advocate in the White House", Sarah Palin, 04/09

    • PALIN LASHES OUT AT OBAMA

      Obama's worried that someone won't read Al Qaeda terrorists their rights, says Sarah Palin. 04/09


 

 

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