Palin answers questions from reporters

[Terri]

By BETH FOUHY
Associated Press
October 8, 2008

GREENVILLE, N.C. (AP) -- 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.

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.

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[jgillil2]

I think Sarah needs to keep on about the thing with Ayers. It seems to have really hit a nerve with the Obama camp. Last night after the debate, Sean Hannity was talking to one of Obama's people (Gibbs?) and the guy got downright nasty about Sean's expose last Sunday night on Hannity's America. He said that since Sean had a guy on the show who had made anti-semitic statements, that made Sean anti-semitic, too - guilt by association. Of course the two situations could not be any more different, with Obama closely linked to Ayers over a period of YEARS. Whatever, the interview disintegrated into about two mintues of Gibbs yelling at Sean "Admit it, you are an anti-semite!!!!". Amazing. So, I think this Ayers thing is making the bots nervous as heck!

Also, I read something by Camille Paglia (in Salon) this morning that really surprised me. (I'm not a regular reader, I linked to it from Drudge). Paglia actually praises Sarah Palin! You have to go read it. I would put it as a new thread, but I wasn't sure where it would fit (in what section).

This is in the section where Pagia answers reader's questions.
"The Palins, Powerful New Symbols of a revived contemporary feminism"

Yes, both Todd and Sarah Palin, whom most people in the U.S. and abroad had never even heard of until six weeks ago, have emerged as powerful new symbols of a revived contemporary feminism. That the macho Todd, with his champion athleticism and working-class cred, can so amiably cradle babies and care for children is a huge step forward in American sexual symbolism.

Although nothing will sway my vote for Obama, I continue to enjoy Sarah Palin's performance on the national stage. During her vice-presidential debate last week with Joe Biden (whose conspiratorial smiles with moderator Gwen Ifill were outrageous and condescending toward his opponent), I laughed heartily at Palin's digs and slams and marveled at the way she slowly took over the entire event. I was sorry when it ended! But Biden wasn't -- judging by his Gore-like sighs and his slow sinking like a punctured blimp. Of course Biden won on points, but TV (a visual medium) never cares about that.

The mountain of rubbish poured out about Palin over the past month would rival Everest. What a disgrace for our jabbering army of liberal journalists and commentators, too many of whom behaved like snippy jackasses. The bourgeois conventionalism and rank snobbery of these alleged humanitarians stank up the place. As for Palin's brutally edited interviews with Charlie Gibson and that viper, Katie Couric, don't we all know that the best bits ended up on the cutting-room floor? Something has gone seriously wrong with Democratic ideology, which seems to have become a candied set of holier-than-thou bromides attached like tutti-frutti to a quivering green Jell-O mold of adolescent sentimentality.

Here is the link - the part on Palin begins on PAGE 2:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/paglia/2008/10/08/palin/index1.html