Palin joins McCain for Michigan town hall meeting
By GLEN JOHNSON
Associated Press
September 18, 2008
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"I'm still working on that," Palin said. As the audience laughed, McCain joked, "This town hall meeting is adjourned."
Palin also criticized President Bush or Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman for recently traveling to Saudi Arabia to ask OPEC to increase oil production to help reduce skyrocketing U.S. gasoline prices.
The governor said she was "disappointed" by the actions, adding: "That's nonsense, when we have the domestic supplies here in America."
Earlier Wednesday, Palin sat down for her second television interview since her selection on Aug. 29.
She said in an interview airing on Fox News Channel's "Hannity & Colmes" that Democrats were out of bounds for criticizing McCain after he said the fundamentals of the economy are strong.
"It was an unfair attack on the verbiage that Sen. McCain chose to use because the fundamentals, as he was having to explain afterward, he means our work force, he means the ingenuity of the American people. And of course, that is strong and that is the foundation of our economy," she said.
Obama and his fellow Democrats have been hammering McCain for maintaining Monday that "the fundamentals of our economy are strong" even as Wall Street spiraled downward. By that afternoon, with the markets falling amid other bad financial news, McCain had adopted a more dire tone. He now is calling the financial woes "one of the most severe crises in modern times."
Palin also said she watched Tina Fey impersonate her last weekend on "Saturday Night Live" -- but only with the volume turned off.
"I thought it was hilarious. I thought she was spot on," Palin said. "Didn't hear a word she said, but the visual, spot on." She said people in Alaska have remarked on the similarities for years, and that she once dressed as Fey for Halloween.
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