Sarah Palin Slams Obama at the Republican Convention

This was one excellent speech. People like her represent the new kind of blood that we need in Washington DC. She's a reformer, when she see's something that's not right, she set's out to make it right. She doesn't just talk about change, she's actually been part of it, she changed the way her city and her state did business. She purged the corruption right out of them no matter what the threat to her own political career was. Senator Barack Obama is just the opposite. He was part and parcel to all the corruption that was, and is still going on in Chicago. He is not the solution, he is part of the problem. Palin to slam Obama in convention speech ST. PAUL, Minnesota (CNN) -- Republican vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin directs a sharp jibe at Barack Obama in her speech to the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, according to excerpts released by the campaign. Contrasting her resume with that of the Democratic presidential nominee, she says: "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities." Obama worked as a community organizer in Chicago in the 1980s before attending Harvard Law School. Palin was a two-term mayor of the town of Wasilla, Alaska, a small town of about 5,000 people. She also contrasts Republican presidential candidate John McCain with Obama. "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," she says. Palin is a first-term governor of Alaska whose selection as McCain's running mate last week caught many seasoned political observers by surprise. Her convention speech will be the first time she has addressed a national prime time audience as a member of the Republican ticket. In her prepared remarks, she directly addresses the skepticism some have expressed about her qualifications for the office, taking particular aim at the press. "I had the privilege of living most of my life in a small town. I was just your average hockey mom and signed up for the PTA because I wanted to make my kids' public education better," Palin says. Palin makes specific reference to the media whirlwind that has followed her since she was named to the VP slot. In the past week, news that Palin's 17-year-old unmarried daughter is pregnant, details of an Alaska investigation into whether she fired a state employee for inappropriate reasons and reports that she secured millions of dollars in federal earmarks for her small town, have swirled around the convention. "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," she says. "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."

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