Sarah: Obama Won’t Drill for Oil but he Will Drill for Votes
Palin said Obama was “lecturing” McCain “on the stakes involved when America” goes to battle, “But wait a minute, may I remind Sen. Obama that Sen. McCain served our nation in uniform for 22 years. God bless him, he spent five and a half years as a POW, and he knows the cost of war because he paid those costs himself.”
She went after both members of the Democratic ticket trying to peg them both as flip floppers on alternative sources of energy, “Just a couple of weeks ago, Joe Biden told a voter that he’s against clean coal. Barack Obama opposed off shore drilling, but of course last night he changed his position on that,” Palin said to cheers, “What that told me is that he’s not willing to drill for energy, but he’s sure willing to drill for votes.”
She continued contrasting the two candidates’ debate performances praising McCain and saying that Obama’s “strategy” of depicting her running mate as another George Bush is not working, “Senator McCain talked about real and pragmatic solutions. Barack Obama talked about why he’d rather run against George Bush.” Palin said, “That strategy is starting to wear pretty darn thin. John McCain didn’t just come out of nowhere. The American people know John McCain.”