Palin mocks Obama, readies Republicans for McCain

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(Agencies)
Updated: 2008-09-04 22:39

ST. PAUL - Republican presidential nominee John McCain has a new attack dog. Her name is Sarah Palin, and she bites hard.

US Republican presidential candidate John McCain stands with vice presidential candidate Alaska Governor Sarah Palin after her speech to the 2008 Republican National Convention in St. Paul, Minnesota September 3, 2008. [Agencies]

Palin's mocking critique of Democrat Barack Obama and the Washington elite charged up Republicans looking for signs of hope that she and McCain can win the White House on November 4.

Now it is McCain's turn. The Arizona senator, who was nominated for president after Palin spoke, will deliver a televised address on Thursday night accepting that nomination.

Palin, 44, Alaska's governor and McCain's vice presidential running mate, drew shouts of "Sarah, Sarah" on Wednesday in her national political debut, unleashing red-meat rhetoric against Obama that had been largely lacking from this four-day event.

She cheerfully shot down criticism from Democrats that her experience as governor and ex-mayor of tiny Wasilla, Alaska, did not match Obama's as leader of a large presidential campaign.

"I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a 'community organizer,' except that you have actual responsibilities," she said in a swipe at Obama's own early career in Chicago.

Democrats argue that McCain, by picking the relatively untested and unknown Palin, had ceded his argument that Obama was too inexperienced to be president.

Palin also found Obama's lofty style of rhetoric wanting and devoid of details of where he would take the country if elected although she offered few policy specifics of her own.

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