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Sarah Palin Attacks Obama at Tea Party Posted on 2/7/2010
Sarah Palin gave a $100,000 speech to the 1st Tea Party Convention that was short on ideas but big on enthusiasm.
She gave a 45-minute speech was filled with folksy jokes.
Palin attacked President Barack Obama and the Democratic Majority in Congress.
Sarah Palin Comments She told the tea party crowd, "America is ready for another revolution and you are a part of this."
Palin said, "The Obama-Pelosi-Reid agenda will leave us less secure, more in debt and under the thumb of big government."
She asked, "How's that hope-y, change-y stuff workin' out for you?"
Palin said, "This is about the people, and it's bigger than any one king or queen of a tea party, and it's a lot bigger than any charismatic guy with a teleprompter."
Palin on Terror Palin attacked President Obama on the subject of terror and the attempted Christmas Day bombing.
She said, "Treating this like a mere law enforcement matter places our country at great risk because that's not how radical Islamic extremists are looking at this."
Palin said, "They know we're at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern."
Palin said Obama had misguided thinking and a pre-Sept. 11 mindset.
Democratic Losses She reminded the crowd of recent Democratic Governor losses in New Jersey and Virginia last fall and in the Massachusetts Senate race last month.
Palin talked of limited government, strict adherence to the Constitution, and the "God-given right" of freedom.
The speech was short on Palin's own policy ideas, if she was seriously laying the groundwork to run for the White House.
Activists Paid to Hear Palin 600 people had paid $549 to attend the Tea Party Convention.
According to organizers, another 500 paid $349 just to see for her speech alone.
DNC Response Democratic National Committee spokesman Brad Woodhouse said afterward the George W. Bush administration also prosecuted terrorism suspects in criminal court.
Woodhouse said, "No one should take national security advice seriously from a person who told the world in 2008 that her qualifications in this area were that she could see Russia from her home state."
