Palin Silent On Market Dive, Effusive On 1960s Radical

By: Scott Conroy
Topics: Sarah Palin

(CBS)

From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(WILMINGTON, OHIO) - On a day when the Dow plummeted 679 points to close below the 8,600 mark for the first time since 2003, Sarah Palin didn't mention the tanking market at a rally here. Instead, she devoted the better part of her remarks to questioning Barack Obama's relationship with 1960s radical Bill Ayers.

Palin took the crowd through a timeline of the Obama campaign's apparently shifting public statements on when the Democratic nominee learned about Ayers' radical background.

"And this is all about patterns, and I'm going to talk about the patterns," Palin said. "And I'm sure some will say, 'Geez, you're getting kind of negative.' No, it's not negativity, it's truthfulness, and American voters deserve to know."

Palin did speak about the ailing economy in broad terms and referred specifically to the possibility of local job losses at DHL, but she was silent on the day's developments on Wall Street.

Although she recently declined to call Obama "dishonest" when asked by a reporter, at the Wilmington rally, Palin repeatedly questioned the Democrat's truthfulness and said that of the two presidential candidates, McCain was "the only man with courage."

Palin said that Obama's decision to launch his political career in the living room of a domestic terrorist could be explained by examining the Illinois senator's ambition.

"It's only gotta be ambition explaining launching your political career in the living room of an unrepentant terrorist, and ambition explaining that you can claim on Tuesday that John's idea was a good idea, in fact it was their idea, and then the next day that the homeowner resurgent plan was actually stolen from you, and then you attack it the next day," Palin said.

Scott Conroy
Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.
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by royalia October 10, 2008 5:04 PM EDT: Two things Obama and Bush have in common. Obama''s aquaintance wanted to bomb the Pentagon. A family member of Bush''s major business partners in the Carlyle Group was responsible for 9/11. The Saudi Royal Family has been funding radical madrassas all over the world to appease the Wahabbist sect of Islam that runs religion in Saudi Arabia. The Bushes have been doing business with the Saudi Royal Family for decades. Cand you say treason?; Reply to this comment


by royalia October 10, 2008 4:59 PM EDT: Here''''s a little quote from my google search about Bush/bin Laden/Carlyle Group:

"The Bin Laden Group was also heavily invested in the Carlyle Group, the "private equity" firm (and major arms merchant) that, like Bechtel, specializes in the sell-off of public services and other government-insider deals. Carlyle''''s best-known bagman, George Bush I, used to make ritual pilgrimages to bin Laden family headquarters in Saudi Arabia to procure their potent baksheesh. When Carlyle''''s post-Sept. 11 orgy of war-profiteering began drawing unwanted attention, however, the bin Ladens cashed in their Carlyle chips and, officially, ended the partnership."; Reply to this comment


by naturalgirl7 October 10, 2008 4:26 PM EDT: crazy palin just set white women back a few years in intelligence haha :)
and thank goodness oprah is a real intelligent woman who wouldn''t dare have the likes of crazy palin on her show...go oprah!
obama/biden ''08; Reply to this comment


by naturalgirl7 October 10, 2008 4:24 PM EDT: And if you go to the katie couric interview comments, those idiots over there are against Couric for asking crazy palin a few questions americans needed to know. I think some women are so stupid they give us all a bad wrap...but I sure as heck won''t be with that group.
OBAMA/BIDEN ''08 for change.; Reply to this comment


by silky91 October 10, 2008 4:13 PM EDT: Wow. How ironic that the woman who is trying desperately to keep the truth about troopergate from the public demand Obama be truthful about his associations. If Palin is going to demand the truth about Ayers then I demand the truth about troopergate and AIP. Palin is a person I know very little about and she is running around demanding the press ask more about Obama because we know so little. The McCain campaign really thinks the electorate is stupid.; Reply to this comment


by teacher1917 October 10, 2008 4:01 PM EDT: My seventh graders know more about the economy than Sarah Palin, and that isn''t much.; Reply to this comment


by itsaname October 10, 2008 3:24 PM EDT: Why didn''t Palin mention the falling market? Because she''s clueless. All she knows how to do is attack, regurgitate memorized stump speeches, and wink at us.

Palin is unqualified, undignified, and unprincipled.; Reply to this comment


by prohb October 10, 2008 3:22 PM EDT: Palin and the Repubs are being ridiculous. It''s just like the following parody from Martin Scramm:
"Democratic presidential nominee Sen. Barack Obama has been videotaped palling around - well, maybe not palling around, but certainly engaging in mutual discourse - with a man known to have filed false income tax returns.

Obama has been seen in the company of Republican presidential nominee Sen. John McCain.

This revelation, presented here exclusively in the most sensational way possible, is of major significance for one reason: It illustrates just how idiotic the two presidential campaigns have become in dredging up ancient stories hoping to smear their opponent."
Time to talk about something the could be useful to the American Public....like maybe the economy.; Reply to this comment


by rockyv1611 October 10, 2008 3:07 PM EDT: Has anyone noticed that it has been 70 days since CBS has done a story on the evening news about Iraq? That''s because the surge continues to improve life in Iraq and that wouldn''t benefit Obama in any way. CBS''s bias is so blatent it''s pathetic.; Reply to this comment


by tonyatq October 10, 2008 3:01 PM EDT: We have known of this women for two months Obama have been running for president for two years. We know nothing about this women but she is an idiot and knows nothing about the economy. Mrs. Palin tell us where has our retirement and 401k went we demand to know that. Every thing she brought up we heard it in the primaries. Give the American people a little credit we not as dumb as you think and some of us are much smarter than you on your best day.; Reply to this comment