Palin Insists Obama Rented Out Stadium For Election Night Party

By: Scott Conroy
Topics: Sarah Palin

(CBS)

From CBS News' Scott Conroy:

(ASHEVILLE, N.C.) - For the third time on Sunday, Sarah Palin claimed that the Obama campaign has rented out a stadium for an election night celebration. The charge came as part of her attempt to portray the Democratic nominee as arrogant and presumptuous.

"Or the stadium that's he's already rented out for what he would hope to be his victory party that he's planned," Palin said at a rally here.

The charge that Obama has rented out a stadium for the event drew boos from the crowd of over 7,000.

Only problem? It's not true.

Obama plans to hold his election night celebration at Hutchinson Field, at the southern end of Grant Park in Chicago.

Palin's traveling press secretary Tracey Schmitt did not respond to an email request for clarifcation and another Palin spokesperson said she would have to go back and look at the remark.

DNC spokesperson Damien LaVera jumped all over Palin's charge.

"Doggone it, apparently this team of mavericks thinks making things up is easier then defending John McCain's promise of four more years of the Bush economy or his record of voting with President Bush 90 percent of the time," LaVera said.

Palin's accusation might have been taken as a minor slip of the tongue had she said it only once, but the Alaska governor echoed the charge at two other rallies on Sunday.

"Now you get the feeling that the Obama campaign just thinks that this election process is merely a formality," Palin said after repeating the stadium line in Asheville.

"But they've overlooked the minor detail here of the confidence and the trust that they must earn before you would vote for them."

Scott Conroy
Scott Conroy is a National Political Reporter for RealClearPolitics and a contributor for CBS News.
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by Repsuck October 29, 2008 1:21 AM EDT: Palin (and her husband too!) is a woman who belonged to a group that wants to have Alaska leave the US! So, she is a TRAITOR and actually has no right to even RUN for a public office!; Reply to this comment


by Repsuck October 29, 2008 1:17 AM EDT: mpmyers, that "certain" news anchor was RIGHT ABOUT BUSH though WASN''T HE? YES HE WAS!!EVERY WORD WAS TRUE!; Reply to this comment


by Repsuck October 29, 2008 1:14 AM EDT: When has LYING ever BOTHERED PALIN?; Reply to this comment


by PulSamsara October 28, 2008 11:56 PM EDT: Why would America REWARD complete Republican failure ?

We wont.; Reply to this comment


by intankinated October 28, 2008 8:41 PM EDT: Hey NEEDERBAUR...
You work for the Palin campaign? Just wondering since you keep repeating the same lies....Funny how you can always tell the Mccain supporters...repeat, repeat, repeat,...no substance. No issues, just garbage.; Reply to this comment


by nmsuip October 28, 2008 3:00 AM EDT: What? False claims from Sarah Palin? Why is this news? If her lips are moving, she must be lying.; Reply to this comment


by mpmyers October 28, 2008 2:46 AM EDT: Don''t know what is true or not, but if Palin is mistaken about this, its rather minor in comparison to what Obama and Biden had outright lied about things they''ve said.

And don''t forget that ... this is CBS reporting people. Same network that made up all kinds of stuff in the last election and a certain, rather well known anchor, had to resign ... remember?; Reply to this comment


by ojamas October 27, 2008 3:19 PM EDT: Palin is lecturing people about the confidence and trust candidates must earn from the electorate by .... lying? Ugh. http://www.ojamas.us.; Reply to this comment


by midvale3 October 27, 2008 2:48 PM EDT: What makes Palin think that she can get away with spreading falsehoods?

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Posted by jwoods526 at 11:12 AM : Oct 27, 2008

Uh, have you READ or LISTENED to some of the morons supporting her and Grandpa? Fact and logic have no place in these peoples mind.; Reply to this comment


by teacher1917 October 27, 2008 2:33 PM EDT: Sarah, Am I supposed to care about what you say? Your only "policy speech" on special needs children was so full of holes that you could fly a plane through them. I have not heard anything but attacks on Obama and Biden for over a month. Go back to Alaska, please.; Reply to this comment