Palin: Obama acts as if he's already won election

All of the democraps have been acting like a Peacock lately. I wanted to smack Barnie Frank yesterday when he was talking about cutting the defense spending by 25 %.----Vickie

Palin: Obama acts as if he's already won election
By MITCH STACY – 1 day ago

TAMPA, Fla. (AP) — Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin had a pointed message Sunday for Barack Obama: This thing isn't over yet. Palin said the Democratic presidential nominee was acting as if he's already won the election and had already written his inaugural address.

"Barack Obama and I both have spent quite some time on the basketball court," Palin told a raucous crowd of more than 5,000 at the convention center. "But where I come from, you have to win the game before you start cutting down the net."

Nine days before the election, Palin was making another push to sway voters in the battleground state of Florida, where polls show Republican nominee John McCain trails Obama in the fight for the state's 27 electoral votes. The Interstate 4 corridor between Tampa to Orlando, where Palin was concentrating her efforts Sunday, is where most of the state's undecided voters live. It takes 270 Electoral College votes to win the presidency.

"You kinda get the feeling that the Obama campaign thinks this whole election process is just a formality," she said. "They've overlooked, though, the minor detail of earning your confidence and your trust and winning your vote.

"And judging from the media coverage, it does seem the coronation is already set," Palin said.

Obama's campaign said the claim that he has written an inaugural address is "completely false." Spokesman Bill Burton said the reference to an address came from a New York Times report Saturday that former White House chief of staff John D. Podesta had written a draft inaugural speech for Obama and included it in a recent book. Burton said Podesta wrote it as a sample address, not for Obama but for whoever became the nominee.

Palin continued her criticism of an Obama economic plan that she says amounts to socialism, characterizing him as "Barack the wealth-spreader." She vowed that McCain would allow people to keep more of their money, and accused Obama of not telling the whole truth about what she said are his plans to redistribute wealth.

"It is not mean-spirited and it is not negative campaigning to call someone out on their record, and their plans and their associations," she said. "It is not negative campaigning. It is fairness to you, to the voters, that we talk about this."

She said Obama represents bigger government and more government spending.

"You can do the math or you can just go with your gut, and either way you draw the same conclusion, and that's that Barack Obama is going to raise your taxes," Palin said. "John McCain and I have the complete opposite commitment."

Palin was joined on stage by her husband, Todd, their 7-year-old daughter Piper and infant son Trig, and Florida Gov. Charlie Crist. She was introduced by Elizabeth Hasselbeck, a co-host of the ABC talk show "The View" who often spars about politics with her more liberal mates on the set.

"Let me be honest, I was pretty much excited to talk for a full five minutes without getting interrupted," Hasselbeck joked with the crowd.

Later Sunday, Palin was to speak at a rally in Kissimmee, near Orlando, before heading to North Carolina.

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Palin: Obama acts as if he's already won election