In Florida, Sarah Palin says Barack Obama acts as if he's already won presidential election

[FlyingSquirrel]

Source: Associated Press

By MITCH STACY
Associated Press Writer

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."


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A word is coming to mind about her... It's on the tip of my tongue... But I won't say it.

[Bicoastal]

1. What a Sore/Loserman

[bronxiteforever]

2. Its rich really, Prom Queen upset over competing coronation.

eom

[DeepBlueDem]

6. Maryline Blackburn knows the feeling.

[bronxiteforever]

19. snap! LMAO!

[buff2]

9. And in that contest she lost to a black lady........

ah,Sarah...what rotten luck you have. Now you are losing to a black man. :rofl: Guess you are not as great as you think you are!

[DeepBlueDem]

13. lmao@what Blackburn said about Palin last nignt on DL hughley

shes a good public speaker, she gained that experience through pageants! LMFAO..She even laughed.

[buff2]

3. Hey Sarah! It's over for YOU

Bitch! YOU BETCHA!

[thewiseguy]

4. And how is he doing that? By shopping at Armani stores?

[spanone]

5. even if he did, he would be correct. another case of her lying.

[Elle1993]

7. Sarah seems to have catch a bad case of denial

[Thrill]

8. Where are they getting this garbage? Obama himself has said the opposite

This kind of nonsense is good for firing up a sports team. Not so much an election

[Higher Standard]

10. Actually, she and McCain act like Obama acts like it

They do so purely because they can both see the writing on the wall and are desperately looking for something, anything, to shift the narrative in their favor. They haven't been able to get him on anything else, so they're trying to label him as "arrogant" and hoping that the American people are dumb enough to fall for it.

[asdjrocky]

11. I heard a bit of that.

What really amazed me was when she made the remark about them already having a space rented for the celebration. I wonder, maybe she hasn't received her invitation to the election night party at the Biltmore in Az.

[Occam Bandage]

12. Really? It's more on the back of my tongue. You know, velar.

[Versailles]

14. Ummm...

Isn't Obama the one still making hard pushes into traditionally red states whereas Palin and McCain have pulled their funds and campaign from numerous states? Cause, I dunno, maybe I'm just an idiot, but it seems to me that Obama is making sure that he keeps fighting till the end, whereas McCain/Palin have thrown in the towel. But what do I know, I'm just a socialist...errr...marxist...I mean communist anti-american...yeah that's it. :eyes:

[Tutonic]

15. I will personally pay for a chauffer driven taxicab to whisk this nimwit

and her feeble brained spouse off to Alaska on November 5h. I don't think I can stand any more of seeing or hearing her.

[no_hypocrisy]

16. Obama has regularly admonished his supporters not be "cocky" and

"It's not over yet".

Palin creates her own reality, doesn't she?

[minnesota_liberal]

17. So what? Palin acts as if she's qualified.

Her record, her speeches and her answers to interview questions show that she isn't.

[kestrel91316]

18. Has she called him an uppity n----r yet, or is she just skirting around it still?

Oh, and here's as much of the word you were thinking of as I will say: C--T. She has moved MILES beyond B---H, lol.

[firedupdem]

20. I stopped to laugh at the part the mentioned crowd of 5000. n/t

[abumbyanyothername]

21. And this is from the lady who was

prayed into office and "it happened just like that"?

Plus poor little Sarah, it is not Barack who is acting like the campaign is over, but you, and McCain's staff -- you know, everyone trying to position themselves in the best possible light after the loss.

[TankLV]

22. uhh - I've never seen or heard of a game where they "cut down the net"...

alaskans are sure a scary bunch of batshit insane crazy asswipes...!

how could they let someone get to be governor, for chrissakes...

[BrotherBuzz]

23. Hey Sarah, despite what Elizabeth is filling your head with, this is not a reality show

Here's a clue, buy a vowel.