Sarah Palin: Dialed in to Congress at a very early age
Sarah Palin apparently was a very, very precocious elementary school student.
She previously had called attention to Sen. Joe Biden's many, many years in Washington as a senator from Delaware -- not seen as a strong selling point these days -- by noting to Sean Hannity of Fox News that her rival for the vice presidency "has a tremendous amount of experience. I think he was first elected when I was like in second grade."
That, indeed, was in November 1972, when Palin was 8 years old. (She's now 44, he's 65.)
Palin today tweaked the dig.
While campaigning with John McCain in Columbus, Ohio, she said she was looking forward to her much-anticipated debate Thursday with Biden. She noted she had never met him.
She added: “But I've been hearing about his speeches since I was in the second grade.''
Pretty impressive for a young girl in a faraway state to have followed the musings of a freshman lawmaker several years before C-SPAN even existed.
-- Don Frederick
Photo: Bloomberg News
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And yet the Republics attacked Obama for planning for the Presidency since he was young!
I guess there was a lot of time to cover politics in her childhood after she heard the truthful account of how witches exist in the world.
Posted by: Dave Atkins | September 29, 2008 at 12:04 PM
Did she say anything about watching Biden on C-Span? Network news didn't exist back then? I wonder what she thinks about FR and TVs in 1929? Come out of the Obama tank for some fresh air.
Posted by: Nobama | September 29, 2008 at 12:04 PM
I raise my arm high above my head in a desperate attempt to save my wristwatch from the mounting manure pile being layered on with each Palinism.
Was she a POW also?
Posted by: When Pigs Fly | September 29, 2008 at 12:06 PM
Oh Please! You've got to be kidding me. She was looking to Joe Biden in 2nd grade? Unreal they allow her to say (and then resay) this stuff. is she so politically naive that she thinks no one will question her on it? Where was she getting his speeches from?
Posted by: debra | September 29, 2008 at 12:35 PM
This is just another one of her lies. She lies about everything! She is incapable of telling the truth!
Posted by: David Dolan | September 29, 2008 at 01:09 PM
Uh, you don't think she could have just calculated what grade she was in in 1972? Oh, you're right. Maybe not.
Posted by: Eileen | September 29, 2008 at 01:19 PM
"Watching "Im just a bill" on School House Rock Saturday Mornings also counts as extensive legislative experience for Palin.
What`s next?
Posted by: RRG | September 29, 2008 at 01:38 PM
I wish I could get away with being such a serial liar.
Posted by: freedom eagle | September 29, 2008 at 01:46 PM
This would be a very clever line of attack, if McCain wasn't even older than Biden. With almost as much service in Congress. And McCain is at the top of the ticket, while Biden is under Obama. You get the idea.
Posted by: Dave | September 29, 2008 at 03:03 PM
I don't fear Sarah Palin! I have great fear of Barrack Obama and the danger he will do to my country with his socialistic belief!
Posted by: steve rodriguez | September 29, 2008 at 06:20 PM
You have got to love that she is not jaded.
I ove that Biden swa FDR on TV in 1930!
http://www.boppoll.com
McCain '08
Posted by: Feels good to be American! | September 29, 2008 at 06:57 PM
You folks are pathetic. You can not even recognize an obvious joke. She was just making a point that Biden has been in the Senate a decade longer than McCain.
How about Obama claiming that he has been giving his lectures in 57 states?
Posted by: Jake | September 29, 2008 at 07:35 PM