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Palin takes aim at Obama's experience | MiamiHerald.com
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. -- With time running short in the 2008 presidential campaign, Gov. Sarah Palin made a campaign tour through swing-state Colorado on Monday, cutting through the gloom of a raw and cold Colorado Springs morning with an appeal to "help put the maverick in the White House."
The crowd, which did not fill the 8,500-capacity Security Service Field, warmed itself with a big cheer when the Alaska governor asked, "Are you ready to make John McCain the next president of the United States of America?"
She also assailed the Democratic presidential nominee's experience.
"Barack Obama only spent 304 days - just 304 days - in the Senate before running for president," she said. "John McCain has spent his life serving our country and putting it first."
Palin had been governor of Alaska for less than 20 months when she was announced as McCain's pick for the Republican vice presidential nomination.
"Our country is having some tough economic times," she said. "We need someone tough as president, who is ready to lead on Day One." She said that as the mother of a soldier serving in Iraq, she views McCain as "exactly the kind of man I want as commander-in-chief."
Accusing Obama of presenting a tax plan that is "just words," Palin promised tax relief "to every American and every business," mentioning tax cuts for small businesses and promising to double the child tax deduction and cut the capital gains tax, all while repeating McCain's promise of a balanced federal budget by 2012.
"Our opponent is not being candid with you about his tax plans," she said, mentioning Obama's often-repeated assertion that his plan would cut taxes for 95 percent of Americans.
"The problem with that claim is that 40 percent pay no income tax at all," she said. "His plan is to cut them a check and call it a tax credit. Where's he going to get the money for all those checks that he'll cut? It's by raising taxes on America's families, and on our small businesses, on a lot of folks just like you."
"Our opponent's plan to redistribute wealth will ultimately punish hard work and productivity and discourages productivity," Palin said. "It will stifle the entrepreneurial spirit that has made this country unique."
No one is conceding Colorado. Colorado has a huge population of unaffliated voters and they will break late.
You do realize this happened BEFORE the sources say they are conceding the state?
The only reason Palin was in the state was because it was the first day of early voting.
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