On local news tonight, they showed Palin at the Cedar Rapids rally this morning telling Cedar Rapids area voters at the rally that "Biden thinks that raising taxes is patriotic."
Our local station also showed the complete conversation from which Biden was misquoted. Although this was a deliberate case of taking words out of context and using them against Biden, Palin mistakenly said she was so happy to be here in Grand Rapids (rather than Cedar Rapids, and perhaps she was thinking of Gerald Ford coming from Grand Rapids, Michigan, way back when John McCain was a lobbyist for the Navy!).
Palin also congratulated the Cedar Rapids crowd for their new hockey team, the Iowa Chops, adding how exciting it must be for the games to start in a month.
The Chops are actually based in Des Moines. The name of the Cedar Rapids team is the Rough Riders.
I watched the tv report and here is the link to their web site: http://www.kcrg.com/news/local/28628969.html
Palin made certain to tell voters she and McCain would be touring the flood zone in Cedar Rapids, and as I previously stated, did a photo-op that was shown again, and made promises to flood victims. ----------------
I live in Cedar Rapids, the second largest city in Iowa. This morning Senator McCain and Sarah Palin held a tickets-only rally at the Cedar Rapids airport.
I am astounded and concerned by the number of supporters who attended (estimated 3,000). Local news stated that this was the first opportunity Iowans have had to see Sarah Palin in person.
McCain stated: "The chairman of the FEC serves at the appointment of the President, and in my view has betrayed the public trust. If I were President today, I would fire him."
[He meant to say SEC, but that's ok, he's getting old, you can sometimes feel sorry for him, but he is representing Bush/Cheney, and sometimes makes mistakes, like picking gun totin' mooseburger-eatin' dimwitted dingbat Governesses of Alaska straight out of National Enquirer, and McCain's wife even expects us to believe that because from Little Diomede Island Alaska you can see Russia, that Sarah Palin can therefore negotiate with Vladimir Putin ---note from Stephen Fox.....]
Both candidates promised to campaign hard across Iowa and emphasized that Obama would raise taxes at a time when people are hurting because of the economy. They later did a photo-op touring one of the neighborhoods devastated by the recent floods that caused billions in damage to our downtown and surrounding area. Palin promised that if elected they would do m ore to help Cedar Rapids recover.
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