"They know we're at war, and to win that war we need a commander in chief, not a professor of law standing at the lectern." - Sarah Palin

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I confess to being a Sarah Palin sceptic, but Palin does strike a chord as the un-Obama. I was less impressed with the beginning of the Tea Party.

Now I am not sure that they should not be taken seriously. The Democrats surely have.

How can we tell? The race card of course.

The Left and Democrats have reflexively played the race card, saying the Tea Party is a white movement and of course suspicious, which is laughable and ironic at the beginning of the dutiful annual homage to "black history month."

I am amused that almost all black callers on c-apan complain that the Tea Party movement is a white movement, and of course, racist.

Look at the Left-wing blocks. Listen to MSNBC, the tingly pink Chris Matthews. They are the real race card officiandos. Check out field negro's blog

Blacks voted 97% for Obama and somehow I doubt that was a coincidence. Complacency has been a large feature of white middle class and working class Americans, and they do not vote on strictly racial lines.

We shall see in November.

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Sarah Palin lashes Obama at first Tea Party convention
BBC

Former US vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin has spoken at the first US Tea Party convention, urging a return to conservate principles.

Speaking in Nashville, Mrs Palin called President Obama's 2011 budget "immoral" and said it would raise the US debt.

The year-old Tea Party movement includes many people who oppose Barack Obama's plans for healthcare reform and the president's stimulus package.

Mrs Palin said future generations would pay the cost if spending was not cut.

"It's easy to understand why Americans are shaking their heads when Washington has broken trust with the people that these politicians are to be serving," she told the convention.

'Drowning in debt'

When she warned that the US was "drowning in national debt, and many of us have had enough," the former governor of Alaska was rewarded with a standing ovation.

She also berated the Obama administration for focusing on adversaries of the US rather than its allies.

"We need a foreign policy that distinguishes America's friends from her enemies, and recognises the true nature of the threats that we face," Mrs Palin said.

She praised the leaderless, bottom-up approach of the Tea Party movement, saying its success had Washington politicians running scared.

"I am a big supporter of this movement," she said, and added - in a nod to the Tea Party's name, a reference to a famous protest against British colonial rule: "America is ready for another revolution and you are part of this".
Congress goal
Barely a year old, the Tea Party gained influence during the acrimonious US healthcare reform debate.

Members, gathered from state-level Tea Parties, complain that big spending to stimulate the economy is being wasted in Washington and on Wall Street while small-town America has to tighten its belt.

And the coalition of disaffected conservatives is undoubtedly growing in influence - its endorsement of Republican Scott Brown helped his election last month as Massachusetts senator, says the BBC's Madeleine Morris, attending the Nashville event.

Our correspondent says that movement's organisers have announced the formation of a political action committee, with funds of $10m, whose goal will be to get up to 20 conservative candidates into Congress in November's mid-term congressional elections.

There has been controversy over the use of paid lobbyists and PR companies at the conference and Mrs Palin's appearance fee: reported to be as much as $100,000.

Some activists have also complained about the $500 (£317) registration fee for the Nashville conference.
But in an opinion piece published on USA Today website ahead of the conference Mrs Palin said she would not benefit financially from speaking at the event.

Instead she said she was motivated only by her "goal [...] to support the grassroots activists who are fighting for responsible, limited government - and our constitution".