Posted on 09/23/2010 2:06:29 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Former vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin alleges that the media has a blatant double standard, shining intense scrutiny on GOP Senate nominee Christine O'Donnell while turning a blind eye to then-candidate Barack Obama's personal history in the 2008 campaign.
During an interview with Fox News host Greta Van Susteren Wednesday night, Palin said: "Funny . . . That we are learning more about Christine O'Donnell and her college years, her teenage years, her financial dealings than anybody ever even bothered to ask about Barack Hussein Obama as a candidate and now as our president."
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Palin also recently tweeted to O'Donnell, Republican nominee for the U.S. Senate from Delaware, that she shouldn't waste time "appeasing nat’l media seeking ur destruction.”
Obama has come under some criticism during his campaign and after for failing to release documents and background material on his life that has been de rigeur for most candidates.
Obama has yet to release college transcripts and files from his undergraduate work at Occidental College and Columbia University, and later at Harvard Law School. His college dissertation at Columbia has disappeared. Many of his official papers during his time as an Ilinois state representative have also disappeared. He has never released his full medical records.
Palin's reference on the Van Susteren program to the president's middle name, Hussein, drew national media attention.
During the the 2008 presidential campaign, Obama and his campaign never referred to his middle name of Arabic origin, which means "good; small handsome one."
And Sen. John McCain's presidential campaign studiously avoided using Barack Obama's complete name.
In fact, using Obama's full name was so taboo that when conservative radio host Bill "Willie" Cunningham used it to fire up a McCain rally in Cincinnati, the senator was forced to apologize.
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She’s the only one who makes sense and sounds like a leader these days.
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