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When Sarah Palin delivered the keynote speech at the T.E.A. Party’s first national convention in Nashville last Saturday, she touched on many of the Obama administration’s policies which were delivered on the empty rhetoric of the “Hope and Change” campaign he ran last year. As she addressed the enthusiastic crowd of delegates by citing all of the President’s promises for “change” in how Washington politics would become the most transparent in the history of the republic, while eliminating all partisanship that had “gridlocked” the Beltway for so long, Palin reminded the American people that Obama’s administration, coupled with Congressional Democrats...

The White House's chief spokesman used a press briefing yesterday on world affairs to -- of all things -- mock Sarah Palin. Clearly tickled with himself, Robert Gibbs showed up with a shopping list scrawled across his left hand. Included in the list of supermarket staples, like "eggs" and "milk," were two of President Obama's favorite themes, "hope" and change" -- a clear swipe at Palin, who was caught with crib notes scribbled on her palm at the Tea Party Convention in Tennessee. Palin -- who calls Obama the "guy with a TelePrompTer" -- had "energy," "tax cuts" and "lift...

A word in the hand is better than two in the teleprompter. Are we really talking about this? Instead of covering the rift between America and our leaders, journalists are out making silly and often bitter (see the SFGate’s blog Sarah Palin Gives Hand Job to the Tea Party Movement) comments about 3-4 words written on a palm. The take from the liberal media seems to be that Sarah Palin used some hand scribbles in a speech in which she criticized Obama for using a teleprompter. I prefer to look at the event as an underdog, low-funded, grassroots movement using...