Palin Attacks Obama Over Ayers Yet Again On CNN

In an interview with CNN's Wolf Blitzer, Sarah Palin says she's ready to work with President Barack Obama -- but she just can't let Bill Ayers go. From the transcript:

PALIN: It would be my honor to assist and support our new president and the new administration, yes. And I speak for other Republicans, other Republican governors also, they being willing also to, again, seize this opportunity that we have to progress this nation together, a united front.

BLITZER: Because, you know, during a campaign, every presidential campaign, things are said, it's tough, as you well know, it gets sometimes pretty fierce out there. And during the campaign, you said this, you said: "This is not a man who sees America as you see it and how I see America."

And then you went on to say: "Someone who sees America, it seems, as being so imperfect that he is palling around with terrorists who would target their own country."

PALIN: Well, I still am concerned about that association with Bill Ayers. And if anybody still wants to talk about it, I will, because this is an unrepentant domestic terrorist who had campaigned to blow up, to destroy our Pentagon and our U.S. Capitol. That's an association that still bothers me.

And I think it's still fair to talk about it. However the campaign is over. That chapter is closed. Now is the time to move on and to, again, make sure that all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation.

Keep us secure, get the economy back on the right track, and many of us do have some ideas on how to do that and hopefully we'll be able to put all of that wisdom and experience to good use together.

BLITZER: So looking back, you don't regret that tough language during the campaign?

PALIN: No, and I do not think that it is off-base nor mean-spirited, nor negative campaigning to call someone out on their associations and on their record. And that's why I did it.

BLITZER: I just want to sort of footnote, was that your idea or did somebody write those lines for you?

PALIN: It was a collaborative effort there in deciding how do we start bringing up some of the associations that perhaps would be impacting on an administration, on the future of America. But again, though, Wolf, knowing that it really -- at this point, I don't want to point fingers backwards and play the blame game, certainly, on anything that took place in terms of strategy or messaging in the campaign.

Now is the time to move forward together, start progressing America.

Comments

[markbaland]

Why is she even still in the news? Are there not enough teen pop stars getting arrested for drunk driving or having babies out of wedlock? You'd think with all the news of workers losing their jobs while the government and executives rape the country with bailouts, at least we wouldn't have to hear what the moose hunter is thinking anymore!

[ChicagoSuz]

Sarah, I think you should wait by the phone for President-elect Obama to call, on the outside chance that he would want advice from someone as ignorant as you seem to be. You've had months & months to learn the truth about Ayers, etc., yet repeatedly espouse Hannity-like phrases which have no basis in reality.

[GASGUZZLEINC]

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[neurologymatters]

Sarah, You lost-deal with it.

[GASGUZZLEINC]

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[BlackWidowPilot]

"I'm ready for my close-up, Mr. DeMille!"

Leland R. Erickson

Citizen

[AZ4thatone]

That Alaska chill follows her, she is one scarey person! SP you lost, it's over, get over it!

[roblabrousse]

She's such a waste of oxygen!!

[ROCKETSENSE]

Buy the sarah palin Barbie doll for Chistmas

Just pull the string and it will wink and say:

1) "ya betcha"

2) "Obama pals around with Terrorist"

3) "I know all about foreign policy cause i can see Russia from a helicopter while i shoot moose."

4) "If you complain about anything i say or do you are not a True American"

5) "I'm just a hockey mom who likes to spend $150,000 on clothes which i will eventually donate to my favorite charity - The American Rifle Association (ARA)"

[wallysdca]

Why won't one single journalist in this nation ask her the simple question of "How can you attack Barack Obama's patriotism and call yourself Country First when your husband is a verified known member of the Alaska Secessionist movement - - people who want to break from the UNITED States????"

[proudloudlib]

Amen to that!! If the press ever played softball with someone, it was her. She's never had to face that issue AT ALL.

[Cakey4814]

Thank you..I've been wondering the same thing and am baffled at how she is still getting a free pass.

[Informit]

Can someone pleeeeeeaa­aaaaasssss­ssseeeeeee­ee....put this woman to sleep!!!

[despike]

"And I think it's still fair to talk about it.
However the campaign is over.
That chapter is closed.
Now is the time to move on and to, again, make sure that all of us are doing all that we can to progress this nation."

STILL fair to talk about it........­......that chapter is closed.

This is RAMBLING.

[style]

Sarah Palin need to explain her association with the Alaska Independence Party. Sara Palin and the Alaska Independence Party is considered very danger ous in many quarters.
Yes I agree we need to talk about Sarah Palin lie that Obama paled around with Bill Ayers.

[patnb]

maybe the democrats should put Palin on the payroll, she makes the republicans look so bad-

she's really helping democrats. Palin babbles nonsense sentences, chunks of memorized, out-of-context words, and embarrasses herself without even realizing it. It's bizarre.

[Mikeeee]

blitzer is just as bad as she is. How come I don't see any comments about his sycophantic reporting in these comments?

[cduvall]

She used to be good fodder, now she's just boring. Buh-Bye back to Alaska loony toon.

[kylennblack]

The more she goes on about this the more it makes me want to buy Ayers' book.