Palin To Campaign In Georgia, Meet With Obama

Update, 11/25 8:30PM

The Anchorage Daily News is reporting that Palin will meet President-elect Obama early next week when she travels to Philadelphia after stumping for Chambliss in Georgia:

The governor is planning a trip to Georgia to campaign on behalf of Georgia Republican Sen. Saxby Chambliss early next week on her way to Philadelphia to meet with her old foe, President-elect Barack Obama.

Obama is meeting with governors of both parties in Philadelphia to talk about the ailing economy. It's not clear how many governors are going to attend the Obama event, which the National Governors Association helped put together.

"I don't know if she has a one-on-one with (Obama)," said Palin spokesman Bill McAllister. "It may be, given that they were both involved in the national campaign." McAllister said Palin will be in Philadelphia on Monday and Tuesday, and the state will pay for it. He said the Chambliss campaign will pay for Palin's side trip to Georgia.

TPM reports that Sarah Palin is going back on the trail on behalf of GOP Sen. Saxby Chambliss, who is in a runoff election against Democrat Jim Martin:

Palin will be holding four rallies across the state, in a race that will make the difference in the Dems' efforts to get 60 seats this year, along with the Minnesota recount. This runoff election is all about jazzing up the base -- and whatever her faults, few if any Republicans did as good a job of that this year as Palin.

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution has more information on the event:

Palin, who drew large crowds while running for vice president with Republican presidential candidate U.S. Sen. John McCain, will appear at Chambliss rallies in Augusta, Savannah, Perry and Atlanta on Monday, the day before the Dec. 2 senate runoff between Chambliss and Democrat Jim Martin.

The Atlanta rally has been tentatively scheduled for 4 p.m., but the location had not be determined Tuesday morning.

"I was thrilled when I got the call that Governor Palin would be able to make the trip to Georgia to campaign with me the day before the runoff election," Chambliss said in a press release.

The McCain-Palin ticket carried Georgia by about 200,000 votes.

Meanwhile, another Republican election figure (but one less popular with the conservative base) is campaigning for Chambliss in Georgia today -- former New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani.

Comments

[Novelene]

This isn't even funny any more.

[krayon]

er... I think Obama has bigger fish to fry than to meet with this minnow brained wannabe... In your dreams, Sarah.

[TorontoCroatian]

Did she ever get back to Couric?

When is the big wedding of the two high school drop-outs?

She seems to be everywhere but Alaska these days...doesn't she have to do any actual governing at any time?

Has Palin ever been asked about her and the "first dude's" ties to the Alaskan Independence Party? Or were the videos "doctored'? Or is it "mean-spirited" to even ask?

Has Putin reared his head over Alaskan airspace lately??? :)

[NoMoreFreepers]

That bimbo doesn't deserve to breathe the same air as President-elect Obama, let alone be in the same room with him. In her delusions of grandeur she probably thinks she is his equal. Give it up Governor Avon Lady. You're nothing but a joke.

[Veeckster]

I wish Huff Post would stop using these sensational headlines. Sounds like Palin is NOTmeeting w/ Obama 1-1-- instead there is a GOVERNORS EVENT that Obama may meet with a bunch of governors at. If Palin's there she would be part of a group of governors.


Obama has much better things to do with his time than meet with the uneducated and irresponsible fanatical twit who called him a traitor and led to a drastic increase in death threats against him and his family.

[Moderate Man805]

Once again another Palin story is at the top of the Huffpo's most popular. Apparently the same lefty loons who say they can't stand her apparently can't stop reading about her either. Here is a hint, stop reading and making comments about every Palin story and Huffpo won't post as many, otherwise you will contine to get inundated with Palin stories - its supply vs demand 101

[ohdaval]

I was once in a hotel that George Clooney was at. Does that mean we were at the hotel "together"? I cannot hope enough that she doesn't sidle up to him all pagenty and smiles and place him in a position where he has to smile and shake her hand. I don't want him to be a bigger person. I don't want him to be noble in this circumstance. I want him to be nowhere near her and I want her passed to the back of the pack with Bobby Jindahl and Tim Pawlenty blocking her out.. I'm pretty sure that Deval Patrick and the other dems can handle keeping the President Elect safely in a Palin free zone.

[TrishyTrue]

Barack Obama uses full sentences, so Sarah Palin would have no clue as to what he is saying anyway. I hope, like you, however that he is not placed in a position where he has to be charming whilst she is as you say 'pagenty' .

[callings]

Amen. the ditzy twit will require an interpreter, since Obama speaks actual English and she speaks tundra valley girl.

[GeneCar]

Gov Palin is was the only one on the ticket who won my full respect, not least for having borne with grace and dignity one of the most shameful hate/slime/snear fests in US electoral history.

Of course the reasons for this hatefest are not too difficult to discover when you take the trouble to tear away the mask of liberal hypocracy and delve below the surface. Sarah Palin evoked a primal scream of hate from the American (and European) left, and from the dried-up crones of the feminist establishment because she is a conservative pro-life Chrstian and has broken the first commandment of enlightened orthodoxy. She refused to kill her down syndrome child. For this act she must be destroyed. By even existing inthe public limelight she constitutes an unbearable moral rebuke to a whole generation of conciences that have been poisoned by easy toleration of the mass killing of little babies. Sarah Palin Delanda Est!.

[zippy2112]

Right on. In this day, there is no reason to kill our children, not for birth control!
We must rise above our ancestors, or we will fail..

[TrishyTrue]

Pro choice is not about killing children for birth control at all. May I suggest you do some research. Pro life is a double standard when you create a law to prohibit a woman from making a choice about her own body and health and yet you keep and use guns, slaughter animals and send young humans to war to be killed for no good reason.

Most women would not have an abortion when faced with the choice, but the choice should remain with the woman - the state has no place in this decision.

[skyreader7]

Why would Obama want to meet with this dingbat?

[Jody2167]

She absolutely no intellect or understanding of domestic or foreign policy. All she did was create hate. She is not doing her job as governor. And, most importantly, it is very telling about her that she fires anyone who disagrees with her. Hope she does not get elected gov again in 2 years. Come on Alaska -- SMARTEN UP! Thank you!

[tcuoohjohn]

Democrats are thrilled with the notion of Sarah Palin as the GOP standard bearer... What's not to like?...She's stupid, arrogant,, poorly educated, ignorant, vain and ambitious as Satan.

[katherine2]

Palin meeting with Obama? I think she's taking liberties like she was when she tried to give a concession speech with McCain. I would think she put the word out herself, without communication from any of the Obama staff. Of course, they'll be there at the same time, but hopefully, she won't be obliged. I'm tired of watching her try to plow through doors, be they slightly cracked or closed. I don't think she gets accurate messages from God with those doors.

[lovable]

i just want some one to ask her does she apoligize or realize that her rhetoric put obama ' s life in danger. no one has asked that of her . only about the clothes . but no one will i gurantee it and she will go one thinking that she did a great job.

[NoMoreFreepers]

You raise an excellent point. She needs to be held accountable for her inflammatory speeches and made aware of the impact her words create, turning a crowd into a mob. There are laws against threats, inciting riots and violence against the future POTUS. Someone on her staff needs to brief her on this before she goes out stumping for the Chambliss klan crowds in Georgia with her usual vitriol and venom.

[Anandas]

This is stupid non-news, and I am sorry to see that a proven loser is
continuing to receive such press attention - this is just a re-hash of
an obsolete release ; she, and we , do not deserve this coverage.

[debinill]

I agree that the headline was mis-leading. On another note, I just got an email from a national republican pac asking me to help stop Barack ( not President-elect Obama, Barak!). They also asked for help to raise 250,000 and to make calls in Georgia to elect their guy in the run off election. Not sure how I got on that email list, but it has had the opposite effect---I jsut sent money to the Democrat
candidate. I urge you too to join the fight in turning Georgia Purple first, then blue!