Give Gov. Sarah Palin her due. Then talk about what she didn’t say.
That was Kansas Gov. Kathleen Sebelius’ approach this morning in a conference call with reporters.
The money line: “Again last night what we heard was a lot of partisan attacks and no real solutions.”
What was missing?
“What I hear from folks in the Heartland…is people really want to know how they’re going to afford health care, what’s going to happen with their job, if they going to keep their jobs in this country…how they’ll deal with the cost of gas and the cost of groceries.”
Sebelius said Barack Obama, of course, is providing those real solutions. Maybe, the governor said, John McCain would provide some of those answers in his acceptance speech tonight.”But I’m not optimistic,” she said.
–From the Kansas City Star
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The best part of her interview was the following statement: “I live in the American heartland, and have been a governor [here] for six years,” she said. “I don’t know any mayor in any small town in Kansas — and we have a lot of mayors of small towns — who hires a lobbyist and goes after earmarks the way Sarah Palin did.” On Tuesday, the Washington Post reported that, as mayor of Wasilla, Palin secured more than $27 million in federal earmarks for a town with only 6,700 residents.