Sarah Palin Rips Obama
John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, has made a stinging attack on Democratic presidential runner Barack Obama at the US Republican convention on Wednesday, September 3, 2008. Palin attacked Obama's "change agenda" and suggested he was more interested in idealism and "high-flown speech-making" than acting for "real Americans". The mother-of-five highlighted her background as a small-town "average hockey mom" and stressed that she was not part of the "Washington elite".