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Sarah Palin goes on the attack in Carson campaign stop

Sarah Palin the pit bull showed up at The Home Depot Center in Carson on Saturday, taking shots at Sen. Barack Obama on taxes and on his association with a former member of the Weather Underground.

Palin, who has energized the Republican Party base since she was chosen as Sen. John McCain's running mate, fired up a crowd estimated at 15,000 people.

"There is a time when it is necessary to take the gloves off, and that time is right now," Palin said, adding that a staffer had told her, "OK now, the heels are on, the gloves come off."

Palin highlighted a report in The New York Times about Bill Ayers, a co-founder of the Weathermen who was involved in a series of bombings in the 1970s and is now an education professor in Chicago. Obama met Ayers through Chicago political circles and has had to distance himself from the former radical throughout his presidential campaign   Read Full Article...