Here in St. Paul, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin accepted the Republican vice-presidential nomination last night in front of a roaring crowd at the Xcel Center. Making her prime-time TV debut, Palin defended her relative lack of political experience by making light of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama’s time as a community organizer in Chicago.

Alaska Governor Sarah Palin: “I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a ‘community organizer,’ except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they’re listening and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren’t listening.Now, we tend to prefer candidates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco.”