A packed house roared with cheers as GOP superstar Sarah Palin took the stage Wednesday night at the Rosemont Theatre.
Introduced to a video with a narrator that said “she’s right here in Barack Obama’s hometown,” Palin stood before an American flag and took on Illinois and its native son.
“This ‘hopey-changey’ thing isn’t what we bargained for,” the former Vice-Presidential candidate told the supportive crowd, adding that she was “glad to be here on the president’s home turf.”
“I almost feel a little bit sorry for the president,” she said. “They expected us to welcome the change. Come November we’re going to show them just how grateful we are.”
She spoke of one of the day’s biggest news stories: the cancellation of the Highland Park High School girl’s basketball trip to Arizona by a superintendent who felt that state’s anti-immigration law was not “aligned with our beliefs and values.”
“Them are fighting words,” Palin said. “They [the students] deserve to go.”
She noted that the school is still sponsoring a trip to China, the Chicago Sun-Times reported.
“You know how they treat girls in China?” Palin said. “It makes no sense.”…
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