Palin speaks in Ga., no endorsements

According to the Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Sarah Palin delivered her most-recent speech to a "half-capacity" crowd at Gwinnett Arena in Duluth, Ga., Tuesday night at an event to benefit a local charity's ministry project to help churches better serve Christians with special needs. Because Palin has been endorsing political candidates right and left these days, it's significant that her speech didn't contain any endorsement of candidates. She reserved most of her few political comments to criticism and jokes directed toward President Obama. Palin jibed that although special needs kids might not win a Nobel Peace Prize, "Nobel prizes aren't what they used to be anyway." (Maybe she doesn't know about the proposed Nobel Prize for Parents and Families with Special Needs Children, inspired by a visit from three Nobel Peace Prize winners and intended for every such family every single year.) Another gem from the speech making the rounds this morning is her claim that a certain provision in the recent health care reform package will hurt special needs families by increasing taxes on federal savings accounts. That statement has already been labeled Palin's "new death panel," but no substantial analysis of her claim is available at this writing. Read more from the Journal-Constitution, here.