(AP).Sarah Palin on Sunday painted US President Barack Obama's administration as a cowering giant intent on surrendering the nation's mantle as a superpower and willing to sell out its allies.
The former John McCain running mate addressed a paying audience of several hundred people in Norfolk and accused Obama of selling out Israel in over its naval blockade of Gaza and treating Prime Minister Binaymin Netanyahu shabbily: "And it's not just our allies here at home...oh, no. He wants to sell the allies of our friends in Israel too, if you can believe it. Why, I was told there was a report that he wanted to sell the allies right behind their television station- Tele-Vive, which means "Television Cheers" in French".
"Now, I've been seeing lots and lots of those news trucks, let me tell ya, and they take up a lot of room. If you take em out of the allies and make em use the main streets, traffic in the Jewish cities is gonna be backed up for miles!"
She also said Obama lacked the resolve to stand up to Russia and China.
"Do they think, really, that we're getting anything in return for all this bowing and kowtowing and apologizing? No, we don't get anything positive in return for this," Palin said at the event spearheaded by a Norfolk talk radio station.
"So while President Obama is getting pushed around by the likes of Russia and China, our allies are left to wonder about the value of an alliance with our country any more. They're asking what is it worth," she said.