H/T Promachus

“The people making decisions on our economy are losing sight of the principles of capitalism.”

“We eat, therefore we hunt.”

Exit Question: What in the wide world of sports were the McCain campaign doing in “handling” her media appearances?! She is awesome!

UPDATE by Ramrocks:

News-Miner reports on Gov. Palin’s Lincoln Day speech in Fairbanks:

FAIRBANKS — In keeping with the Lincoln Bicentennial theme, Gov. Sarah Palin was introduced with a revised, Alaska version of the Gettysburg Address at Saturday night’s Lincoln Day Dinner hosted by Fairbanks Republican Women.

“Two score and five years ago,” intoned moderator Ralph Seekins to a capacity crowd in the Edgewater Room at the Princess Riverside Lodge, instantly perking up the ears of people familiar with the real address.

And as Seekins humorously transposed the words to fit the Republican governor, the crowd responded with laughter and applause.

“That all women can do what they set their minds to, whether it be running for governor, the vice presidency or field dressing a caribou. …

“Few will remember what we ate here but never what she said here, or some, in the media what she wears here.”

And Palin exhibited her Alaska fashion sense, sporting a tan smoke ring — a circular scarf delicately knitted in Eskimo motifs from fine qiviut, the underwool of Arctic musk ox.

“And that government of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from Alaska.”

The Alaska rendition was recited in good humor, for earlier in the evening, Abraham Lincoln’s famous speech made at the Gettysburg, Pa., battlefield was recited eloquently from memory by Glenn Hackney.

Palin addressed the audience in a similar vein, sharing Lincoln lessons and extolling the 16th president’s life and accomplishments in a somewhat lengthy speech, which included a short, five-question trivia quiz on Lincoln with small prizes.

Throughout the speech, the governor compared or commented on the similarities and parallels of Lincoln’s life, ideas and works to Alaska and Alaskans.

Like Lincoln, who was interested in building transportation infrastructure such as roads, railroads and harbors, Palin said, so too are Alaskans in developing the same infrastructure as well as opening up more federal land.

“We’ve got to let the federal government know we can responsibly and safely develop our natural resources,” she said.

Palin extolled Republicans as knowing how to run their businesses and families best and never becoming a slave to big government.

“We need to turn it around so government is working for us,” she said.

Palin said she was pleased to be back in the Golden Heart City, and she reminisced about previous visits, touching on her inauguration here two years ago.

She joked that for some people it was the first sign of her “going rogue” by hosting the Palin/Lt. Gov. Sean Parnell inauguration in Fairbanks and not Juneau.

She also thanked Fairbanksans for their support and respect for the military and the good training her son Track, a member of the Stryker Brigade deployed to Iraq, received at Fort Wainwright.

During her recent vice-presidential stump across the nation, Palin said she felt many people “misunderstood the uniqueness of Alaska,” its pioneering spirit, its residents’ work ethic and ruggedness.

She asked the audience to help get the message out that Alaska is a good, positive state where people work hard, enjoy the great outdoors and support family values.

Palin also mentioned media confusion about predator control in Alaska.

She said she responded to a FOX newscaster’s questions Saturday with, “For me, I eat, therefore I hunt.”

Then she added for the Fairbanks crowd, “That’s the way we roll in Alaska.”

Exit question for our Alaskan readers: Was that “circular scarf delicately knitted in Eskimo motifs… from the underwool of Arctic musk ox” the same thing she wore at the Alaska 50th Anniversary Gala? Many of us wondered what was up with that scarf. We’re all still learning about the way folks “roll in Alaska,” but we continue to like what we see.