USA Today Interviews Sarah Palin

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From USA Today's On Politics blog:

Sarah Palin and President Obama don't agree on much, but last year's Republican vice presidential nominee just gave the president's defense of "just wars" a thumbs up in an interview with USA TODAY. In fact, she said that the president's address in Oslo, where he accepted the Nobel Peace Prize today, reminded her of what she wrote on the same subject in her hugely successful memoir, Going Rogue.

"I liked what he said," Palin told us in a phone interview. "I talked too in my book about the fallen nature of man and why war is necessary at times." For Palin, that view strikes close to home: Her eldest son, 20-year-old Track, is an Army infantry member who recently returned from a tour of duty in Iraq.

"I'm on my knees more than ever praying for his safety along with all of his fellow troops," Palin said. "Of course, war is the last thing I believe any American wants to engage in, but it's necessary. We have to stop these terrorists."

But the former governor also said that Obama should "follow more closely in the footsteps" of his predecessor, George W. Bush, who kept the homeland safe and made the lessons of the 9/11 attacks clear to the nation every day.

USA Today will have more from the interview in Friday's edition of the paper. An audio excerpt from the interview and the full blog post are here.

- JP