Is Palin an intellectual? You betcha!

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Does vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin consider herself intellectual? You betcha!

“And you have to be up on not only current events, but you have to understand the foundation of the issues that you’re working on,” Palin said in an interview with People magazine. “You can’t just go on what is presented you.”

Palin, who portrays herself as an everyday small-town American and peppers her speech with folksy expressions, didn’t name a single newspaper or magazine when CBS News anchor Katie Couric asked where she got her information.

But the Alaska governor told People that she has always been a “voracious reader” and named reading - anything from biographies to historical works - as her favourite thing along with her children and sports.

Besides author Lawrence Wright’s terrorism history, The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11, Palin said she’s reading a lot of briefing papers.

“I appreciate a lot of information. I think that comes from growing up in a family of school teachers,” she said.

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