Surprise package Sarah Palin helps McCain rain on Obama's parade
Updated on 29 August 2008
John McCain today unveiled his 44-year-old female running mate, less than 24 hours after Barack Obama's historic acceptance speech.
Governor of Alaska Sarah Palin is younger than Barack Obama, married to an American Eskimo and relatively unknown in the US and has no experience abroad.
Earlier, in an historic moment in US politics, Senator Obama accepted the Democratic presidential nomination.
He was the first African-American chosen as a presidential candidate by a major party.
In front of 85,000 people at a football stadium in Denver, he changed his speech to direct attacks on Senator McCain, linking him with Cheney and Bush.
Obama also laid out a specific programme for reviving America at home and abroad.
Our Washington correspondent Sarah Smith reports on the Obama speech and the coming battle with John McCain.
This video includes More4 News's telephone interview with Bob Satin, a former mayor who joined Alaska's political establishment at the same time as Sarah Palin.
