Look Who is Looking Backward

This past week during the Vice Presidential debate, Sarah Palin, the Republican nominee for the Vice President said and I quote, "Enough is enough with looking backward and playing the blame game. There's a time, too, when Americans are gonna say, 'Enough is enough,' with your ticket constantly looking backwards and pointing fingers and doing the blame game. There have been huge blunders in the war, there have been huge blunders throughout this administration, as there are with any administration, but for a ticket that wants to talk about change and looking into the future, there's just too much finger-pointing backwards to ever make us believe that that's where you're going.

Well, it all sounds quite ironic when the same Sarah Palin today brought up the topic of Barack Obama's links to Bill Ayer's a 1960's anti war activist. Why is Sarah Palin talking about something that happened in 1960 when Barack Obama was just 8 years old. For someone who as recently as last week wanted to talk about the way forward and not backwards, what made her change her mind into talking about something that has not happened in the recent past.