Speaking at the Henderson Pavilion, Republican vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin appeared to have ‘switched gears’ so far as her attacks on the Democratic presidential candidate, Barack Obama, are concerned.

Commending the virtues of equal pay and opportunity for women, Palin framed her White House quest in terms of feminist values, and suggested that Obama is guilty of gender inequality.

While Palin has oft-repeated her stump about shattering the “glass ceiling” with her candidacy, this time around she lashed out at Obama, saying that he is a hypocrite who fails to treat women - including Clinton - as equals. She said that Obama’s vice presidential pick can be compared to the discrimination women face in the workplace every day.

In her characteristically uninhibited manner, the Alaska Governor said: “When the time came to make a decision, Barack Obama couldn’t bring himself to pick the woman who got eighteen million votes in the primary. You’ve got to ask yourself, why wasn’t Senator Hillary Clinton even vetted by the Obama campaign?”

Furthermore, Palin accused Obama of committing gender bias himself, by not paying equally to men and women on his Senate staff. She said Senate payroll records found women on his staff received 83 cents for every dollar males received.

The gist of Palin’s speech echoes the theme that Hillary Clinton touted as First Lady, thus: women across the globe deserved the same rights that American women enjoy, including freedom from sex trafficking and honor killings. Palin said: “If I am elected, these women will have an advocate and a defender in the forty-seventh vice president of the United States.”