Palin slams Obama for supporting Harry Reid

WASHINGTON: Former US vice presidential candidate, Sarah Palin used her Twitter account to call President Obama 'backasswards' for comments he made at a Nevada fundraiser for Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, and urged fans to share their thoughts in an editorial from the Las Vegas Review-Journal.

"President Obama has once again left behind a sinking feeling that neither he nor Sen. Reid have a clue how to pull this country out of its current dire economic straits," the New York Daily News quoted the Review-Journal, which criticised Obama's speech, he made on Thursday.

"What happens in Vegas shouldn't stay in Vegas," Palin said in a link to the article with her own harsh words for the president.

"LasVegas RJ editorial recaps Obama lecture 2 Runnin' Rebs, he's got most disconnected, backasswards plan ever imposed on the country we love," she tweeted.

Palin's provocative posts came after Obama went on the attack Thursday, slamming Republican challenger Sharron Angle.

Referring to her only as "Harry's opponent," Obama blasted Angle for her views on social security, medicare, and education, and her comments about the Gulf oil spill victims' compensation fund.

"She favors an approach that's even more extreme than the Republicans we've got in Washington, that's saying something...She wants to phase out and privatize social security and medicare," he said.