A reader writes:

You quoted Palin saying, "What I see in a bear, in any other species in their natural habitat, they are self-sufficient. They are not sitting around waiting for something else to catch that salmon for them and feed them."

Actually, bears, like other predators, will scavenge another animal's kill when convenient. A grizzly will have no compunction about running off another, weaker predator and taking its kill. Not to mention their preference for human refuse over "meat on the hoof". I wonder if Palin would point to a homeless person rummaging, bearlike, through garbage and assert that this is an example of the kind of self-sufficiency she is for?