Palin considers herself intellectual: People magazine

Says she 'always wanted a son named Zamboni'

By The Associated Press

NEW YORK — Does U.S. vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin consider herself intellectual? You betcha!

Although she didn’t name a single newspaper or magazine when CBS News anchor Katie Couric asked where she got her information, Palin told People magazine she has always been a “voracious reader.”

She mentioned reading — anything from biographies to historical works — as one of her favourite things, along with her children and sports.

Besides author Lawrence Wright’s terrorism history, “The Looming Tower: Al-Qaeda and the Road to 9/11,” Palin says she’s been reading a lot of briefing papers.

She says: “And you have to be up on not only current events, but you have to understand the foundation of the issues that you’re working on.”

She says she appreciates a lot of information, as she grew up in a family of school teachers.

Also, Palin says if she and husband Todd had had a sixth child, they have already picked a name for a boy joining siblings Track, Bristol, Willow, Piper and Trig.

“I always wanted a son named Zamboni,” she said.

The magazine will be on newsstands on Friday.