Almost being the key word.

Via Politico:

Watching President Barack Obama’s debate performance Wednesday night was such a “struggle” that Sarah Palin says she “almost felt sorry for him.”

“Oh, it was a struggle to watch some parts of this, Neil,” Palin told Fox’s Neil Cavuto. “As you considered President Obama, with his lack of enthusiasm for his own policies and his lack of conviction, in trying to articulate why it is that he believes that government will make you healthy, wealthy, and wise and happy when you know the vast majority of Americans know government is not the answer.”