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submitted by riverdrops 40 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Trying to head off a potentially embarrassing state ethics report on GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin, campaign officials released their own report Thursday that clears her of any wrongdoing. Sen. John McCain's running mate is the subject of a legislative investigation into whether she... More
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submitted by blueheat 40 months ago, from nydailynews.com
Sarah Palin skated through a relatively gaffe-free debate Thursday night by using a veteran pol's technique: If you don't like the question, ignore it. Whenever she faced a subject that could put her on unstable ground, she did a quick pivot and went with what she knew or a well-rehearsed talking... More
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submitted by bafficio 40 months ago, from latimes.com
Focused sharply on the middle class, Sarah Palin and Joe Biden fought over taxes, military strategy and which party could better rebuild America in a vice presidential debate Thursday that served as the nation's first extended look at the little-known Alaska governor who vaulted weeks ago onto the.. More
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submitted by grandie4 40 months ago, from nytimes.com
When Gov. Sarah Palin meets Senator Joseph R. Biden Jr. on Thursday in the vice-presidential debate, even her fellow Alaskans might hear for the first time some of her views on health care reform, education policy and other issues of state government. More
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submitted by grandie4 40 months ago, from baltimoresun.com
On the eve of the vice-presidential debate, a new poll shows that most Americans regard Sarah Palin as unqualified to take over as president should it become necessary. The finding is a sharp reversal from earlier polling that showed she was considered qualified, and points to the heightened... More
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submitted by riverdrops 40 months ago, from cbsnews.com
Sarah Palin told a customer at a Philadelphia restaurant on Saturday that the U.S. should “absolutely” launch attacks from Afghanistan into Pakistan in the event that it becomes necessary to “stop the terrorists from coming any further in,” a comment similar to the one John McCain condemned... More
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submitted by eooties 40 months ago, from amconmag.com
The McCain campaign has held a mock debate and a mock press conference with Palin; both are being described as “disastrous.” One senior McCain aide was quoted as saying, “What are we going to do?” The McCain people want to move this first debate to some later, undetermined date, possibly never. More
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submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from blogs.abcnews.com
If this crisis is so serious McCain needs to suspend his campaign activities and cancel his appearance at the first presidential debate, why would Palin not be there with him in Washington DC? I know her office is in Juneau, not DC, but surely the governor McCain insists is "absolutely" qualified.. More
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submitted by trippie48 41 months ago, from politico.com
Facing questions about her lack of experience on the world stage, Sarah Palin sought to bolster her foreign affairs and national security credentials here today with a series of meetings with foreign leaders and foreign policy experts. The Republican vice presidential candidate’s half-hour meeting.. More
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submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from thecaucus.blogs.nytimes.com
Computer hackers broke into the private Yahoo e-mail account of Gov. Sarah Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, and posted some of her messages and a long-list of contacts on the Internet. The Web site Wikileaks posted screen shots of Ms. Palin’s inbox displaying her username... More
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submitted by bafficio 41 months ago, from boston.com
Is "Troopergate" the other shoe that will drop and dampen the enthusiasm for Sarah Palin? An investigation sanctioned by Alaska's legislature is looking into whether Palin abused the office of governor by pressuring the state's public safety commissioner to fire a state trooper involved in a... More
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submitted by bafficio 41 months ago, from swamppolitics.com
Embedded in the new Newsweek poll - the one which, like others lately, portrays a dead-heat between John McCain and Barack Obama among voters surveyed nationally - are some measures of how McCain running mate Sarah Palin has helped the Republican Party's presidential ticket. More
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submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
The question of whether Sarah Palin has ever been to Iraq pushed Obama aides Saturday to accuse the McCain campaign of outright lies, distortions and distractions to the American people. Since Republican presidential nominee John McCain tapped the Alaska governor to be his running mate on Aug. 29... More
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submitted by rodeox 41 months ago, from nytimes.com
Sarah Palin lives by the maxim that all politics is local, not to mention personal. So when there was a vacancy at the top of the State Division of Agriculture, she appointed a high school classmate, Ms. Havemeister, to the $95,000-a-year position. Ms. Havemeister cited her love of cows as one... More
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submitted by chiasma 41 months ago, from news.yahoo.com
Republican presidential nominee John McCain and his running mate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, equated lawmakers' requests for funding for special projects with corruption on Wednesday even though Palin herself has requested nearly $200 million in so-called "earmarks" this year. More
