Russia’s loss may be McCain’s big gain as Mrs Palin works her magic
Wales Online
Sep 11 2008 David Williamson
FOREHEADS of foreign policy pundits furrow when they imagine Republican vice-presidential candidate Sarah Palin steering the US through an international crisis.
JFK radiated cool at moments during the Cuban Missile Crisis when even a cucumber would perspire. How would the woman described by the wife of her running mate as a “reform-minded, hockey-mommin’, basketball-shooting, moose-hunting, salmon-fishing, pistol-packing mother-of-five” respond to such a challenge?
Russia’s dramatic intervention in Georgia has reminded the world that the former superpower has a multitude of tanks – many of which are still in working order.
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Russia’s loss may be McCain’s big gain as Mrs Palin works her magic
Friday, September 12, 2008
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"You can see actually see Russia from land here in Alaska"
"You can see actually see Russia from land here in Alaska"
Alaskans Notice Palin Sticking to Her Script
September 11, 2008, 9:51 pm
Alaskans Notice Palin Sticking to Her Script
Wall Street Journal Blog
Elizabeth Williamson reports from Fairbanks, Alaska, on the presidential race.
Alaskans hang on every word Gov. Sarah Palin has been saying on the campaign trail — and they’re noticing a lot of those words are the same.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner today had a big above the fold piece on Gov. Palin’s homecoming Wednesday that called her out with the headline: “Palin sticks close to same speech.” The lede of the story noted that the state’s governor “offered many of the same lines Wednesday at her welcome home rally that are fast becoming her standard.”
That’s what stump speeches are all about, but Alaskans clearly expected straight talk from their favorite daughter: the story notes virtually every made-for-Alaska deviation in the speech. Even Gov. Palin seemed to pick up on the “duh” moment she was providing for people in this oil-rich state, as she served up her canned plea for oil drilling. After the briefest pause, she added: “I feel like I’m preaching to the choir.”
The McCain campaign is tightly controlling Gov. Palin’s media availability. Other than the ABC interviews running now, they have shielded her completely, and she has made no casual forays into the press section of the plane on her Alaska trip.
The media are none too happy about this — but it may be her friends in Alaska who miss the unscripted Sarah the most.
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Alaskans Notice Palin Sticking to Her Script
Alaskans Notice Palin Sticking to Her Script
Wall Street Journal Blog
Elizabeth Williamson reports from Fairbanks, Alaska, on the presidential race.
Alaskans hang on every word Gov. Sarah Palin has been saying on the campaign trail — and they’re noticing a lot of those words are the same.
The Fairbanks Daily News-Miner today had a big above the fold piece on Gov. Palin’s homecoming Wednesday that called her out with the headline: “Palin sticks close to same speech.” The lede of the story noted that the state’s governor “offered many of the same lines Wednesday at her welcome home rally that are fast becoming her standard.”
That’s what stump speeches are all about, but Alaskans clearly expected straight talk from their favorite daughter: the story notes virtually every made-for-Alaska deviation in the speech. Even Gov. Palin seemed to pick up on the “duh” moment she was providing for people in this oil-rich state, as she served up her canned plea for oil drilling. After the briefest pause, she added: “I feel like I’m preaching to the choir.”
The McCain campaign is tightly controlling Gov. Palin’s media availability. Other than the ABC interviews running now, they have shielded her completely, and she has made no casual forays into the press section of the plane on her Alaska trip.
The media are none too happy about this — but it may be her friends in Alaska who miss the unscripted Sarah the most.
Read the rest of the story:
Alaskans Notice Palin Sticking to Her Script
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