Sarah the Diva: Palin plots for 2012?
The Nation
by Ari Berman
10/27/08
A vicious back-and-forth broke out this weekend between advisers to John McCain and Sarah Palin about whether the Alaska Governor is to blame for the McCain campaign’s woes. The Politico ran a story on Saturday entitled, ‘Palin Allies Report Rising Camp Tension.’ … In response a McCain adviser told CNN: She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone … She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom. … But Palin isn’t sweating the small stuff. She’s already looking forward — to 2012...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/376608
Sarah Palin’s war on science
Slate
by Christopher Hitchens
10/27/08
In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit, and paltry charges being traded in petty ways, and with Joe the Plumber becoming the emblematic stupidity of the campaign, it didn’t seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech in Pittsburgh, Gov. Sarah Palin denounced wasteful expenditure on fruit-fly research, adding for good xenophobic and anti-elitist measure that some of this research took place ‘in Paris, France’ and winding up with a folksy ‘I kid you not’...
http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+the+Plumber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ari+Berman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hitchens
by Ari Berman
10/27/08
A vicious back-and-forth broke out this weekend between advisers to John McCain and Sarah Palin about whether the Alaska Governor is to blame for the McCain campaign’s woes. The Politico ran a story on Saturday entitled, ‘Palin Allies Report Rising Camp Tension.’ … In response a McCain adviser told CNN: She is a diva. She takes no advice from anyone … She does not have any relationships of trust with any of us, her family or anyone else. Also, she is playing for her own future and sees herself as the next leader of the party. Remember: Divas trust only unto themselves, as they see themselves as the beginning and end of all wisdom. … But Palin isn’t sweating the small stuff. She’s already looking forward — to 2012...
http://www.thenation.com/blogs/campaignmatters/376608
Sarah Palin’s war on science
Slate
by Christopher Hitchens
10/27/08
In an election that has been fought on an astoundingly low cultural and intellectual level, with both candidates pretending that tax cuts can go like peaches and cream with the staggering new levels of federal deficit, and paltry charges being traded in petty ways, and with Joe the Plumber becoming the emblematic stupidity of the campaign, it didn’t seem possible that things could go any lower or get any dumber. But they did last Friday, when, at a speech in Pittsburgh, Gov. Sarah Palin denounced wasteful expenditure on fruit-fly research, adding for good xenophobic and anti-elitist measure that some of this research took place ‘in Paris, France’ and winding up with a folksy ‘I kid you not’...
http://www.slate.com/id/2203120/
Informant: Thomas L. Knapp
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Palin
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=McCain
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=federal+deficit
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Joe+the+Plumber
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Ari+Berman
http://freepage.twoday.net/search?q=Christopher+Hitchens
rudkla - 28. Okt, 09:10
