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Palin Most Like Insecure, Trigger-Happy, Ideologically Inflexible Bush

Scott Johnson | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home


Scott Johnson

While Obama and Palin keep getting compared, it is probably more useful to compare Palin with the governors who have been elected to the Presidency in the past forty years. Her record is paper-thin; but on the surface she seems to resemble Pres. Bush. And that is the last thing this country needs.

My Catholic Faith Pushes Me To Obama

Kari Lundgren | Posted 10.10.2008 | Home


Kari Lundgren

While I prayed for an end to abortion and the conversion of souls, I also saw the depressed ex-steel town in which the university resided, and I felt a disconnect between the spiritual fervency on campus and the poverty surrounding it.

Community Organizers Behind Every Great Movement

Jonah Lalas | Posted 10.09.2008 | Home


Jonah Lalas

Organizers have a responsibility not only to themselves or the communities they work in, but to the greater struggle for justice. When an organizer fails, a portion of our country's progress may fail with them. To us, that's a much bigger burden than balancing the budget in Wasilla, Alaska.

Sam Stein

Palin's Absence Becomes Focus Of Sunday Talk

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.08.2008 | Politics


UPDATE: "Republican vice presidential running mate Sarah Palin is offering her first televised interview to ABC News in the coming week in Alaska," AP...

Pistol-Packin' Sarah Shoots Up the Screen

Betty Fussell | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Betty Fussell

John Ford couldn't have staged it better. Cowboy George disappearing into the sunset and Old Man McCain waving him off with relief. And suddenly there she was -- out of the Alaskan blue -- Cowgirl Sarah.

"Reformer" Palin Accepted Donations From Indicted Alaska Oil Man

Tony Hopfinger | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home


Tony Hopfinger

In 2001, gearing up for a run at the office of Alaska Lieutenant Governor, Sarah Palin drove from Wasilla to the Cook Inlet home of Bill Allen, the ole-boy millionaire at the heart of the scandal plaguing US Sen Ted Stevens.

Republican Pornography

Rachel Farris | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home


Rachel Farris

Palin has already demonstrated her lack of judgment by accepting the role assigned to her, slapping on lipstick and regurgitating a speech that was no doubt written for a man two months ago.

Bush, Palin Both Think They're Chosen By God

Erica Slead | Posted 10.06.2008 | Home


Erica Slead

Bush and Palin claim to have the inside track that they are already chosen and been told what God's will is. That leads to the scariest, most personal form of an in-group/out-group dichotomy.

Report: Obama Surrogates Urged To Mention Eagleton On Palin

Marc Ambinder | Posted 10.06.2008 | Politics


Barack Obama has forbidden his campaign from referencing Gov. Sarah Palin's family and has said he'd fire any staffer who violates the rule. But plent...

RNC Speech Proves Sarah Palin is Not "Every Woman"

Kim Mance | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


Kim Mance

As a woman and feminist, I'm not buying all the rhetoric. Mainly because Sarah Palin is the most anti-women woman to hit national politics to date.

Palin's Family Drama Is Not A Voting Issue for New York's Young GOP

Odile Weissenborn | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home


Odile Weissenborn

Judging by the applause, cheers and grins during the last thirty minutes of the Republican National Convention Wednesday night, Sarah Palin's speech w...

Sam Stein

Palin Also Supported The "Road To Nowhere" (And May Still)

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.05.2008 | Politics


While a debate rages over how honest Sarah Palin has been in stating her opposition to the infamous Bridge To Nowhere, another massive, widely-critici...

Republicans Revive "Bittergate," Dems Flounder

M.S. Bellows, Jr. | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home


M.S. Bellows, Jr.

Wednesday night the Republican Party changed frames, and did so brilliantly. The agent of change was Palin, who suddenly has become the most dangerous person to the progressive agenda since Reagan.

Palin's Speech: "A Rhetorical Lynching"

Robyn Ewing | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home


Robyn Ewing

Palin said her philosophy on the reason for governing is, "To leave this nation better than we found it." Where have you been for the last eight years, Palin? The country's in the toilet and guess which party was at the wheel?

Mrs Palin Goes To Washington

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.05.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

Bud McFarlane tells me that right now "a friend" of his is working with Palin on foreign affairs. "She's clearly very intelligent," he says. "It's a good sign she hasn't been afraid to say what she doesn't know. That was Ronald Reagan's strength."

McCain Is Suddenly Camera Shy

E. Joyce Moore | Posted 10.04.2008 | Home


E. Joyce Moore

If McCain is so proud of his pick for vice president, why does he keep skipping interviews?

McCain Defending Palin From "Shameless Smears" With Ad

Posted 10.04.2008 | Politics


The Politico reports: Mounting a ferocious defense of his embattled running mate, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) said he is buying a TV ad arguing that ...

Palin And The Enduring Christian Right

Chip Berlet | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home


Chip Berlet

"Each wave of conservative Christian organizing erects more institutional infrastructure in the form of publishing houses, radio and television programs, bookstores... This "institutional thickening" bulks up the network to carry it through divisive episodes, such as the current one."

"Hurricane Sarah" Whips Up Mixed Reactions At GOP Convention

Mayhill Fowler | Posted 10.03.2008 | Home


Mayhill Fowler

McCain's own polling is showing that the race is not nearly as even as the national polls indicate. He knew he had to take a gamble -- and Palin is turning out to be quite a gamble.

Sam Stein

Palin On Abortion: I'd Oppose Even If My Own Daughter Was Raped

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.02.2008 | Politics


In November 2006, then gubernatorial candidate Sarah Palin declared that she would not support an abortion for her own daughter even if she had been r...

What Would Don Draper Do? The Ultimate Pitch Man On The Palin Pick

Natasha Vargas-Cooper | Posted 10.01.2008 | Home


Natasha Vargas-Cooper

After a round of formalities, Team Obama settles into Sterling Cooper's leather chairs, Pall Mall smoke fills the room and Don, nonchalant but passionate, makes the pitch...

Why Palin? McCain v. Rove

Sidney Blumenthal | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics


Sidney Blumenthal

My information is that Karl Rove wanted Romney and pushed him. McCain pushed back -- he really wanted Lieberman, and that was completely out of the question. Palin is the result.

Sam Stein

McCain Camp Didn't Search Palin's Hometown Paper Archives

HuffingtonPost.com | Sam Stein | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign has gone to great lengths to present the selection of Sarah Palin as one made after a careful, meticulous vetting process. But evi...

Thomas B. Edsall

Some Conservatives Air Concerns Over Palin

HuffingtonPost.com | Thomas B. Edsall | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics


The McCain campaign's desperate gamble on Sarah Palin, aimed at reversing the Arizona senator's downward spiral, has met with decidedly mixed reaction...

Nico Pitney

Graham: McCain Picked Palin To Help "Tell A Story"

HuffingtonPost.com | Nico Pitney | Posted 10.01.2008 | Politics


This morning on ABC, Sen. Lindsay Graham gave what might be considered a too-truthful explanation for why John McCain chose Sarah Palin as his running...