voices.washingtonpost.com - 9/5/2008
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By Juliet Eilperin ST. PAUL -- Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee got a big laugh from the crowd at tonight's convention when he said that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin outpolled her Democratic counterpart, Joseph Biden. "She got more votes running ...
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Rambo and the Mean Girl
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... experience (unlike her own superior Mean Girl self) makes it sound as though she had run something bigger than he had. But Obama has been head of a political campaign with hundreds of thousands of workers and volunteers. Doesn't a campaign head organize people and give orders and plan strategy and tactics, i.e., act in an executive capacity? Isn't that what Barack Obama has been doing for two years and hasn't he proven that he is an excellent executive in this endeavor? Only 114,000 or so people voted to make Palin governor in 2006. In contrast, Obama's executive ...
Barbara's Daily BuzzFlash Minute for September 8, 2008
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... Repuglicans are dumber than a lamp-post and that’s scary! Calm down, Barbara, I tell myself, maybe not, maybe they’re just the biggest liars to ever grace the halls of our government! “Former Arkansas governor Mike Huckabee … said that as mayor of Wasilla, Alaska, GOP vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin outpolled her Democratic counterpart, Joseph Biden. "She got more votes running for mayor of the town of Alaska than Joe Biden got running for president of the United States," … There's just one problem with Huckabee's statement: it's not true. Biden collected a total of ...
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