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It Damn Well Should Be Shocking
Riehl World View — It won't be, as we await the coronation. But as some are dismissing this Newsweek piece as really nothing new, or focusing on a possible Palin Wallace feud, I find this bit fairly troublesome. That "quick run" of "databases" violated a citizen's right to privacy. And the way this is posed, it strongly suggests Obama operatives were in the loop. As if we didn't know that. At first, Joe the Plumber made the Obamaites anxious. When McCain brought him up at the third debate, suggesting that Obama wanted to raise his taxes and ...

No More Mister Nice Blog — Sarah Palin’s Displacement Problem From Newsweek (Chapter 6 of "Secrets of the 2008 Campaign"): There was grumbling that Palin had jumped the gun by bringing up [William] Ayers at her rallies before the campaign could properly do the groundwork with a rollout strategy and ads. (At one rally, she had talked about Obama "palling around with terrorists.") Palin was mad at her handlers. Reportedly, she felt that [Nicole] Wallace and [Steve] Schmidt had poorly coached and advised her. One adviser later speculated ...