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BlueNC - The people's think tank — ... Bush aides to tutor Palin. That's the funniest headline I've seen in years.

Sarah Palin Gets Foreign Policy Tutors: Bush Aides
The Moderate Voice — ... Those who thought Republican Vice Presidential pick Gov. Sarah Palin won’t be able to talk about foreign policy or stand up to Democratic Vice Presidential candidate Sen. Joe Biden might think again: she’s getting some tutors…Bush aides. ...

Change You Can Believe In?
Newshoggers.com — ... By Ron Beasley Bushies Come to Palin's Aid  The McCain team has hastily assembled a team of former Bush White House aides to tutor the vice-presidential candidate, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, on foreign-policy issues, to write her speeches and to begin preparing her for her all-important Oct. 2 debate against Sen. Joe Biden. Steve Biegun, who once served as the No. 3 National Security Council official under Condoleezza Rice at the White House, has been hired as chief foreign-policy adviser to the Alaska ...

Transitions
Angry Bear — Newsweek (blog), via TBogg: Douglas Holtz-Eakin, the former chief economist at the Council of Economic Advisers who has been serving as top economics guru for the McCain campaign, has moved over to serve as Palin’s chief domestic-policy adviser. A while back, a commenter who'd worked in his shop remarked on Holtz-Eakin's great sense of humor. Looks like he'll need it for all those questions about the best policies to bring big-box retailers to the Alaskan bush.

Expectations
The Republic of T. — ... Serving as president of the United States isn’t a job one can cram for — as if the campaign is just the night before the big exam, and skating by with a “C” was acceptable. ...

McCain source to Lowry: “Look, she wasn’t ready for this, obviously”
Hot Air » Top Picks — ... Some McCain loyalists think the Bushies assigned to Palin let her down and then turned on her. This is a representative quote from someone from McCain world holding that view: “Look, she wasn’t ready for this, obviously. Their job was to make her ready for this and they failed. So they unloaded on her. If they had an iota of loyalty to John McCain, they wouldn’t have done it.” Were there any Bushies assigned to Palin? Indeed there were. Were any of them communications people? Indeed : Tucker Eskew and … Nicolle Wallace, who was ...

Links for 2008-11-13 [del.icio.us]
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... communications team seemed to consider her a dolt, while the policy people—like Steve Biegun and Randy Scheunemann—were impressed with her and her potential. As one McCain aide told me, "It's the difference between considering her someone who lacks knowledge and someone who is incompetent, and they [the communications aides] treated her as the latter." +++++++++ Lowry shows himself to be the Mitt Romney shill that he is. WFB must be rolling over in his grave. Stumper : Bushies Come to Palin's Aid Biegun is hardly the only Bushie to be tapped for ...

links for 2008-11-14
FullosseousFlap's Dental Blog — ... (tags: gaymarriage) Stumper : Bushies Come to Palin's Aid Biegun is hardly the only Bushie to be tapped for Palin duty. Matt Scully, a former Bush White House speechwriter who helped draft some of the major foreign-policy ...