thepage.time.com - 8/30/2008
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IN HIS FIRST REACTION TO JOHN MCCAIN’S RUNNING MATE, BARACK OBAMA SAYS SARAH PALIN IS “AN UP-AND-COMING PUBLIC SERVANT” — SUNDAY ON “60 MINUTES” Dem. Presidential Nominee Says He Picked Joe Biden as His Running Mate Because “He Can Step in and Be President,” in Their First Joint Interview In his ...
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Amanda Carpenter: Obama: "Up and Coming Public Servant"
Townhall.com Blog's TownHall Blog —
First Barack Obama disses Sarah Palin as nothing more than a small-town mayor. Now, he describes her as a mother, servant and McCain ditto-head to 60 minutes. OBAMA: Obviously, she’s– a fine– mother and– a up and coming public servant. So, it– it’s too early for me to gauge– what kind of running mate she’ll be. My sense is that she subscribes to John McCain’s agenda Obama's officially had one full day to come up with an appropriate, hard-hitting response to Palin. He's still wiffing. Looks like trying to take down Sarah Barracudda is a bit harder than writing a nominiation ...
The Palin Paradox
The Stump —
... The only way Palin ends up helping McCain is if Obama and Biden overdo the skepticism. Obama's "60 Minutes" interview, in which he referred to her as a "fine mother and up-and-coming public service," is, to put it mildly, not an encouraging start. In general, I think the less said about Palin, the better. Her limitations will become self-evident as the media mines her background. Piling on is just going to create a backlash. ...
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Palin In Comparison
thenewnixon.org 8/30/2008 — Obamians may be getting worried about Gov. Palin, because they’re getting things exactly backwards. Joe Conason:
[A] focus group must have told McCain and his handlers that the experience argument wasn’t cutting against Barack Obama, that ...
Election Central Saturday Roundup
tpmelectioncentral.talkingpointsmemo.com 8/30/2008 — New Obama Ad: Regardless Of VP Pick, McCain Just More Of The Same
The Obama campaign has a new ad on national cable, responding to Sarah Palin's selection as John McCain's running mate. The ad says regardless of McCain's pick for vice president, he ...
Obama tiptoes around Palin in new ad
politico.com 8/30/2008 —
They may have run the "Bush is still is his running mate" ad regardless of who McCain picked, but this spot from Obama's camp reflects just how careful they're now playing the Palin selection.
Unlike what Team McCain had with Biden, ...
Who Would You Hire?
corner.nationalreview.com 8/30/2008 — From reader:
To borrow from Ross Perot (not always a good idea), would you hire any of these people as a manager at your company?
Palin you'd offer the job to right away, and then you'd sweat until she accepted it.
McCain would seem like a ...
Obama Ad: ‘No Change’ With McCain-Palin —
FOXNews.com 8/30/2008
ST. PAUL — Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama begins airing an ad Saturday that responds to rival John McCain’s selection of a running mate, carefully avoiding any direct criticism of Sarah Palin, the Alaska governor whom ...
McCain’s VP Pick Could De-Fang Biden —
FOXNews.com 8/30/2008
John McCain’s game-changing selection of a first-term female governor from Alaska as his running mate poses a challenge for Barack Obama’s own selection for vice president.
The presence of Gov. Sarah Palin, 44, on the campaign trail ...
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