corner.nationalreview.com - 8/29/2008
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For those of you who missed Palin's speech today, you may find it here. And some quick points -- rather, pointlets:
She is leaderly. That's not quite a word, but I have employed it often. (It ought to be a word.) Governor Palin is strong, assured, natural -- and leaderly. I'm not sure she is ...
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The Daily Dish | By Andrew Sullivan —
"Sarah is from America. Obama is not," - an email posted by Mona Charen at NRO.
Among the other reasons some at NRO are psyched: Like many Americans, she says “Eye-rack” and “Eye-ran” (for two neighboring countries in the Middle East). ...
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What's the reaction to the 3rd-and-21 paper-thin resume Buchanan-supporting creationist from Alaska? I thought about posting this at 3 am, but I can't stay up that late. Start with NRO: Jay Nordlinger: Like many Americans, she says “Eye-rack” and “Eye-ran” (for two neighboring countries in the Middle East). Some people mock this, but it is very American. And — speaking of mockery — she also says “nuke-u-lar”: like George W. Bush, Jimmy Carter (who was a nuclear engineer), and ...
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