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EXCERPTS: Charlie Gibson Interviews Sarah Palin — Republican VP Candidate Speaks with ABC News' Charlie Gibson in Exclusive Interview … GIBSON: Governor, let me start by asking you a question that I asked John McCain about you, and it is really the central question.
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Russell Goldman / ABCNEWS:
Sarah Palin Defends Experience, Takes Hard Line Approach on National Security — Republican VP Candidate Speaks with ABC News' Charles Gibson in Exclusive Interview — On the anniversary of the worst terrorist attack in U.S. history, Gov. Sarah Palin took a hard-line approach on national security …
Ben Smith / The Politico:
McCain on Palin — A tough interview with a Maine reporter yesterday, in which McCain speaks on Palin's national security experience. Uncharacteristically, he's much more at home on the domestic policy side. — At one point, he says that Palin “was right” on Russia and on Iran.
Joe Sudbay / AMERICAblog News:
McCain finally answers some questions — or tries to answer some questions. He's terrible. — NOTE FROM JOHN: Watch McCain about a minute and a half into the tape, when he's asked what National Security credentials Sarah Palin has. He replies “energy.” The reporter goes, no, I asked you about national security.
Jonathan Martin / Jonathan Martin's Blogs:
McCain says Palin to do “numerous” interviews — John McCain told a local TV station yesterday that Sarah Palin would be “coming out in the next couple of days with interviews with numerous people.” — In a interview with the NBC affiliate in Portland, Maine, McCain was asked why his running mate …
Amanda / Think Progress:McCain: Palin Has National Security Experience Because She Knows About ‘Energy’
George Bryson / McClatchy Washington Bureau:
Critics: Under Palin, Wasilla charged rape victims for exam — Two state leaders lashed out at the public record of Gov. Sarah Palin on Wednesday as witnesses in a new “Alaska Mythbusters” forum coordinated by supporters of Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama.
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Palin's town used to bill victims for rape kits — WASILLA, Alaska — In 2000, Alaska lawmakers learned that rural police agencies had been billing rape victims or their insurance companies $500 to $1,200 for the costs of the forensic medical examinations used to gather evidence.
Frank James / The Swamp:
Palin's experience OK: Illinois's Dem guv — Gov. Rod Blagojevich. Chicago Tribune photo by Michael Tercha.) — by Rick Pearson — Illinois' Democratic Gov. Rod Blagojevich admits he can't field dress a moose and his hunting targets tend to be more along the lines of state legislators in his own party who don't trust him.
Myglesias / Matthew Yglesias:
Kagan: Knowledge Is Elitist — Robert Kagan says it's elitist to expect a President of the United States to be knowledgeable about national security issues: … Based on the structure of the situation, it's plausible that Kagan is just being opportunistically dishonest here and trying to say something useful to the Republican ticket.
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Nate Silver / The New Republic:
What's the Matter with Michigan? — Why Obama is faltering in a state that should go blue. — Democrats have grown accustomed to winning Michigan by relatively comfortable margins. Bill Clinton flipped the state in 1992, bringing home the Reagan Democrats and giving the party its first win in the state since 1968.
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Joe Klein / Time:
Sarah Palin's Myth of America — Sarah Palin has arrived in our midst with the force of a rocket-propelled grenade. She has boosted John McCain's candidacy and overwhelmed the presidential process in a way that no vice-presidential pick has since Thomas Eagleton did the precise opposite …
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Matt Stoller / Open Left:
Did McCain Tamper with the Drug Enforcement Agency to Protect His Career? — You can Digg this post here. I have more video from Gosinski) — A whistleblower is coming forth against John and Cindy McCain, and the picture he is painting is not a pretty one.
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Harold Meyerson / American Prospect:
MCCAIN: DO AMERICANS REALLY WANT TO WORK? — In 2006. John McCain addressed the national conference of the AFL-CIO's Building & Construction Trades Department, where he took a question about paying American workers a decent wage and answered thus: — Apparently, he believes …
Kim Severson / New York Times:
The Hockey Way of Life in Wasilla — WASILLA, Alaska — Like many parents here in the communities near Anchorage, Sarah Palin raised her older children in hockey rinks. — Powered on white mochas and an aerobics class or two, Ms. Palin, the Alaska governor and Republican nominee for vice president …
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Joe Klein / Swampland:
McCain's Health Care Tax Increase — A new rule here: Rather than do the McCain campaign's bidding by wasting space on Senator Honor's daily lies and bilge—his constant attempts to divert attention from substantive issues—I'm going to assume that others will spend more than enough …
Gallup:
Gallup Daily: McCain 48%, Obama 44% — McCain has held significant lead for last four days — PRINCETON, NJ — Registered voters continue to express a slight preference for John McCain (48%) over Barack Obama (44%) in the latest Gallup Poll Daily tracking presidential trial heat.
TPM Election Central:
Petraeus: I Don't Know That I Will Ever Use The Word “Victory” For Iraq — One of the McCain campaign's chief assaults on Barack Obama is that McCain is insisting that the troops return only after “victory” in Iraq, while Obama refuses to use that word — a position the McCain forces describe as tantamount to wanting to lose.
Howard Fineman / MSNBC:
Obama's woes have nothing to do with ‘lipstick’ — Howard Fineman on the candidate's pride, strategy and stump speak — Democratic Presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. gestures as he speaks during a town hall meeting in the library of Granby High School in Norfolk, Va., Wednesday, Nov. 10, 2008.
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Clive Crook:
Lipstick on a pig — One wonders how much lower this election can sink. The furore over “you can put lipstick on a pig, but it's still a pig” sets a new benchmark. The idea that Barack Obama seriously intended to call Sarah Palin a pig is surely absurd.
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