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Sarah Palin / Facebook:
Really? Still Making Things Up? — The book tour starts this week, and I look forward to it! I'm most looking forward to meeting many of you, shaking your hands, and telling you,"Thanks for loving America." I'll give you a scoop here and tell you what's on the book's Dedication Page …
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Hot Air, The Hill, Conservatives4Palin.com, Ben Smith's Blog, TPM LiveWire and Gateway Pundit
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Melanie Kirkpatrick / Wall Street Journal:
Her Side of the Story — McCain aides kept her out of the loop, focusing instead on ‘packaging.’ — “Going Rogue,” the title of Sarah Palin's autobiography, refers to the snide remark of an anonymous McCain aide late in last year's presidential campaign.
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Texas for Sarah Palin
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:
An Open Dish Challenge To Palin — Well, she has now thrown down a gauntlet that the Dish will be very eager to take up in the next few days. — Yesterday the AP ran a story describing some of the contents of the book, and arguing that many assertions in it are, like so much of what Palin has said, empirically untrue.
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Conservatives4Palin.com
Andrew Sullivan / The Daily Dish:The Odd Lies Of Sarah Palin: A Summary Before The Next Round
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Comments from Left Field
Allahpundit / Hot Air:
Japan expert to ABC: Yes, Obama's bow made him look like an idiot — So much of an idiot, in fact, that according to Tapper's source, at least one Japanese paper isn't running the photo out of embarrassment. This tool actually groveled himself into a minor international incident.
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Telegraph, Gateway Pundit, GayPatriot, Scared Monkeys, Weasel Zippers, Maggie's Farm, Macsmind, Weekly Standard and HotAirPundit
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Political Punch:
On President Obama's Bow to the Japanese Emperor, An Academic Friend Writes That Both the Left and the Right Are Wrong — An old friend — an academic with expertise about the Japanese Empire, and in general a supporter of President Obama — sends me the following note …
Mike Allen / The Politico:
Obama takes heat on Afghan timing — SHANGHAI, China - President Barack Obama made no effort to conceal his irritation when his press corps used the first question of his maiden Far East trip to ask what was taking him so long on Afghanistan. — Jennifer Loven of The Associated Press had asked …
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Doyle McManus / Los Angeles Times:
Obama must rethink rethinking Afghanistan — His strategy deliberations are starting to look like dangerous indecision. — Barack Obama is in danger of giving deliberation a bad name. — The decision about whether to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan was never going to be easy …
Duff Wilson / New York Times:
Drug Makers Raise Prices in Face of Health Care Reform — Even as drug makers promise to support Washington's health care overhaul by shaving $8 billion a year off the nation's drug costs after the legislation takes effect, the industry has been raising its prices at the fastest rate in years.
Johanna Blakley / The Politico:
Can Winfrey, Palin save each other? — Were there ever two women who needed each other more but whose political differences were so starkly different? Can Sarah Palin help stanch Oprah Winfrey's slipping ratings? Can Winfrey come to the rescue of Palin's tattered political reputation?
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Jennifer Rubin / Commentary:
Re: Graham Crumbles for Nothing — When Lindsay Graham decided to support cap-and-trade — a position not even some moderate Democrats can stomach — I observed that this was not only bad policy but also bad politics. And sure enough, moves like that and his support for now Supreme Court …
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Liz Nunez / WPTV:
Al Gore greeted by protesters in Boca Raton — BOCA RATON, FL — Hundreds of people sat inside the Mizner Amphitheater, paying close attention to the presentation, but outside, it was a different story. — A large group of protesters gathered just steps away from where former Vice President Al Gore was speaking.
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New York Times:
U.S. Asks More From Pakistan in Terror War — WASHINGTON — The Obama administration is stepping up pressure on Pakistan to expand and reorient its fight against the Taliban and Al Qaeda, warning that failing to do so would undercut the new strategy and troop increase for Afghanistan …
Paul Krugman / New York Times:
World Out of Balance — International travel by world leaders is mainly about making symbolic gestures. Nobody expects President Obama to come back from China with major new agreements, on economic policy or anything else. — But let's hope that when the cameras aren't rolling Mr. Obama …
BBC:
Today: Monday 16th November — PLEASE NOTE: We are unable to offer transcripts for our programme interviews. Today is broadcast live and the running order is subject to change. — Barack Obama is in China for his first presidential visit and has said that the two countries are not pre-destined to be adversaries.
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