Profiles of Palin

Posted: Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:20 AM by Mark Murray

“Since long before she became Alaska's youngest -- and first female -- governor 20 months ago, Sarah Louise Heath Palin has been making her mark as an unlikely upstart,” the Washington Post writes. “Yesterday, she did it again, accepting Sen. John McCain's surprise offer to be his running mate. Palin, a 44-year-old mother of five who hunts caribou and was once a beauty queen, rose to the statehouse by challenging the corruption that has become endemic in Alaska, even if it meant taking on the Republican establishment there, including the former governor and the state's congressional delegation.”

The New York Times: “Though indisputably Alaskan, she rose to prominence by bucking the state’s rigid Republican hierarchy, impressing voters more with gumption, warmth and charm than an established record in government.”

USA Today focuses on her decision to have a child with Down Syndrome.

And here’s an October 2006 Anchorage Daily News profile.

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To me the bigger story is that McCain will do anything to win. How is a 72yr old cancer survivor, putting a mayyour of 6000, 1 step from commander in chief, putting country first???

This is just more republican tricks manipulating the public to get elected.

A Charles, LA, CA (Sent Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:28 AM)

Somethings are better left not talked about, but this a low watermark for the GOP..
Shock and Awe turned to what and who?...
I do know what someone's been given real bad judgment on this
one and just who that is I can only guess...
It's a desperate throw of the dice. Well, do the republicans want a VP in training?
Do we vote for some one we have no idea how it will shape Americas future?...domestically
and abroad..?
McKneeJerk seems to be only showing a distal regard of centering the country needs and policies into some sort of weak gesture to pander for voter support outside the GOP...
Or is this a grand gesture to show he needs youth and womanhood on his side?
In any event, voters took 2 years to understand Barack Obama's political views...and with only two months until election day., a lot of ground needs to be made up by Gov. Palin..
It's not a matter if John McCain likes her.
It's a matter of will the trust of the nation be prepared to have a lose cannon one heart beat away from their future.
It seems most of the issues within the GOP are not issues..they just desperately (by hook or by crook) must do anything to get your attention and your vote.
Well quite frankly, I have issues of unemployment and retirement and health care and housing and children's education and budgeting that far out weigh if some one was able to cleanup some crooks in their over affluent state government.
John McCain runs his campaign more like an incumbent.
Let's hope and pray that never really happens...

Obama/Biden'08

BJ, CA (Sent Saturday, August 30, 2008 11:28 AM)

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