I also think we should all become familiar with Canadian history. Oh, and it would be COOL to have pictures of the Queen on our money!!

God Save the Queen!!!!!

I hate them both.

How about working to recruit people to give money and go to states that might matter and work.

Obama ran a great primary campaign, Obama ran a great primary campaign, Obama ran a great primary campaign...

So glad Idaho gave him more of a delegate swing than HRC's win in Ohio gave her.

What an idiot for not picking her for VP.

Oh well...

There is a plenitude of legitimate reasons to criticize Palin, especially her record as a so-called "reformer," but this is not one of them. It is probably not true.

video, people! We need video! This he said she said shit only works on Dems.

On the other hand @4 and Newsweek for Christ sake, talk about legalese. She wasn't a member of the independence party that wants to secede? Talk about your lies of ommission. Her husband is or was, and aren't Christian women taught to obey their husbands, where does that leave us with her as VP? She didn't "push" creationism. Maybe, but she actively supports teaching it.

Yesterday, she claimed that the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac take over was due to their costing the taxpayers too much money. That's completely false and unacceptable in light of this being the biggest govt takeover in my lifetime. Are we really going to have her a heartbeat away from managing the economy?

You are acting like a right winger.

I read it on the Internet so it must be true.

Your use of the word "context" is a gross insult to those of us who can actually think.

I've lost a lot of respect for you just now.

OK, this is hyperbolic, sure, but it's my sentiment too.* Unless someone has audiotape of Palin calling Obama the N word or a YouTube clip of her goosestepping in front of a swastika, the more the left calls attention to Sarah Palin and her political incorrectness (to put it mildly), the more the campaign is fought on the right's home turf.

If this campaign is about Sarah Palin and the culture wars, John McCain is our next president.

(* Well, I'm under no illusion myself that posting a comment on Slog of all places is going to change a single mind worth changing.)

move on.

And, if one more Henny Penny pulls out the "I'm movin' to Canada/Europe" line, I'm personally coming to your house, on the slim chance we lose, the day after the election to help you move.

It's a tired cliche.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZwvPNXYrIyI

Hilarious.

http://www.laprogressive.com/2008/09/06/sarah-palin-and-me/

Anonymous sources are the bane of a reporter’s existence, and have been at least since Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein used them extensively to unmask Watergate and topple Richard Nixon.

Dan, If this story is true, it shouldn't be a problem to find one of the five or six people at her table to confirm it. Why don't you send one of your crack investigative journalists to Alaska to get the full story?

Also, reading the linked to "story", it accuses her of being a racist and referring to Alaska's Aboriginal people as "Arctic Arabs". This seems like a bit of a stretch since her husband (and her children) are part Alaska Aboriginal.

Todd Palin's mother, a former secretary of the Alaska Federation of Natives, is one-quarter Yup'ik, and his maternal grandmother, Lena Andre, is a member of the Curyung tribe.

When did "racists" start marrying "natives" and giving them lots of little "native" babies?...

These hysterical and unlikely smears are destroying the lefts ability to criticize Palin on legitimate issues.

Nice try though.

I get the feeling in cases where hatred is not the obvious motive force behind the phrase, comments like this would be acceptable in a stand-up routine, blurted out as a joke by friends in a bar, etc.

People always use offensive and shocking language as a form of comedy - is it just the fact that she's a conservative republican that puts her under suspicion of being racist and not merely edgy?

... So I am not surprised that a number of readers who wrote comments about the article raised questions about my sources. It has happened before, especially when I tackled a subject that raises a lot of dust, and it will happen again. Although I won’t reveal any sources – I honor promises of anonymity – let me explain how the story unfolded and sources came to my attention as I did the reporting.

When Palin’s name began leaking out the morning of Aug. 30, I sent an e-mail to an old friend from childhood who has been teaching in Alaska since he finished far too much graduate school, basically asking, “Who is Sarah Palin when it’s not raining and what was she before?”

...A short list of names was provided, including Lucille the Waitress, the much-discussed and oft-doubted woman who seems to have drawn the largest number of questions from commentators on the article.

And how does he know her? Well, like many people living on minimum wage and tips, Lucille holds a second job which, in this case, includes cleaning my friend’s family home every other week.

Lucille was the first person I interviewed. In her late 50s or early 60s, she was nervous even though I provided her with my friend’s name and suggested she call him first to verify who I am. She decided to proceed with the interview, which lasted about 10 minutes. Assuming she knew nothing about having to put an interview “off the record” or on a “not for attribution” basis before the interview starts. I asked Lucille if I could use her name in my article. She let me use her first name but not her last because she said she was afraid she might be fired.

I called my friend after the interview and, relating what’d said, asked if she was trustworthy. I was assured that, “It’d be easier for Lucille to hunt bears bare handed than to tell a lie."
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What I don't get is those who assert that this type of matter should not be reported. It's all their for the reader to accept or reject based on the identification of witnesses as given. And anyone who occassionally listens to the swift boaters of the right knows this would be turned into repeated hour long shows. And of course Palin is free to deny. But such a denial may just get Lucille to step forward to validate the story.

Again, Dan, you best just stick to tips on getting poo out of the end of your pee pee, and why sperm tastes like pineapple. Your journalistic skill is being stretched to it's limit.

Also, while perhaps this story is true, this isn't enough proof, and anyway we don't need it to know how screwed up Palin is.

I'm not surprised Dan posted it though, considering he bought all of Bush's bogus claims about the Iraq War, and then went on JOHN CARLSON's show to talk about it.

Go to Canada's immigrations website.

This is what bringing a gun to a gunfight looks like. Let em deny it - it sure rings true to me.

Read this article by Arianna Huffington.

Palin isn't running for president, MCCAIN IS. The reason he's pulling ahead in the polls is that the Dems and libs have been thrown off course by the hockey mom.

"Every second of this campaign not spent talking about the Republican Party's record, and John McCain's role in that record, is a victory for John McCain.

Her critics like to say that Palin hasn't accomplished anything. I disagree: in the space of ten days she's succeeded in distracting the entire country from the horrific Bush record -- and McCain's complicity in it. My friends, that's accomplishment we can believe in.

Just look at the problem John McCain faced. George Bush has a disastrous record, and the country knows it. John McCain -- the current one, not the one who vanished eight years ago -- has no major disagreements with George Bush (and I'm sorry, wanting to fire Donald Rumsfeld a bit sooner doesn't qualify) and wants to continue his incredibly unpopular policies for another four years. The solution? Enter Sarah Palin, a Trojan Moose carrying four more years of disaster.

And the plan has worked beautifully. Just look at what's being discussed just 57 days before the election. Is it the highest unemployment rate in five years? The bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac? The suicide bombing yesterday in Iraq that killed six people and wounded 54 -- in the same market where last month a bomb killed 28 people and wounded 72? That the political reconciliation that was supposedly the point of "the surge" is nowhere near happening? That Iraq's Shiite government is now rounding up the American-backed Sunni leaders of the Awakening? That the reason 8,000 soldiers may be leaving Iraq soon is so more can be deployed to Afghanistan where the Taliban is steadily retaking the country?"

Palin is so unbelieveably unqualified to lead or govern this country that the pathetic attempt to barely vette her before choosing her almost arbitrarily at the urging of right wing radio talk show hosts (that by the way, universally decried the nomination of McCain himself just a few months ago) for the shock value smacks of the desperation of his campaign to be the head of a dying movement.

Obsessing and harping over Sarah Palin will lose us the election. It's distracting attention from the PRESIDENTIAL candidates and the issues and it's exactly what Karl Rove wants.

They mocked Obama for being a "celebrity" so they went and created a new celebrity to overshadow him because the Republicans figured out the Cult of Celebrity is what drives America.

...and he picked a right-wing lunatic for a running mate.

That better?

Actually it isn't. 'Celebrity' is for middle-class and below to gawk at while the actual decision/money makers and tax payers are busy working, making decisions, making money, and paying taxes. Your blog shows that you pretty much do nothing but watch movies, jack off to greasy pictures of hairy men, and make $15 an hour.

I had the same thought. They don't. That makes this all the more suspect.

It sounds like you are implying that you are one of those very important, upper middle class, responsible policy makers who don't have the time of day for the riff-raff of the middle class or below.

If that's the case, where do you find the time to so obviously and obsessively read my dumb blog? Shouldn't you be hard at work making money and public policy?

Fuck, you're stupid...but I enjoy our encounters. Take care.

One thing I dislike more than the PanTrogCavewoman that is Sarah Palin - those milquetoast, mamby pamby Dems that can't defend themselves or what they stand for. This is a smackdown

We're not dealing with rationalists, we're dealing with the spiritualists.

I want proof. Someone needs to go on the record.

If she can dish out racist and sexist statements, then she can damn sure take them.

Kinda makes the "lipstick on a pig" thing a bit irrelevant, don't it?