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...reporters warily and from a distance, except for a brief meet and greet on her campaign plane that was strictly off the record. Onstage, she tells the same teleprompter jokes every day, and her husband Todd laughs at them as if he had never heard them before. Beforehand and afterward, Palin lunges into the crowds, shaking hands in her 3-in. heels. "I'm excited, but I'd like to see her interviewed first," says Republican Kim Ahaus, a middle-aged woman from Lebanon, Ohio, who has not yet been sold on the fairy tale...
...faith. It's the story he told last spring at a gathering of conservative leaders when asked to explain his faith in God. "He blew that question off by telling us about the faith of his jailer," direct-mail pioneer Richard Viguerie fumed to the Los Angeles Times afterward. "It was very obvious to those three or four hundred conservative leaders there." One month later, McCain pulled out his trusty tale once again when a student at a town-hall event asked what effect his faith would have on his "executive decision-making...
...South Ossetian city of Tskhinvali only after Russia launched its invasion into Georgian territory; his professed aim was to slow Russia's advance by 48 hours in order to give the international community time to act. But on the night of Aug. 7, and for three to four days afterward, Georgian officials did not say that Russia had launched its invasion first but only that their forces were responding to stepped-up attacks by 120-mm mortars from Russian-backed South Ossetian forces on Georgian positions...
...most anticipated speech of the convention. Everyone knew how Obama would sound, but what would she say, after losing such a close fight for the nomination, and bearing all the inevitable resentments and what-ifs and wounded pride that entails? Clinton declared emphatically that she supports Obama, yet afterward many of the conventioneers were annoyed with how she said it. She didn't talk about about Obama's virtues. As several commentators put it, you could have replaced Obama's name in her speech with the name of any generic Democrat. All she seemed to care about was beating...
...never did. LSD is too strong to take. I write about it in the book. They take it once, and for years afterward, they have these flashbacks. Just driving over a bump in the road on a motorcycle can do it. I tried marijuana once...