Word: buttoned
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...notoriety - the 20 million weekly listeners, the zillion-dollar contract - but starting Sept. 8, she has at least a shot at correct-name recognition. That's when the 35-year-old assumes MSNBC's 9 p.m. hour, right after Keith Olbermann's popular Countdown. Radio's whip-smart, button-cute leftie (and utterly uncloseted lesbian) will have the sustained opportunity to sell her sophisticated views and perky personality to the political junkies of cable news...
...first major race of her career - the 1996 campaign for mayor of her hometown, Wasilla - Palin was a far more conventional politician. In fact, according to some who were involved in that fight, Palin was a highly polarizing political figure who brought partisan politics and hot-button social issues like abortion and gun control into a mayoral race that had traditionally been contested like a friendly intramural contest among neighbors...
...Inside the convention hall on Monday afternoon, there was less anger but plenty of swirling emotion. Clinton supporter and Florida delegate Cathy Bartolotti, a former Tampa city worker, had bought an Obama T shirt and button but wasn't able to wear the items yet. "By Thursday, maybe I'll put it on," she said. "We have to come together, but I want to hold out a little more. Just tomorrow. Give...
...fiasco for the party and put an end to their own political futures. And as the election gets closer, Clinton voters who take the time to compare Obama and McCain should realize, however grudgingly, that only one candidate shares the same policy positions with their Hillary, especially on hot-button issues like abortion...
Wait, whoa, hang on. This is no hoax. It happened to me. See, I had a flight with a connection in Dallas-Ft. Worth (DFW) and ... no, no, really, don't click the back button...