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...jumped into the Palin controversies lustily, and in a June interview with Michelle Obama, Whoopi Goldberg raised the subject of the lack of media role models for dark-skinned black women. (Anyone who thinks that diversity in TV news is strictly a cosmetic issue should try to imagine Charlie Gibson asking about that...
...September 3, Republican presidential candidate John McCain told ABC’s Charles Gibson that his running mate, Alaskan governor Sarah Palin, had foreign policy experience on the grounds that “Alaska is right next to Russia.” Governor Palin was given the opportunity to exhibit her Russia expertise last week during her first major interview, also with Mr. Gibson, since being tagged as McCain’s running mate. Although much attention remains devoted to the two wars launched by the Bush administration in Iraq and Afghanistan, Russia has emerged this summer as a major...
...footsteps when it comes to using—or misusing—“democracy” to justify an aggressive, bellicose foreign policy. “We’ve got to keep an eye on Russia,” Ms. Palin told Mr. Gibson. Referring to this summer’s Russia-Georgia conflict, Ms. Palin scolded Russia for its aggressive actions in Georgia. “For Russia to have exerted such pressure in terms of invading a smaller democratic country, unprovoked, is unacceptable,” she said. When pressed as to whether Russia...
...awkward as it was to watch Palin try to explain to ABC's Charles Gibson why taxpayers should pay to study the mating habits of Alaskan crabs, voters probably won't mind that Palin doesn't really hate pork as long as it's hers. What could be a real problem for the GOP ticket would be voters recognizing that McCain really does hate pork - not only when it's Palin's, but when it's theirs...
...also by highlighting his specific opposition to Youngstown State's engineering program, Youngstown Air Reserve Station's logistics facility, the Ursuline Sisters of Youngstown's HIV/AIDs Ministry and Youngstown's sewage overflow project. When it comes to sewage overflows, most Youngstown residents probably agree with what Palin told Gibson: "It's not inappropriate for a mayor or a governor to request and work with their Congressmen, their Congresswomen, to plug into the federal budget - along with every other state - a share of the federal budget for infrastructure...