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...United States? At the very moment that Alice realizes how the world sees her Prince Charming, Charlie suddenly gets his act together - under her threat of divorce. He is born again as a Christian and becomes the front man for a consortium of businessmen who buy the local baseball team. He is elected governor of Wisconsin. He is elected President...
...been? Was she, having forced Charlie to sober up and get his act together, responsible for giving the nation this charming but limited man as its President? She is boggled by the simultaneous intimacy and superficiality of public life - that the fact that Charlie likes grabbing dinner at a local hamburger stand might be more important than his views on Islam. One can easily imagine, or perhaps hope, that Laura Bush might worry about that...
...clicked off at 10:02PM local time, a scant skosh into the single hour of coverage given on all but the last night of conventions by the networks. But the networks replayed the speech. So the president was heard in spite of his party...
...Valley Frontiersman at the time. "[Stein] figured he was just going to run your average, friendly small-town race," she recalls, "but it turned into something much different than that." Naegele held the same conservative Christian beliefs as Palin but didn't think they had any place in local politics...
...like to call this the Bible Belt of Alaska," says Cheryl Metiva, head of the local chamber of commerce. Churches proliferate in Wasilla today, and among the largest and most influential is the Wasilla Bible Church, where the Palins worship...