Word: palin
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Describing the U.S. as being turned "upside down," Beck said in the taped appearance, "This is not a country that I recognize as America. It's not going to last, because Americans are not this stupid." The crowd erupted in deafening cheers. When he described Sarah Palin as a character "so many people gravitate toward because she's real," one woman in the theater called out, "Yeah, she is!" Several heads - outfitted with Bold and Fresh baseball caps - bobbed up and down in agreement. (See TIME's cover story on Glenn Beck...
...once challenged God to a contest in who could make a superior being. He made Sarah Palin. I made Chuck Norris...
...only every U.S. presidential campaign could be relived in song and dance. As a new musical in Germany about Barack Obama's rise to the top demonstrates, politics takes on a whole new comical meaning when set to music. In one scene, for instance, a Sarah Palin look-alike belts, "I'm a pit bull!" while surrounded by scantily clad go-go dancers. In another, John McCain performs a rock song called "See You in November" with an ever-so-slight German accent. The Obama character, meanwhile, sings excerpts from the candidate's actual speeches while backed...
...disappointing that an economist--and a dull one at that--has been named Person of the Year. I thought the controversial firebrand Sarah Palin should have won it, hands down, as her book, Going Rogue, and her constant campaigning against the Democratic Party made her a centerpiece of notoriety and contention all year...
Will the U.S. elect a female President anytime soon? You could be forgiven for saying yes, since Hillary Clinton and Sarah Palin came closer to the finish line than any women in history. But you would be wrong, says Washington Post White House reporter Anne E. Kornblut. The 2008 election, she writes, may actually have been one of the worst things ever for women in U.S. politics: "It revived old stereotypes, divided the women's movement, drove apart mothers and daughters, and set back the cause of equality in the political sphere by decades." Clinton and Palin suffered brutal personal...