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...Palin, Sarah • Facebook warning by about Obama's "death panel" maybe killing the handicapped infant of is followed by plea by for civility at town-hall meetings, which is followed by footnotes by, which is followed by even more footnotes, which means someone other than is writing the entries for • mocking impersonator of fools fans of on Facebook • new tweets from are about to rear their head...
...Emanuel's 200 or so published academic papers, went viral. Minnesota Representative Michelle Bachmann, a fierce opponent of Obama's reform plans, read large portions of it on the House floor. "Watch out if you are disabled!" she warned. Days later, in an online posting, former Alaska Governor Sarah Palin attacked Emanuel's "Orwellian thinking," which she suggested would lead to a "downright evil" system that would employ a "death panel" to decide who gets lifesaving health care. By Aug. 10, hysteria had begun to take over in places. Mike Sola, whose son has cerebral palsy, turned...
...Palin gamble: A behind-the-scenes look at the selection of Sarah Palin to be John McCain's running mate, and the strife that choice eventually prompted...
Culvahouse was right - choosing the little known Alaska governor as his running mate represented a daring risk, but unfortunately for the GOP it backfired. The excitement generated by Palin's surprise pick, her unorthodox political pedigree and electrifying convention acceptance speech would dissipate as she increasingly appeared unprepared for the nation's No. 2 office. Top McCain strategist Steve Schmidt believed Palin's series of disastrous interviews with CBS' Katie Couric was "one of the worst performances ever" by a national political candidate (Balz and Johnson report that Palin put off preparing for the interview, oddly, to focus on completing...
...Will.i.am's viral "Yes We Can" music video that galvanized youth support, or of Shepard Fairey's ubiquitous "Hope" graphic, which lent the candidate street cred and fed the perception that he hovered above conventional politics. The authors mention Tina Fey's Saturday Night Live impression of Sarah Palin, but don't convey the damage it inflicted by so deftly portraying her as a perky airhead (many now believe Palin actually claimed she could "see Russia from [her] house"; that was Fey.) On the whole, however, The Battle for America paints an insightful portrait of one of the most dramatic...