Word: politicoes
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Dates: during 2000-2009
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...Sarah shot her first rabbit at age ten; that she shared a room with her two sisters that "was unheated except for a wood stove"; and that one Halloween, she dressed as a pregnant Jane Fonda. But there is also plenty to pore over about Palin as an Alaskan politico, including an analysis of her controversial decision, soon after becoming mayor of Wasilla, to fire all of its incumbent municipal department heads. In fact, the author includes so much about local politics that anyone who is not from Alaska or a total political junkie will be tempted to flip pages...
...opportunity to exchange a word with him. In a recent pre-convention interview with TIME, McCain dismissed many of the questions - including ones that seemed benign to the reporters posing them - as gotcha attacks, and refused to answer others. He was similarly brusque in an August interview with Politico...
...Just hours later, McCain campaign manager Rick Davis attacked Obama for criticizing McCain and Palin. "So he attacks us while there's a hurricane going on and John McCain suspends his convention basically," Davis said in an interview with the Politico. "What bigger contrast can you have about putting your country first...
...Sources: Politico; The Independent; Reuters; New York Times (2); BBC; Los Angeles Times
...ridiculed the man he acknowledged is "a close friend," for never having to sit around the kitchen table worrying about how to make ends meet. "He'll have to figure out which of the seven kitchen tables to sit at," Biden quipped, needling McCain who, in an interview with Politico earlier this week, couldn't say how many homes he owns...