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This is gold: http://www.cnbc.com/id/15840232?video=836058451&play=1

From my email box:

  • she's a Buchananist (supported him in earlier campaigns);
  • she's a global warming denier and ugly on environment (and supportive of big oil);
  • she's a traditional conservative

In other words: this will play well with the base. And maybe they're hoping to play on the sexims of some of the pundits. But there are also quite a few angles to criticize her (strange shenanigans with her brother in law, support for the bridge to nowhere, lack of experience and more I'm forgetting).

In the long run, we're all dead. John Maynard Keynes
by Jerome a Paris (etg@eurotrib.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 05:02:39 PM EST
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I visited the North Slope for BBC Horizon in 1970, along with visiting Fairbanks, White Horse (Canada) and the Naval Arctic Research Lab at Prudhoe Bay. We talked to a lot of naturalists who were more than concerned about the environmental impacts of oil exploration and exploitation - nearly 40 years ago.

But what really disgusted me was the wholesale destruction of aboriginal life. Removed from their dignified struggle to steward their environment, alcoholism had taken its place, and dignity had vanished. The symbol of intrusive idiocy was the Hickel Highway - a road driven across the permafrost tundra that in a few years, naturally, became a canal.

You can't be me, I'm taken

by Sven Triloqvist on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 05:52:40 PM EST
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Jerome a Paris:
support for the bridge to nowhere,

hehe. fox is already in gear claiming she is some kinda ethics-in-gvt whistleblower, against the bridge to nowhere!

best part: she was out with snowmobile international champ hubby hunting caribou at 4-30 am, when she got the phone call from her son, telling her she was on the ticket.

parody collapses in defeat before surreality

...again!

pro-life, pro-guns.. i love how they put those together all the time. sorta like the eco-insecticide i buy here, called ' bio-kill'!

~"When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as fate." Karl Jung~

by melo (melometa4(at)gmail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 07:56:31 PM EST
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The only reason the Rs are 'pro-life' is so that they'll have things to shoot at later.
by ThatBritGuy (thatbritguy (at) googlemail.com) on Fri Aug 29th, 2008 at 10:30:15 PM EST
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I might not be up to date with American political realities, but what is wrong with hunting Caribou?

Peak oil is not an energy crisis. It is a liquid fuel crisis.
by Starvid (arvid.hallen at gmail.com) on Sat Aug 30th, 2008 at 08:51:27 AM EST
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