The Marge-Palin Interview (VIDEO)

Funny Fargo-Palin interview (Katie Couric) mashup.

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Palins And Aides Called Monegan Three Dozen Times For Trooper’s Removal

From left, Gov. Sarah Palin, former public safety commissioner Walt Monegan and state trooper Mike Wooten.
In Dozens of Calls, Palins and Aides Pressed for Trooper’s Removal
The New York Times
By SERGE F. KOVALESKI
Published: October 9, 2008
ANCHORAGE — The 2007 state fair was days away when Alaska’s public safety commissioner, Walt Monegan, took another call about one [...]

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Remember The Guy McCain Insulted On TV About Fannie Mae And Freddie Mac?

The guy McCain insulted on TV? He’s pissed. Here’s what he’s saying…(Now with Poll)
Daily Kos- by Jsn
Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 02:50:33 PM PDT

Remember the moment during the Town Hall debate, when McCain fielded a question from a young African-American man? Remember how he prefaced the answer by saying “You probably [...]

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McCain’s Desperate Fear Campaign

By- Bob Cesca
For the better part of a week now, the McCain campaign has been playing the barbecue cable news people like the ribs-eating, tire-swinging sycophants they are. And yet, unlike when a news story is negative about the McCain campaign, they aren’t employing their phony-baloney “both sides are wicked awful” fake balance routine this [...]

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Dow Falls 675 Points; Plunged Below 9000

Dow industrials fall 675 points, below 9,000
TIM PARADIS | October 9, 2008 04:51 PM EST |
NEW YORK — Stocks plunged in the final hour of trading Thursday, sending the Dow Jones industrial average down more than 675 points, or more than 7 percent, to its lowest level in five years after a major credit [...]

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…and McCain says to Charlie Keating…..

Posted by Basheert / crossposted to TheBuceBlog
Keating to McCain in 1986: ‘I’m yours til death do us part.’
The Washington Times reports that in 1986, John McCain wrote a note on House stationery to Charles Keating, chairman of a failed savings and loan association who went to prison in the late 1980s. In the letter, McCain [...]

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health care

neither presidential candidate has a health care proposal that i care anything about.  i realize that the insurance companies and big pharma are powerful interests with lots of money and weight to throw around.  so, imagine my surprise when i ran across this today:
5,000 doctors challenge private insurance system
i couldn’t find any recent polls- although [...]

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BREAKING: How Did GOP Get $8 Million From Wachovia?

BREAKING SCANDAL: How did GOP get $8 million from Wachovia?
Daily Kos- by ProgressiveSouth
Thu Oct 09, 2008 at 11:49:15 AM PDT

Cross-posted at Facing South — your source for news, politics and trends in the changing South. This in-depth report follows up on a diary by tommytutone here at DailyKos yesterday. PLEASE REC — This issue needs [...]

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McCain: Craps And Raging Anger…

Report: McCain Exploded With Rage During Gambling Outing
The Huffington Post |  Nico Pitney   |   October 9, 2008 10:23 AM
Writing for the Daily [...]

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Bloggers: Can They Change The World?

Blogging Like The World Depended On It

Transforming social networking into social change.

By Brian Braiker | Newsweek Web Exclusive

Oct 8, 2008

Change.org is a two-year-old online community dedicated to tackling some of the world’s most entrenched problems: climate change, immigration, ethnic cleansing and so on. But this week, the organization is looking inward to effect its biggest change [...]

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Afternoon Jukebox… I Won’t Back Down

Tom Petty – I Won’t Back Down

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Alaskan Independence Party… And Sarah & Todd Palin

Alaskan Independence Party: The Last Refuge of a Scoundrel
Huffington Post
Robert F. Kennedy Jr.
Posted October 9, 2008 | 11:28 AM (EST)
In 2004, America’s malleable mainstream media allowed itself to be manipulated by artful Republican operatives into devoting weeks of broadcast attention and drums of ink to unfairly desecrating John Kerry’s genuine Vietnam heroics while obligingly muzzling [...]

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U.S. Officers’ “Phone Sex” Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post

Exclusive: Inside Account of U.S. Eavesdropping on Americans
U.S. Officers’ “Phone Sex” Intercepted, Recorded, Shared Across NSA Listening Post
ABC News- By BRIAN ROSS, VIC WALTER, and ANNA SCHECTER
Oct. 9, 2008
Despite pledges by President George W. Bush and American intelligence officials to the contrary, hundreds of US citizens overseas have been eavesdropped on as they called [...]

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