{"id":1347,"date":"2008-09-11T10:17:22","date_gmt":"2008-09-11T09:17:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/09\/11\/ignoring-the-lipstick-wars-for-the-moment\/"},"modified":"2016-10-12T09:06:55","modified_gmt":"2016-10-12T09:06:55","slug":"ignoring-the-lipstick-wars-for-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.dianeduane.com\/outofambit\/2008\/09\/11\/ignoring-the-lipstick-wars-for-the-moment\/","title":{"rendered":"Ignoring the Lipstick Wars for the moment…"},"content":{"rendered":"

(sigh) It\u2019s hard to ignore the political noise right now,\u00a0but as it gets noisier and each side spins the other one (or itself)\u00a0as hard as it can, I prefer to go back to the earliest available sources to start understanding candidates\u2019 behavior with an eye to\u00a0projecting how they might possibly behave in the future. I find newspaper citations, especially local ones,\u00a0can be a useful resource.<\/p>\n

With this in mind: this document <\/a>(a Democrat-prepared opposition document)\u00a0found at<\/span><\/u> Politico.com <\/a>contains numerous excerpted details from local Alaskan newspapers\u00a0regarding various aspects of Sarah Palin\u2019s early political life. Leaving the source aside, and ignoring the bullet points on the first page,\u00a0this doc is useful in that it\u00a0gathers a lot of cites together. Does it have its own bias? Doubtless. However, it\u2019s still interesting preliminary reading.<\/p>\n

(ETA: This brought me up short —<\/p>\n

Asked if she was offended by the phrase “Under God” in the Pledge of Allegiance, Palin responded, “Not on your life. If it was good enough for the Founding Fathers, it’s good enough for me and I’ll fight in defense of our Pledge of Allegiance.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Did she seriously not<\/i> know that that phrase was only added in 1956? “What do<\/i> they teach them in these schools…?”)<\/p>\n

Tags: Sarah+Palin<\/a>, history<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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