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Sunday, August 31, 2008 - 19:59:36
Palin's problems
The blogs are beginning to hum with a story that claims to demonstrate the shaky judgment of McCain's recent pick for VP, Alaska Governor Sarah Palin.It seems that back in April, Palin -- then 7 1/2 months pregnant with her fifth child -- began leaking amniotic fluid and having contractions while attending an energy conference in Dallas, Tex. Instead of heading to the nearest hospital, Palin instead gave her speech to the assembly and then boarded an eight-hour flight to Anchorage (a flight that included making a connecting flight in Seattle). Once in Anchorage, she bypassed some of Alaska's largest hospitals and had her husband drive her almost an hour to Mat-Su Valley Regional Medical Center near her home of Wasilla, where son Trig was born.
Her reason for risking her baby's health by flying home to Alaska instead of giving birth at a Dallas-area hospital? "You can't have a fish picker from Texas," her husband Todd Palin told the Anchorage Daily News.
In case you're still having a hard time understanding Palin's thought process on all this, someone has posted this handy flow chart.
Open line
Have at it. Guess what I"ve found? It's hotter in LR than in Maine.Ma-in-law not sure on SP
The New York Daily News is quoting Sarah Palin's mother-in-law as less than certain about this veep stuff:
Faye Palin said the entire family was shocked by the news on Friday. "I'm not sure what she brings to the ticket other than she's a woman and a conservative. Well, she's a better speaker than McCain," Faye Palin said with a laugh. "People will say she hasn't been on the national scene long enough. But I believe she's a quick study."
The Alaska newspapers, by the way, are NOT impressed.
A state of scofflaws
Add the campus smoking ban to the alcohol ban as being among the rules ignored when it's Razorback football time in Fayetteville. Enforcement? Not so much.What is the sound of 5,000 Repubs clapping?
That would be response to the news that the worst. president. ever. will skip the Republican National Convention (Darth Cheney, too) in deference to the coming hurricane. Too bad he wasn't so concerned in advance of Katrina. Or after.