Sarah Palin Brings Up Race in Argument Against Barack Obama

October 6, 2008 by · Comment
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WASHINGTON — By claiming that Democrat Barack Obama is “palling around with terrorists” and doesn’t see the U.S. like other Americans, vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin targeted key goals for a faltering campaign. And though she may have scored a political hit each time, her attack was unsubstantiated and carried a racially tinged subtext that John [...]

Sarah Palin Flubs On CBS’s Katie Couric

September 25, 2008 by · Comment
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CBS’s Katie Couric’s newscast skillfully included Democrat Barack Obama’s remarks on the campaign trail and contextualized all the news being made in the Katie Couric interviews with a series of correspondents’ reports on the nation’s financial crisis. Here’s Couric pressing McCain on Palin’s talk of America heading down  the road to another Great Depression: Couric: “But isn’t [...]

Former HP CEO Carly Fiorina Says Sarah Palin Could Not Run HP Based on Her Experience

September 16, 2008 by · Comment
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Former Hewlett Packard CEO Carly Fiorina, and also co-chair of the John McCain presidential campaign and a chief economic surrogate for the GOP presidential candidate, said in a radio interview this morning that Sarah Palin doesn’t have enough experience to run the Silicon Valley-based Hewlett Packard company she managed — but ”that’s not what she’s [...]