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DENVER -- Former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack said that despite the months he spent hoping that this week in Colorado he would become the Democratic ... >
Reid Wilson
ST. PAUL, Minn. -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin has accomplished in less than a week what John McCain, Mitt Romney, Mike Huckabee and the rest ... >
Rob Tornoe
"It's hard to do this job and have everybody like you," said Jack Ohman, the editorial cartoonist for The Oregonian, as he spoke ... >
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Joe Conason - New York Observer
Families deserve privacy about family matters, but families that want absolute privacy should probably stay out of politics. Sooner or later someone would have noticed the pregnancy of Bristol Palin, 17-year-old daughter of John McCain’s vice presidential pick, especially since everyone in her hometown of Wasilla, Alaska, seemed to know already. The question that remains is what, if anything, her plight may portend for the rest of us.
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Steve Kornacki - New York Observer
ST. PAUL, Minn. - The latest word is that Hurricane Gustav has been downgraded to a Category 1 storm and that water levels in New Orleans are receding - strong and encouraging signs that the Crescent City and the rest of the Gulf Coast will be spared tragedy and destruction on the scale of Hurricane Katrina. And now, at the Republican National Convention, the effort is underway to portray this good news as a triumph of Republican leadership.
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Jason Horowitz - New York Observer
ST. PAUL, Minn. — Sarah Palin’s at-times combative, at-times homespun, but consistently successful speech to accept the vice-presidential nomination prompted unvaryingly ecstatic reactions on the floor here at the Republican National Convention. “She did more about setting the record straight about her experience than could have been asked,” said former New York Senator Al D’Amato, who called the speech “marvelous.” He added, “She left you thinking of Obama ‘Where’s the meat?’”
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