AltWeeklies Wire
Is Palin the Female Agnew? Or Maybe the Female Quayle?new
History says Democrats ought to worry whenever they find themselves blessed with an able U.S. senator on the ticket and get word of a Republican vice presidential nominee they've never heard of and whose selection seems an affront to responsible governing.
Arkansas Times |
John Brummett |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
The Palin Problemnew
Sarah Palin, the former Alaska beauty queen who had been the governor for 20 months when John McCain tapped her as his running mate, is the living embodiment of McCain's enduring weakness.
Arkansas Times |
Ernest Dumas |
09-05-2008 |
Commentary
Tim Pawlenty: Jilted for Sarah Palinnew
Like John McCain's first wife, Carol, who waited faithfully as her husband endured five years in a North Vietnamese prison camp, Pawlenty stood by his man. And like Carol, his loyalty was not repaid; he was cast aside for a younger woman.
City Pages (Twin Cities) |
Jonathan Kaminsky |
09-04-2008 |
Politics
My Boy, Joe Bidennew
My one and only encounter with the Democratic vice-presidential nominee, back in 1984, almost ended my journalism career before it started.
Style Weekly |
David M. Poole |
09-04-2008 |
Commentary
Sarah Palin, Queen of the Nobodies
Governor of one of the nation's least populous states for a mere two years and the ex-mayor of a municipality that's home to 7000 souls, Palin is now positioned to be a proverbial heartbeat away from the ability to order ICBMs fired at Russia.
Maui Time |
Ted Rall |
09-02-2008 |
Commentary
Meet Sarah Palin

How a "hockey mom" out of politics four years ago became the GOP vice presidential nominee.
Tucson Weekly |
Krestia DeGeorge |
08-31-2008 |
Politics