When John McCain selected Sarah Palin as his running mate, he wanted to appeal to the primitive, irrational, emotional brain of white voters. He wanted to capitalize off of the gender card that Hillary Clinton had successfully played in her bid for the Democratic presidential nomination, but he needed something else that Hillary had that was making it difficult for Obama to seal the deal.
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The McCain campaign has made no secret of its plans to spend these final weeks of the election going negative -- attacking Sen. Barack Obama on his judgment, questioning his associations and unleashing self-described "pitbull" Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin to do much of the dirty work.
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The prosecution of an Oregon couple who allegedly tried to heal their dying son with prayer has focused attention on laws that, in some cases, allow parents to treat their children with faith. Neil Beagley, 16, died June 17 from complications of a urinary tract blockage, an easily treatable condition that caused fatal kidney and heart failure when neglected.
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The constitution has nothing to do with the sentence you quoted.
I think you may be on to something.
Sarah Palin has been caught in so many lies that I don't have the time nor desire to write them all out. What so many intelligent white people who are sophisticated in their thinking are asking,"why are people supporting a woman who is setting women's progress back a century with shotgun weddings and back alley abortions? Why is it okay for Sarah Palin's husband to be apart of group that wants to make Alaska a separate country and the mainstream media is not questioning her patriotism to America? As an outsider looking in, I would say that it is because white America decides who and what is patriotic and what applies to a bi-racial black man does not apply to, Sarah Palin, the great White Hope.