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Wednesday, September 3, 2008


How is Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin preparing for the political speech of her career. Apparently, she's been holed up in a hotel room with John McCain's top advisers getting a crash course on the talking points according to this superb Washington Post article.

Most revealing is that the vice presidential speech had already been written but had to be tossed for being "very masculine."


As the Post reports: 

Sitting around a dining room table, the McCain team has talked to her about Iraq, energy and the economy but has focused on what she should say in her speech, struggling almost as hard as she has to prepare for what will be, along with a debate in October, her main opportunity to shape the way she is viewed by voters. Not anticipating that McCain would choose a woman as his running mate, the speech that was prepared in advance was "very masculine," according to campaign manager Rick Davis, and "we had to start from scratch."
Posted by Karen Heller @ 2:00 PM  Permalink | 4 comments
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  • 0 like this / 0 don't   •   Posted 2:34 PM, 09/03/2008
    Right. As if both Obama and Michelle weren't handled by their "advisors" before they spoke last week. C'mon, man, this is politics. Nothing is what it appears to be.
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About Karen Heller
This week Karen Heller is live-blogging the Republican convention in true blogger style - at home, surfing the Web and watching TV. She's covered five other conventions. Three were Republican, two were Democratic. Read all of Populist here.

Karen Heller has interviewed Philip Roth and Zsa Zsa Gabor, spent time with Pink and the Philadelphia Orchestra, the celebrated and the exemplary unsung. She's covered Miss America and political conventions. She's been a provocative voice at The Inquirer for nearly 20 years, garnering awards for criticism, feature writing and investigative reporting, and was a finalist for the 2001 Pulitzer Prize in commentary.