Thursday, November 27, 2008
Phoenix, Arizona
A Hummer minivan pulls up in front of a home on a tree-lined street in a Phoenix suburb. "Okay, guys, let's get to it!" Sarah Palin shouts into the backseat, springing out of the passenger door and unfastening Trig from his carseat. Todd Palin opens the driver door and begins untying a fresh moose carcass from the luggage rack.
"Is that a dead moose?" asks a member of the papparazzi, who are gathered outside the wrought iron fence that protects the McCain family homestead from intruders.
"You betcha!" Sarah replies cheerfully, hoisting Trig onto her hip and smiling into the camera.
"We drove down from Alaska, so the cold winter air keeps the moose fresh," Todd explains. Bristol's fiance Levi lends a hand, and the two men drag the moose by the horns up the walkway to the door of the McCain house, where John and Cindy stand waiting.
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