What Oprah Should Ask Sarah

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Wednesday October 21, 2009 · 5:45 AM PDT

2009/10/21 · 05:45

Now that we know Sarah Palin is going on Oprah, here are some proposed questions for her to ask the former governor of Alaska. Please feel free to add yours.

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Sunday March 08, 2009 · 12:27 PM PDT

2009/03/08 · 12:27

Yes, it was a brilliant tactical move by James, Paul, Rahm and others to position Rush Limbaugh as the voice and face of the Republican Party.

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Wednesday November 05, 2008 · 7:10 AM PST

2008/11/05 · 07:10

With apologies to the author of the children's classic, I couldn't resist. I think it's important to remember, in total, just what the people of the United States of America finally rejected after decades of being fooled, bamboozled, and yes ... hoodwinked.

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Thursday September 04, 2008 · 9:34 AM PDT

2008/09/04 · 09:34

Lot's of chatter today about how Palin mocked those oh-so revelatory "bitter" comments by Obama last spring.

Said the new tribune of Small Town America:

"I might add that in small towns, we don't quite know what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on working people when they are listening, and then talks about how bitterly they cling to their religion and guns when those people aren't listening.
We tend to prefer candidates who don't talk about us one way in Scranton and another way in San Francisco."

So let's hold Palin to that standard, too. Because, here in the Midwest, we don't know quite what to make of a candidate who lavishes praise on Hillary Clinton in Dayton, but suggests she's a whiner (at a media elite event, no less) in Los Angeles.

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Friday August 29, 2008 · 10:24 AM PDT

2008/08/29 · 10:24

Instead of immediately criticizing Palin as inexperienced -- the former mayor of a town with less than 10,000 people -- the Obama campaign should have been graceful and withheld comment for a day or two. A statement like "We want the governor to enjoy her day in the sun. As a full time working mom with five kids, she deserves it."

What has impressed me the most about the Obama campaign is its graciousness when it could be mean and petty. How Obama handled the question about Hillary's Bosnia misstatements in the Philadelphia debate -- we all make mistakes, she deserves the benefit of the doubt -- is an example of how he really wants to get away from the Rove/Morris playbook.

There is plenty of time to raise issues about Palin, and the news media will do a lot of that work for Obama.

Obama has run the best presidential campaign in U.S. history. A big reason why is the fundamental decency at its core. That doesn't mean he isn't tough, or shouldn't hit back. It just means he should do the untypical decent stuff that most politicians don't do.

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