Sarah Palin and Success in Politics as Marketing

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Thursday February 11, 2010 · 8:59 AM PST

2010/02/11 · 08:59

This morning I was met with something that should be considered a terrible situation for a presidential campaign manager - a poll that states that a potential candidate for the presidency is considered unequipped to do the job by a little over 70% of the public. If this was about anyone other than Sarah Palin, I would assume that her advisers were either scanning the dismal job ads for their next gig, or cleaning their handguns in preparation for suicide. But, even this may not be the end of the line for her - sadly, it could be considered a "good" thing.

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Wednesday February 03, 2010 · 11:26 AM PST

2010/02/03 · 11:26

I know I've annoyed at least a few around here in the past with posts here. That is a small part of the reason why I don't often post diaries - time is the biggest part. However, there is something that you all, in particular the administration here, have to be proud of - you don't censor.

ElizabethRoss

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Wednesday September 16, 2009 · 8:18 AM PDT

2009/09/16 · 08:18

Last year, when the field of Democrat candidates for the presidency thinned to Obama and Clinton, I immediately went into panic mode. "It is too soon!" kept running through my head like a manic mantra. Like Edwin Yoder - Pulitzer Prize winning columnist from the now defunct Washington Star - pointed out in his memoirs, it is never a good thing when significant social change is forced before its time. He and I are in agreement that the civil rights movement pushed the issue of racial equality too far too fast. It not that either of us believe that racism is appropriate on any level - we just realize that forcing social change too quickly results in backlash, often of the violent sort.

ElizabethRoss

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Wednesday September 09, 2009 · 10:49 AM PDT

2009/09/09 · 10:49

Normally it would be a no-brainer to understand why a GOP member from Pennsylvania would be sticking up for former Governor Tom Ridge. Honestly, it would take pages to explain why this is bizarre in my case, but suffice to say that anyone who has known me since the late-nineties through 2001 would definitely catch the irony on this one.

ElizabethRoss

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Sunday September 06, 2009 · 1:55 PM PDT

2009/09/06 · 13:55

It's the hot issue of the moment, and is being touted as the "make or break" point for Obama, but what isn't being said? Primarily, the truth.

ElizabethRoss

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Friday May 01, 2009 · 6:47 PM PDT

2009/05/01 · 18:47

I've been thinking more lately about this issue, in spite of myself. Primarily, I am wondering about that imaginary line that slowly fading away between professional and citizen journalists (a term that if it wasn't coined by someone at HuffPost, was definitely made popular by them.) Analysis of the issue isn't hard to find, and has been going on for years. I was only slightly surprised to see content dated from 2003.

ElizabethRoss

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Wednesday April 29, 2009 · 11:31 AM PDT

2009/04/29 · 11:31

After reading and watching quite a few pundits and general folks try to dissect the reasons for Specter's decision, I've come to a basic conclusion that even when someone says what they mean, it doesn't mean anyone will know what was said.

ElizabethRoss

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Monday April 27, 2009 · 8:04 PM PDT

2009/04/27 · 20:04

Specter was finished, to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his political burial was signed by the voters. Toomey signed it.

ElizabethRoss

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Monday April 06, 2009 · 2:36 PM PDT

2009/04/06 · 14:36

I was raised in a cop family in Pittsburgh. My great-grandfather was the first to serve on the force, and there is still family there to this day. It was a difficult weekend, but now I am thinking that the waiting to see if I would be attending a funeral this week was better than what I've been dealing with today.

ElizabethRoss

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Tuesday March 24, 2009 · 6:11 PM PDT

2009/03/24 · 18:11

I was having an interesting time of it, flexing my multi-tasking muscles while hopping from window to window, and listening to the conference. Other than the economy, a couple things stood out for me.

ElizabethRoss

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Thursday March 19, 2009 · 5:00 PM PDT

2009/03/19 · 17:00

Sometimes I actually follow instructions when I receive them in my inbox. Occasionally, I end up feeling that was a good decision. Today I'm a bit torn because I went out to take a picture and talk to some protesters who were gathering at a nearby city.

Take Back the Economy is a movement(?) supported by organizations like SEIU and MoveOn.org. The protesters I saw today were from SEIU, and they were passing out flyers at the door of an office building that had a Merrill Lynch office inside.

ElizabethRoss

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Tuesday March 17, 2009 · 8:38 AM PDT

2009/03/17 · 08:38

Bailout money is all the rage lately, with just about every pundit, politician and journalist putting their two cents in. Unfortunately, the ones who are expressing realistic solutions are few, far between, and receiving very little attention in the glare of the frustrations.

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