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While America's respectable media focus on John McCain's acceptance speech to the Republican faithful, blogs and gossip sites continue to lead the feeding frenzy surrounding the National Enquirer's allegation, reported here yesterday, that McCain's running mate Sarah Palin had an affair with her husband's business partner.

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    chuck-the-canuck2 months, 2 weeks ago

    Much as a loath the republicans, and as much as I think McCain’s choice of Palin as his running mate is a transparent, shallow act by a desperate man, I don’t much care about Palin’s personal life, except as it relates to her ability to do the job.

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      slate2 months, 2 weeks ago

      The Positive vote was from me.

      After all the outcry of AG submitting stroies from the right, at least there were some threads from the other side on here. Now all we get are these types of threads on the front page. The one I love the most is the one where the left claims Palin was too mean durig her speech, after the constant attacks against her.

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      inverse2 months, 2 weeks ago

      I see sexism here. Why should we care about Palin's alleged affair but not McCain's?
      We should all focus on issues, at least until there is an affair between Palin and McCain.

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      not2needy2 months, 2 weeks ago

      Haven't we been told over and over that being familiar with the candidates associates and private lives are necessities as it gives us insight as to their character??

      Why is so many of McCains military records sealed, and now why is Palin's husband's ex business partner's divorce records being sealed? If there's nothing to hide, why hide it?

      Conservatives put this on the table when they posted that hideous video of some deviant who said he had sex with Obama while they did coke. Then took soundbites out of context of Obama's minister for smear purposes only, and attacked Michelle when she supposedly said "whitey", which wasn't really proven to be true because it could have been why'd he....

      When you get bit by a mosquito do you watch to see if it will bite you again or do you swat it? I swat it, i think everyone does, but now i will probably be accused of being violent.

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      hyperbola2 months, 2 weeks ago

      Well, we have already seen that Palin abuses political power to carry out personal vendettas. We have also already seen her corruption.

      What is even worse than the media keeping quiet about her personal life is that they are keeping quiet about her ugly, dangerous religious connections.

      Voting for Palin would be like voting for Osama Bin Laden. She is right out of our very own "christian madrassas".

      Sarah Palin used AK tax dollars to fund dominionist churches

      Over the past few days, I've done reporting on Sarah Palin's extensive dominionist connections--including the attempt to run her as a "stealth" dominionist candidate and her connections to some scary dominionist groups including not just "Joel's Army" folks but a far-right Christian Reconstructionist political party linked to domestic terrorism.

      http://www.propeller.com/story/2008/09/06/sarah-pa...

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      epiphannyy2 months, 2 weeks ago

      chuck-the-canuck........very well said. I don't know when we became so tabloid driven in this society, more interested in the sex lives of candidates rather than the platforms they promote, but I couldn't care less. I never understood people's obsession over Bill Clinton's sex life, and I have the same feeling about the opposition. Who Palin is having an affair with, or even if she's having an affair, is of no consequence in my opinion. The only things that matter to me are her positions on issues and her qualifications to carry out any plans she may have. Beyond that, its none of my business and nothing but a distraction in a campaign that is too important to entertain distractions in. We have real issues to face and get through before someone is elected, and spending any energy on anything this ridiculous is just a waste in my opinion.

      Besides.........when did the National Inquirer become a valid news source for anything? Talk about absurd..

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