US elections - Sarah Palin Is Just Full of Surprises
While most of America was not laboring yesterday, the Internet was struggling mightily to keep up with a flurry of revelations about Sarah Palin. First, but perhaps least politically relevant, Palin's 17-year-old daughter, Bristol Palin, is five months pregnant, will have the child, and plans to marry the baby's daddy (who is, by the way, sex on skates). More important, Palin has announced she has hired a lawyer as part of the ongoing investigation against her firing of a state employee, who perhaps caught her ire for not firing her ex-brother-in-law. Meanwhile, Palin's reformist image is taking a hit, with reports showing that she apparently backed the epitome of pork, the Bridge to Nowhere, before she was against it, and hired a lobbying firm to reap $27 million in federal earmarks for her town of 6,700 while she was mayor. At the same time, links have been unearthed between Palin and a group that wants Alaska to secede from the union. The avalanche of disclosures has led to questions regarding the seriousness with which John McCain vetted his running mate before potentially placing her "a heartbeat away from the presidency," as the Democrats are fond of saying these days.
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