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"Sarah Palin is the vice-presidential candidate," I told my mother when I found her under a beach umbrella. We hugged each other joyfully. Politics be damned, Palin was a woman and she was an Alaskan! Moreover, I had been impressed with her when I interviewed her - not for her politics (I'm one of those east coast liberals she doesn't care about) but for the other things that people across the country are responding to right now:her warmth, her work ethic, her "can-do" attitude. If life is simply a reprise of high school, Palin was the jock who attended church faithfully, ran the soup kitchen, and organised the bake sale. If her paper on the Lincoln-Douglas debate wasn't the most nuanced, so be it. Something has to give.

I thought this was a very interesting article, well worth reading the whole.

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Johnson's Vogue article from February is worth a read too. I would like as many people as possible to read the stuff written about Palin before she was on the ticket--a truer measure of her. Lots of stuff in the article that Freepers will like, as well as this picture of her without glasses, which I wouldn't have guessed in a million years was her: