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Sarah Palin runs half-marathon incognito in Iowa
L. A. Times ^ | 9/4/11 | Robin Abcarian

Posted on 09/04/2011 7:20:50 PM PDT by Nachum

Doug Adams, the former potato chip salesman who founded the Iowans4Palin website last year, was asleep Sunday morning at home in Storm Lake, Iowa, when his wife, Diane, woke him up with a panicky phone call.

“She was squealing,” Adams said Sunday night. “I was kinda scared.”

Diane told him to get down to the lake post-haste. Sarah and Todd Palin were there, and Sarah was about to run the half-marathon. Diane had risen early to walk the course.

Adams thought his wife was joking at first, since they had just returned the night before from Indianola, more than 150 miles from Storm Lake, where they’d trekked to watch Palin’s "tea party" speech Saturday afternoon. On Friday, they’d also attended a Conservatives4Palin meetup in Urbandale, where the Palins made a surprise visit. At both events, though, the Adamses were pretty disappointed that they’d been unable to get through the crowds to meet the former Alaska governor.

(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gopprimaries; halfmarathon; iowa; obama; palin; perry; runs; sarah
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To: The Bronze Titan

Pitiful!


21 posted on 09/04/2011 7:37:50 PM PDT by Huskrrrr
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To: Nachum

She’s running! :)


22 posted on 09/04/2011 7:38:30 PM PDT by porter_knorr (http://tinyurl.com/relief4japan Help for Japan!)
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To: Nachum

She’s running! :)


23 posted on 09/04/2011 7:38:45 PM PDT by porter_knorr (http://tinyurl.com/relief4japan Help for Japan!)
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To: The Bronze Titan

“Hey! Look! I’ve got ‘my’ running shoes on!”

Yep and his “MOM” jeans. Better put some tape around that right leg or the sprocket will eat up the edges


24 posted on 09/04/2011 7:45:31 PM PDT by Figment ("A communist is someone who reads Marx.An anti-communist is someone who understands Marx" R Reagan)
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To: lurk

You lucky, LUCKY man. Now, don’t screw it up! :)


25 posted on 09/04/2011 7:50:41 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: The Bronze Titan

Mom Jeans...LOL! :)


26 posted on 09/04/2011 7:52:58 PM PDT by Diana in Wisconsin (I don't have 'Hobbies.' I'm developing a robust Post-Apocalyptic skill set...)
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To: porter_knorr

27 posted on 09/04/2011 7:53:04 PM PDT by MestaMachine (Bovina Sancta!)
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To: lurk

” I confess I saw her in church this morning and had lust in my heart.”

Get back real fast to the peanut fields, Jammah. Find a rabbit.


28 posted on 09/04/2011 8:03:14 PM PDT by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: Nachum

Harummphh!! Couldn’t run a whole marathon. Same way she couldn’t serve a whole term as governor. /s

Wait for it....


29 posted on 09/04/2011 8:04:42 PM PDT by beelzepug ("Blind obedience to arbitrary rules is a sign of mental illness")
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To: Nachum

“Palin started the race in the back of the pack...keeping a low profile as long as possible. Then she ran around them, & took off.” LATimes


30 posted on 09/04/2011 8:05:54 PM PDT by GlockLady (Sarah Palin - The Antidote - Going Oval January 20, 2013!)
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To: Huskrrrr
Leader of the free world?

Leader of the freedom-lovers in an unfree world

31 posted on 09/04/2011 8:07:14 PM PDT by GeronL (The Right to Life came before the Right to Happiness)
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To: caver

She’s our hottest and greatest foot soldier. Presidential, who knows but damn she is strong.


32 posted on 09/04/2011 8:08:53 PM PDT by samadams2000 (Someone important make......The Call!)
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To: Diana in Wisconsin
Ok, which one do you think ZERO ordered...


33 posted on 09/04/2011 8:11:15 PM PDT by The Bronze Titan
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To: GlockLady

Did the writer intentionally write an analogy on what’s going to happen in the Republican race?


34 posted on 09/04/2011 8:12:40 PM PDT by Bigtigermike
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To: Bigtigermike

Exactly what I was thinking...stayed incognito, started in the back, then ran around them and took off.

Except in the other race she will not be a #2.


35 posted on 09/04/2011 8:17:43 PM PDT by bigbob
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To: GlockLady
“Palin started the race in the back of the pack...keeping a low profile as long as possible. Then she ran around them, & took off.”

Nice catch.

36 posted on 09/04/2011 8:20:43 PM PDT by AHerald ("Do not fear, only believe." - Mark 5:36)
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To: bigbob

Yep cruised along behind the pack as long as she could in a race named “Jump in and Run” , then ran around them and took off. Is God tying to tell us something?


37 posted on 09/04/2011 8:41:03 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: WVNan

Oh...and at a place called Storm Lake. The Storm is coming...


38 posted on 09/04/2011 8:42:36 PM PDT by WVNan
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To: Nachum

Reports are she ran under the name Sarah Heath (maiden name) and her time was 1:45 — second among women 40-49.

Not bad for someone who never really announced she was running before um, running.


39 posted on 09/04/2011 8:51:36 PM PDT by PaleoBob
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To: Huskrrrr

Maybe if muslim boy had the training wheels on.....if not, no way!


40 posted on 09/04/2011 9:13:04 PM PDT by bobby.223
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