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    Sarah Palin To Speak at Gridiron Dinner

    Posted:
    11/7/09


    Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, who has her issues with how journalists treated her during her 2008 vice presidential bid, has accepted an invitation to be a headliner at The Gridiron Club winter dinner -- a gathering of an exclusive group of Washington reporters.
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    Palin, a potential 2012 presidential contender, is on book tour to promote her memoir, "Going Rogue: An American Life."

    The program should be as tasty as the sirloin at the Dec. 5 dinner. Palin will be the Republican speaker and Rep. Barney Frank (D-Mass.), the chairman of the House Financial Services Committee, will represent the Democrats. A just published biography of Frank is titled, "Barney Frank: The Story of America's Only Left-Handed, Gay, Jewish Congressman."

    I am a member of the club and I remember the winter 2004 dinner, when two men who ended up in the 2008 presidential contests were the headliners: Sen.-elect Barack Obama (D-Ill.) and Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, who sang. Obama joked then how everything changed for him after he key-noted the Democratic convention and became an instant national star.

    Said the future president back at the 2004 Winter Gridiron Dinner, "It's like I was shot out of a cannon. I am so overexposed, I make Paris Hilton look like a recluse."




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    Lynn Sweet

    Lynn Sweet is a columnist at PoliticsDaily.com and writes the Daily FLOTUS blog on Michelle Obama. She is also Washington Bureau Chief of the Chicago Sun-Times.... more

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