Janet W Battaile -- Politics Daily

Published: 06/12/09

Also Not Amused by Letterman: Flight Attendants

The following is a post from new Woman Up contributor Mary Winter.Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin and TV Late Show host David Letterman had a big dust-up this week. It went something like this: You look like a slut.Do not.You're a pervert.Am not.I never said your daughter got knocked up.Did too. The three-day spat was cheap and tawdry, with similarities to a big, juicy, name-calling fight on the playground. Naturally, we ate it up. TV talkers, reporters, bloggers and websites weighed in. Thousands of Americans emoted on the Internet, defending the Palins and hurling invective at Letterman, and vice ...

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Published: 06/4/09

Dad's Life: One Sweet Ride, Thanks to GM

My father would be heartbroken: A GM dealer for four decades, he loved that company like a member of our family. It was easy to see why. From the time he got into the business, just before the war in 1941, until the time he got out, in 1981, the Chevys and Cadillacs he sold gave him a life he never dreamed of when he left his farm in the Northern Neck of Virginia and headed for Washington to make his way in the world. ...

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Published: 05/6/09

Hillary Bawls, Nobody Cares

With the contentious election long behind them, the American people seem to be in a forgiving mood toward Hillary Clinton. Her poll numbers soared after President Obama chose her to be Secretary of State and are higher now than they've been in 10 years -- higher even than his, according to a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation poll. Seventy-one percent of those asked in the survey released at the end of March approved of the job she was doing, including 50 percent of Republicans. Obama's approval rating in a poll the firm released last week was 63 percent. Only 28 percent of Republicans approved. ...

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