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Lonely?
So last night was the much anticipated debate. Who do you think won? I have to say, that in general, I thought both got off the subject a lot, and it looked like Biden was really working to be nice and pleasant, while Palin seemed like a little chihuahua nagging at your heels.
She is intelligent, but she is toooo, way toooo familiar and casual in her speaking tone. I had a hard time taking her seriously and not rolling my eyes. They may almost have gotten stuck at the back of my head.
If you ask me, I think that Palin is taking down the Republican Party. and McCain with her.
You decide.
Sen. Joe Biden gave a knowledgeable but restrained performance in Thursday night’s vice presidential debate, while Gov. Sarah Palin sought to show that her accomplishments as governor and mayor prove she is qualified for the job.
Gov. Sarah Palin told voters that she and Sen. John McCain are a “team of mavericks.”
Biden, the Democratic vice presidential candidate, slammed John McCain, saying “he has been no maverick on the issues that matter to people lives,” but his only challenge to Palin was asking her to articulate a policy on the Iraq war.
Palin, the Republican vice presidential candidate, pushed her “track record of reform” and said she and McCain are a “team of mavericks.”
“We’re known for putting partisan politics aside to just get the job done,” she said.
The debate took place at Washington University in St. Louis, Missouri, and was moderated by PBS’s Gwen Ifill.
The candidates covered everything from the economy to energy policy to foreign policy in the first and only vice presidential debate of the election season.
Paul Begala, a Democratic strategist and CNN contributor, said the candidates approached the questions in different ways.
“You had two different strategies. Joe Biden’s strategy was to hammer McCain, link him to the status quo and Bush. He succeeded,” Begala said.
“Sarah Palin’s strategy was to defend Sarah Palin and repair her damaged image, and I think she did a pretty good job of that,” he said.
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(The Politico) The early response among Republicans to the announcement that Bristol Palin, the 17-year-old daughter of GOP VP hopeful Sarah Palin, is pregnant, has been calm and collected, although it has definitely raised concerns for rank-and-file Republicans that more unpleasant revelations may soon follow.
Responding to Internet rumors that Bristol Palin had given birth earlier this year, and that Sarah Palin had claimed the child was her son Trig, the McCain campaign released a statement saying that Bristol Palin is currently pregnant and plans to marry the father.
Republicans have either taken the line that Bristol Palin’s pregnancy is a personal matter for Palin and her family, or they are suggesting that it is a situation that lots of normal Americans can relate to, either from their own family history or that or friends and classmates.
“I don’t think this is going to be a big deal down the stretch” of the 2008 election, said a top House Republican aide, speaking on the condition of anonymity.
“It’s nobody’s business but the Palins,” added another Senate GOP leadership staffer.
But it does create a level of uncertaintly about Palin, among Republicans and the media, and that can be a huge negative for Palin’s candidacy. Combined with Troopergate, the allegation that Palin fired the top Alaska state police official because he refused to fire Palin’s former brother-in-law, a trooper.
“Clearly, yes, absolutely,” said a GOP strategist when asked about whether Republicans were afraid more negative stories about Palin would emerge soon.
“Palin can get through this, but what you don’t want is a level of uncertainty about her, about whether she should be on the [Republican] ticket. That’s not a good thing for any candidate.”
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Chris Kattan Separation, Sunshine Tutt and Chris Kattan Separate.
LOS ANGELES, California (AP) — Comedian Chris Kattan’s marriage to his model wife lasted almost as long as a “Saturday Night Live” skit.
Chris Kattan and Sunshine Tutt attend a party in Beverly Hills, California, in 2006.
The former “Saturday Night Live” star filed for legal separation from model wife Sunshine Tutt after eight weeks of marriage. The couple were married June 28 in Yosemite Valley.
They spent roughly a month together; Kattan’s filings indicate that they separated August 10. The couple have no children together, and Kattan’s filing in Los Angeles Superior Court on Friday indicates that the pair have a prenuptial agreement.
By filing for separation instead of divorce, Kattan is leaving the door open for a reunion with Tutt but is indicating that the pair intend to live separate lives for the time being.
Kattan, 37, appeared on “SNL” from 1996 to 2003. His screen credits include “Corky Romano” and “A Night at the Roxbury.”
The couple became engaged Christmas Eve 2006.
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Musharraf Resigns, Musharraf Speech Announcement, Musharraf Address
(CNN) — Pakistani President Pervez Musharraf announced his resignation Monday after weeks of pressure to relinquish power.
Pakistan’s Pervez Musharraf has until now stubbornly resisted pressure to quit.
Musharraf told the nation in a televised address that he would step down — nearly nine years after he seized power in a bloodless coup in 1999.
“I don’t want the people of Pakistan to slide deeper and deeper into uncertainty,” Musharraf said.
“For the interest of the nation, I have decided to resign as president,” he said. “I am not asking for anything. I will let the people of Pakistan decide my future.” Video Watch Musharraf resign »
Musharraf has been a keen ally of the West in the fight on terror, receiving billions in military aid from the U.S. and launching attacks on militant groups near the country’s border with Afghanistan.
He was expected to turn in his resignation to parliament Monday.
“It will be accepted, there is no second opinion about that,” said Iqbal Zaffar Jhagra, the secretary general of the junior partner in the ruling coalition, the Pakistan Muslim League-N (PML-N).
Musharraf quit as the ruling coalition was taking steps to impeach him.
Local media reports said he had been granted “safe passage” out of the country.
Until now, Musharraf, 65, had resisted pressure to resign. But his power had eroded since parties opposed to his rule swept to victory in February’s parliamentary elections.
Musharraf spent a large part of his speech delivering a state-of-the-union style list of Pakistan’s “accomplishments” under his rule. He contrasted it with what he called the deteriorating economic situation now.
“After the elections, the nation wanted solutions from the new government,” he said. “But the politicians could not do so. A personal vendetta was started.” View a timeline of Musharraf’s time in power »
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A coalition committee spent last week compiling a list of charges against Musharraf including corruption, economic mismanagement and violating the constitution.
Pakistan’s four provincial assemblies called on the president to give up power. Parliament was expected to consider an impeachment motion Monday or Tuesday.
“I am confident that not a single charge can stand against me,” Musharraf said. “I have not done anything for my personal gain. Whatever I have done, I have done it for Pakistan.”
Faisal Kapadia, a commodities trader in Karachi who runs a blog about Pakistan called Deadpan Thoughts, said Musharraf’s decision would get a mixed reaction.
“Leading Pakistan is not an easy task, and anyone doing it comes under a lot of criticism,” he said.
“In the start, most Pakistanis were for him. And he still has some supporters — especially because the new government, which promised to do things differently, has failed to do much in the past 100 days in power.”
Musharraf grabbed power in 1999. He was serving as military chief when then-Prime Minister Nawaz Sharif dismissed him, setting off a confrontation.
As Musharraf was returning from an overseas visit in October 1999, Sharif refused to allow the commercial airliner with 200 passengers on board to land.
Within hours the army had deposed Sharif in a bloodless coup, and the plane was allowed to touch down with only 10 minutes of fuel left.
Musharraf was welcomed by a nation on the brink of economic ruin.
“I think at this point, his intentions were good,” said Lt. Gen. Talat Masood, a political analyst. “He wanted to serve the country and to be different.”
During his rule, Pakistan attained respectable growth rates and established a generally favorable investment climate.
Along with that came a growing middle class, a more aggressive media, and a more assertive judiciary.
“He brought parliamentary reforms. He brought women into the parliament,” said Ahmed Bilal Mehboob, director of the Pakistan Institute of Legislative Development and Transparency.
But, analysts say, Musharraf never lost his military mindset.
“He in a way, always believed in a unity of command, a very centralized command, which means his command, in fact,” said Masood.
After the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks in the United States, Musharraf found himself on the frontline of the ‘war on terror.’
Pakistan had supported the Taliban during the Soviet occupation of Afghanistan in the 1980s.
But after the 2001 attacks, Musharraf aligned himself with the U.S. to help rout the fundamentalist Islamic movement.
Washington gave Musharraf billions in aid as he vowed to deprive the militants of the sanctuary they had established along the country’s border with Afghanistan.
He cast himself as indispensable — to the West and to Pakistan, analysts said.
To Pakistanis he sold himself as the man who could deliver peace with India, a country with which Pakistan has fought three wars. To the West, he was the man to safeguard the country’s nuclear arsenal.
However, Musharraf’s popularity began to plummet last year following the March suspension of Supreme Court Chief Justice Iftikhar Chaudhry.
The move triggered protests and accusations that he was trying to influence the Supreme Court’s ruling on whether he could run for another five-year term.
Chaudhry was reinstated but the damage was done.
“Undoubtedly, that was the catalyst,” Masood said. “This is where he went wrong, and he underestimated the value of democracy.”
Four months later, in July 2007, Pakistani security forces seized the Red Mosque in the capital city Islamabad.
The raid, intended to rout Islamic extremists who hoped to establish a Taliban-style rule in the capital, killed more than 100 people. A raft of suicide bombings followed.
In October, Musharraf was re-elected president by a parliament critics said was stacked with his supporters. Opposition parties filed a challenge.
The next month, he declared a state of emergency, suspended Pakistan’s constitution, replaced the chief judge again and blacked out independent TV outlets.
Under pressure from the West, he later lifted the emergency and promised elections in January. Video Watch a PPP leader discuss opposition to Musharraf »
He allowed Sharif, the prime minister he deposed, to return from exile. He also let in another political foe, Benazir Bhutto. She, too, had been a prime minister, and led the Pakistan People’s Party.
However, in December, the country was plunged into further turmoil when Bhutto was killed at a rally in Rawalpindi.
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Musharraf’s government and the CIA contend the killing was orchestrated by Baitullah Mehsud, a leader of the Pakistani Taliban with ties to al Qaeda. But nationwide polls found that a majority of Pakistanis believe Musharraf’s government was complicit in the assassination.
Meanwhile, several other factors compounded Musharraf’s declining popularity: a shortage of essential food items, power cuts, and a skyrocketing inflation.
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The New York Times says: Under pressure over impending impeachment charges, President Musharraf announced he would resign Monday, ending nearly nine years as the head of one of the United States’ most important allies in the campaign …
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Amid mounting pressure and under the threat of an impeachment proceeding that would have started perhaps today in the pakistani Parliament, president pervez Musharraf resigned in a speech today in Pakistan….
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Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf delivers a speech in Brussels January 21, 2008. (Yves Reuters - Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is ready to resign rather than face impeachment but is seeking immunity from prosecution for …
Pakistan’s Musharraf said ready to quit (Reuters)
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf delivers a speech in Brussels January 21, 2008. (Yves Reuters - Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf is ready to resign rather than face impeachment but is seeking …
Then the leak came that army was interested in getting the government to give him indemnity in return for his resignation. It was said that he wanted to stay on in Pakistan after leaving his job, at his residence at Chak Shehzad in …
Pakistan’s Musharraf calls for reconciliation (Reuters)
Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf wipes his face while making a speech in Brussels January 21, Reuters - Pakistan’s President Pervez Musharraf, under mounting pressure to resign, called on Thursday for reconciliation to tackle …
Musharraf Polarizes Pakistan; Opposition Mobilizes
Those who would like to see Musharraf’s ouster have been frustrated by the prevention of him being conventionally removed. Rather than simply calling for his resignation or impeachment, some have upped the antie, calling for Musharraf …
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