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| Reinventing Sarah “Going Rogue” Palin |
Former Alaska governor Sarah Palin has been very much in the news lately courtesy of a new book, “Going Rogue.” Palin’s blockbuster book thrust her once again in the limelight after her brief cameo appearance in the national stage in 2008 when she was handpicked by Sen. John McCain as his running mate.
Palin’s book, while generating its share of criticisms and praises, is not really the real story behind her “surge” in popularity but rather, the notoriety of some of her criticisms of President Barack Obama during her book signings is turning people’s head. Her sudden plunge into ‘substantive” policy issues are popularly hailed by right wing conservatives perhaps now forgetting of how she fared badly in those areas as vice presidential candidate Palin. She is reinventing herself as the new icon of Republican Party conservatism at an opportune time when the Grand ‘Ol Party (GOP) is imploding and in search of a unifying political leader outside of Rush Limbaugh’s sphere.
Her new found popularity is drawing a large following among the GOP “tea party” goers. Her often combative pronouncements against the sitting president are hailed and often make good fodder for Fox news.
Well, this week leaders of the world are meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark hoping to forge an agreement to reduce carbon dioxide emissions worldwide that is believed to be accelerating global warming. Palin called on Obama not to attend the summit.
Palin along with other GOP conservatives is parroting the same line that global warming is not man-made. Actually, this is nothing new from Palin because she said the same thing during the 2008 campaign much to the chagrin of candidate McCain who took pride in breaking away from the GOP dogma by supporting a mandatory cap on carbon emissions.
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NAPLES, Italy – Dr. Rizalino A. Oades, or Riz to his friends, was recently buried at Glen Abbey Memorial Park in Bonita. It came to this point as he finally lost his short battle with cancer. Ironic perhaps that he being a strong advocate of healthy eating and one who championed programs for improving the health awareness of the Filipino American community in San Diego that he himself fell victim to the dreaded disease.
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