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To: ManyMoose who wrote (91238)	10/21/2008 7:52:32 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 541115

Palin Becomes Increasingly Accessible To The National Media Posted by Scott Conroy (CBS) From CBS News' Scott Conroy: (COLORADO SPRINGS) It was less than two weeks ago when Sarah Palin astonished her traveling press corps by lifting the curtain (literally) and journeying to the back of her campaign plane to answer reporters’ questions for the first time after 40 days on the campaign trail. But the candidate who has been criticized for having a bunker mentality when it came to the national media can now lay legitimate claim to being more accessible than either Joe Biden or Barack Obama. In the past two days alone, Palin has answered questions from her national press corps on three separate occasions. On Saturday, she held another plane availability, and on Sunday, she offered an impromptu press conference on the tarmac upon landing in Colorado Springs. A few minutes later, she answered even more questions from reporters during an off-the-record stop at a local ice cream shop. By contrast, Biden hasn’t held a press conference in more than a month, and Obama hasn’t taken questions from his full traveling press corps since the end of September. John McCain—who spent most of the primary season holding what seemed like one, never-ending media availability—hasn’t done one since Sept. 23. Though she often turns the “mainstream media” into a punching bag on the stump, Palin clearly enjoys interacting with reporters. She seems to relish the opportunity to demonstrate that her breadth of knowledge far exceeds what she offered to CBS News’ Katie Couric in a series of interviews that were marked by vague, often convoluted answers to straightforward questions... cbsnews.com volokh.com

To: ManyMoose who wrote (91238)	10/21/2008 8:11:28 PM
From: Cogito	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 541115

>>Maybe not, but Obama has funneled dollars to Acorn for other purposes, and as we all know money is fungible.<< MM - All campaign expenditures above a certain amount have to be reported. There is a record of one payment, for services rendered, to ACORN by the Obama campaign, way back during the Primaries. The services in question had nothing to do with voter registration. Obviously, a lot of people would like to believe that ACORN is working for Obama and trying to steal the election. But you really have to stretch the available evidence to support that notion. You have to stretch it until it breaks, pretty much. - Allen