McCain's VP Choice: 'Sarah Barracuda'

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Business Week
Posted by: Dan Beucke on August 29
By Keith Epstein



To Alaskans – both allies and adversaries – Sarah Palin, 44, is known as “Sarah Barracuda,” a nickname that goes back to her days as an aggressive basketball player. Noted the Anchorage Daily News in an Oct. 23, 2006 profile : “Supporters consider the name a testament to her aggressive play and ferocious defense. But opponents said the name capture a predatory instinct that Palin could turn on friend as well as foe.”

Basketball was a major influence in her life, to tell by comments she’s made to reporters. “I know this sounds hokey,” she told the Anchorage paper, “but basketball was a life-changing experience for me,” and it taught her “about setting a goal, about discipline, teamwork, and then success.” Voters just might get to hear about it again now; reported the newspaper in 2006: “Palin has been telling interviewers about the 1982 state tournament at West High…for at least a decade, including the self-effacing line about its being ‘hokey.’”

Some personal details on the nominee, the first woman governor of the state known as the last frontier, suggest themes the Republicans will be able to underscore that align with party positions:

http://www.businessweek.com/election/2008/blog/archives/2008/08/mccains_vp_choi.html

[angstlessk]

1. well, she gets to talk about mcsame's POW experience and he gets to

talk about her great 'barracuda' days...or as the boss says...glory days!

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2. She and Obama - a one-on-one for the presidency