By: Suzanne Rosenberg In today?s edition of our look at campaign blogs at newspaper sites (see links at bottom): Candidate Secret Service Code Names revealed, Palin delayed at Dulles due to excessive baggage, Comics influences Politics, Everyone BUT McCain on Esquire?s 75 most influential list, Palin on Creationism, and Republican dirty tricks on campaign kids, and the NRA goes after Obama. For coverage of media and politics all day, go to the new E&P blog, at www.eandppub.com .
Code names for candidates
The Trail
Washington Post
By Anne E. Kornblut
While the Secret Service does not generally publicize their code names chosen for those running for the highest offices in the land. Anne Kornblut of The Trail discovered that ?Denali? (the name for the Alaska national park and preserve known for its mountains and wildlife) is their code name for Gov. Sarah Palin. Palin?s husband, Todd an oil slope worker, is known to the Secret Service as ?Driller.? ?Drill, baby, drill? is the informal McCain-Palin election chant. Obama is codenamed ?Renegade,? and Michelle is ?Renaissance? (selection of codenames for spouses often begin with the same letter). McCain is ?Phoenix? and his wife Cindy is known to the Secret Service as ?Parasol.? Interestingly enough the code name for Joe Biden is still unknown.
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Kornblut also noted that Alaska Gov. Palin?s return trip to Alaska from Dulles International Airport was delayed due to an ?excessive amount of baggage. This is actual, not metaphorical baggage,? as Ms. Kornblut stresses. It appears that the cargo hold was too overloaded and therefore the plane too heavy to make the entire trip. Cynical observers might speculate that Gov. Palin needed even more time to prepare her script for any possible solo contact with the media on her first solo trip home since emerging from the Republican National Convention as the Republican vice presidential nominee.
Palin endorsed creationism in schools
The Washington Wire
The Wall Street Journal
By Mary Jacoby
While Governor of Alaska, Sarah Palin endorsed the teaching of creationism alongside evolution in public schools, a position that puts the VP nominee in the camp of those who endorse a literal interpretation of the Bible. Tony Perkins of the Family Research Council defended Palin and pointed out that ?there are flaws in the evolutionary theory-and it is a theory??
75 most influential people of the century
The Caucus
The New York Times
By Mark Silva
Esquire?s list of the 75 most influential people of the 21st Century--so far --is out, reports Mark Silva in the Caucus. The list includes Barack Obama, his former national security advisor Samantha Power who apologized for calling Hillary Clinton a ?monster,? Oprah Winfrey, Bill and Hillary Clinton and George W. Bush. Paris, Britney and McCain are NOT included on this celebrity list.
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Candidates children are off limits?
By James Oliphant
Oliphant suggests that Republican sources have been circulating a 2002 news story (from the Tribune) which reported that Ashley Biden, was arrested in a late-nite district of Chicago in August 2002 after getting into a late night scuffle with a police officer. She was a 21-year-old Tulane University student at the time. She currently works as a social worker in Delaware.
Palin emboldens NRA
Political Intelligence
The Boston Globe
By Foon Rhee
It appears that the NRA is using the positive response to Sarah Palin?s moose hunting gun toting popularity to seek support from its members by claiming that Barack Obama has allegedly supported bans on handguns and semi-automatic firearms, shotguns and rifles commonly used by hunters and sportsmen across America. Foon Rhee reported in yesterday?s Political Intelligence for the Boston Globe that the National Rifle Association will send a mailer to four million members warning them ?Don?t believe? Obama on the Second Amendment and that he would be the most anti-gun president in American history.
For the record, after the June Supreme Court ruling upholding an individual right to bear arms and which threw out the handgun ordinance in Washington, D.C., Obama said he ?believes in the Second Amendment ?but also understands the need for crime ravaged communities to save their children from the violence that plagues our streets through commonsense and effective safety measures."
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