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Palin watch ends! She'll talk to ABC's Charles Gibson next week. What should he ask her?
  • Palin questions

    1. You accuse Obama of raising taxes, but isn't it true that during your term as mayor of Wasilla you raised the sales tax in order to build a hockey complex that left your town $22 million in debt. Is that not a tax-and-spend policy that you now decry?

    2. You say you are now against earmarks, but isn't it true that under your leadership your town hired its first lobbyist in order to obtain $26 million in earmarks--which was about $4000 per citizen? What if every city in the US received earmarks equal to $4000 per citizen? Could the US Treasury handle that?

    3. You claim that your experience as a mayor of Wasilla prepared you to perhaps be President. Isn't it true that the mayor's job was to administer the town, and that for the first time, once you were elected, an independent administrator had to be hired as you were being threatened with a recall for the way you mis-handled your administerial powers?

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