{"id":5722,"date":"2008-09-03T19:56:47","date_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:56:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/palin-a-smalltown-mayor-is-sor.html"},"modified":"2008-09-03T19:56:47","modified_gmt":"2008-09-03T19:56:47","slug":"palin-a-smalltown-mayor-is-sor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2008\/09\/palin-a-smalltown-mayor-is-sor.html","title":{"rendered":"Palin: &#8220;A small-town mayor is sort of like a &#8216;community organizer,&#8217; except that you have actual responsibilities&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s an <a href=\"http:\/\/thepage.time.com\/excerpts-from-sarah-palins-convention-speech\/\">excerpt from Palin&#8217;s speech<\/a>. It sounds like it&#8217;s going to be quite interesting, don&#8217;t you think? I&#8217;m certainly looking forward to it. Here&#8217;s another quote:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Here&#8217;s how I look at the choice Americans face in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>And I&#8217;m certainly happy reading this:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8220;Our opponents say, again and again, that drilling will not solve all of America&#8217;s energy problems &#8211; as if we all didn&#8217;t know that already. But the fact that drilling won&#8217;t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all. Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we&#8217;re going to lay more pipelines&#8230;build more nuclear plants&#8230;create jobs with clean coal&#8230;and move forward on solar, wind, geothermal, and other alternative sources. We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, and produced by American workers.&#8221;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>That&#8217;s an excerpt from Palin&#8217;s speech. It sounds like it&#8217;s going to be quite interesting, don&#8217;t you think? I&#8217;m certainly looking forward to it. Here&#8217;s another quote: &#8220;Here&#8217;s how I look at the choice Americans face in this election. In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers. 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