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"WHAT YOU NEED TO KNOW TODAY Good morning! There&amp;#x27;s just one more day until Sarah Palin and Joe Biden meet on the field of rhetorical battle, so naturally the news is full of stories about... Sarah Palin. Well, to be fair, Biden also got crowded off the front page by Bruce Springsteen.Obamaniacs United On October 16th, Bruce Springsteen and Billy Joel will hold a first-of-a-kind fundraising concert for Obama in New York. Although The Boss and the Piano Man have technically played together before, they haven&amp;#x27;t played together for a candidate before now. Typical Sarah Although Sarah Palin is fond of painting herself as just another middle-class America, like most politicians, she&amp;#x27;s far from average. She and Todd claimed $250,000 in income last year, own a plane, two boats, a couple of JetSkis and a $500,000 lakeside home in Wasilla. They still aren&amp;#x27;t doing as well as Joe Biden, the &amp;quot;poorest&amp;quot; Senator, though. The View From Alaska As if Sarah Palin&amp;#x27;s claims of foreign policy experience because she can practically see Russia from her backyard weren&amp;#x27;t foolish enough, CNN sent a camera crew to the one place in Alaska where you can actually see Russia. Little Diomede has one town, 150 people, lots of poverty, no televisions, cars or roads and no one knew that the little-known governor was running for Vice President. Oh, and Sarah Palin&amp;#x27;s never visited. Palin Tries Another Interview Sarah Palin, having done rather poorly in television interviews, decided to try another format: e-mail. That might not have been the best thing to draw attention to, what with ongoing investigations into her efforts to avoid subpoenas, but she did it anyway. She addresses some of the controversies surrounding her, including the rape kits issue, Troopergate and the supposed book-banning, and does so in a way that sounds just like the speeches she gives. Wonder who wrote it? The Final Couric Segment The final part of the Palin-Couric match-up aired last night and, although she doesn&amp;#x27;t come across as ill-prepared as last time, there was plenty of fodder for eye-rolling. One of the biggest blunders sure to inspire horror is that Palin, the journalism major and former journalist, couldn&amp;#x27;t name a single publication she reads regularly. Can you name a newspaper or magazine you read regularly (other than Glamour, of course!)? Do you consider Sarah Palin &amp;quot;middle-class&amp;quot;? And how much would you pay to see Billy Joel and Bruce Springsteen together?"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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