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Wednesday 8 October 2008

Palin speaks about being Joe Six-Pack when in reality she’s Jane Champagne, with a net worth over $1 million. As the Washington Times reported, “A check of financial records…shows the Palins live anything but a common life when compared with their fellow residents of their hometown of Wasilla. Their combined income of nearly a quarter-million dollars last year was five times the median household income for Wasilla’s 7,000 residents. They own a single-engine plane, two boats, two personal watercraft and a half-million-dollar, custom-built home on a lake that is worth three times the average of other homes in town.” Palin spoke at last Thursday’s debate with a collection of folksy “you betchas,” but, as conservative Obama supporter Andrew Sullivan pointed out, “Just compare this recording of Palin in Alaska in 2006 to what you heard last night. Ask yourself where the folksiness is. See how many times she says ‘doggone’ in 2006. Or ‘betcha.’ Or ‘Joe Six-Pack.’  Dave Zirin

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