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Talking About the Past

10:05 PM, Oct 2, 2008 • By MARY KATHARINE HAM
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Palin picks up on the talking point I thought McCain should have employed at the debate with Obama: "For a ticket that talks about the future and change, there sure is a lot of finger-pointing into the past."

She brings out this pretty devastating quote on Afghanistan from Obama: "We've got to get the job done there and that requires us to have enough troops so that we're not just air-raiding villages and killing civilians, which is causing enormous pressure over there."

Speaking of the past, Palin has a Joe Six-Pack moment: "You know, it's times like these it's so obvious that I'm a Washington outsider. I just have trouble understanding how you supported the war and now you oppose the war. That's something a lot of your Washington friends do, where you vote for something before you vote against it, I guess."

Harkening back to John Kerry can't hurt the cause.

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