You didn’t know this about Newsweek Palin

In one of her sit-downs with Katie Couric of CBS News, Sarah Palin was asked to discuss a Supreme Court decision with which she disagreed.

A former top Justice Department prosecutor now working for John McCain ’s presidential campaign has been helping to direct an aggressive legal strategy aimed at shutting down a pre-election ethics investigation into Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin.

An Anchorage judge three years ago warned Sarah Palin and members of her family to stop “disparaging” the reputation of Alaska State Trooper Michael Wooten, who at the time was undergoing a bitter separation and divorce from Palin’s sister Molly.

Lawyer O’Callaghan, of the McCain camp, is trying to block the Troopergate investigation.

Newsweek’s Jon Meacham thinks that Governor Sarah Palin is too much a commoner and too stupid to be allowed to become vice president of the United States of America and apparently his employer agrees with him.

Asked about the exchange afterward, a McCain adviser who didn’t want to be named talking about a sensitive matter said the question was fair, but added: “I wonder how many Americans would be able to name decisions they disagree with.

But, you know, as mayor, and then as governor and even as a vice president, if I’m so privileged to serve, wouldn’t be in a position of changing those things but in supporting the law of the land as it reads today.”

She is the governor of a state with an $11 billion operating budget, a $1.7 billion capital budget and nearly 29,000 employees; she’s got more executive experience than any candidate for president or vice president this year.

Palin may be a perfectly wonderful person, a loving mother and a great American success story—but she is a beauty queen/sports reporter who stumbled into small-town politics, and who is now on the verge of stumbling into, or upon, world history.

Economic woes, war and the natural desire of Americans to give the other side a chance should mean a big edge for Obama and Biden.

Let me confess that I was genuinely unnerved by Sarah Palin ’s performance at the Republican convention.

NEWSWEEK’s poll last month found that 47 percent felt Obama “has enough experience in politics and government to be a good president” but 46 percent said he didn’t.

The October 13 cover of Newsweek features a close up photo of the Governor with the headline “She’s One of the Folks ,” and Meacham writes the accompanying cover story.

“Governor, your candidacy has ignited extreme hostility, even some hatred on the left and in some parts of the media,” Hewitt said.

It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right there.

Except for the awesome view of pink-tipped peaks from its parking lot, Wasilla Bible Church, in Wasilla, Alaska, is perhaps most remarkable for being unremarkable.

And nowhere are the media more horrendously slanted than in their coverage of the presidential campaign of Illinois Sen. Barack Obama.

It is not shocking to learn that politics played a big role in the making of a presidential team.

With respect, Jon misses the principal arguments for Sarah Palin.

“It’s very important when you consider even national-security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the airspace of the United States of America.

But ultimately, what the bailout does is help those who are concerned about the health-care reform that is needed to help shore up our economy, helping the—it’s got to be all about job creation, too, shoring up our economy and putting it back on the right track.

On Spetember 20, Newsweek hosted an article by FactCheck.org that exposed the outright lies contained in the claims Barack Obama made against John McCain’s record on Social Security in order to scare as many elder citizens as he can.

She’s a rising star who accentuates John McCain ’s maverick strengths and a “hockey mom” who has developed a powerful tie to ordinary voters.

Kroons told NEWSWEEK that Palin’s campaign staff had contacted him that morning to ask for his discretion when discussing the pregnancy of Palin’s teenage daughter Bristol.

In an interview before her debate with Sen. Joseph R. Biden, Palin offered a revealing answer to radio host Hugh Hewitt.

And I am quite sure that her supporters didn’t care, either.

On Sunday, its senior pastor Larry Kroons confirmed that Senator John McCain’s vice presidential pick, Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, and her family, regularly attend services there, and have done so for the last six years or so.

However badly she may stumble during the remaining weeks of this campaign, her supporters will focus their outrage upon the journalist who caused her to break stride, upon the camera operator who happened to capture her fall, upon the television network that broadcast the good lady’s misfortune—and, above all, upon the “liberal elites” with their highfalutin assumption that, in the 21st century, only a reasonably well-educated person should be given command of our nuclear arsenal.

In her interview with Gibson, Palin managed to turn a joke about seeing Russia from her window into a straight-faced claim that Alaska’s geographical proximity to Russia gave her some essential foreign-policy experience.

Palin and her lawyers have also said that she had other reasons for firing Monegan, including a dispute over the state public-safety budget and actions her lawyers have depicted as “insubordination.”