09-05-2011, 12:08
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Sarah Palin runs half-marathon incognito in Iowa
The girl get around,, uses pretty good stealth techniques..
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Sarah Palin runs half-marathon incognito in Iowa
September 04, 2011|By Robin Abcarian
Doug Adams, the former potato chip salesman who founded the Iowans4Palin website last year, was asleep Sunday morning at home in Storm Lake, Iowa, when his wife, Diane, woke him up with a panicky phone call.
“She was squealing,” Adams said Sunday night. “I was kinda scared.”
Diane told him to get down to the lake post-haste. Sarah and Todd Palin were there, and Sarah was about to run the half-marathon. Diane had risen early to walk the course.
Adams thought his wife was joking at first, since they had just returned the night before from Indianola, more than 150 miles from Storm Lake, where they’d trekked to watch Palin’s "tea party" speech Saturday afternoon. On Friday, they’d also attended a Conservatives4Palin meetup in Urbandale, where the Palins made a surprise visit. At both events, though, the Adamses were pretty disappointed that they’d been unable to get through the crowds to meet the former Alaska governor.
Adams hopped out of bed. “I went down there and standing off by himself, there was Todd Palin, waiting for her to come in from the race,” he said. “They had their visors down low, and the sunglasses on. People didn’t know who they were. Amazing they can get in and out of a place, incognito.”
Diane Adams told her husband that Palin started the race in the back of the pack, among the walkers, keeping a low profile for as long as possible. Then she ran around them, and took off.
After Palin finished – she’s a veteran runner and kept a speedy pace, finishing the 13.1-mile course around the lake in 1 hour 46 minutes and 10 seconds—she visited with the Adamses for while and took a picture with them.
“She is gracious and friendly as she could be,” said Adams. “The thing that amazes me is that they wandered off by themselves, and then I was talking with someone else and I felt a tap on my shoulder. She said, ‘I just wanted to thank you before leaving.’ It floored me.”
The Des Moines Register, which reported her time, said Palin had registered under her maiden name, Sarah Heath.
This afternoon, Palin tweeted “Thank you, Storm Lake, Iowa. You put on a great event & we loved meeting some great folks in your beautiful town today!”
On Monday afternoon, Palin is scheduled to address a tea party rally in Manchester, N.H.
Whether she will make any kind of news about that other race is anyone’s guess.
http://articles.latimes.com/2011/sep...athon-20110904
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You go girl...  
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09-05-2011, 14:00
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We need to see a foot race between Sarah and Michelle! I wonder how that would work out. 
Pretty cool she did that though, and did not make a media event of it.
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09-05-2011, 14:24
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I think she has nice legs.
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09-05-2011, 14:25
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Given that she started back with the walkers,, she averaged just at 8.1 min per mile,, not bad for someone who eats what she kills...
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09-05-2011, 16:39
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Given that she started back with the walkers,, she averaged just at 8.1 min per mile,, not bad for someone who eats what she kills... |
But'ya gotta remember, that she has to be able to OUTRUN some of what she hunts!!!
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09-05-2011, 17:53
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But'ya gotta remember, that she has to be able to OUTRUN some of what she hunts!!! |
It's understandable that libs fear Palin.
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09-06-2011, 09:32
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Sarah
She is running to be Perry's VP
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09-06-2011, 18:23
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, and did not make a media event of it.
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That's what I had thought. The current president could take a lesson or two from her in that regard.
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09-06-2011, 20:27
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If you combine the total square mileage of TX and AK, they're almost running half the country already.
Not really, but you get the idea.
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09-07-2011, 07:13
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Given that she started back with the walkers,, she averaged just at 8.1 min per mile,, not bad for someone who eats what she kills... |
Wild game is way more healthier then food that is raised on a Farm. . Think about it. It takes skill and intelligence to kill a Deer or catch a Trout. So the people who can capture and kill these things. Live longer and breed more. Any idiot can kill and eat a cow. Thats evolution. Of course miss Palin believes that some guy named Jesus rode around on Dinosaurs
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09-07-2011, 08:08
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I can't help but play the devil's advocate here ... If she ran this race "incognito," why are there no less than 30 news articles (nationwide) extolling her participation? Not to mention the fact that she shook hands (ok, after being I.D.'d), and tweeted about it afterwards. And I'm sure many of Iowa's Palin fans know her maiden name. 
I think we've just been PSYOP'd.
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09-07-2011, 08:17
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I think we've just been PSYOP'd.
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MISO'd maybe...
(It only takes 1 reporter to put something on the wire that is grabbed by all other agencies who give at least 2ms of credit to the source. Very few journalistic carnivores; scavengers mostly.)
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09-07-2011, 08:24
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After the fact
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Originally Posted by WholeManin2010
I can't help but play the devil's advocate here ... If she ran this race "incognito," why are there no less than 30 news articles (nationwide) extolling her participation? Not to mention the fact that she shook hands (ok, after being I.D.'d), and tweeted about it afterwards. And I'm sure many of Iowa's Palin fans know her maiden name.
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It appears most of the coverage was after the fact.
She didn't make it well known that she was going to to it. No media crush for the event.
Afterwords? "Yeah, I did it" followed by the media stories.
So I would say she did run it "incognito".
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09-07-2011, 09:00
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Originally Posted by Pete
It appears most of the coverage was after the fact.
She didn't make it well known that she was going to to it. No media crush for the event.
Afterwords? "Yeah, I did it" followed by the media stories.
So I would say she did run it "incognito".
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I totally agree that she didn't blatantly turn the race into a media event (in advance). But as smart and media/public image-savvy as she is, I find it very hard to believe that she did not fully expect to be recognized, and lauded for her "humility." Especially amidst all of the speculation about her in 2012.
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