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	<description>Move aside, and let the man go through.</description>
	<pubDate>Fri, 09 Jan 2009 13:56:57 +0000</pubDate>
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		<title>By: Caitlin</title>
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		<dc:creator>Caitlin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 19:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I agree, but I think the similarities go way beyond that!

http://acerbicbubblegum.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-dolores-umbridge.html</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I agree, but I think the similarities go way beyond that!</p>
<p><a href="http://acerbicbubblegum.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-dolores-umbridge.html" rel="nofollow">http://acerbicbubblegum.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-dolores-umbridge.html</a></p>
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		<title>By: Mikey G</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mikey G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 14:32:37 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Don't most Republicans act like Umbridge?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Don&#8217;t most Republicans act like Umbridge?</p>
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		<title>By: thudfactor</title>
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		<dc:creator>thudfactor</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 11:48:39 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I think she &lt;b&gt;acts&lt;/b&gt; more like Umbridge than looks.  As far as the unsubstantiated rumors from one disgruntled person are concerned, there are plenty of witnesses:

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Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books, though she never followed through and it was unclear which books or passages were in question.

Ann Kilkenny, a Democrat who said she attended every City Council meeting in Ms. Palin’s first year in office, said Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said.

The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support. Ms. Emmons, who left her job and Wasilla a couple of years later, declined to comment for this article.

In 1996, Ms. Palin suggested to the local paper, The Frontiersman, that the conversations about banning books were “rhetorical.” [ &lt;a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?hp" rel="nofollow"&gt;Palin's Start in Alaska&lt;/a&gt; ]
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And it's certainly in character; it's not like we're accusing her of &lt;a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/26news.html" rel="nofollow"&gt;smuggling cocaine in through a secret airport&lt;/a&gt;.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I think she <b>acts</b> more like Umbridge than looks.  As far as the unsubstantiated rumors from one disgruntled person are concerned, there are plenty of witnesses:</p>
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Shortly after becoming mayor, former city officials and Wasilla residents said, Ms. Palin approached the town librarian about the possibility of banning some books, though she never followed through and it was unclear which books or passages were in question.</p>
<p>Ann Kilkenny, a Democrat who said she attended every City Council meeting in Ms. Palin’s first year in office, said Ms. Palin brought up the idea of banning some books at one meeting. “They were somehow morally or socially objectionable to her,” Ms. Kilkenny said.</p>
<p>The librarian, Mary Ellen Emmons, pledged to “resist all efforts at censorship,” Ms. Kilkenny recalled. Ms. Palin fired Ms. Emmons shortly after taking office but changed course after residents made a strong show of support. Ms. Emmons, who left her job and Wasilla a couple of years later, declined to comment for this article.</p>
<p>In 1996, Ms. Palin suggested to the local paper, The Frontiersman, that the conversations about banning books were “rhetorical.” [ <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/03/us/politics/03wasilla.html?hp" rel="nofollow">Palin's Start in Alaska</a> ]
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<p>And it&#8217;s certainly in character; it&#8217;s not like we&#8217;re accusing her of <a href="http://www.salon.com/news/1998/03/26news.html" rel="nofollow">smuggling cocaine in through a secret airport</a>.</p>
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		<title>By: lasloo</title>
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		<dc:creator>lasloo</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Thu, 04 Sep 2008 05:00:40 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I actually think Palin is pretty hot looking.  Yeah, she looks like a librarian, but less like Umbridge and more like someone in one of those librarian storylines on late night Cinemax movies!  :)

Also, we probably shouldn't be posting unsubstantiated rumors made from an adversary about what sounds like a side comment.   I'm not saying that it isn't true, it may be.  But I don't really think it substantive.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I actually think Palin is pretty hot looking.  Yeah, she looks like a librarian, but less like Umbridge and more like someone in one of those librarian storylines on late night Cinemax movies!  :)</p>
<p>Also, we probably shouldn&#8217;t be posting unsubstantiated rumors made from an adversary about what sounds like a side comment.   I&#8217;m not saying that it isn&#8217;t true, it may be.  But I don&#8217;t really think it substantive.</p>
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		<title>By: Chrissy</title>
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		<dc:creator>Chrissy</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 03 Sep 2008 03:39:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Interestingly, Imelda Staunton was in a movie called Vera Drake.  I haven't seen it.  Wonder if Palin has.  She should.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Interestingly, Imelda Staunton was in a movie called Vera Drake.  I haven&#8217;t seen it.  Wonder if Palin has.  She should.</p>
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		<title>By: Nimrod Gently</title>
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		<dc:creator>Nimrod Gently</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 20:18:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>I would vote for Imelda Staunton.</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>I would vote for Imelda Staunton.</p>
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		<title>By: Mikey G</title>
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		<dc:creator>Mikey G</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 19:04:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>Who's side would I be on if I chose alien abduction?</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Who&#8217;s side would I be on if I chose alien abduction?</p>
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		<title>By: PamelaMartin</title>
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		<dc:creator>PamelaMartin</dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Sep 2008 17:55:44 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description>See?  See?  Eerily similar!  Illegitimate teenage love child or alien abduction- you decide in November America!</description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>See?  See?  Eerily similar!  Illegitimate teenage love child or alien abduction- you decide in November America!</p>
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