<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/02f68af8-6c73-4d1c-819d-98ec92ce321f/4707CA87-B0FA-4F72-AE06-2E0F22032402/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html" href="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html" style="font-size: 11px;">andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html"><P>By now, the pattern is familiar. Palin responds to a question she fears reveals something she wants to conceal <A href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/26/trade_missions/index.html">and lies</A>:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html"><P> COURIC: Have you ever been involved with any negotiations, for example, with the Russians? </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html"><P>PALIN: We have trade missions back and forth. We -- we do -- it's very important when you consider even national security issues with Russia as Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where -- where do they go? It's Alaska. It's just right over the border. 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.</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html"><P>There is <A href="http://www.salon.com/politics/war_room/2008/09/26/trade_missions/index.html">no evidence</A> of her conducting any trade missions with Russia:</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/the_daily_dish/2008/09/the-odd-lies--6.html"><P>I spent some time on the Governor's Web site seeking more details about her trade negotiations with Russia. There's a <A target="_blank" href="http://gov.state.ak.us/archive.php?id=67&type=1">press release</A> about Gov. Palin's meeting with a trade mission from the Yukon, but nothing about Russia anywhere in the archives. </P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/4707CA87-B0FA-4F72-AE06-2E0F22032402/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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