Palin Book All 'Fabrications': McCain Aide

Says he's 'proud' of her, but 'it's just time to move on'

(NEWSER) - John McCain is careful to praise Sarah Palin at the same time he stands by the staffers she's going after in her book. “There's been a lot of dust flying around in the last few days,” he tells Reuters , referring to the publication of Palin’s Going Rogue. “I just wanted to mention that I have the highest regard for Steve Schmidt and Nicolle Wallace,” the two staffers who bear the brunt of Palin’s ire. More»

Palin memoir doesn't have one, so...

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin's memoir, Going Rogue, doesn't have an index. So Slate has generously provided one. Some key references:

• Alaska: "robin's egg sky of," page 2.
• Books: cookbooks and the Bible, page 15; Animal Farm, page 27
• Cap and trade: an "environmentalist Ponzi scheme," page 391

Palin suggests Dem's '08 adviser lifted Alaska strategy

(NEWSER) - Sarah Palin believes she might deserve some of the credit for President Obama's victory but not in the way some people in the McCain camp would have it. In Going Rogue, Palin points to her campaign for Alaska governor as having used the "Change" theme and suggests she may have inspired the Obama campaign, the Telegraph reports. More»

Same old Sarah: 'ever optimistic, weirdly ungrammatical'

(NEWSER) - Most reviewers agree Sarah Palin's Going Rogue is intriguing—mostly for the swipes at the McCain campaign and what Palin writes about her life off the political stage. Some takes:

• The book is "a crackling read of grudges recalled, and settled, in her favor, a rewriting of the 2008 campaign that makes Palin the heroine of every encounter," Margaret Carlson writes for Bloomberg . The message appears to be that "if only Sarah could have been Sarah, the course of history might have been different."

Secretary says maybe she could change ex-gov's mind on some issues

(AP) - Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton says she would be happy to talk to Sarah Palin over coffee. In an interview for broadcast today on NBC's Meet the Press, Clinton says she's never met the onetime GOP vice presidential hopeful and former Alaska governor and thinks it would be very interesting to sit down and talk with her. More»