Palin book goes platinum
by Hillel Italie / The Associated Press
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NEW YORK - "Going Rogue" has gone platinum.

HarperCollins spokeswoman Tina Andreadis said Tuesday that just two weeks after publication, Sarah Palin's memoir has sold 1 million copies. The print run for "Going Rogue" has been increased again, to 2.8 million copies. The original printing was 1.5 million, then moved up to 2.5 million.

"Going Rogue" joins a select club of million-selling political memoirs that includes Barack Obama's "The Audacity of Hope," Hillary Rodham Clinton's "Living History" and Bill Clinton's "My Life."

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ladyblue-phoenix
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December 01, 2009
Maybe the reason she had to quit the governorship is because she needed to make money to pay off so many frivolous lawsuits. It amazes me how quickly Alaska turned on her during the election. I don't know but maybe she's building up her momentum with Alaska on her mind and in her heart. She was thrown to the wolves during the campaign and I never heard of so many lawsuits on anyone. There were over 4,000 that showed up at Ft. Bragg NC to see her. We like her down to earth attitude. Maybe if someone helped raise money for her lawsuits she wouldn't have to leave alaska. I think she thought all the attention of them took away her time to govern.
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buboy
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December 01, 2009
For the men who don't like Palin perhaps an extra donut and for the woman an extra ice cream bon bon.
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Oh_please
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December 01, 2009
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Oh_please
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December 01, 2009
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PipeFighter
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December 01, 2009
2012 BABY!!!

"YOU BETCH-YA, WINK"

I bought mine from gullivers just to T-them off...
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TheBigDipper
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December 01, 2009
Palin resigning as governor is starting to make more sense to me. While I have no plan to buy the book, I have to admit that I am astonished and impressed with her book sales and the sizes of the crowds gathered. The country is tilting right quicker than I had anticipated, and Palin is a real demonstration of that. If I were a progressive, or a liberal, or a "communitarian" (a word used by Howard Dean in suport of American socialism), or whatever code word is to be used by the left, I'd be frightened by the backlash, and thinking twice about insulting my conservative neighbors as the Obama-Pelosi-Reid ship goes down in a fury of unpopularity.

-Les

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candicejh
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December 01, 2009
Yes! Go Sarah! There are STILL some people in Fairbanks that support you. Contrary to popular belief.

(And why hasn't the newsminer gone back to their old format? Now I remember why I never come on this site again.)
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triproad
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December 01, 2009
The Audacity of Hope? I hope Boybama is not incompetent. It only took him 100 days to make a decision about a simple request from his top general in Afghanistan. Which strategy will he adopt? Bush's Iraq strategy or maybe Johnson's Vietnam strategy. He tried FDR's failed economic stimulus strategy so I doubt he will use his WWII tactics.

When he is in Copenhagen, giving away what few economic freedoms we have left, maybe he can ask Al Gore and the UN "scientists" why they felt the need to fabricate such a BS story in the first place. Turns out "Sarah", me, and Rush were right about that.

Boy, the next election is going to be fun.
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Invictus
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December 01, 2009
It's unfortunate that neither Palin, Obama, H.Clinton, & W.Clinton has ever published anything that wasn't about themselves. Palin can be excused as a non-academic, but the other three are legal expertws and one is supposedly, a "constitutional" lecturer. You'd think he would have published something of substance... at least a compendium of his legal briefs or lectures. Why is this not so?
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Pinhead
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December 01, 2009
personally, I have absolutely no desire to read ANY of these books...
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mileder
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December 01, 2009
Well, sure. The 'liberal' media has been pushing this book so hard there's no way it couldn't sell big.

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LostAlaskan99712
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December 01, 2009
"Sarah" is apparently much better at having others write books for her and posing for magazines than she ever was at being a politician. I wonder why...
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