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Did McCain choose Palin to bug long-time friend Biden?
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Frank Cotolo
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"We ignored him at the time because we just wanted to go out and play
football or something but Joey kept bringing it up. He even went so far
one time as to make a sweatshirt that read 'F Alaska,' you know?"
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Colleagues in the U.S. Senate for 22 years, McCain and Biden disagreed about
Alaskan politics anytime the state came up in a bill or a discussion. When
McCain won the Republican nomination he did not, according to sources, even
imagine bringing in Sarah Palin.
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A McCain spokesman said that wasn't true. "Mr. McCain did not choose
Mrs. Palin because of Joe Biden being picked by Obama. We deny that and
anything else that the Obama people say about almost anything."
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Biden's insiders still feel that McCain's choice of Palin is meant to
perturb Biden and it seems to be working. Biden speechwriters were rumored
to have taken the phrase "that icey-blooded Alaskan stiff" out of a recent
Biden speech.
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It was also rumored that Biden is so angered that he has been waking up in
the middle of the night and calling McCain's hotel room, then hanging up
when McCain answers.
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"It shows you what a baby Biden can be when it comes to something he abhors
and what a baby McCain can be by using something his old pal abhors and
shoving it in his face for political gain," said Irving Rapaport, a radio
talk-show host.
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From their workplaces in the Senate, Biden, 65, and McCain, 72, have traveled
overseas together but Biden has always shunned going to Alaska with McCain
because, as Biden was quoted as saying once by a Senate reporter, "That place
is a stain on the planet!"
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McCain-camp spokespeople said, "John McCain cannot remember anything that
Senator Biden ever said about abhorring Alaska. In fact, John McCain cannot
even recall what he had for breakfast today."
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