Sarah Palin Doodles

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• Date: Nov 18,2008

On a recent reporting trip to Alaska, TNR senior editor Noam Scheiber came across a piece of paper from an old Wasilla city budget, on the back of which Palin doodled and brainstormed her potential mayoral campaign themes (”time for a change,” “you would be my boss!”) and qualifications (”life-long alaskan,” “NRA supporter,” “taxpayer!”). Read the fine print on this 1996 document; it’s a fascinating glimpse into how she thought she could best present herself to the Wasilla electorate.
All joking aside, the scrawled document pictured at left actually is the Barracuda’s own work and it’s become the hottest piece of Palin paraphernalia on the ‘net. (See bottom for a closer look)

Scheiber was reporting from Alaska when a former Wasilla city council member, Laura Chase, gave him a piece of paper covered in the early musings of Sarah Palin as she first considered running for public office. Chase later became her mayoral campaign manager, and said this was the first document Palin gave her in helping to explain her campaign ideas. On the New Republic, Scheiber reposts Chase’s explanation via email:
That [the doodles] was the first document she [Palin] gave me when she first came over and talked to me about managing her campaign. She wanted me to turn it into a poster. It was like, “Uh-uh. This is like a circus ad.” There was so much in it. What I did was sit down with her and I pulled out different components. And we–I told her we needed to brainstorm the total campaign. We needed a slogan, we needed to devise the look, the image. We needed all of that information. We sat down and started talking from that point. That’s where we came up with “energetic, positive, determined.”

Sarah Palin’s doodles, which were scribbled in 1996 when she was running for mayor of Wasilla, and President-elect Barack Obama’s doodles, which were purchased on an Ebay auction in May, 2007, for $2075, have been analyzed by a graphologist.

And what did the handwriting expert have to say?

According to graphologist Sheila Kurtz, the Obama doodle shows he is “economical, clear and to the point,” while Palin’s doodle indicates she is “smart, but scattered and all over the place.”

The Palin doodles, a mish mash of campaign slogans written on the back of a budget document, were discovered in a box of odds and ends saved by former colleague and campaign manager Laura Chase.

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