Sarah Palin's plane: Air Moose One?
On Friday morning in St. Louis, Sarah Palin's father, Chuck Heath, showed up at Lambert Field toting moose antlers -- not the usual sort of carry-on you see on a campaign plane.
It was unclear where the headgear formerly belonging to a moose was stowed on the day's first flight, to Dallas, where Palin attended a fundraiser. But later, as the plane began its descent into San Antonio for her second stop of the day, the mystery was solved, thanks to the federal regulations that require the curtains separating the cabins be open at takeoff and landing.
The door to the pilots' cabin was open, as well, allowing an observer in the press cabin to note that the antlers had been placed -- macho style -- on the plane's dashboard of the plane.
Well before landing, the captain removed the antlers and gently placed them on the floor between him and his first officer.
A few hours later, the antlers were back on the dashboard, leading the way to Denver.
Turns out that Heath had schlepped them from Wasilla, Alaska, for his daughter to sign. They belong to a family friend, who wanted the autograph as a memento of her meteoric rise. They will not be a permanent fixture on Palin's plane.
And for non-hunters out there, the moose whose head the antlers once adorned lost them the old fashioned way: they were shed.
-- Robin Abcarian
Andrew Malcolm's immigrant parents repeatedly stressed the importance of active participation in a democracy. Early lessons included learning the alphabetical list of states by watching televised roll calls of national political conventions. That childhood exposure led to a lifelong fascination with politics, including 40-plus years of covering them and a brief stint practicing them as press secretary to Laura Bush in 1999-2000. A veteran foreign and national correspondent, Malcolm served on the Times Editorial Board and was a Pulitzer finalist in 2004. He is the author of 10 nonfiction books and father of four.
Johanna Neuman is a veteran Washington correspondent for both The Los Angeles Times and USA Today, having covered presidents and politics as far back as Ronald Reagan. A former president of the White House Correspondents Assn., she authored a book on media and foreign policy, “Lights, Camera, Wars.” Most recently she was co-author of the 
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Sarah is tough than Al Queda!
Smarter than Putin!!!
We need Sarah in Washington,
she stands for everything that made
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like the liberals!
Posted by: steve rodriguez | October 04, 2008 at 10:51 AM