Washington - Two very persistent Canadian comedians tricked US vice presidential candidate Sarah Palin into thinking she was talking to French President Nicolas Sarkozy on Saturday.

Marc-Antoine Audette and Sebastien Trudel took four days to get Palin on the phone, they told Canadian broadcaster CTV.

"I see you as president one day, too," the Sarkozy impersonator told Palin.

"Maybe in eight years," she responded.

New York, Nov 1: Rumours are rife that the U. S. Republican Party’s vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin has shed a few pounds.

According to a source, Plain’s weight has reduced ever since she started drinking Lean1 shakes, the New York Daily News reported.

It is said to be the same drink that former linebacker Bill Romanowski commented on his Web site as providing “an enhanced rate of fat loss”.

McCain’s campaign spokesmen, however, have not confirmed the story.

Washington, Nov 1: Amid controversies regarding the alleged expenditure of 150,000 dollars on U. S. Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin''s campaign wardrobe, top designers have given her the thumbs up for it.

Designers have said that there was nothing excessive or inappropriate about the GOP funding as it enhances one''s image, and also plays a critical role where success is concerned.

"She is running for vice president, and both the President and vice president of the United States should be iconic. She should be someone we look up to on many levels, and her image is this country''s image," Fox News quoted Stacey Bendet, designer and owner of the world-famous Alice + Olivia, as saying.

West Hollywood neighborhood may be famously liberal, but when Chad Michael Morrisette, a professional window display designer dressed a mannequin to resemble Sarah Palin, the US Republican vice-presidential candidate, complete with trademark glasses and beehive hairstyle and, hung the effigy by the neck from the eaves of his home for Halloween, it proved too much for even the most liberal of its residents, and the subsequent growing frenzy of protestors and media attention forced him to remove it quickly.