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Palin's anticipated speech to make Moosemeat out of Dems?
By April MacIntyre Sep 3, 2008, 18:09 GMT
Alaska Governor Sarah Palin greets supporters after being named as the running mate for United States Senator and Republican presidential presumptive nominee John McCain (Republican-Arizona) during a rally at the Nutter Center during a campaign stop at Wright State University in Fairborn, Ohio, USA, 29 August, 2008. EPA/MARK LYONS
Sarah Palin's nod for the vice presidency has stirred up all sides of the political arena, and her upcoming speech tonight will be scrutinized like no other.
Palin's odd C.V. and extracurricular sports and hunting activities have sparked lots of commentary and provided some great sound bites from some of the top female journalists out there.
New York Times columnist Maureen Dowd notes Palin's ascendency is like watching a strange chick flick in real time: "It’s easy to see where this movie is going. It begins, of course, with a cute, cool unknown from Alaska who has never even been on 'Meet the Press' triumphing over a cute, cool unknowable from Hawaii who has been on 'Meet the Press' a lot.
"Americans, suspicious that the Obamas have benefited from affirmative action without being properly grateful, and skeptical that Michelle really likes 'The Brady Bunch' and 'The Dick Van Dyke Show,' reject the 47-year-old black contender as too uppity and untested."
Sarah Palin on Wednesday will own the spotlight with a prime-time speech that will introduce her to American voters and try to present her as the perfect sidecar companion to Senator John McCain.
Peggy Noonan of the Wall Street Journal had her take on the "clear and present danger" that a Palin vice presidency would have on the American left.
Noonan writes, "Because she jumbles up so many cultural categories, because she is a feminist not in the Yale Gender Studies sense but the How Do I Reload This Thang way, because she is a woman who in style, history, moxie and femininity is exactly like a normal American feminist and not an Abstract Theory feminist; because she wears makeup and heels and eats mooseburgers and is Alaska Tough, as Time magazine put it; because she is conservative, and pro-2nd Amendment and pro-life; and because conservatives can smell this sort of thing -- who is really one of them and who is not -- and will fight to the death for one of their beleaguered own; because of all of this she is a real and present danger to the American left, and to the Obama candidacy.
She could become a transformative political presence...So they are going to have to kill her, and kill her quick."
Since John McCain selected Palin for vice president, the Alaska governor has had her proverbial kimono ripped open unceremoniously, allowing all to pipe in and comment on her family life, especially regarding her teen daughter's pregnancy and her rigid juxtaposing values that would continue to keep sex education and abortion rights unavailable to those in need. Evangelical Palin is stalwart in her pro-life views, support of abstinence education and opposition to abortion.
"Good Morning America's" Diane Sawyer is also at the RNC saying, “It’s the Olympics of speech making.” As for the Republican vice presidential candidate, Gov. Sarah Palin, she declared, “I think we’re playing catch up a lot of the time on who she is because everyone was taken by surprise [that McCain chose her].”
Sawyer told TV entertainment news show “Extra” that she’s exhausted from covering both National conventions. She said, “I'm probably going to fall on my face in the mashed potatoes the day it's [election] over. But until then, I love politics."
When asked if the star celebrity power at the DNC and the lower profile of it at the RNC would impact the election, Sawyer responded, “I think each campaign has its own central identity. It’s very much about the viewer and what the viewer is interested in. And that is to say what the voter is interested in.”
Palin's anti-abortion and pro-gun record already won over the conservatives of the GOP, but tonight will establish (or not) her relationship to the American voters who seem to be neatly split again between the Dems and the GOP in the polls.
Palin reportedly has been preparing for her address with McCain aides including speechwriter Matt Scully, according to AP sources..
With regards to her personal family drama, is unclear what she will directly address tonight
Palin will be joined tonight by New York Mayor Rudy Giuliani, who had a failed bid for the Republican president nomination. He told CBS and other news sources that Palin was ready for the vice presidency.
"I would say Barack Obama has never governed a city, never governed a state, never governed an agency, never run a military unit, never run anything," Giuliani said on CBS's "Early Show."
Last night Fred Thompson, another failed contender for the GOP nod, spoke of Palin.
"The selection of Governor Palin has the other side and their friends in the media in a state of panic. She is a courageous, successful reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment," he said.
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... a boy-king candidate who lets his half-brother live in a foreign slum, who, were he not Black, would be out of this race a year ago, and an old, tired, obstructionist, plagerizing 36 year veteran of the senate who has never accomplished a single thing, as opposed to a woman who got 18 million votes and was shuffled off like an old librarian.
Were Obama a Ms. Palin, that half brother would be pulled into her family, bacause as you can plainly see, she does not give up on her flock, a glaringly good sign for anyone she serves.
Palins coming out. Bend over, and hope for the best.
The left is in a state of panic? Haha. You narcissists... listen, Palin's speech tonight is being written FOR HER, so don't expect any ground-breaking or earth-shattering testimonials. If you want to know who Palin is and what she's about, get off your lazy butt and start with Google. Her decisions and policies are clear as day.
'She is a courageous, successful reformer, who is not afraid to take on the establishment'
Yes! She is going to bring the troops home! The war is over!
If she is a good memorizer, she'll do a good job with the speech that was written originally for a male candidate - now with some reivsions. As SP has said many times, just because you can get up and give a good speech doesn't mean anything.
I take offense with the comment on Obama not taking care of his half brother. Sometimes it is good to educate yourself before opening your mouth or in this case writing. The boy said he was born after his father died. How do we know that he is a real brother? He has never been in any of the pictures that Obama has taken with the rest of the family including his step grand mother.
And instead of trying to be holier than thou, I think people should look at the circumstnaces that these two were given by the father and tell me why Obama has to take care of that brother more than the rest of the other siblings who are closer to him. Actually, if he tries to start, he will have a whole village to take care of because our African men have multiple wives. Here in the States, people don't even take care of their own children after 18. So get real and give the man abreak and talk about issues.
said he is voting for McCain just because he doesn't like either candidate or party for that matter right now, so it's better to have a democratic led congress and a republican in the white house.
That way neither party can really put through any lame legislation.
I tend to agree with him.
Then in 2012 Sarah Palin and Hillary Clinton can run against each other!!!!
That I would like to see. Those two would be talking issues, for sure. Finally.
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Larry LinnSep 3rd, 2008 - 19:29:05
I don't know what all the fuss is about regarding McCain's and Palin's credentials. They are first rate.
McCain being the son of an Admiral and the Grandson of an Admiral went to the Naval Academy. Due to the fact that his father and grandfather were both active Admirals I'm sure he was under extreme pressure to do well and that's the reason he finished 894th out of a class of 899.
He only wrecked 4 airplanes while in Navy Flight School. Isn't that about average?
And Palin. C'mon people, she's definitely ready to be president. I don't know how she managed it but she was able to get into the University of Idaho Journalism School. It's a known fact you can't get into the Univ of Idaho unless your dad is a Congressman or donates enough money to build a new dormitory.
I can tell you one thing for sure it's a heck of a lot harder for a White Girl with Connections to get into the University of Idaho than it would be for some Poor Black Kid to get into Columbia and Harvard Law School. That's a no brainer....
And then she was the mayor of Wasilla, Alaska. How could that not prepare you to be Vice President and one heart beat away from President? Why Wasilla is bigger than most high schools in this country! So what if she ran a budget deficit every year she was mayor. Its the American way.......heck, between 1980 and 2008 there have only been 5 years that this country has had a budget surplus....1996 thru 2001. So, no big deal there.
But if you want experience lets talk about her heading the Alaska Oil Conservation Commission. There she headed up the entire department of 22 people. WOW!!!!! I wasn't sure how she managed such a powerful and stressful position so I went to their website and found the 22 people listed and 10 of them had the title of administrative assistant. See, she knows how to spread around authority. That's very presidential.
And can you believe those crazy democrats? Trotting out Obama's Law Degrees from Columbia and Harvard. And bragging how he was the President of the Harvard Law Review, his 10 years teaching constitutional law at the Univ of Chicago Law School, his 8 years in the Illinois State Senate and his 4 years and a United States Senator. Bah! Just because this nation was built on a constitution of laws doesn't mean squat.
And Biden. C'mon! His resume is a joke. A degree in Political Science from the University of Delaware, a Doctorate of Law from Syracuse University, 36 years as a United States Senator of which 12 years were as Chairman of the United States House Judiciary Committee. He then took over as Chairman of the United States Foreign Affairs Committee for the past 11 years.
Isn't it obvious that OBAMA AND BIDEN no credentials to be president or vice-president. You'd have to be an idiot to think otherwise........
I mean the only thing worse would be if they had a pregnant un-wed underage teenage little girl or a spouse that belonged to a party that wants Alaska to succeed from the United States. If that were the case you would have to be a complete idiot to vote for them.
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