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Gov. Sarah Palin About To Speak

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As so easy to predict, media stumbling over itself today gushing praise, at least for the most part.

She was good but as that bald annoying texan democratic pundit dude on the news says, it was one of the easiest nights she has coming up. It was all pre-planned to an open audience and all she had to do was read.
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
What I learned tonight...

Apparently, being a community organizer (you know, actually working to help your fellow citizens) is a bad thing. I hard a lot of snarky remarks about this and, in the end, was left just scratching my head wondering how stupid these people are for attacking public service.
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Do you think the mayor of a small town does anything to help their fellow citizens???

That was her point. When Obama was running around trying to help people she was in elected office actually doing things to help people.
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Like trying to ban books from a Library.
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Whatever you got to do to get elected, if this helps get more leftist vote she must know what she's doing.
 
Originally posted by: lupi
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: ProfJohn
Originally posted by: BMW540I6speed
What I learned tonight...

Apparently, being a community organizer (you know, actually working to help your fellow citizens) is a bad thing. I hard a lot of snarky remarks about this and, in the end, was left just scratching my head wondering how stupid these people are for attacking public service.
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Do you think the mayor of a small town does anything to help their fellow citizens???

That was her point. When Obama was running around trying to help people she was in elected office actually doing things to help people.
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Like trying to ban books from a Library.
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Whatever you got to do to get elected, if this helps get more leftist vote she must know what she's doing.
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I didn't know you were a leftist I just thought you were an Authoritarian Stooge.

 
I watched about as much of that coma fest as I could handle. It was like they were at a wake, or something similar. Either that or some sort of sleeping gas was pumped through the building. I've seen more enthusiasm at an Air Supply concert. Good luck gop, nah, no good luck, roll in your own fecal matter, you reap what you sow.

And honestly, compared to the DNC, it looked like an audience for a high school musical.
 
Originally posted by: bobcpg
Originally posted by: UberNeuman
Originally posted by: Don Vito Corleone
Originally posted by: hellokeith

It will probably be a close race, but I think Palin just put McCain over the top.
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Want to lay $50 on that? I'll put my money where my mouth is. I don't believe McCain can or will win this election.
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I'll lay another $50 on that. are you up for the game, hellokeith?

\still think it'll be a battle 'till the bitter end...
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Well you can tell you guys are Liberal, you are willing to give your money away.
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So instead be a conservative and make the USD more worthless then the paper it's printed on.

I'd rather have $50,000 worth of money I can exchange with another country and not get laughed at then to have $60,000 that Mexicans won't even want if McStain gets in.
 
No one's asked the most seroius question...


WTF is a snow machine and how do you race them ?




I thought they sprayed snow on the side of ski mountains


 
I think she electrified the people at the convention, but may have come across as a dull thud on tv to anyone who wasn't already a believer.

Just look at the first few pages of this thread, when the speech was being given.

Not to many posts, and no one saying "This lady is amazing", "This is a game changer", "Now I know why John McCain picked her", etc...


 
My take on the convention content so far:
DNC- 50% content on policy, 25% fluff, 25% attack dog
RNC- 25% content on policy, 25% fluff, 50% attack dog

Attack dog will wear thin with the undecided.
 
Originally posted by: NFS4
Originally posted by: SSSnail
She made a good point, Obama is too much into himself.
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Obama isn't too much into himself -- people are just too much into him. People are holding him up as some Messiah and he's not.
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That explains the stage............

 
All the problems Palin and the GOP addressed are, and dare we not forget, problems THEY created.
Want a list???
High gas prices: NO ENERGY POLICY LAST 4 YEARS
Poor government: BUSH APPOINTED CRONIES
Troops in harms way: THE GW BUSH WAR
Poor economy: TAX CUTS FOR THE TOP 1%
(and the list goes on and on)

THAT?S why I call the 2008 GOP the delusional party :thumbsup:
 
PS...
And I love how they chant - DRILL - DRILL - DRILL

What are they going to say when the oil runs out

How bout the chant - OH SH*T - OH SH*T - OH SH*T :roll:
 
Palin gave a speech that was appropriate to the audience and specific to the media circus of the past week.

She demonstrated an ability to brush off media scrutiny and partisan hatchet jobs. She perhaps soothed concerns within the Republican base on McCain's decision to choose her as his running mate.

Does she have the eloquent delivery of Obama...no...but was she articulate, confident and solid in her delivery...absolutely.

I want to see how she stands up against Biden...I don't think you can find a greater contrast in terms of background, perspective and presentation style.
 
Originally posted by: skyking
My take on the convention content so far:
DNC- 50% content on policy, 25% fluff, 25% attack dog
RNC- 25% content on policy, 25% fluff, 50% attack dog

Attack dog will wear thin with the undecided.
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for what it's worth, apparantly McCain's speech tonight will be largely dedicated to content on policy.

I don't think you can discount the VP for being an attack dog when that's like what a VP's entire job is in the primaries. Biden's speech certainly wasn't only 25% attacking.
 
She had a chance to introduce herself and really make an impression on 20 million plus viewers. Thud...

(9/10 Republicans had already fallen in line behind McCain before he announced Palin as VP, so preaching to the choir isn't going to change voter demographics much). I would think he could pick up Democrats in those areas where Hillary had 2 to 1 margins of victory over Obama in the primaries, but gotta think polls before the conventions already reflected that.

I suspect Obama is going to get more than just a transient bounce from his speech because he made a lot of people comfortable with him and his background (Hillary supporters on the fence, true independents and disillusioned Republicans who were, up to this point, equivocal, about him).

 
Wow.

If that is all the GOP is stepping to the plate with this November, sucks for them. Still having a hard time with the hypocrisy it seems...

Not sure what's funnier though - the sudden group acting like this speech somehow changes things for the better for McSame, or that "experience" has become an argument with a toggle switch for them.

"Obama doesn't have the experience for the job!"

Really? The experience that Palin here has? Or maybe it's a GWB kind of experience? No? Harriet Miers then, that kind of experience?

Palin is the tool of a tool, and not a particularly sharp one at that. Clap yourselves on the backs all you want, it doesn't change anything. 🙂
 
Originally posted by: mshan
She had a chance to introduce herself and really make an impression on 20 million plus viewers. Thud...

I suspect Obama is going to get more than just a transient bounce from his speech because he made a lot of people comfortable with him and his background (Hillary supporters on the fence, true independents and disillusioned Republicans who were, up to this point, equivocal, about him).
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In all fairness, the reception to her speech seems to be overwhelmingly positive. I am of the opinion that that alone doesn't necessarily help a lot, in that I don't see that the speech will convince anyone that she really has the gravitas to be President if necessary, but I thought it was well delivered.

In terms of Obama's bounce, it's been interesting - the polls yesterday reflected an increase in his advantage since the RNC began. That did not factor in the impact of Palin's speech, though. I think McCain's speech tonight will be important. He is very hit-or-miss - he can be a very effective speaker, but also often falls flat (that bizarre "change" speech he gave a couple of months ago was a good example of the latter). Obviously he'll have a friendly audience tonight, and the entire stage and venue were designed with him in mind (the lower stage is a concession to McCain's preference to speak in intimate settings). We shall see . . .
 
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

I said you were an idiot for thinking that she was parading her baby around trying to gain sympathy.
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I guess my wife and I are idiots. We both thought that having a baby out at that time of night was purely stupid idea and being done for selfish reasons. We also noticed that the only person in the entire family that even paid any attention to the baby was the youngest daughter. The dad barely even looked at the kid when he was holding him.

The baby should have been back at a hotel with a nanny so that he could rest. Not in an arena with thousands of people screaming and chanting around it.
 
Originally posted by: RightIsWrong
Originally posted by: Whoozyerdaddy

I said you were an idiot for thinking that she was parading her baby around trying to gain sympathy.
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I guess my wife and I are idiots. We both thought that having a baby out at that time of night was purely stupid idea and being done for selfish reasons. We also noticed that the only person in the entire family that even paid any attention to the baby was the youngest daughter. The dad barely even looked at the kid when he was holding him.

The baby should have been back at a hotel with a nanny so that he could rest. Not in an arena with thousands of people screaming and chanting around it.
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it's politics. /shrug

if the baby *wasn't* on stage, we'd all be talking about how Palin was trying to hide it.
 
Originally posted by: mshan
http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi...arah-palin-gender-card

Brutal, absolutely brutally funny!
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Except he misses the entire point. People are not crying sexist because the media is tough. They are crying sexist because some of the questions would never be asked of a man. How many questioned biden leaving his small children daily to go on the train to the senate? It is bullshit questions about her not being able to be VP because she has kids.

I would not expect anything less of the liberal media.
 
Did you even watch the clip?

He's poking more fun at the hypocrisy of Rove, O'Reilly, Morris, et. al. using video clips of their own previous commentary, and only delivers a faint glancing blow to Palin at the very end of the whole clip.

 
Originally posted by: quest55720
Originally posted by: mshan
http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi...arah-palin-gender-card

Brutal, absolutely brutally funny!
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Except he misses the entire point. People are not crying sexist because the media is tough. They are crying sexist because some of the questions would never be asked of a man. How many questioned biden leaving his small children daily to go on the train to the senate? It is bullshit questions about her not being able to be VP because she has kids.

I would not expect anything less of the liberal media.
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Morris, O'Rielly, Turd Blossom and that Ann Coulter look a like are Liberal media?

 
Originally posted by: quest55720
Originally posted by: mshan
http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi...arah-palin-gender-card

Brutal, absolutely brutally funny!
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Except he misses the entire point. People are not crying sexist because the media is tough. They are crying sexist because some of the questions would never be asked of a man. How many questioned biden leaving his small children daily to go on the train to the senate? It is bullshit questions about her not being able to be VP because she has kids.

I would not expect anything less of the liberal media.
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What average man do you know of that is absolutely essential to the well-being of four month old? What average man do you know of that can give advice to his pregnant daughter?

The law may be gender-blind, but there are certain roles that each sex performs much better than the other. Fuck, if I had tits, I wouldn't need my wife (if we had a child).
 
Originally posted by: Red Dawn
Originally posted by: quest55720
Originally posted by: mshan
http://www.thedailyshow.com/vi...arah-palin-gender-card

Brutal, absolutely brutally funny!
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Except he misses the entire point. People are not crying sexist because the media is tough. They are crying sexist because some of the questions would never be asked of a man. How many questioned biden leaving his small children daily to go on the train to the senate? It is bullshit questions about her not being able to be VP because she has kids.

I would not expect anything less of the liberal media.
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Morris, O'Rielly, Turd Blossom and that Ann Coulter look a like are Liberal media?
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Can you take anyone that scapegoats "the liberal media" seriously?
Or anyone who gets their panties in a bunch over a Daily Show clip?
 
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