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    Posted: 04 September 2008 at 5:13pm
I thought it was pretty cool that there is a Republican out there that can say to that the "HOLY LIKENESS OF BARACK HUSSAIN OBAMA! ", that he sucks and his views suck on certain issues.

But hey. Whatever I think McCain did a good pick.


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I was disappointed.

She clearly pulled off showing herself as not out of place (compare Perot's Admiral, for instance), but I did not get the superstar feel that I was promised.  Maybe my expectations were too high.
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Sometimes being a republican is so hard when you have to share the party with people like the OP.
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I honestly have no idea what that first line of your post meant.

Anyway, I actually disagree with Rambino. I thought it was a good speech. I still think she was a gimmicky choice, but it was a good speech.
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Anyone else have some feelings to share about it?
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I thought the speech was a good introductory speech. But not the republican party needs to show where they stand and why we need to vote FOR them and not AGAINST the opposition.
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i thought her speech was amazing. im pulling for McCain and her.



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Originally posted by agentwhale007 agentwhale007 wrote:

I honestly have no idea what that
first line of your post meant.

Anyway, I actually disagree with Rambino. I thought it
was a good speech. I still think she was a gimmicky
choice, but it was a good speech.


Agreed.
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BTW - for those of you that missed the Daily Show's take on the subject:  http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=184086 &title=sarah-palin-gender-card

 
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Excellant choice for VP, great introductory speech. Closes the gap that independants have to jump in thier decesion. Picking a DC outsider, female, working mother, negates several potential DEM attack points.
My question is where is the Liberal Femanist Movement stance on the personal/expierience/sexism attacks on Palin, if the role was reversed the NOW crowd would be having fits.
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

...sexism attacks on Palin...

Have there been many of those?

The closest I can recall off the top of my head is some folks (mostly conservative women) noting that with an infant at home she ought not be interviewing for a job that will basically take her away from her family for the next several years.

Other than that, not so much.  Unless I am missing something, of course.
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Originally posted by oldsoldier oldsoldier wrote:

Closes the gap that independants have to jump in thier decesion.


Going to have to disagree with that.

Palin is far to the right. Further than McCain.

While I know that "independents" is such a wide sweeping term, most of them use that as a codeword for centrist, and Palin is anthing but a centrist.
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I liked her speech. She needs to work on her pauses to be a more effective speaker, but her telepromter didn't work like it was supposed to. It kept going when it should have paused for applause, so she had to wing a lot of it. That was fairly impressive to me.

She seemed pretty personable and I thought she had some funny jokes.

I didn't catch most of the other coverage last night, but I thought Gulianni had a very good point when it came to the people asking if Palin could be VP and have enough time for her children. He said that nobody has ever asked that question of the male candidates.

I wanted to hear more about policy, but I understand that it was just an acceptance speech.

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Originally posted by Monk Monk wrote:

I thought the speech was a good introductory speech. But not the republican party needs to show where they stand and why we need to vote FOR them and not AGAINST the opposition.


That just blew my mind.
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Originally posted by Rambino Rambino wrote:

BTW - for those of you that missed
the Daily Show's take on the subject: 
videoId=184086&title=sarah-palin-gender-card">
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videoId=184086 &title=sarah-palin-gender-card


 



that is freaking awesome...
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ok so i watched it now, i'm with rambino, it was all right, but i wasnt overly impressed.

i realize its the republican convention and all, but it was just too much rhetoric and not enough substance, probably would have been a good 10 minute speech.
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Does anyone else occasionally mentally impose The Joker coming out during these speeches and asking "Why so serious?".

I know I do.
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i missed it...
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I will rephrase, the picking of Palin will make the gap between the two candidates a smaller leap for the "undecided", who will only make a decesion based on whatever perception they get in the next 8 weeks.
Already the initial "attack" on Palin by the media has backfired and the Obama camp is ordering a "backoff" the personal, and go for issues. Props to the Obama camp for trying, but the media is determined to "pick" the next President.
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