The Republicans are going to trot out Sarah Palin, someone they would like to pretend is “authentic” and “real” and who has a real “record of reform,” but who is actually just another right-wing ideologue following a long line of pre-made hacks. And what will this “authentic” and mavericky “reformer” have to say?
Whatever they tell her to say:
There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too “masculine.” While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: that the campaign was writing the nominee’s speech before knowing who the nominee would be.
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So when you watch Sarah Palin tonight, expect to learn something about how well she handles a Teleprompter. Expect to learn something about the McCain campaign’s assessment of its political standing with women, or working families, or social conservatives. Whether you’re learning what Sarah Palin really thinks or feels is anybody’s guess.
How authentic. Fred Thompson won’t be the only phony just reading lines at the Republican convention in 2008. A preview of the zingers they wrote for her to recite. Should be quite the performance, and we will see she is a “fighter.” How authentic.
Wednesday, September 3, 2008
Was this the feminine or the masculine speech?
She read a great "red meat" speech for the Republican base. But it was sarcastic, condescending, angry and downright nasty at times. And there is a reason why ...
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Palin is NOT the first candidate to have someone write her speech. Surprise. Obama may write a pretty speech and a couple of pretty memoirs for a young guy that hasn't really done much yet, but take away the fluff and the preachy rhetoric inspiration from Calypso Louis and Jeremiah Wright and you have a guy that wants to spend my money on abortions for the poor, increase my taxes to pay for abortions for the poor, take known terrorists and tyrannical leaders to lunch to 'chat', make my family vehicle 'illegal', send more jobs overseas, keep our dependency on foreign sources of oil, and pander to the old corrupt democrat guard that isn't 'new' and isn't about 'change' and really is pretty much 'business as usual' in Washington. That kind of 'change' I can do without.
So Palin 'zinged' Obama about his lack of experience (shock: they are 'zinging her') and compared his 'community organization skills' to her jobs as Mayor and Governor. hmm.....
Teleprompter??? Interesting the media showed that when you KNOW Obama and everyone else ALWAYS uses a teleprompter. It is interesting what is used as a 'jab' at Palin and how 'shocking' it really is.
Too bad Obama couldn't have picked Hilary. Darn McCain for going and picking a woman who isn't angry or hostile, but does 'stand by her man'.
Comments from 'American Thinker' on Obama:
"His stammering and copious "uhs" weren't signs of a befuddled and muddled mind, but of "thoughtfulness" and "nuanced" thinking.
Yeah, sure, and when President Bush occasionally invents a new word, we can chalk it up to creativity.
The truth is that, sans teleprompter and prepared speech and contrary to myth, Obama is at best a mediocre speaker. (If you say that we're electing a president and not a professional orator, fair enough. But given that Bush's wanting speaking skills have made him the butt of jokes and have been used to paint him as an idiot, I think it bears mention.) Yet neither this nor "thoughtfulness" explains his fumbling tongue. After all, politicians are people who are supposed to live and breathe issues and policy, so there should be few things they haven't been asked about or at least pondered before. Thus, they should have oft-rendered, memorized, standard responses at the ready. "
Seems to me that without a teleprompter he can't speak.
The point of this post was not to criticize the speech delivery. Most politicians use telepromters for important speeches. The point was that this speech was written before Sarah Palin was even picked. In this speech we learned little about Sarah Palin other than biography and that she could deliver the lines well. It was a nasty, mean-spirited speech written by a former Bush speech writer. That was the point.
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