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so did McCain just blow it? (pg. 34)
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
86% of the ppl of Alaska can't be wrong if she's got that high of an approval rating.
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I beg to differ. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
Andrew Sullivan (a conservative) has been live-blogging the speech, and it's pretty telling. Even he's appalled at the blatant pandering to the base.
| quote: | 11.10 pm. Reality television has become our politics.
11.06 pm. Both Huckabee and Palin have used the t-word. Of course, they are not criminally liable, as Bush is.
11.05 pm. Every time the camera pans to McCain's mother, she seems mortified. I don't really blame her. Can you imagine what she was thinking as a tiny special needs baby is passed from person to person for the cable news.
11.03 pm. However admirable it is to be a mayor, is it really necessary to drip contempt for people who work as community organizers? It seems to me that Palin doesn't quite have the stature to be puttng down someone who has won millions of people's votes. This is a much more partisan speech than I was expecting.
10.58 pm. Now it's about big government - which Republicans have exploded in size. But no one can notice the actual record of the GOP in growing government and increasing debt. That would be too much accountability.
10.56 pm. Obama wants to reduce American power and prevent energy production. The mockery of Obama from Palin is striking. I don't recall anyone mocking McCain at the DNC.
10.53 pm. Drill, baby, drill! I may be just revealing that I'm out of touch, but I don't see why laying pipelines is now a core rallying cry of American conservatism.
10.50 pm. I have to say that the affect is of someone running for high school president.
10.49 pm. Piper is poking Trig in the eye!
10.48 pm. Ethics reform is her first policy proposal.
10.47 pm. She has this weird tick of scrunching up her face to make a forceful point. Kinda Tracy Flicky.
10.44 pm. Palin echoes Giuliani's attack on "cosmopolitan" elites. All the buzzwords are there. Elite. Elite. Elite. This is a culture war speech - and she is becoming a symbol of red America. This is what they have to do top win: divide and polarize again. We are half way through, by the way, and we have not heard a single policy proposal. But we have heard contempt for someone who works as a community organizer in the South Side of Chicago.
10.40 pm. We've just seen a picture of a seven year old cradling and stroking the hair of a Down Syndrome infant. This, apparently, is relevant to deciding who should be the next vice-president of the United States.
10.39 pm. I'm just slack-jawed that, so far, the entire speech has been basically about her family. She seems as if she just won a reality show and is introducing her folks. And they have passed the baby now to four different people - including another child. Slack-jawed. |
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.c...blogging-p.html |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Is "community organizer" some snarky conservative catchword I haven't caught on to yet? Both Giuliani and Palin used it with a sneer tonight. I never realized it was cool to make fun of kids who take jobs straight out of college doing social work in low-income neighborhoods for less than $15,000/year. |
It just sounds lame and all that this convention crowd really cares about is buzz words. |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lebezniatnikov
Is "community organizer" some snarky conservative catchword I haven't caught on to yet? Both Giuliani and Palin used it with a sneer tonight. I never realized it was cool to make fun of kids who take jobs straight out of college doing social work in low-income neighborhoods for less than $15,000/year. |
and the Chicago low income buildings which he helped fund - that are boarded up or foreclosed?
I dunno about it being a conservative catchword since everytime they interview an Obama supporter - no one can explain what it is. |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by spacechica
did anyone think Gov. Huckabee's comment about how Sen. McCain apparently "can't" lift his arms over his shoulders an actual insult? it gives the impression that he's siding with Obama/ Biden and that he thinks that McCain is too old, when in reality, it's not about age, but that Sen. McCain is more fit for the presidency than Sen. Obama...
has the class rhetoric from the Obama / Biden campaign gotten to Huckabee too?
i heard Gov. Palin's speech tonight and i'm confident that she's going to be awesome for America |
No, it's because it is supposed to show what McCain sacrificed for his country when he was tortured as a POW in Vietnam. You really have no clue what you're talking about all through this thread. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by Groundhog Boy
It just sounds lame and all that this convention crowd really cares about is buzz words. |
I really feel like this whole convention to this point has been people speaking really slowly and in broad/vague generalities so that dumb people can understand. |
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| RJT |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
and the Chicago low income buildings which he helped fund - that are boarded up or foreclosed?
I dunno about it being a conservative catchword since everytime they interview an Obama supporter - no one can explain what it is. |
I am really failing to see where you get your information from that you're tossing out all these accusations over. |
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| Groundhog Boy |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I really feel like this whole convention to this point has been people speaking really slowly and in broad/vague generalities so that dumb people can understand. |
It's no wonder they think liberals look down upon them.... |
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| iammesol |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I really feel like this whole convention to this point has been people speaking really slowly and in broad/vague generalities so that dumb people can understand. |
+1
It's just hilarious :stongue: |
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| MeLLyMeL |
| quote: | Originally posted by RJT
I am really failing to see where you get your information from that you're tossing out all these accusations over. |
Rezco. |
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| hardcore trancer |
| quote: | Originally posted by DJLafleur
Although I dont know too much about Palin It looks like she does have more experience then Obama,I do hope she kicks Biddens ass in the debates.Also People lets not forget she's running for VP not the actual President |
lol Biden will in eat her alive in a debate?she knows all about politics. |
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| Lebezniatnikov |
| quote: | Originally posted by MeLLyMeL
and the Chicago low income buildings which he helped fund - that are boarded up or foreclosed?
I dunno about it being a conservative catchword since everytime they interview an Obama supporter - no one can explain what it is. |
*sigh*
http://www.usnews.com/usnews/news/a...0826/3obama.htm
I don't know when it became ok to criticize a 23 year old kid for taking a job serving low-income communities. Like seriously, what kind of message are you sending here? |
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