Comments on: Making their introductions

By: lurxst

lurxst — Fri, 05 Sep 2008 00:41:17 +0000

It appears that the country is not going to get more access to Sarah Palin outside of scripted speeches and her debate against Biden.

http://www.time-blog.com/swampland/2008/09/no_q...

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:46:03 +0000

“Some viscerally so”

It's time to ask my rad-lib friend in DC (PETA, animal welfare, GBLT-community activist, a user of “child-free” community Web sites) what she thinks. It's time…

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:43:54 +0000

She won't get most Clinton supporters, isn't expected or even hoped to, and it's arguable if it would be suitable for her to openly solicit this. Now another ad with the Clinton delegate who is voting for McCain, saying that Palin is a great new reason for her to do so, that would be worth pursuing, aimed at wavering Dem women.

Other moms, she'll appeal to. The childless who relish being “child-free,” hell, no.

By: elrod

elrod — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:38:17 +0000

Again, I think the lack of a video bio really hurt Palin here. I disagree with DLS on the “deftness” of Palin's attacks. I thought they were sophomoric. But, again, I'm biased. If I could see a tear-jerker video beforehand I might have lowered my defenses for Sarah's attacks.

Talks I've had with Democratic-leaning women around – some of whom were VERY reluctant to support Obama – have been universally negative toward Palin. Some viscerally so.

She appeals to men, not women. She is no Hillary Clinton.

By: DLS

DLS — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:30:34 +0000

"But when the viewers tuned in last week, they received a very workmanlike speech listing details of policy, how he planned to address the issues and a litany of soft complaints about the opposing party’s plans. Only in the last ten minutes or so did the speech begin to grow legs and take off on some emotional notes."

Not true if you actually watched the speech, as I did. There was powerful emotion throughout his speech. The entire speech was good, not just the last few minutes.

Throughout his _entire_ speech he was

"an inspiring, uplifting speaker"

and the _entire_ speech was full of

"exciting rehtorical juice which originally brought his believers to the table"

and has _kept_ them there (and led them to ferociously attack criticism of him).

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"one could almost imagine her as Marlo Thomas"

Only if one wished to substitute dreams for reality!

"blistering attacks on her Democratic opponents"

Yes, including in the media as well as in Congress, but clever and deft attacks, not mean at all, and that was far from all she did in her reform-oriented speech.

"Both of these performances may have left viewers feeling a bit short changed."

Not at all. Obama's was excellent, as expected, and Palin's was surprisingly good. Neither hit a home run, but Palin hit a solid triple when a double was anticipated and Obama actually made it at least to third and probably quite a distance beyond before ending on third overall.

By: ChrisWWW

ChrisWWW — Thu, 04 Sep 2008 23:25:47 +0000

Points well taken. But I would like to add something about Obama's speech…

You have to keep the context of the speech in mind. The celebrity ads were still ringing pretty loudly for Obama and his speech writers, I'll bet. Under those circumstances they probably felt forced to bridge the gap between their policy papers and Obama's soaring oratory.