Holy crap!!
Okay, it was too late for me to post it last night, but just wow.
I loved Rudy's speech, as I mentioned, especially after the lackluster performances on Tuesday night, but I was a bit worried that Sarah Palin would have to follow such a barnburner (Rudy had originally been scheduled for Tuesday night.) Surely even if she did comparatively well, she'd have to pale by comparison, right?
I have never been more wrong in life. Sarah Palin's speech was a political hydrogen bomb. It was better than any speech I've seen so far this election, and probably better than any speech I've seen in years. Any doubts I might have had about whether John McCain knew what he was doing or not are gone. Dead. Buried.
The speech was a bit slow in the beginning with all the bio stuff, but it was sharp, entertaining, and funny. It contained some of the best ani-Obama lines I've heard yet, and it was flawlessly delivered. It was such a refreshing contrast to humorless lecturing from on high of the Democratic nominee, who still sounds like a constitutional law professor. Palin not only connected last night, but she knocked it right out of the park. Not bad for a rookie politician, huh? Look for the attacks against her to intensify, because as of 11 PM last night there were a lot of frightened liberals out there.
Yeah, I now think John McCain knew exactly what he was doing when he picked Palin, and that he struck political gold in the process. The only downside is that tonight he will have to follow her.
Comments
Barry,
LOL, ok. I finally got it. Your case is totally hopeless. I have a suggestion for you. As you like Palin that much, you should consider becoming anti-choice and pro-creationism. After all, it does not seem that any issues matter to you much, other than guns and taxes. So, why not support Sarah all the way? She may be right on everything. She may be right on intelligent design. She may be even right that the Iraq war is God's will. And if she is right that could give another option and opportunity for the McCain administration for victory in Iraq: Prayers. Sarah could conceivably end the war by praying.
Posted by: Blue wind | September 4, 2008 08:21 AM
I don't feel the need to support a candidate on everything. Never have. And if I ever did, that would raise a red flag to me that I was being too uncritical.
Posted by: BNJ | September 4, 2008 08:56 AM
I can hardly imagine faith in a God to be any more misplaced than faith in a Benevolent Big Brother.
We humans are so fun to watch! I'm greatly enjoying how quickly the tone of the Obama Disciples has changed from smug and condescending to... strident.
As for the "my guy (or gal) can do no wrong" and any evidence to the contrary being grounds for a personal attack on the speaker, I think coaches and preachers have that market mostly cornered. I know a local softball coach who was having sex with the 15- year- old girls on his team (arrested twice!), and the parents rallied around.. HIM. Really same phenomenon as various perverted religious leaders. It's COACH, therefore he can't be wrong!
But Obama's followers are a lot closer to that kind of attitude about their man than are McCain's.
Posted by: Will | September 4, 2008 10:23 AM
"I can hardly imagine faith in a God to be any more misplaced than faith in a Benevolent Big Brother .(government)." (Will
Without question.
In fact a belief in God or a spiritual reckoning or karmic judgment has helped a lot of people be better people. I can readilly admit that even though the whole religious thing didn't take with me.
I'm not anti-God, just not into religion, but I can see that organized religion has generally done more good than harm, and the times when it's been harmful (the Holy Roman Empire and the Muslim Theocracies) it's been when government perverted and abused religion, NOT the other way around.
"As for the "my guy (or gal) can do no wrong" and any evidence to the contrary being grounds for a personal attack on the speaker, I think coaches and preachers have that market mostly cornered. I know a local softball coach who was having sex with the 15- year- old girls on his team (arrested twice!), and the parents rallied around.. HIM. Really same phenomenon as various perverted religious leaders. It's COACH, therefore he can't be wrong!
"But Obama's followers are a lot closer to that kind of attitude about their man than are McCain's." (Will)
Liberalism is a secularist religion or at least a cult.
When the father of Climatology Ried Bryson expresses his view that global warming is NOT manmade, Liberals stand by AlGore, who isn't a scientist nor does he play one on TV.
Liberals claim to want to "help" working people and then support policies that crush those people with oppressive taxes.
Liberals claim that blacks and women should not be harshly criticized as that can be construed as "racist," but when blacks like Mike Steele and women like Sarah Palin fail to embrace Liberal orthodoxy, they're treated worse by Liberals than blacks in the 30's were treated by outright bigots.
That's what happens when people adhere to a religious orthodoxy without any critical examination, without any self-reflection.
Posted by: JMK | September 4, 2008 11:14 AM
"I can hardly imagine faith in a God to be any more misplaced than faith in a Benevolent Big Brother."
LOL. So, is Palin right then? Is the Iraq war god's will? Did god approve the lies of Bush that started the war? or was it an oversight? I hope she is right so we can win that war with massive prayers. It may be the secret new weapon of a McCain/Palin administration.
Posted by: Blue Wind | September 4, 2008 03:13 PM
strident histrionic
Posted by: Will | September 4, 2008 11:20 PM
Great, the now the joke's ruined. The damned blog took the character entities in the comments and converted them to greater than and less than, and proceeded to read them as HTML tags anyway.
Let's try again:
<DEL>strident</DEL>
<EM>histrionic</EM>
Posted by: will | September 4, 2008 11:29 PM
I wasn't that impressed with Palin's speech. I thought it lacked emotion and sounded like she was reading it off note cards.
Posted by: CRB | September 8, 2008 10:34 PM