Wow. I'm just getting done watching the post Palin speech commentary.
Palin rocks! I haven't been so excited about politics since Huckabee was on the rise. She threw zinger after zinger, but they were based on substantive issues. And she makes a strong case for the McCain candidacy.
I'm hoping our local political commentator Josh Zenger will write a column about the impact of this historic speech. Okay Josh?
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Good commentary from a couple of moderate bloggers:
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Your first link is a blogger who is fact checking Palin's speech. Fine. That is good for all speakers on both sides because they are, still, politicians.
The second link is to a commentator from Mother Jones magazine. Ummm, if we're going to fact check, I'd say that you calling anyone associated with Mother Jones magazine a moderate would be inaccurate.
Okay, Kevin Drum isn't necessarily the picture of moderate politics. However, he has held a number of moderate positions over time and I would consider him a (perhaps strongly) left leaning moderate in his political idealogy.
Riddle me this Dan, why is the blogosphere so excited about Palin's "sharp accusations" (accuracy and the fact it's the same crud that's been rehashed repeatedly since it became clear McCain was going to get the nomination aside) while they ignore her failure to explain adequately her lack of experience or qualifications to be a heartbeat away from the Presidency?
The McCain camp has been beating the drum about this being an election where the key issue is experience. Where the heck did that principal belief go? Oh yeah, the cumulative political experience of McCain/Palin is significantly less than that of Obama/Biden. Although it would have angered the "base", McCain would have been better off in my eyes to go with his gut and chose Ridge, Lieberman, or Romney as a running mate. Hardcore Republicans like you will never love him and now he has forsaken the moderates (such as myself) that used to believe in his words and actions.
Another note, I think it would be a great editorial move on your part to do a little bit of explaining (here or better yet in the printed paper) to unknowing observers/chatterboxes what is and isn't true in the ludicrous emails they may have received or hear about. We all know who your are rooting for in the general, but dispelling bizarre rumours and helping people decide who they should stand behind based on policy positions instead of email forward innuendos must seem at least a mildly just cause for you, no?
I believe snopes.com takes care of a lot of the ridiculous e-mail forwards, including political themed messages like the popular and almost entirely false "Obama is a radical muslim" e-mails that went around for a while. But trying to take that on myself would be an effort in futility. I assume many of you are like me and get way too many of those forwards. I don't believe that I will get rich or receive a miracle if I forward a particular e-mail to 10 people, nor do I believe there is a fortune waiting for me in Nigeria if I just provide a little more info. I probably get over 50-60 e-mails a day and I just delete anything that doesn't look real in a glance.
I think the inexperience card is a bad one to play for Obama supporters. Palin may not have the Washington credentials, but she is running for vice president, not president. What has Obama done? Being a gifted speaker is not a guarantee of a good president. And I sure as heck know who will be looking out for folks in Washington County - folks who do enjoy their religion and guns.
Damn right I'm bitter! ;-)
Write-in chuck norris, the solution is just that simple. If obama gets president id be surprised if he made it through his entire term without being shot by some gung-ho white supremacist. Same thing with Mccain, im not sure how long he's gonna make it before he keels over from old age. All i gotta say is buy as many guns now, while you still can
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