In her VP acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin proved that she speaks fluent English - even better than "W". However, she is the new Michael Moore of the GOP - every comment about the Democratic ticket was taken out of context. The biggest question she needed to answer was about her knowledge of foreign policy. She spent less than 2 minutes rattling off the names of Russia, Venezuela, and Iran to "demonstrate" her knowledge of foreign policy. Palin proved she can read a teleprompter, but did not prove she will make an effective Vice President.
What did you think of her speech?
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Jay, the speech she gave was origianlly written for Leiberman. They had to rewrite it for her. She had some, but not a great deal of input. The words were those of handlers. It will be telling when she is out on the trail unscripted.
I haven't heard it yet. I am looking forward to hearing her as I have liked what I have heard about her so far.
Jay, you should apply to MSNBC for a job. Your insights are fabulous. She is a nothing... but she will do a great job in her role as Vice President, obtain the foreign policy background you require and then serve America for 8 years as President.
Jay, I watched her speech twice last night. Once by myself and a second time with my wife. It was great both times and not because she can read a teleprompter. It's because she's a real woman with real experience and real values who's not afraid to speak her mind. The Democrats should be very afraid... and they are.
Jay She will fade into the Cheney Bunker if elected. John McCain can not be foolish enough to let her run wild. Too bad he caved in to his parties wishes. He should have had the fortitude of sticking with his pal Joe Lieberman. Well I guess He'll do anything now to get himself elected. Watch out Cindy, he might just dump you too for Sarah.
John, I agree. Lieberman would have been the logical choice. I have read that not more than a couple of days before his VP choice was announced, Palin was not on McCain's short list. It sounds like McCain got angry about the selection process, threw his hands up and said I'll pick "what's her name" from Alaska.
Jay, I am glad I found your blog. It's a breath of fresh air here abouts! thanks again!
Jay,
I think she did a great job. Let's hear her and Barack both without teleprompters and I am sure she would do better. She is real! Just like McCain did much better at the Saddleback Church than Obama did.
Jay,
This just in...Sarah Palin's teleprompter malfunctioned during her speech. The Little Pharoah God King Supreme Leader Obambi can't enunciate his name without a series of strategically placed teleprompters allowing him to read while he surveys his audience with a magnanimous and omnipotent gaze. She accomplished the surgical fantasy of Jesse Jackson with amazing style, grace, wit and without the use of the idiot screen. Now there are not only crackling neuro-sensations racing up the leg of Chris Matthews over the visage of the God King enraptured in scripted eloquence...there's also a little urine running down it at the sight of Sarah Palin.
Most newscasters deal with teleprompter problems - Palin has a degree in journalism and is former tv sportscaster. There are conflicting reports about the severity of her problem.
Barack Hussein Obama - pompous, arrogant, has penned two memoirs, has zero executive experience. (Joe Biden must have whiplash from reversing his position so quickly to support this candidate who he said wasn't qualified to be president and Hillary said had only given a speech in 2002.)
Joe Lieberman - talks like Elmer Fudd. Presidential candidate in 2004, lost. During re-election bid in 2006, lost his own Democratic Party's primary election. Was elected as Independent. Johnny-come-lately Republican.
Ronald Reagan, sportscaster, showman, was able to read a teleprompter and deliver a punchline, great communicator, great American, great president, all around great person. See any resemblance to anyone who spoke last night?
Sarah Palin - priceless!
Why put the scare quotes around "demonstrate"? Bill Clinton, coming in as former Governor of Arkansas, hadn't dealt much with foreign policy, either. Nor had Harry S Truman. Gov. Palin is bright and capable and proved she was on top a speaker's game when the teleprompter reportedly did not pause for applause. Did you notice that she was flustered? I did not. As noted, as a Journalism major and former sports reporter, she has a clue about writing and speaking extemporaneously. She likely did have some input on the speech and made it her own. She will be strong on the stump and effective in debate. As to foreign policy, one also suspects she will learn what she needs to know. Have I written that she has proven she can be decisive and make good decisions? She's passing the testL a terrific performance last night. Expect more that's terrific from her..
Why put the scare quotes around "demonstrate"? Bill Clinton, coming in as former Governor of Arkansas, hadn't dealt much with foreign policy, either. Nor had Harry S Truman. Gov. Palin is bright and capable and proved she was on top a speaker's game when the teleprompter reportedly did not pause for applause. Did you notice that she was flustered? I did not. As noted, as a Journalism major and former sports reporter, she has a clue about writing and speaking extemporaneously. She likely did have some input on the speech and made it her own. She will be strong on the stump and effective in debate. As to foreign policy, one also suspects she will learn what she needs to know. Have I written that she has proven she can be decisive and make good decisions? She's passing the testL a terrific performance last night. Expect more that's terrific from her..
Charlie, I respect your opinion but... Reagan was 25 years older than Palin, he served as Governor 4 times longer of a state with an economy 40 times larger. Alaska's population is about the same as Little Rock, AR MSA. So, I really don't see any resemblance.
Alfred, I respect your opinion but... Truman was a US Senator for 10 years - a decade in the US Senate provided Truman with plenty of foreign policy experience.
Most people say that education is important. If that is true, then it is important to note that Clinton graduated from law school, Palin has a bachelor's degree in journalism. It's much more difficult to become an attorney than a journalist. So, Clinton was better educated than Palin and he served as a Governor for 12 years versus Palin's 20 months.
Jay - Palin actually went to five colleges in six years beforte she "earned" her degree. No wonder that John McCain thinks she is brilliant all he could manage was to finish 894th out of 899 with his father the admiral's help,
My first thought, was wow. Finally someone with brains.
You seem to want a professional politician. Well, we've had years of professional presidents. Most of us are sick of professional presidents. We want a real person in office that is interested in something other than themselves. We want someone that really wants to change the world. Not just talk about it.
I am waiting to see what junk she will sell off on ebay. lol.
The thing is, Palin connects to people in Middle America. Obama connects to people in the North East and the West...mostly urbanites.
Once again this is going to be an election between the urban centers and rural America. We are split down the middle. It will be close and tough...once more.
There will be no landslide, unless things shift toward McCain. They certainly aren't shifting towards Obama. I received an excited phone call last night from a former Hillary voter. She can't get enough of Palin.
Jay - being a member of AR -- Social Network -- you know that the most important thing is developing a relationship with others. Nobody cares how much you know...until they know how much you care. Palin did the best thing, the right thing...first...have people get to know her. She did a great job of accomplishing Step 1.
Jay - you are a brave man.
@Kevin - how could people get to know her when her speech was peppered with half-truths and lies?
She supported the bridge to nowhere, until it became unpopular when she then withdrew her support but kept the money.
She's a friend of families with special need kids, yet she cut back funding for special needs kids and homeless teen mothers.
She sold the plane on ebay, oops - no she didn't. no one placed the minimum bid so she ended up selling the plane privately.
She's a fiscal conversative who employed a lobbyist to bring the pork to Wasilla - and then left Wasilla in a deficit.
She believes abstinence works - yet she was pregnant when she eloped, and she has a 17-year old pregnant daughter.
Please do your research, folks, before you start to believe the hype.
Hello Jay:
I have seen snippets of Palin's speech, but have heard mostly good reviews. Somebody also noted this, but I think it's accurate. We as a country can do better than the professional politicians we have had for so many years (including the ones that are lawyers). In addition, if experience is the criterion by which we are judging, Obama is the one running for President: he has virtually no experience. To rely on the government to fix health care, social security, transportation, and other issues is almost the perfect example of insanity: doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
I for one am dismayed by how our representatives on both sides of the aisle have served us. Mccain showed conviction in picking his running mate, and seemed to say "to hell" with what everybody thinks: I like that. Obama has spoken eloquently of change, but seemed to cave to experience by picking Biden. To me that implies more of the same, and that's not good enough anymore: we need and deserve better.
Hello Jay:
I have seen snippets of Palin's speech, but have heard mostly good reviews. Somebody also noted this, but I think it's accurate. We as a country can do better than the professional politicians we have had for so many years (including the ones that are lawyers). In addition, if experience is the criterion by which we are judging, Obama is the one running for President: he has virtually no experience. To rely on the government to fix health care, social security, transportation, and other issues is almost the perfect example of insanity: doing the same thing over and over while expecting a different result.
I for one am dismayed by how our representatives on both sides of the aisle have served us. Mccain showed conviction in picking his running mate, and seemed to say "to hell" with what everybody thinks: I like that. Obama has spoken eloquently of change, but seemed to cave to experience by picking Biden. To me that implies more of the same, and that's not good enough anymore: we need and deserve better.
Jay~you say that Clinton was more educated and was Governor longer than Palin....where did that actually get him? Romping in the oval office and "enjoying" cigars? I do believe WE the people deserve better than that!
Sarah Palin showed more class, more intelligence and SO MUCH MORE PROFESSIONALISM than any other of the previiously mentioned Democrats that have Professionally "served" us during the last couple of decades. As Charlie said above, Sarah Palin is PRICELESS!
Palin gives good teleprompter - except that now we know it malfunctioned. I would have loved to see Obama stand up in front of his coronation convention and have to speak not only to the delegates but to a crown of 40 million+ witrhout his prompter. He can barely get out two thoughts in a row when his prompter is off - we've all seen the videos. Not only did Palin pull it off, she spoke direclt TO the people while looking AT the people rather than looking from side to side at the prompters. Whether you like her or not she pulled it off with aplomb and finesse and won over a lot of voters that night.
@Gene: The teleprompter did not malfunction, that's another fig newton of the imagination from the group that gave you the falsehoods I listed above. They follow the edict to the letter: keep repeating lies, and people will believe it to be the truth.
We have eyewitness accounts from people who could actually see it, as well as confirmation from the convention planner. A couple of times, it scrolled a sentence or two ahead. She used the pauses in the applause part of the speech to glance down at her printed speech to keep up.
Broken teleprompter is a myth.
http://www.usnews.com/blogs/robert-schlesinger/2008/09/04/the-sarah-palin-broken-teleprompter-myth.html
http://www.politico.com/blogs/jonathanmartin/0908/The_teleprompter_did_not_break.html?showall
But lets, for the sake of grins and giggles, say that the myth of the broken teleprompter is fact.
Does that make her qualified to be the President of the United States??? Heck, lots of smooth talking folks on the corner can spin a good lie, would you want them running the country?
This is the most important job in the world, people, not a beauty pageant or popularity contest. Say what you will about Obama and the teleprompter; at least he had the intelligence and courage years ago (before over 4,000 of our citizens were killed) to say that the Iraq war was a mistake.
This just in . . . and she has no idea what Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac do either.
She thinks they are government agencies.
From a speech this weekend, Palin is quoted as saying Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac have:
"gotten too big and too expensive to the taxpayers."
No wonder they are keeping her away from media interviews.
By the way, she made the statement BEFORE the government announced it was going to bail out Fannie and Freddie.
An economist with the conservative think tank, the Cato institue said:
"[Fannie and Freddie] were not taxpayer funded
In her VP acceptance speech, Gov. Sarah Palin proved that she speaks fluent English - even better than "W".
Hi Jay,
I think most of us can agree that almost anybody can read a teleprompter better than Bush. :)
My wife really liked Palin's speech.
The bickering between parties is fun to read, but I wish there would be more discussion not on who is the better politician or who reads a teleprompter better, or who is going to save the world, but rather why government is the problem. Both parties included.
Why would we use tax payer money to bail out Fannie Mae?
Why does one politician from either party think they are an expert on energy, or emissions, or healthcare, or energy sources or anything else. They don't know. The market will decide what works and what doesn't. The arrogance of one person thinking they have the answers to all of our problems, is ridiculous.
Why would I want the government running my healthcare?
Why is the government telling me I must wear a seatbelt?
I'd like to vote for the guy who says he will stay out of my life and reduce the size and spending of government by 90%. That's my guy (or gal).
I'd also like to see a new bill passed that says that politicians can not pass a new law, until they repeal 5.
There is a lot of fear on the left regarding Palin. She apparently does well off the teleprompter, too... better than Obama does when he doesn't have a script. And McCain also does better on his feet than Obama.
It will be more interesting to see her when she debates Biden.
I want to see "free-form" debate from all of these candidates. I am tired of hearing what snot nosed speech writers come up with to be read from a teleprompter. Pull a question live from a hat and put these jokers behind a mic and let them talk. I WANT to hear what THEY have to say. So far we have not heard this. I do find it amusing however that during this entire campaign Obama has talked about "change" and now McCain is the "change" agent??? Well considering that we have had 8 long years of McCain/Bush/neo-con politics...maybe McCain is finally on to something here. What is so sad with Palin is that she is just a pawn is the grand chess game. Before her infamous speech, I had said "Wow, McCain picked a woman as a VP! Well, how's that for trying to steer those hard core female Hilary voters to the McCain side of things. So predictable, however I really didn't think I would see them go so far as to THANK Hilary for paving the way for Palin! Right there in the speech! I would like to thank.....see the rest on youtube for yourself. Predictable and Pathetic, but will probably work given that most people hear one speech written by some intern right out of school, and decide who they are going to vote for. OR BETTER YET....there's Charlie from SC....I must say I had to look to see where you were from Charlie because I would have been surprised to see any other state other than SC...and I am from SC! That's why Barack Hussain Obama sounded so familiar to me oh wait have you heard Barrack Obama Bin-Laudin? I keep hearing that from others that I know, and I got so tired of it (NOT BECAUSE I AM SUPPORTING OBAMA MIND YOU< THE ONLY ONE I HAVE SUPPORTED DURING THIS ELECTION HAS BEEN DR. RON PAUL), but because it is such a redneck, backwoods mentality. It goes against what America has been since it's conception. I'm not saying that Obama is the man in 08, I'm just saying don't be so simple. Make your decision this year based on what you BELIEVE these candidates are being truthful about. And if you are completely satisfied with the way things are going in the current administration by all means vote for McCain. If you are however NOT satisfied, I would hardly think that Palin would be the saving grace. I could be wrong, but this is why I want to see these candidates in free form. We should not even be paying attention to anything else.
Saying that if you are satisfied vote McCain is pretty simplistic... As an example, how much of the last two years have been affected by Bush, and how much by Congress? And, are you better off now than two years ago? I know that when you start looking at the numbers in light of the changes to Congress, it gives a whole different look to who may have done more damage to the economy...
Oh Janice, Isn't it exciting... we are going to have a woman Vice President... and a beautiful one, too!