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2008-09-04 Home Front: Politix

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Posted by Steve White 2008-09-04 00:00|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 London Telegraph

Republican Convention: Sarah Palin makes speech of a lifetime
Sarah Palin tells roaring Republican convention: "I'm ready for a tough fight".

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 00:13|| 2008-09-04 00:13|| Front Page Top

#2 they're digging to see if her hubby had an affair.

Posted by anonymous2u 2008-09-04 00:15|| 2008-09-04 00:15|| Front Page Top

#3 Palin takes battle to Democrats
John McCain's running mate, Sarah Palin, has made a stinging attack on Democratic presidential runner Barack Obama at the US Republican convention.

Defending her small town roots, she attacked Mr Obama as having talked of change but done nothing of substance.

Mrs Palin praised the "determination, resolve and sheer guts" of Mr McCain and said she was honoured to help him.

Mr McCain made a surprise appearance on stage, with her family, saying: "Don't you think we made the right choice?"

The Arizona senator is being nominated as the party's presidential candidate in a roll call vote of state delegates.

Mrs Palin gave her much-anticipated address to a packed and enthusiastic convention floor in St Paul.

In a sally directed at media commentators who have questioned her qualifications, she said she was "not going to Washington to seek their good opinion" but to serve the people.

Mrs Palin also attacked Mr Obama's "change agenda" and suggested he was more interested in idealism and "high-flown speech-making" than acting for "real Americans".

"In politics, there are some candidates who use change to promote their careers," she said.
"And then there are those, like John McCain, who use their careers to promote change."

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 00:18|| 2008-09-04 00:18|| Front Page Top

#4 That was one of the best political speeches I've ever seen. My dad was in politics, so I've seen a lot of them. She damn near out-Reaganed Reagan.

She field-dressed Obama like a freshly-shot moose--but she did it so good-naturedly that she could've convinced him to volunteer for the disembowelment. It wasn't angry, it wasn't strident--but it was very, very deadly.

Posted by Mike 2008-09-04 00:28|| 2008-09-04 00:28|| Front Page Top

#5 Do the Dems/MSM even understand the ass-whipping they just received by her?

Posted by GORT 2008-09-04 00:37|| 2008-09-04 00:37|| Front Page Top

#6 Nope. And that's a good thing.

Posted by Gabby Cussworth 2008-09-04 00:39|| 2008-09-04 00:39|| Front Page Top

#7 I'm in love

Posted by Yosemite Sam 2008-09-04 00:43|| 2008-09-04 00:43|| Front Page Top

#8 Let them dig all they want to try to find out if her husband had an affair. There is no 'there' there. The donks made sure of that in defending Willy.

Mike M.

Leavin' it cuz I like it.

Posted by Omains the Full Bosomed 2008-09-04 01:32|| 2008-09-04 01:32|| Front Page Top

#9 Chicago Tribune's Kass on the speech

She also poses the greatest threat yet to the Obama reform narrative. The cynical epic has become the establishment media bedtime story, with Obama as the young King Arthur riding forth to promise change. In this, the Washington Beltway media colony has been his eager Merlin, hoping to guide him, cleaving desperately to the theme that he's some kind of reformer, even though Obama is a politician backed by Chicago's Daley machine and never once challenged the political corruption in Chicago and Illinois. Not ever.

The contrast with Palinwho actually went after the Republican Party bosses in Alaska on the corruption issueis profound and challenging for the Obama-friendly media that willfully ignore his lack of leadership on the reform front, yet are consumed to find out if Palin has an overdue library book.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 02:10|| 2008-09-04 02:10|| Front Page Top

#10 Kass finishes with: Expect Palin to knock squirrels out of trees across Ohio and Pennsylvania, along with other critters, fur and feathered. Unlike other candidates, she'll probably do her own shooting and skinning, and maybe roast them on sticks, with a pinch of salt, demanding reporters eat some, so they can say it tastes like chicken.

St. Joan was a threat to the established order, and Palin is being positioned as a threat. Unfortunately, the French handed Joan over to the English, and she was burned. I don't think we know yet what happens to Sarah.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 02:12|| 2008-09-04 02:12|| Front Page Top

#11 Read the Chi Tribune's prime editorial on Sarah's speech. This is the prime paper in Obama's home base.
HERE
Sounds like Obama is a skinned and stewed squirrel.

Posted by 3dc 2008-09-04 02:22|| 2008-09-04 02:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Please! Squirrels are lovely!
I see something rather slithery. A slug, mayhaps.
A squashed slug. With an extra turn of a heel.

Posted by Spike Uniter 2008-09-04 04:41|| 2008-09-04 04:41|| Front Page Top

#13 OK, you see a skinned slug.

Posted by gorb 2008-09-04 05:13|| 2008-09-04 05:13|| Front Page Top

#14 Mmmmmm.....skinned and stewed squirrel....Brunswick style, I hope?

Posted by no mo uro 2008-09-04 05:54|| 2008-09-04 05:54|| Front Page Top

#15 From Palin Faces a Cultural Crucible
Carol Felsenthal, Chicago-based author of this year's "Clinton in Exile," points out that Palin is turning traditional ideological stances upside down another measure of the unprecedented nature of what the aspiring vice president represents.

"There's such a role reversal," Felsenthal says. "You have this conservative, pro-life Republican woman but it's the liberal Democrats who are saying, 'But who's going to take care of the children?' "

I suppose that's because many of them would've aborted their children to seek political office. It's just not fair that Sarah has both children and a career!

Posted by Bobby 2008-09-04 06:46|| 2008-09-04 06:46|| Front Page Top

#16 Go Sarah Go!

Posted by Jolutch Mussolini7800 2008-09-04 07:27|| 2008-09-04 07:27|| Front Page Top

#17 most searched name on the internet

Not by me. I was enthused about her back in June. Now, can she avoid even one 'potatoe' moment? Because with the media unanimous in opposition, a single slip will be repeated every 30 minutes for the next two months, Goebbels-style (a lie, repeated often enough, becomes the truth.)

Posted by Glenmore 2008-09-04 08:22|| 2008-09-04 08:22|| Front Page Top

#18 "It's just not fair that Sarah has both children and a career!"

Yeah, Bobby, that's the essence of why she is so demolishing their foolish little world. They've spent 20-30 years being hangers-on, climbing the social and political ladders, positioning themselves for the big career move, and yet now that they have reached middle age, they have so little to make themselves self-satisfied. Here comes this woman, who's lead such a pedestrian existence and she has a lovely family, a loving mate (after 2 decades as she noted), and she has ascended to heights they have only been dreaming of. They see now that they have been cruelly deceived by Steinham and her like and they realize they can't go back and change things. They are so infuriated. At themselves.

Posted by Woozle Elmeter 2700 2008-09-04 11:47|| 2008-09-04 11:47|| Front Page Top

#19 She is married to a Joe Six-Pack kind of guy, a sportsman, oil rig worker and unionist,

So do you guys now beleive being a unionist is a GOOD thing?

Posted by liberalhawk 2008-09-04 11:52|| 2008-09-04 11:52|| Front Page Top

#20 Most union members are good folks, most unions are destructive influences on society. Those are very *VERY* different things.

Posted by AzCat 2008-09-04 12:14|| 2008-09-04 12:14|| Front Page Top

#21 Amen AzCat. Most of my Union relatives understood this.

What Mr. Palin's union card does is to highlight that the Dems may own the Unions but they don't own the workers.

Posted by AlanC 2008-09-04 13:15|| 2008-09-04 13:15|| Front Page Top

#22 'Hawk, I used to be a building rep in the teachers' union when I was young and foolish. If you'd had to work for the superintendent we had, you'd've been a union member, too.

Posted by Mike 2008-09-04 13:48|| 2008-09-04 13:48|| Front Page Top

#23 Liberalhawk, I was a union member (local 2960, AFSCME). I remember some of the local leadership being ok, but the national organization was more concerned with telling me how to vote in national elections more than anything else.

BTW, what local did *you* belong to?

Posted by Swamp Blondie in the Cornfields 2008-09-04 18:45|| 2008-09-04 18:45|| Front Page Top

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