if obama wins, me neither. i'm just throwing the possibility of 2 women going head to head, wouldn't that show the greatness of this nation?
Not to be TJesque, but I have a feeling we haven't heard all we are going to about Ms Palin's family life.
The only way Palin and Hillary go head to head is for McCain to win in 2008 and step down for 2012. If Obama wins, Palin may well be his opponent but Hillary will be on the outside looking in. By 2016 Hillary won't have teeth in her fake smile. I fully expect that Obama will be a weak President who will wear out his welcome by the end of his first four years. He will face Palin, Huckabee, Thune or one of the young Republican governors such as Jindal.
It's coming out today on Fox and CNN that the teleprompter was malfunctioning and she did much of the speech -- particularly the soccer mom joke -- extemporaneously. Remember, she is a former television sportscaster and is comfortable ad-libbing if necessary. Obama is the one who tends to be uncomfortable away from a teleprompter judging from the careful way he picks through his words.
Nope. http://bbs.clutchfans.net/showpost.php?p=3880746&postcount=15 She had used the Hockey Mom joke previously and the McCain campaign had used it with reporters before the speech to show how comfortable she was in the role.
My point is that newscasters said the joke was not in the speech. The first two lines of her speech were not being shown on the teleprompter so she had to wing parts of it from memory.
Initially I was disappointed by the repetition, but the teleprompter problem might be the reason -- just like adding a joke with which she was comfortable.
What does this mean? The teleprompter scrolls up, not across... at one point in the speech, you could see the words moving right on cue with what she was saying. And she also had a written version at the podium. The joke was not in the prepared remarks, but neither was it "off the cuff." It was something she had said before and something the campaign had been pushing to reporters for a couple of days.
There was no teleprompter problem. The folks sitting behind her didn't see a problem. The techie guy said there were no problems. Go here and watch the speech again... http://shakespearessister.blogspot.com/2008/09/sarah-palin-at-gop-convention-video.html
Palin took 6 years and 4 different schools to get a bachelors in journalism at U of Idaho. Her husband never went to college. Does it make me a sexist or elitist to say she might not have brainpower to lead the free world?
It was my first time hearing the pitbull joke and I hate it. Granted, I'm the proud owner of a part-pit, but it's stupid sayings like that that don't do any good battling the wrong, preconceived notions people have about pitbulls. From the rest of Palin's attack on Democrats last night, the one thing she clearly isn't like at all are the majority of pitbulls in the world...
No, it makes you a very narrow-minded elitist. It takes courage to persevere in getting a degree while having children and working. I take my hat off to her. Obviously, she is worthy of praise. As far as graduating from college, that doesn't make you smart. Education helps you to use your native intelligence. I know several very successful non-degreed people who founded, own and manage businesses. One person in particular, an Ohioan, is one of the brightest people I've ever known, perhaps the brightest, and he doesn't have a degree.
I trust Fox News and CNN more than a video that obviously doesn't show the teleprompter 100% of the time. Words were appearing, true, but entire lines were being skipped.
I would largely agree with this, but having said that, if Palin is the best VP selection John McCain could come up with, then I just hope neither one ever becomes President. McCain, for being crazy enough to pick her, and Palin for simply being who she is.
Where were there entire lines being skipped? And again, you do know that she had a printed copy right in front of her right? She did not "wing" any of that speech. She wasn't Olivier performing a Shakespearean soliloquy. She wasn't Wayne Brady making jokes up on the fly. She was a politician reading a speech that was both on paper and on a teleprompter that did not malfunction.
