US Elections 2008 - 4

[acharya]

http://news.google.com/news?ned=us&ncl=1241795670&hl=en

[dhu]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Why did Hillary Clinton choose an, err, striking orange 'pant suit' for her big moment in Denver? I've been given two explanations: 1/ Orange and blue (the colour of the set) are the official state colours of New York, Senator Clinton’s state. 2/<b> "Orange is the colour of Defiance", according to a leading Clintonista, "We all wore it on May 30th, the day DNC Chairman </b>made his notorious ruling on delegates which unfairly boosted Obama." Certainly Mrs Clinton was in defiant mood – explicitly dealing with the two big questions for the Democrat – race and gender – which were conspicuously<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

It seems the republican women have stolen Clinton's narrative. Probably they are feeling white rule slipping away.

[shamu]

I can't believe that Giuliani is such a ridiculous speaker. Excepts his swipes against Obama, the content appeared very silly. Can't believe that he is a major star among republicans. However I enjoyed Joe Lieberman's speech yesterday.

[acharya]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->I am totally for John McCain's selection for Vice President. She has about the same amount of experience as Senator Obama, and is the Chief Executive Officer of a state with about the same population as Senator Biden's, only about 3000 times the geographical size. She is considered by even her harshest critics as a great mom. <b>I feel she would be a great Mother of our country too.</b> I can think of no one in a better position to be able to find a solution for our energy crunch
It seems the real champions for change, that makes this election for you is John McCain and Sara Palin
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[dhu]

How Obama lost the election
By Spengler

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->McCain's choice of vice presidential candidate made obvious after the fact what the party professionals felt in their fingertips at the stadium extravaganza yesterday: rejecting Clinton in favor of the colorless, unpopular, tangle-tongued Washington perennial Joe Biden was a statement of weakness. McCain's selection was a statement of strength. America's voters will forgive many things in a politician, including sexual misconduct, but they will not forgive weakness.
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[acharya]

<b>Palin mocks media, Washington in her debut speech </b>

Sarah Palin addresses the Republican National Convention

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And the crowd chanted, "Drill, baby, drill," when Giuliani said that McCain would pursue offshore oil drilling.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain what the job involves," Palin said. "I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a community organizer, except that you have actual responsibilities," a sharp dig at Obama.[/size] Palin served on the city council from 1992 to 1996 and was the mayor from 1996 to 2002. Obama was a community organizer in Chicago after graduating from Harvard Law School.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

Reid reaction to Palin speech was "Shrill", this is again a very sexist comment.

[Guest]

"<b>Democrat attacks on Sarah Palin have backfired"</b> (Telegraph UK)
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The squalor of the Democrat muck-raking has seriously annoyed a lot of women who do not share many of the candidate's views but recognise that the points of vulnerability where she has been attacked were precisely those arising from her role as wife and mother.

Pregnant teenage daughter? There is not a hockey mom in America who does not empathise, with the private thought "There but for the grace of God"... So, her son-in-law-to-be was caught fishing for salmon out of season - that is pure Huckleberry Finn.

Some American women are beginning to recognise that the Democrats talk a good game about shattering glass ceilings - provided the beneficiary is a liberal feminist who has bitched her way to the top; but if an average American wife and mother presumes to come out from behind the white picket fence she will be put down with ruthless calculation. Some ladies are getting quite upset about that.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->The Republicans, wrote a Wall Street Journal columnist, may have found their own Margaret Thatcher while <b>the New York Post hailed Palin as a fighter and urged her on: "You go, girl."</b>

Under the headline "She shoots! She scores!" Tom Shales of the Washington Post said Wednesday's speech by John McCain's surprise vice presidential pick was a political bull's eye even if it lacked eloquence.

<b>"If the Republicans win the presidential election in November, it may well be said that they won it last night -- the night that John McCain's brilliantly screwy choice for a running mate changed from laughingstock to national star," </b>Shales wrote.

"To those in the hall and probably to millions watching at home, she came across as genuine and down-to-earth, <b>a self-described 'hockey mom' whose confidence and bravado were not exactly ingratiating but were somehow persuasive."</b>

With the stakes high and the McCain campaign facing questions about her thin resume and pregnant teenage daughter, Palin rose to the occasion, he said.

<b>"She proved herself in the great arena; that's what counts politically. Nobody could watch that speech and still consider her a joke, no matter how flimsy her credentials and qualifications may seem on paper."</b>

In a reference to her feisty jabs at Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama, the New York Daily News ran the headline: <b>"Hockey mom drops gloves."</b>

John Fund of the Wall Street Journal said that by picking Palin, McCain had ushered in a promising new face for the conservative cause.

<b>"Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher,"</b> wrote Fund.

"If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments of his term will have been what he did before it started: helping to fill the Republican Party's future talent bench with such a fresh and compelling figure." 
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<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin--><b>"America has just learned why Mrs. Palin enjoys the highest approval ratings of any governor in America." </b>
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[Guest]

<b>Sarah Palin gets the spiteful Margaret Thatcher treatment</b><!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Like Margaret Thatcher before her, Mrs Palin is coming in for both barrels of Left-wing contempt: misogyny and snobbery. Where Lady Thatcher was dismissed as a "grocer's daughter" by people who called themselves egalitarian, Mrs Palin is regarded as a small-town nobody by those who claim to represent "ordinary people". <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->Halfway through Sarah Palin's speech tonight at the RNC, people following the speech noticed she was deviating from the prepared text.

According to sources close to the McCain campaign, the teleprompter continued scrolling during applause breaks. As a result, half way through the speech, the speech had scrolled significantly from where Governor Palin was in the speech. The malfunction also occurred during Rudy Giuliani's speech, explaining his significant deviations from his speech.

Unfazed, Governor Palin continued, from memory, to deliver her speech without the teleprompter cued to the appropriate point in her speech.

Contrast this to Barack Obama who, when last his teleprompter malfunctioned, was left stuttering before a crowd unable to advance his speech until the problem was resolved.

Sarah Palin. Winner. <!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
http://www.redstate.com/

[Guest]

<img src='http://www.chicagomag.com/images/2007/June%202007/obama_rehearsal.jpg' border='0' alt='user posted image' />
From <b>a June 2007 </b>story in Chicago Magazine. It shows him in a speech rehearsal room, together with his mastermind Axelrod (second from right) and his wife.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Sep 4 2008, 09:59 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Sep 4 2008, 09:59 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->Reid reaction to Palin speech was "Shrill", this is again a very sexist comment.
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Why's it a sexist comment? This comment could have been made against even Gu911iani too.

[Guest]

<!--QuoteBegin-Mudy+Sep 4 2008, 11:01 AM-->QUOTE(Mudy @ Sep 4 2008, 11:01 AM)<!--QuoteEBegin-->From <b>a June 2007 </b>story in Chicago Magazine. It shows him in a speech rehearsal room, together with his mastermind Axelrod (second from right) and his wife.
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Meanwhile VP speech was ready before VP was selected. The article which was published BEFORE Palin spoke
Putting Words in Palin's Mouth
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->There was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters and editors yesterday that his team was having to rework the vice presidential acceptance speech because the original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too "masculine." While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at the underlying revelation: <b>that the campaign was writing the nominee's speech before knowing who the nominee would be</b>.<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->

[Guest]

Mudy, Answer to yesterday's question:<b> John McCain</b>
more here published about 10 years ago:
http://www.salon.com/news/1998/06/25newsb.html

[acharya]

<b>Palin impresses with star performance: US media</b>
Thu Sep 4, 8:24 am ET
<!--QuoteBegin-->QUOTE<!--QuoteEBegin-->"Twenty years after Ronald Reagan left office, Republicans who have long missed him may have found a future Margaret Thatcher," wrote Fund.
"If John McCain wins, conservatives may find one of the most enduring accomplishments of his term will have been what he did before it started: helping to fill the Republican Party's future talent bench with such a fresh and compelling figure."<!--QuoteEnd--><!--QuoteEEnd-->
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[acharya]

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[acharya]

since the Republican Party Convention openned, the Dow Jone Industrial Index has dropped 550 points, or just under 5%. Ronald Reagan was found of saying "You vote with your wallet". seems like a large number of investors are doing exactly that. can we blame this on the media too? or have people with college educations decided that a trashed dollar, a record deficet, and a pitbull in lipstick with questionable parenting skills does not bode well for America's future? or maybe God told them to get their money out of the market while they still could.

[acharya]

<b>New US chattering class rises</b>
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[dhu]

When all else fails, invoke American ummah.