PALIN 74%
NEITHER 2%
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“You go into some of these small towns in Pennsylvania, and like a lot of small towns in the Midwest, the jobs have been gone now for 25 years and nothing’s replaced them,” Obama said. “And they fell through the Clinton Administration, and the Bush Administration, and each successive administration has said that somehow these communities are gonna regenerate and they have not. And it’s not surprising then they get bitter, they cling to guns or religion or antipathy to people who aren’t like them or anti-immigrant sentiment or anti-trade sentiment as a way to explain their frustrations.”
In 1995, Obama's first autobiography is released. In it he writes of his years in college, associating with radicals. "To avoid being mistaken for a sellout, I chose my friends carefully. The more politically active black students. The foreign students. The Chicanos. The Marxist professors and structural feminists and punk rock performance poets . . . When we ground out our cigarettes in the hallway carpet or set our stereos so loud that the walls began to shake, we were resisting bourgeois society's stifling constraints. We weren't indifferent or careless or insecure. We were alienated."
[Obama, Barack, "Dreams from My Father: A Story of Race and Inheritance,
Random House, Pages 100-101]
"I fell in love with my country when I was a prisoner in someone else's, I loved it not just for the many comforts of life here. I loved it for its decency, for its faith in the wisdom, justice and goodness of its people. I loved it because it was not just a place, but an idea, a cause worth fighting for. I was never the same again. I wasn't my own man anymore. I was my country's."
~John McCain
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Nice try. If you watched the debate objectively, you would have noticed that while Biden was rich with knowledge, Palin lacked. He knew more about the economy, taxes, health care, the war in Iraq, etc. Palin is nothing but one liners and answering with sweeping generalizations. She said nothing specific about anything.
When she ran out of memorized material to regurgitate, she refused to answer the question twice to talk about energy AND at least twice she quoted McCain from the Pres Debates. Once on accusing Obama on wanting to sit down with dictators and talk with no preconditions and again accusing him of voting to not fund the war. Both false accusations were shot down by Obama, and then last night again by Biden.
Palin did very well. Obviously, she knows the camera and was speaking to the voting public. Her strengths live in honest demeanor. Palin was terminally polite and complimentary toward Biden. Eventually .... 45 minutes in .. Biden switched to bully mode. Real women will recognize the switch. Biden also royally! gaffed stating unequivocably (twice) global warming is made made. Period. Uh oh. Someone needs to do more reading on the subject ... right Joe?
As to winner .... in the eyes of American folk .... Sarah Palin. Fresh as a daisy and no bullshit. Who cannot see the value and future in that combination............
Rattler Gator Florida Blogger, Florida one of the Battle Ground States. Doesn't need polls to tell him who won the debate.
http://rattlergator.typepad.com/rattlergator/2008/10/admit-it-she-kicked-his-natural-behind.html
Here and elsewhere I note remarks around memorized and regurgitated answers from Palin. How is that possible? Neither participant had knowledge of the questions beforehand. Ifill included that info in her introduction did she not.
Too bad she didn't include her Inauguration Day book launch plans.
If you call "nailing it" being oblivious to the question that was being asked and instead reciting the campaign lines that she'd been so thoroughly prepped for, peppering her speech with colloquialisms (joe sixpack, gosh, heck, darn) in order to "play" the audience of mindless sheeple watching and eating it up, and generally being about as unpresidential as a Barbie doll - well, gosh darn, I reckon she did nail it!
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