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Governor Palin Speaks, Obama See Your Doctor

Author | jacob | Posted on | September 4, 2008 | 36 Comments

Governor Palin came to the convention and gave a great speech.  Palin has speaking talents on par with Obama; the Governor will be a formidable asset to the McCain campaign.  She is comfortable on stage and can deliver.  Some of the lines were killer.  She compared some of her experiences with Obama:

I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities.

Ouch.  I guess in the final analysis there is a difference between making decisions and being a rabble rouser. This is killer.  Governor Palin went on to to deliver several other such strikes throughout her speech.  These strike where not just red meat, these where the political equivalent of a knife thrust.  To the point, deep and very painful.  Her delivery is first class, I only wonder what other treasures we might find in Alaska.

The times Governor Palin has spent hunting and fishing have served her well, she obviously knows how to skin things.  Governor Palin’s final analysis of Obama’s posture with respect to the war leaves him flayed open:

“This is a man who can give an entire speech about the wars America is fighting and never use the word ‘victory’ except when he’s talking about his own campaign,”

With that line she underscores the Obama’s hyper-narcissism, putting a point on it so to speak. With regard to Obama’s lack of substance:

But when the cloud of rhetoric has passed … when the roar of the crowd fades away … when the stadium lights go out, and those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot – what exactly is our opponent’s plan?

And there was more.  Well Obama’s campaign just got a trip to the emergency room.  Call your doctor Senator, you’ve got a fight on your hands, and the Governor from Alaska, (ain’t she good looking) just mugged you last night.

Category: Campaign 2008, Politics

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36 Responses to “Governor Palin Speaks, Obama See Your Doctor”

  1. CatHouse Chat
    September 4th, 2008 @ 10:33 am

    Saracuda ROCKS THE HOUSE! (Updating with new links all day)…

    I was afraid to get my hopes up last night – I mean, I adore Sarah Palin, I think she’s a breath of sorely-needed fresh air, and I think she’s a brilliant choice to the Republican nominee for Vice-President, but I’ve had high hopes dashed before….

  2. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 10:43 am

    Yes, the speech writers really went to town with this one. Toughness and steele and great deal of plain old meanness came through. This lady will eat anything coming her way. I sure wouldn’t want to be against her in any way. M E A N !!! OUT OF MY WAY!!!

    Poor Biden -

  3. dans
    September 4th, 2008 @ 12:07 pm

    Lovisa,

    My impression was nothing like yours. To me, Sarah demonstrated that being tough and being a mean bi**h do not necessarily go hand in hand.

  4. suburbanite
    September 4th, 2008 @ 12:49 pm

    The woman (and her state! half the size of the continental US!) have been shredded six ways from Sunday since her name was announced.

    She got up there and evinced comfort with the milieu, confidence and humor.

    If it was occasionally biting humor, it was no more than was warranted. She’s been snapped at pretty hard before she ever opened her mouth.

    Take the pitbull imagery: ever seen dogs establish order? When faced with dominant behavior, they either respond with dominance of their own, or submit.

    What reason has she to roll over and whine for the ObaMachine?

  5. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 1:44 pm

    dans

    I’d never say “mean bitch”, I said “mean” only.

    If I knew the male word for “bitch”, I’d use that for the former mayor of NYC. Now, there is one mean male bitch, IMO.

  6. dans
    September 4th, 2008 @ 2:02 pm

    Ok, let me rephrase :

    “To me, Sarah demonstrated that being tough and being mean do not necessarily go hand in hand.”

    Sorry for the Freudian slip, must have been an impulsive comparison to the Dems XO candidate..

    The male word is stud, sire, or just plain male..

  7. The Bulletproof Monk
    September 4th, 2008 @ 2:09 pm

    Go Sarah, go!!

  8. G. Stone
    September 4th, 2008 @ 2:23 pm

    Her tone and delivery was perfect. The only ones taking exception with this performance are hacks and leftists . They pushed this woman with the hope of her folding like a cheap lawn chair. Instead of folding, she drove a truck right through their ranks. They tried for 6 days to destroy Gov Palin, efforts that are back firing in a big way.

    She gave a performance before 38 million people that changed the whole game.

    Whatever “it” is, she has it.

    Now comes the ramped up attacks by a whole barrage of crazies. They will redouble their efforts to deconstruct Gov Palin.

    I for one will spend from now until Nov 4 and beyond defending this special woman.

    Game on !

  9. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    Stone -

    It used to be called OOMPH.

    Ann Sheridan, born in 1915, was called “The OOMPH GIRL”.

    Sounds better than BARRACUDA, I think.

  10. Cathymac
    September 4th, 2008 @ 2:44 pm

    Lovisa, Would you call Biden or BO mean? They weren’t all peaches and cream at their convention.

    It’s a tradition that the VP candidate be the attack “dog,” Palin was doing her job for the ticket – and quite well! Anyone that use their opponent’s own words so cleverly against them, and keep a smile on their face, is my kinda gal.

  11. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 3:35 pm

    Lovisa,
    get a grip. she was tarred and feathered right off the bat, see
    http://novatownhall.com/2008/09/03/feminists-against-palin

    for a short list of idiots. There are many others like at KOS

    http://novatownhall.com/2008/09/01/the-left-true-bigots-of-the-world/

    after trash like that, I am surprised she did not let them have it even harder

  12. G. Stone
    September 4th, 2008 @ 3:36 pm

    Lovisa:

    Were you and Ann Classmates ?

  13. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 3:47 pm

    Not exactly, Stone, but no too many years younger. That’s why I’m so wise, you know.

    And I’ve got a lot of OOMPH!

  14. Jack
    September 4th, 2008 @ 5:12 pm

    There’s no fool like an old fool. (That’s why old people vote for Democrats, and get targeted by scam artists — their prefrontal lobes are breaking down.)

  15. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 5:16 pm

    Ageism at work! Thanks, Jack!

  16. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 5:17 pm

    Oh, one of the old fools is McCain -SEVENTYTWO.

  17. G. Stone
    September 4th, 2008 @ 6:01 pm

    Lovisa:
    Hold on there girlfriend, you keep your OOMPH to yourself.

  18. Lovisa
    September 4th, 2008 @ 6:39 pm

    Are you suggesting that, when it’s about one of YOURS, they become fools at a higher number of years than others?

    So, Stone, how old do you have to be for membership in the REPUBLICAN old-fool society?

  19. el jefe
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:09 pm

    thanks sarah.

    http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/09/04/palin-speech-pulls-in-8-million-for-obama/

  20. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

    Alaska’s only 1/2 the size of the continental US on a projection map, which distorts reality like a republican convention speech!! haha

    “Instead of folding, she drove a truck right through their ranks.” big deal, she took a speech written by an army of speech writers, which was basically a rehashing of all the attacks the mccain campaign has been lobbing at Obama from the start? “Breath of fresh air?” you mean More of the Same?

    one of the attacks has been that Obama is an unknown. Republicans make the case again and again that After only 4 years in the spotlight, we don’t know Obama well enough; he’s an “unknown.” These same republicans gave a 3 minute ovation when a lady that no one had ever heard speak before took the stage. Hell, they gave her PARENTS a standing ovation! Like they’re Mary and freaking Joseph or something! If you guys have one great strength it’s your ability to fall in line and not ask questions! That, and the ability to whip yourselves into an orgasmic frenzy without even knowing why!! People in that arena were screaming like it was 1987 and she was a moon-walking michael jackson! And that’s before she even said anything! Holy Cow, talk about some powerful kool-aid!!

    …and after her substance-free (another tired attack against obama) speech, conservatives are sold hook line and sinker?

    It’s ok, you guys have another day or two before the afterglow fades, but I see a reality check or two for y’all in the not so distant future. :) We haven’t seen anything yet, and we still don’t know anything about her. All we know is that her son is in the army and that she’s “proud of her country.” …that she wants to “fight corruption” and “stand up for what’s right,” and that, after being holed up for a week in a hotel room full of speech writers, she’s able to come out and deliver her lines. What a catch!

    I like how family is off limits when it comes to her knocked-up daughter, but the first thing she did in her speech was talk about her family, and mention that her son’s shipping off to iraq on 9/11. Typical conservatives wanting to have their cake and eat it too! And yes, if a male who had made a career of talking about family values ran off to be VP, and dumped his pregnant teenage daughter and two-month-old infant with downs syndrome on his wife, I think it would raise some eyebrows, too.

  21. The Bulletproof Monk
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:33 pm

    You know Lovisa…I’ve seen a few who are even more politically tone-deaf than you…but I’d be pressed to remember when.

  22. The Bulletproof Monk
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:37 pm

    Staypuft…it is always entertaining to be around for the first hour or so after your meds wear off, dude.

  23. Joe Budzinski
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:40 pm

    I just can’t wait for the debate. People forget what Joe Biden is like to listen to …

  24. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:42 pm

    Marshmallow,
    “one of the attacks has been that Obama is an unknown. Republicans make the case again and again that After only 4 years in the spotlight, we don’t know Obama well enough; he’s an “unknown.””
    We’ve been hearing HIS story about HIMSELF for the past 3 years. We are sick of the fiction. The Obama campaign has closed his files regarding his writings at the University of Chicago and his time in the state house. Why?

    BTW, considering your recent modus operendi, this is your cue to ignore any refutation of your addled writing.

  25. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:46 pm

    joe,
    you means it takes him 24 minutes to ask a question that require a 6 minute answer

  26. CM101
    September 4th, 2008 @ 7:59 pm

    Let’s kick McCain out and make her prez, oh yeah baby, you got yourselves another winner, she even seems better than your last choice…GW

  27. G.Stone
    September 4th, 2008 @ 8:00 pm

    StaPuff:
    You are a class act.
    Now go play in traffic.

  28. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
    September 4th, 2008 @ 8:27 pm

    Jacob, I was just waiting for a substantive response (I’m looking at you G.Stone, Bulletproof :) )

    really? you want to see the paper Obama wrote in his undergrad english course? Why?

    Why would a campaign not want those things floating around? Maybe because they have enough to do without having to respond to pundits taking things out of context that Obama wrote when he was 19? …or maybe because he wrote a paper about how Alaska should be an independent country.

    How about all the things he’s saying now. For all your talk about his “lack of substance” he has laid out some pretty detailed plans on foreign policy, energy, etc. Compared to McCain’s “I’ll make America safe”

    all I’m saying is the guy who y’all all thought was the worst candidate for the nomination picks a lady no one knows anything about after meeting her once, and all of a sudden republicans are freaking out like she was sent to them in a capsule from Krypton, which for all I know she was. It’s ridiculous.

    but do what you want. I’m voting for the guy who isn’t being endorsed by the worst president in the history of the country.

  29. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 8:53 pm

    Marshmallow,
    You know better, so are you being deliberately disengenuis? I am not interested in his English papers, which are at Harvard, not Chicago.

    Obama was brought on board a non-profit by Bill Ayers. The records for this non-profit are held by the University of Chicago. If all is sweatness and light with Obama, why cover this up?

    As for Palin, give me a break. How many Presidents KNOW the VP pick? Your side in this equation suddenly made this a big deal. FDR never spoke to Harry more than once, even after they took office. Only met her once? SO WHAT? Historically that is the norm. You are making hay from nothing.

  30. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 8:56 pm

    Marshmallow,
    As for liking her, after the media did its latest version of ‘dog pile on the rabbit’ and went after her tooth and nail, it was real nice to see the lady, unphased and kicking. Americans love underdogs. Palin did not crumble under all the attacks and gave a great speech, certainly better than Biden’s. You know Biden, he is the adult on the Democrat ticket.

  31. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
    September 4th, 2008 @ 9:03 pm

    I don’t know, Jacob. What’s the worst that could happen? I’m sure if there was anything to it the right would be willing to give him a pass on the grounds of “youthful indiscretion” anyway. We didn’t have access to transcripts of everything that came out of Bush’s mouth while he was on one of his college coke binges, either. mais, c’est la vie.

  32. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 9:21 pm

    Marshmallow,
    Bush’s drinking, etc has been documented. Obama was rubbing elbows with a terrorist. That is a little more serious than quaffing a few brewski’s, also if the Obama campaign is flexing muscle to stiffle this story including threats of criminal prosecution don’t you think that qualifies as smoke?

  33. Stay Puft Marshmallow Man
    September 4th, 2008 @ 9:35 pm

    so this speech isn’t doing it for ya, eh? ;)

    anyway, I thought drugs supported terrorism?

  34. jacob
    September 4th, 2008 @ 9:47 pm

    Marshmallow,
    Welcome back you pain in the neck :mrgreen:

  35. Joe Budzinski
    September 4th, 2008 @ 9:50 pm

    I will admit I was not typing during Sarah Palin’s speech … but this is not so bad. It is simply more amenable to multi-tasking. Inspiring, in a certain way.

  36. Marjorie
    September 6th, 2008 @ 9:23 am

    Sarah Palin speaks to defend America and keep American values while Obama has said continually that he is a Christian, so why is he advocating Islam all though his campaign?

    (Taken fron Shariahfinancewatch.org)

    Exclusive: When It Comes to Islamism, the DNC Still Doesn’t Get It

    M. Zuhdi Jasser

    Last week’s opening festivities at the Democrat National Convention in Denver began with an interfaith prayer. As the Democrat Party searches for its newfound interest in faith, it quickly called upon one of the lowest hanging fruit in the American Muslim community – the Islamic Society of North America (ISNA). Ingrid Mattson, the President of ISNA gave a speech along with Adbur-Rahim Ali of the Northeast Denver Islamic Center. Some may dismiss the selection of nine speakers of faith at the political shindig as irrelevant and simply part of the pomp and circumstance of the DNC Convention

    familysecuritymatters.org/publications/id.1044/pub_detail.asp.

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