September 4th, 2008
Palin power
Oh man, you guys, I am all over the Sarah Palin bandwagon. If she is as genuine as she appears, I will be voting for her in November, and McCain will just happen to be on the same ticket. Her speech tonight? Knocked. it. out. of. the. park.
September 4th, 2008 at 8:54 am
I must disagree; that was the weakest political speech I’ve even heard. Just from this speech her ideas for America’s future are what? Don’t know, because she didn’t have the guts to list any. Must be real tough running the state of Alaska where there is no income tax, the government runs on oil revenues, and sends the people money each year just for living there. This is a person who has never even debated a measure having anything to do with taxes and you want her to preside over the Senate where our federal budget will be formulated? That is truly terrifying.
September 4th, 2008 at 11:24 am
Weak? You are living in denial, sir. The VP’s job is to support the presidential candidate’s ideas, not to articulate their own policies. And she very explicitly stated her positions! Obama’s stated position is that he will tax the wealthy and businesses. The Republican position is that doing that creates a trickle-down effect to the working class and that the economy improves when the American people keep more of their own money instead of having the government take it from rich people and hand it out to them so they can get re-elected. Palin & McCain have both stated a commitment to cut the drunken-sailor spending by current Dems and Republicans and keep Bush’s tax cuts.
And don’t even start with the “governor of a small state” crap. Dems didn’t seem to think it was an issue when a hick from Arkansas with no foreign policy experience was running in ‘92.
Terrifying? I don’t see how anyone can make the case for an unknown candidate who has never passed or debated any meaningful legislation being terrifying and think and support Obama in the same breath.
On that note, thank you for reading! I hope you keep coming back, I really won’t get political too often.
September 5th, 2008 at 10:58 am
Not to mention her sense of humor. She zinged Obama at least a dozen times, clearly articulating the very important differences (The best one: he authored two best-selling memoirs, but McCain authored actual legislation).
September 7th, 2008 at 8:41 pm
Love it! Now it gets interesting . . . nay, exciting even. Those of us who were resigned to a lesser-of-two-evils vote now have something that stirs real enthusiasm. I hope Palin is half the woman Angie is!