Oh, That Sarah Palin

4 Responses to “Oh, That Sarah Palin”

1. tgirsch Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 12:52 am

   If by “did so well” you mean “managed to avoid making a complete ass of herself while scrupulously avoiding directly answering any of the questions asked of her,” I’m inclined to agree. :)

2. Xrlq Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 7:40 am

   Sure, I put “did so well I’ll bet Gwen Ifill thought it was a tie” and “did so well I’ll bet even TGirsch will admit she managed to avoid making a complete ass of herself” at about the same level. As to directly answering questions, sure, but at least she admitted upfront that she was not answering the questions. Biden, by contrast, offered up a great answer to Ifill’s unasked question, “I’m all verklemmt. Talk amongst yourselves. I’ll give you a topic. John McCain the Maverick is neither a john, nor a cane, nor a maverick. Discuss.”

3. nk Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 8:03 am

   She looked good. She had to walk a line between being tough and looking like a bitch and that part she aced in my opinion. A guy would have gotten away with calling out Biden on some of his BS but, like she said herself, better to let the pundits and fact-checkers do it for her today. (E.g., the Democrats putting a poison pill of a timeline in the $1.6 billion appropriation for body armor. The bottom line, the appropriation passed without the timeline.)

4. Laura S. Says:
   October 3rd, 2008 at 7:17 pm

   Governor Palin clarified Senator McCain’s ideology, which I share, that the Individual is fundamental. McCain’s assertion that the Fundamentals of the American economy are strong validated the significance and potential of each Fundamental, each Individual.

   America, in ideal, manifests this recognition and validation of the Individual. Thus, the American economy is, in ideal, an aspect, an integral reflection of this validation.

   Validation of any Individual is anathema to the agenda and political strategy presently represented by Senator Obama, who consistently attempts to undermine Individual notions of singularity, of exceptionalism—the Individual must renounce identity as Fundamental, to accept Category: tribute extolled to the Obama Image.

   The Obama campaign and its surrogates continue to mock McCain’s statement, a statement resonating deeply with them; they must not only undermine McCain’s affirmation of the strength of the Fundamental, but denigrate any affirmation of the Individual as Fundamental.

   Obama’s very public complaint that McCain did not mention the words “middle class” during last week’s debate reveals much about Obama’s own perception of the world. He does not even realize that many people do not interpret the world by default through the paradigms he and his ideological kindred do.

   I wonder how many people watching the debate last night started in their seats upon hearing the moderator use the indicative phrase “class warfare.” She was unprovoked in this, and we must remember that she wrote the questions herself. Even though she was asking Biden to prove how Obama’s plan was NOT “class warfare,” why would she even be using vocabulary specific to the very ideology that she was hoping that Biden would allay public disquiet about. Ms. Ifill raised the Red Flag here, and did not even know it.

   In his closing statement, Senator Biden chose to strongly emphasize that an Obama Presidency would bring sweeping “fundamental” change.

   Senator Biden’s emphasis on the word “fundamental” was a public service announcement.

   As an individualist and personalist, I appreciate Senator Biden’s focused disclosure, and take it as the valid warning that it is.

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