I wrote and erased a post yesterday mocking Palin as McCain's choice. Elite conservatives can be just as arrogant as elite liberals, after all. Frankly, I thought she wouldn't be able to string two words together.
Right, so - mea culpa. Mea culpa. Mea maxima culpa.
PS: Oh, and Palin was too mean to Obama? I mean, really. The attacks gently mocked a hugely gifted man who's been convinced that he's the second coming and happily tells everyone so. Boo hoo.
Read Paul for the opposing opinion.
9/04/2008
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Shrug -- the fact that Palin has not yet answered a single in-person question, either from a reporter or a voter, makes me think you shouldn't feel too guilty for thinking "she wouldn't be able to string two words together." I assume by that you meant "two words she spontaneously generated," as opposed to "two words someone else wrote and put on a teleprompter for her." The other candidates on both tickets have done plenty of interviews and been in lots of situations where they had to answer a question without much preparation.
I'm still waiting for Palin to acknowledge that she was in favor of the Bridge to Nowhere precisely up to the moment when she realized that Alaska would have to pay for some of it itself. It doesn't bode well for the level of attention the McCain campaign is paying to her that they keep getting facts like that, or how the plane actually got sold, or how they vetted her, wrong. I am afraid that Peggy Noonan may be right that Palin will be used for the benefits she brings, but not actually given the help she needs to look good in her own right.
No, I really meant that I thought she wouldn't be able to deliver a prepared speech. I realize that's not such a great accomplishment, but of course Obama is thought to be Jesus 2.0 for the same skill.
Obama actually wrote the speech that was his political breakthrough, and supposedly wrote his speech on race as well. If Palin wrote her convention speech, I'll vote for her in November.
We know Obama can put his own words together; he's written two books without ghostwriters. It's not an accomplishment that qualifies him toward the presidency, but it's more what I would think of as "can string two words together."
If you thought Palin wouldn't be able to deliver a prepared speech, you're questioning either her literacy or her freedom from speech impediments. Even I had a higher opinion than that of Palin. We do learn to read in the flyover states.
I'm not denying that Obama can write, but giving a speech in public is a skill that's seperate from writing a speech. Look at Bush. Or McCain, neither of whom can speak worth a darn. I thought she'd be a Bush, at best. She wasn't.
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