Gov. Palin's Speech

Nice job reading a speech. Sen.Obama wrote his, there's a big difference. They even tried to say her tele-prompter wasn't working properly to leverage it's remarkableness (which has been proven false by people who could see it).
Madison avenue could learn a thing or two from this event. It was like watching a good TV commercial. Unfortunately it wasn't subject to truth in advertising laws. In fact it had nothing to do with the truth.
But most disturbing was that it was completely unhitched from the heavy load of the issues. Sen. McCain's campaign manager, Rick Davis said it, the campaign has become one of personality over issues.
So there you have it, the McCain campaigns final act; people vote from their gut and not from their brain. Among the faithful, the truth being a nuisance, scores will resort to their comfort level and vote unwittingly for more of the same.
Fortunately the faithful is perhaps 35 percent of voters in this country so now the Obama campaign has to remind those who will listen that issues are how this contest should be decided and then they should work toward bringing Gov. Palin down to size. You may not be able to attack John McCain's risk taking behavior because his war record shields him from such criticism but the sexism or gender shield shouldn't hold for her. It's hard for a moose hunting moose eating woman to have it both ways.
They must shoot holes in her claims about what she has accomplished. It simply is not what she claims. There is solid stuff like Alaska has the lowest high school graduation rate in the nation. Or her 80 percent approval rating may have something to do with the 1200 dollars she gave each Alaskan due to the increased share of oil profits. And this is on top of the over 2000 dollars each Alaskan (children included) receives each year from oil profits from the permanent fund. Now you see why she's so hell bent on exploiting every drop of Alaskan oil.
Of course there's trooper gate and the bridge to nowhere flip flop where she managed to still receive the money. Or her beginning as mayor of Wassilla when it had no debt then leaving it 22 million in debt. She was on the receiving end of plenty of pork-barrel funds and had a relationship with the federally indicted Sen. Ted Stevens. They need to expose the good fortune of her being governor when the spike in oil prices flooded the State coffers with cash. Her veto pen wielding fiscal conservative reputation is also not at all what it seems.
There is plenty more that needs to be researched but what can't remain to stand is that somehow her life experience is in any way more preparatory than Sen. Obama. The whole band wagon now calls her government positions executive experience and somehow superior to Sen. Obama.
To start with, practically speaking, I have always found that when you come up through the ranks you work harder and learn more than the people who through good fortune manage to miss the thankless and tedious part of the career path. Once you do get to the top, under normal circumstances by earning it, it's a relief and an easier job because you now have the power to make a decision without having to convince the world first. But you can get there in other ways, like in an election.
The idea that her charmed life in Wassila Alaska with a good family that resulted in a B.A degree, beauty pageants, working in her husbands business, a stint as a sports announcer , a PTA member, City Councilwoman, Mayor and Governor, voted in by 114,000 voters, somehow constitutes more experience than Sen.Obama, is beyond ridiculous. Senator Obama lived off food stamps and without a father, he was schooled in Indonesia, Hawaii, Los Angeles, Columbia University and Harvard Law School where he received his J.D. and where he was the first black President of the Harvard Law Review. He worked as a civil rights lawyer at a Law Firm and taught constitutional law at the University of Chicago Law school. He served 7 years as a State Senator then was elected in 2006 to the U.S Senate.
But what did Gov.Palin mention repeatedly? His role as a community organizer which she mocked as being less important than her mayorial role. Sen. Palin might want to take a trip to Chicago's south side for some perspective before comparing her sun-kissed life to his. He volunteered for this work in poorer economic times. Her volunteer work was at the PTA.
But it's not surprising that she wouldn't know what a community organizer did when a month ago she said to Larry Kudlow of CNBC, "as for that VP talk all the time, I'll tell you I still can't answer that question until somebody answer's for me what exactly a VP does every day..."