Sarah Palin won.
That’s the simple truth.
She pulled it off. She completely and totally wiped out Sen. Joe Biden. There was no contest. Gov. Palin was cheerful and smiled most of the night, all while remaining cool, calm, and sounding intelligent. She took many shots at the Senator from Delaware, and most of her arrows stuck. In other words, “The Smirk” came out a few too many times on that Nor’eastern face…
She answered the questions she wanted to answer and spoke clearly and directly to the American public, something I cannot say about Biden. At least once he completely lost me in a “blizzard of words” and many other times he spoke with factual fallacies and non-sequiturs, saying that the principles of the surge wouldn’t work in Afghanistan, while saying we should increase troop levels… The country WON’T survive an Obama-Biden administration… it just won’t work. Democracy demands truth.
Tonight was a great night for the McCain-Palin campaign and for America.
I hope you all are praying for a McCain-Palin victory- I truly believe it’s the only thing between us and losing the free and democratic life we know and love.
Who do you think won? Leave your responses in the comments section below. FoxNews.com and McCainBlogs.com also have great threads going.
ok, so i noticed that McCain, Obama, Palin, President, presidential, etc, are all bigger on the tags than my name!
From over at Boing Boing:
“Republican vice-presidential nominee Sarah Palin quoted an unidentified “writer” who extolled the virtues of small-town America: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty and sincerity and dignity.” (9/3/08) The unidentified writer was Westbrook Pegler (1894-1969), the ultraconservative newspaper columnist whose widely syndicated columns (at its peak, 200 newspapers and 12 million readers) targeted the New Deal establishment, labor leaders, intellectuals, homosexuals, Jews, and poets.”
…Here are a few other quotes Palin didn’t use:
Jews, he said, could not be the victims of persecution because persecution “connotes injustice…They are, instead, enduring retaliation, or punishment.” (D. Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, Macmillan, 2002, p. 71.)
He advanced the theory that American Jews of Eastern European descent were “instinctively sympathetic to Communism, however outwardly respectable they appeared.” (The New York Times, Obituary: “Free-Swinging Critic,” June 25, 1969, p. 43).
He had a habit of calling Jews “geese” because they, in his words, hiss when they talk, gulp down everything before them, and foul everything in their wake. (Diane McWhorter, “Revisiting the controversial career of Westbrook Pegler,” Slate, March 4 2004).
(…)In 1963, less than 3 months after Martin Luther King Jr., delivered his famous “I Have a Dream Speech,” he wrote in a column, “[It is] clearly the bounden duty of all intelligent Americans to proclaim and practice bigotry.” (D. Levitas, The Terrorist Next Door: The Militia Movement and the Radical Right, Macmillan, 2002, p. 71)
That is the most ludicrous criticism I’ve heard. That’s probably one of the most generic statements I’ve ever heard… that’s like saying “I like broccoli” is plagiarism because my mother published it in a book first.
Claiming plagiarism on a book published in the late 1800s is ridiculous, especially a statement such as this.
As for Palin’s supposed anti-semitism, how can you even claim that? Surely her debate performance convinced you of otherwise?