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Fish out of water.
Typed as I watched Palin's speech:
Welcome to amateur hour. She's totally out of her league. She's not used to being on camera and keeps twitching her hands in a weak sort of hammer motion. Her voice is nasal and strangled. She's not very dramatic as a speaker and has the pedantic manner of a first grade teacher. Her hair is in her eyes. She keeps smirking at her own jokes.
She can deliver a cutting remark. But falls apart when it's supposed to be inspiring. How is she able to kill a section on McCain's torture and survival?
A well-written, should-be-stirring, but poorly delivered speech. She knows it's dying. Her manner is scared and growing dispirited. She's not able to hide it either, she just doesn't have the experience. The audience seems more professional than her.
Ah. They've trotted out her family. That works. What a cute baby.
McCain just came out. Oh, what a relief to see him. Here is a pro who belongs at this level.
Palin is a fish out of water, more like a city council member than a governor. I guess Alaska is pretty low-key and local. There's no way this woman could handle beltway politics.
ETA: Republican bloggers say that she seemed off-balance because her teleprompter broke. That story is bullcrap.
Welcome to amateur hour. She's totally out of her league. She's not used to being on camera and keeps twitching her hands in a weak sort of hammer motion. Her voice is nasal and strangled. She's not very dramatic as a speaker and has the pedantic manner of a first grade teacher. Her hair is in her eyes. She keeps smirking at her own jokes.
She can deliver a cutting remark. But falls apart when it's supposed to be inspiring. How is she able to kill a section on McCain's torture and survival?
A well-written, should-be-stirring, but poorly delivered speech. She knows it's dying. Her manner is scared and growing dispirited. She's not able to hide it either, she just doesn't have the experience. The audience seems more professional than her.
Ah. They've trotted out her family. That works. What a cute baby.
McCain just came out. Oh, what a relief to see him. Here is a pro who belongs at this level.
Palin is a fish out of water, more like a city council member than a governor. I guess Alaska is pretty low-key and local. There's no way this woman could handle beltway politics.
ETA: Republican bloggers say that she seemed off-balance because her teleprompter broke. That story is bullcrap.
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The convention hype about Palin is total bullshit. And convention hype is always bullshit. In 2004, at the Democratic convention, John Kerry announced that he was "reporting for duty" as president. At the time everyone said it was a shining moment. Later it came out that in fact, everyone thought it was lame. (It was lame.)
Check out that video (http://icarusancalion.livejournal.com/790674.html). This is the massive gap between the analysis and the analysts' real opinions.