Fish out of water.
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icarusTyped 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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Date: 2008-09-04 08:08 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 08:17 am (UTC)Well, that almost never happens.
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Date: 2008-09-04 12:25 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2008-09-04 05:26 pm (UTC)We'll see what Obama turns out to be, but Biden's the sort of person I want around.
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Date: 2008-09-04 06:22 pm (UTC)If this article from Slate (http://www.slate.com/id/2198543/pagenum/all/) is to be believed, that's not exactly the case. What I find distasteful isn't so much the plagiarising (though plagiarising five pages from a published article in a term paper isn't distasteful, it's downright stupid) but his lies about his academic qualifications.
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Date: 2008-09-04 08:00 pm (UTC)Memo to Obama Fans: Clinton's presidency was not a failure (http://www.slate.com/id/2183941/)
The Long Goodbye: It's too early to talk about Hillary's withdrawal (http://www.slate.com/id/2185831/)
Cold Fusion: History suggests an Obama-Clinton ticket could work (http://img.slate.com/id/2191942/)
He was against Obama, referring to his promises as a seduction (http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2008/01/11/AR2008011101414.html) of the public. He argued for an Obama/Clinton ticket. And in a moment that makes me want to pause for its irony -- let us all pause -- compared Obama to Biden (http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/24/weekinreview/24greenberg.html?_r=1&oref=slogin) back in February.
Greenburg's pissed off that Hillary didn't get on the ticket, so he's dredging the pond from 20 years ago.
Reading the article, the education claims came out in an exaggerated rant 20 years ago and never said anywhere else. So it seems like there's some cherry-picking going on. I put that on the order of the whole Gore "I invented the internet" controversy. The whole Kinnock thing -- reading carefully because I know Greenburg's particular bias -- it looks like Biden went from crediting Kinnock... to partially crediting Kinnock... to not crediting Kinnock when he delivered the same speech several times. It was sloppy on his part.
Greenburg has enough of an ax to grind that we'll be hearing soon enough if Biden's done anything similar in the last 20 years.