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Of course Sarah has gotten under Obama’s skin. He is all artifice and device and she is an authentic two-fisted American woman.

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Real Clear Politics (RCP Poll Average) has McCain with a 2.1pt lead over Obama and USA Today/Gallup (09/05 - 09/07) shows McCain with a 10pt lead–McCain at 54 and Obama at 44.

Too biased for prime time? This must have had an impact on managements thinking…

When the vice presidential nominee Sarah Palin lamented media bias during her speech, attendees of the Republican convention loudly chanted “NBC.”

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The press did Sarah Palin and the GOP a huge favor!

By their relentless campaign of personal destruction, they caused a powerful backlash among voters in favor of Sarah. Furthermore, their attempts to paint Sarah as completely out of her league had the effect of significantly reducing expectations for her performance Wednesday night..and, in doing so, unwittingly created a vacuum into which she stepped with grace and aplomb. Continue Reading »

That’s exactly the thought I was left with after watching her speech Wednesday night—a star is born!

All of a sudden, despite that great chorus of whining from the press, Obama’s position at the center of the known universe has been foreclosed upon–and now all eyes are on Sarah!

Her narrative makes his look plain silly.

“Harvard Law Review…we don’t need no steenkin Law Review. We want a mooseburger (and hold the arugula)!”

In an interview before the speech, Morris said that he thought Palin shouldn’t attack Obama–it might backfire. Well, he has changed his tune (excerpt, read it all at NewsMax) …

“She attacked him really well. I had no idea I was dealing with this unbelievable superstar,” Morris told Newsmax from St. Paul, Minn., the site of the convention,

“Normally when a woman candidate attacks a man, she risks coming across as shrill and strident. Instead, Sarah Palin is really kind of like a British politician who uses humor and sarcasm and wit and sass in a charming way to attack her opponent.

“When you can get someone laughing at your opponent, at that point it’s not strident.”

Asked to rate Palin’s overall performance, Morris declared: “Absolutely magnificent. It was wonderful. McCain is so fortunate to have her on the ticket.”

We can always count on Gerard Baker (U.S. Editor of the Times UK) to bring some clarity (and humor) to the muddle of American Politics and he does so today in his article in Real Clear Politics. Here’s an excerpt–read it all at RCP…

Appeal

Obama: A very attractive speaker whose celebrity has been compared to that of Britney Spears and who sends thrills up Chris Matthews’ leg

Palin: A very attractive woman, much better-looking than Britney Spears who speaks rather well too. She sends thrills up the leg of Rush Limbaugh (and me).

Executive experience

Obama: Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of his campaign staff and a vast crowd of traveling journalists

Palin: Makes executive decisions every day that affect the lives of 500,000 people in her state, and that impact crucial issues of national economic interest such as the supply and cost of energy to the United States.

Sarah Palin is a powerful speaker…and she literally bristles with strength and determination!

Poor little Barry. Heheh.

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Obama is a strange one…and his campaign is all about him.

He has no record to speak of. No paper trail. No witnesses (except for those now, as Charles points out, resting uncomfortably under the bus).

As it was in the beginning, it still is now. It’s all about Obama yet we don’t know who he is.

Here’s Krauthammer’s opening volley in Real Clear Politics today…

Barack Obama is an immensely talented man whose talents have been largely devoted to crafting, and chronicling, his own life. Not things. Not ideas. Not institutions. But himself.

Nothing wrong or even terribly odd about that, except that he is laying claim to the job of crafting the coming history of the United States. A leap of such audacity is odd. The air of unease at the Democratic convention this week was not just a result of the Clinton psychodrama. The deeper anxiety was that the party was nominating a man of many gifts but precious few accomplishments — bearing even fewer witnesses.

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I thought this was a solid, if brief, biographic study of Cindy McCain. She’s a remarkable woman and will make a great First Lady! Here’s an excerpt and link…

“In Search of Cindy McCain”
By Holly Bailey | NEWSWEEK
June 30 Issue

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In the spring of 1979, Cindy joined her parents on a trip to Hawaii. At a Navy cocktail party, a cocky captain came up and introduced himself. John McCain was the Navy’s chief liaison to the Senate in Washington. He was 41, but told her he was 37. Cindy was 24, but told him she was 27. By both accounts, it was love at first sight—though for McCain, it was far more complicated. He was a married father of three. His relationship with his first wife, Carol Shepp, was coming apart, and the two were separating, though he didn’t divulge any of that to Cindy that first night.

“I monopolized her attention the entire time,” McCain writes in “Worth the Fighting For.” Afterward, he persuaded her to join him for drinks at the Royal Hawaiian Hotel. At first, Cindy had no idea that her date was a celebrated war hero who’d endured years of torture in a Vietnamese prison. Her parents had to tell her his story. In his book, McCain writes, “they were more welcoming of my attentions to their daughter than I had a right to expect. I doubt I could match their graciousness should I find one of my daughters attracted to someone who reminded me of me.”

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