Before Speech, Running Mate Gets Some Coaching (Palin is prepped)

The Washington Post ^ | 09/03/08 | Juliet Eilperin and Robert Barnes

[Junior_G]

Ok, call me naive, but it disappoints me to hear that she’s not writing her own speech.

[D-fendr]

Fortunately, she didn’t need coaching on how many states are in the union..

[Snurple]

Sarah is one smart girl, she will do fine. When the smoke clears and the dems are seen as the garbage that they are by America they may be out of a job for the next 16 years. Keep up the good work obama, you are killing yourself.

[D-fendr]

You’re naive.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

"Ok, call me naive, but it disappoints me to hear that she’s not writing her own speech."

Because "the One" writes every word of his speeches and doesn't need a teleprompter?

[onedoug]

Yeah, phooey!

She'll be fine.

[MeanMachine]

We all wanted him to keep his powder dry, but not THIS dry. McCain really screwed his team on this one.

[KJC1]

It’s also a WaPo article.

Frankly, this smells like yet another smear-type job, to paint Palin as unprepared for the position, let alone the speech.

[FlingWingFlyer]

Governor Palin needs to get up and give a speech exactly like she did last Friday morning. I became inspired and fired up. Up until that speech, I was pretty depressed about November. It was so refreshing to finally see some “change” in American politics. Of course, I’ve never really been a big Greek temple kind of guy.

[A_Niceguy_in_CA]

And Biden writes his own speeches?

[hsalaw]

I think you’re a little bit naive. Her speech has to fit into the campaign’s parameters, which she may not have been all that familiar with, but I’m sure there are parts of it she’ll write herself to explain her own background.

[goldfinch]

OK. You are naive. Even Reagan used speech writers.

[DallasBiff]

Ok, call me naive, but it disappoints me to hear that she’s not writing her own speech.

She probably gave some suggestions and wil put her imprint on it, but what they hey you beleived the Wash Compost spin.

[GLDNGUN]

Ok, call me naive, but it disappoints me to hear that she’s not writing her own speech.

Ok, I'll call you naive. :-)

Seriously, did you think most pols write their own speeches? I'm sure she's giving input, but that's why pols have speech writers.

[JohnLongIsland]

He doesn’t even write his own term papers.

[GeoPie]

and yet another member from 1998...nice try buddy:P

[Dianna]

Prayers for Sarah. Tough spot to be in. I can’t decide if she should give ‘em hell, or be classy and show the MSM how wrong they are.

[highpockets]

Hey Newbie, what is nickname on Daily Kos or DU?

[DallasBiff]

We all wanted him to keep his powder dry, but not THIS dry. McCain really screwed his team on this one.

Not after tomorrow night, you DUmmies will be crying.