Posted on 09/07/2008 12:01:31 AM PDT by Schnucki
It was the most important Convention in American political history.
At the beginning, the Republicans looked weary, stale, flat and unprofitable. Their candidate was old, tainted by an unpopular war, a stricken economy, and an eight-year presidency that the voters were booing off the stage. Barack Obama was young, eloquent and renewing. He had the future and the big momentum.
Now, everything is in flux. Last weekend, I phoned around my Republican friends. Who is Sarah Palin and what do you know about her?
If cliche can be forgiven, there is an easy summary of their answers: gobsmacked.
I was told that she is focused, energetic, able and determined. But in British politics, it would be like meeting a bright girl at a Tory conference, who was fighting a safe Labour seat with ferocious energy and whom it would be easy to imagine as a junior minister, in 10 years' time.
America is different. Despite an increasingly urbanised society, the founding myths still overshadow the political system: virgin soil, the open frontier, log cabin to White House. Even though most recent candidates have been multi-millionaires with a campaign budget the size of a second-world country's GDP, Americans insist on believing that anyone can aspire to the presidency.
(Excerpt) Read more at telegraph.co.uk ...
"Show me just what Mohammed brought that was new, and there you will find things only evil and inhuman, such as his command to spread by the sword the faith he preached." - Manuel II Palelologus
The Brits do not (still) understand Americans. The convention that just ended was not the most important in American History. That distinction probably goes to the 1860 conventions.
And here the “myths” again, they do not understand the central thing about Palin: “authentic.”
Not myth.
I will forgive the Brits, one more time, as they are waking up.
Leave it to the British to start this article with a quote from Hamlet.
LOL!!!
Whoopee for Sarah Palin ! A smalltown girl from an ordinary background who believes in self help and aspiration. She is of course despised by the cognoscenti and ridiculed for her small town ways. How could someone who looks like that and who is folksy ever get anywhere and deal with the sophisticated world of the Capitol.
Well - that was Maggie. A small town girl despised by the inherited wealth and those with position as of right - by the Toynbees of this world. Maggie took the World by storm. She faced a windbag called Kinnock too. We even have a parallel in Biden who plagiarised the Welsh Windbag's speech !
The race is still open. But do I want a war hero who will face up to the evil countries/isms of this world (Russia, China, Iran, Islamofascism etc) or a cafe latte liberal - in the White House ? Do I want a self important millionaire who thought Kinnock was worth copying or a pit bull with lipstick as VP ?
I say as an Englishman "Who do I want" even though I have no vote there. My freedom depends on who wins. NATO/EU are busted fluushes - just look at their craven behaviour over Georgia ! I would not have my freedoms today but for US leadership in WW1,WW2, WW3 (Cold War) and now in WW4 ( rogue states and Islamofascists).
God speed to John McCain and Sarah Palin. Posted by Mikea on September 7, 2008 7:27 AM
Whoopee for Sarah Palin !
A smalltown girl from an ordinary background who believes in self help and aspiration. She is of course despised by the cognoscenti and ridiculed for her small town ways. How could someone who looks like that and who is folksy ever get anywhere and deal with the sophisticated world of the Capitol.
Well - that was Maggie. (Margaret Thatcher) A small town girl despised by the inherited wealth and those with position as of right - by the Toynbees of this world. Maggie took the World by storm. She faced a windbag called Kinnock too. We even have a parallel in Biden who plagiarised the Welsh Windbag's speech !
The race is still open. But do I want a war hero who will face up to the evil countries/isms of this world (Russia, China, Iran, Islamofascism etc) or a cafe latte liberal - in the White House ? Do I want a self important millionaire who thought Kinnock was worth copying or a pit bull with lipstick as VP ?
I say as an Englishman "Who do I want" even though I have no vote there. My freedom depends on who wins. NATO/EU are busted fluushes - just look at their craven behaviour over Georgia ! I would not have my freedoms today but for US leadership in WW1,WW2, WW3 (Cold War) and now in WW4 ( rogue states and Islamofascists).
God speed to John McCain and Sarah Palin.
Posted by Mikea on September 7, 2008
you beat me to it :)
LOL, Someone else noticed. :) The comment should have its own post. Excellent.
Calling Mikea -
This account has been banned or suspended.
I expect that Mr McCain will draw with Mr Obama in the presidential debates and that in a close race decided by a few hundred thousand votes in the key states, Mrs Palin will help her senior partner to win because of her dramatic appeal to the middle America marginals. She will also position herself to become America's first female president.
When one imagines Hillary Clinton's reaction to that prospect, it would take a heart of stone not to laugh.
Heh, I didn’t even know he was a Freeper. Looks like he was making points against Fred and got zapped.:)
Me either, but I figured with such a great coherent supportive comment he might have been - or needed to be! Goes to show what talent we’ve got on our side!
I agree and would like to have a peak at Obama’s internal polling.
My brother and sister-in-law are life long Democrats who I was convienced would vote for Hitler and Val the Red if they were on the ballot as (D).
Today, I got an e-mail that they are voting for McCain/Palin. The sound heard round the world was my jaw hitting the desk!
If they feel this way, I think Obama is in deep trouble.
Again, the Brits media “get it”... another case of Ambrose Pritchard.
"..She is also much brighter than Joe Biden..a garrulous blusterer whose intellectual self-confidence is not justified by his intellect..."
Absolutely perfect!
Myths?
Snarky comment like that in the Telegraph?
Yanks should give thanks for Sarah (Brit tab: “Unlike Barack Obama, she is the real thing”)
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