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by RW Spisak Governor, America really does appreciate a pretty face. And all the extra effort you put in to memorize those sham talking points. That must've been "hard work" doing all that rote memorization. Senator Joe Biden, always a gentleman, didn't need to point out that all that bobbing and weaving standing near him didn't mean that he had a political equal on the stage. Or that he was facing any-kind of worldclass international leader. Ms. Sarah try as she might to get all those Rovian talking points out, may've had cute going for her, but all that cutesy winking at the camera, and all those "you betchas" won't help when your negotiating with Vladamir Putin. |
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Governor Sarah, announced early on, she would be ignoring the questions that didn't allow her the comfort of her rehearsed lines. Protesting too much, too soon informing us straight out, that she would refuse to respond to Gwen Ifill's gentle journalism. Senator Biden did point out that Senator McCain has had an energy policy track record, he has opposed alternative energy relentlessly. Anyone whose paid the slightest attention was well aware that even the maximum drilling urged by the McCain/Palin candidacy will hardly provide a drop in the oil barrel to a nation that needs to find an energy source beyond the mid-east fossil follies. |
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Regarding the Governor's purported vast knowledge of energy issues, the arena that Senator McCain suggested is one of her strongest suits, the governor limited her energy comments to the petrol industries' preferred continental-shelf drilling talking points. One thing obvious to this room full of democrats watching the debate, America's choice was obvious, you had one candidate prepared with facts, and analysis and an alternative candidate content to mug for the camera, while delivering prerecorded down-home punch lines. |
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the McCain's team may be happy, that Sarah satisfied the cute
quotient. Many Americans must have left the viewing with the
question as to whether cute is an adequate solution to an economic
meltdown and a healthcare crisis that leaves Americans locked-out of any
real access to the finest medical care on the planet and global
political challenges.
The McCain palliative that American foreign policy in the mid-east requires still more uncounted years of BUSH-ISH occupation in Iraq and another surge and maybe another delivering more young Americans into the expanding poppy fields of Afghanistan. This admittedly might not look like much "change" in foreign affairs. |
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Will the plastic wings and training wheels be adequate to win McCain the necessary voting numbers, or will a sober America turn to a more intellectually engaged team to face the future, remains the unanswered question at the end of an evenings debate. |
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WINK WINK - you betcha! |
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