A political Furby is born!
I usually don’t take notes while watching TV and I didn’t think of it until it was half over. My observation is she is dumb as bricks mimick who has probably taken acting classes and is good at reciting things. Kinda like a parrot or a Furby. She didn't answer many of the questions asked and apparently had her own script to read from. Her folksy down home "speak" was forced, fake and made her seem like she was patronizing the people who really speak that way.
She is cute and repeats what she is told.
1. The “Shout out to the 3rd graders at Gladys Wood Elementary School in Alaska.” Are you freaking serious? This is a debate for VP of the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA not a hip hop radio program.
2. She quoted Ronald Regan, who was quoting John Winthrop though she apparently did not know the source of the reference, incorrectly crediting it to Reagan instead of Winthrop.
For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill. The eyes of all people are upon us. So that if we shall deal falsely with our God in this work we have undertaken… we shall be made a story and a by-word throughout the world. We shall open the mouths of enemies to speak evil of the ways of God… We shall shame the faces of many of God's worthy servants, and cause their prayers to be turned into curses upon us til we be consumed out of the good land whither we are a-going.
However, those who praise Winthrop fail to note his strident anti-democratic political tendencies.
3.) She used the term Maverick more than ten times:
Maverick:
1. An unbranded range animal, especially a motherless calf;
2. It can also mean a person who thinks independently; a lone dissenter; a non-conformist or rebel.
John McCain voted with George Bush’s policies 95% of the time in 2007. I would hardly call someone who votes along the side of the worst most unbelievable failure ever called a president a Maverick.
And last but certainly not least Palin's statement that the Vice President is allowed even greater authority. Here' what she said:
"I'm thankful the Constitution would allow a bit more authority given to the vice president if that vice president so chose to exert it in working with the Senate and making sure that we are supportive of the president's policies and making sure too that our president understands what our strengths are."
I think that mostly thinking people would agree that Dick Cheney has overused the small amount of power that he has to screw us all.
My dears I could go on and on but I do not have enough time today.