He is by far he worst speaker of the 4 of them (him, Obama, Biden, Palin)
Really conservative agenda… and will someone explain to me how it is more ethical (right wing argument) to let capitalism rule health care rather than a national strategy to provide it to all people? Is free market capitalism and competition amongst businesses more important to the citizens of America (all of them) than making sure we all get the health care we need when we need it?
It comes down to an issue of compassion. And where compassion fits on your personal scale of values. The issue of compassion is an issue of ethics, and it divides the two parties at the most basic level. But you will only hear Obama talk about compassion, because the right wing knows that ‘compassionate’ is exactly what they are not, but they don’t want the American people to know that… I digress…..
Apparently Columbia is trying to set up a deal to unite the exec producers and writers of NBC’s The Office with the original Ghostbusters cast (Bill Murray, Dan Akroyd, Harold Ramis, and Ernie Hudson… aren’t these guys like… really old now…)
Here’s Sarah Palin at the RNC last night. Sarah was articulate, passionate, motivating, and intense last night. She did exactly what she needed to do not only to energize the McCain base, but to sway an independent or two over to the right this November. She is very clearly, and very intelligently, a heat seeking missile for Barack Obama. Not a plot to snatch up Hillary supporters as many of us first thought.
I also think she was smug, overly sarcastic, and far too disrespectful to Obama and the Democrats. It seems that Palin’s role will be to let McCain run the positive campaign, while she bitches her way to the negative campaign. A heat seeking missile. And while I think it was very successful last night, it was a whole lot of rhetoric and not a lot of substance. She was clearly uncomfortable talking about policy issues and kept it to boiler plate Republican issues, and was strongest when she was talking about her family (for about 1 third of the speech) and smugly ripping apart Obama (another 3rd of the speech).
But she did her job, however disrespectful and hyper-political it was.
I hope Biden rips her to shreds in the VP debate, I think he will. Because she’ll have to talk about, ya know, issues.
The brilliant Aason Sorkin’s next writing project is writing a movie about Mark Zuckerberg and the founders of Facebook. Sorkin announced this after posting it on his brand spanking new Facebook page of his own. I’m a bit baffled. But if it’s Sorkin, it’s probably going to be good.
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