Sarah Palin speaks - attacks Obama and media scrutiny
Posted by Justin Gero on 04 Sep 2008 at 01:57 pm | in: The Drexel Beat, Vote 2008
The selection of Gov. Sarah Palin as Republican John McCain’s running mate has had the Republican Party defending the relatively unknown governor of Alaska. Last night Palin spoke at the GOP Convention in St. Paul (video below) and used the opportunity to defend herself and assail her critics.
Overall the speech seemed to be well received; however, an Associated Press fact-check of Palin’s speech found that, “In some cases, the reproach and the praise stretched the truth.”
The McCain campaign released an ad touting Palin’s credentials and attacking Obama (video below), but multiple fact-checkers are reporting the ad is “misleading” and “barely true”.
The New York Times also weighed in on the ad saying: “In addition, the McCain ad repeats one of its oft-used complaints about Mr. Obama’s support for an energy bill that provided tax breaks to oil companies. The problem is, the claim has been fairly debunked by fact-checkers across the board.”
Sara Palin did very well in giving an amusing performance, but short of that, I saw no substance in her address. If she is going to step into politics and hold the VP hopeful slot, she needs to be able to take a punch, just as she can give one. She talked about an Washington outsider, yet she was a broken record of “business as usual” politics. She preaches absentance until you are married, yet, she has an unmarried daughter sitting on the front row. Also, the response to it is that her daughter and her boyfriend plan on getting married. Don’t you think that probably should have occurred at least 4 months ago? How long will the public allow her to punch and then hide under her gender-blanket? Is this a ploy to get sympathy from women? I don’t think so. Sara need to “woman up” to the job. Sara needs to become more knowledgable of the facts and spend less time on a performance, to gain the vote of people that have critical thinking skills. I was a Hillary supporter, but she has not convinced me to vote for her. Sarah, try again!
We can’t afford 4 more years of the same. Grampie McSame and Caribu Barbie have got to go!
The attacks that Sarah Palin has done about Barack Obama let’s me know how DESPERATE the MaCain campaign really is. I’m not sure that John MaCain wanted this to happen but dude she is going to bring you down falling hard. Trying to scare the hell out of people is not going to get you votes lady!!! Try something else are you are going to look even more dumb that you already do!