I thought Palin was perfect. She was snarky where that was needed, reflective where that was needed. Effective and dead on!

Time constraints caused them to cut this on Wednesday when Sarah Palin did her acceptance speech, so here it is now, better late than never.
Her opponents will of course trot out any disgruntles person they can find who doesn’t like something she…

these are the people who are helping out where the government is falling short.

Ah, I see. So Obama the community organizer was helping out in Chicago where the government fell short.

Little known fact: the government in Chicago is run by the Democrat party machine.

So the government that “fell short” is run by Obama’s own party. In fact, he’s an operative in that same party.

Logical conclusion: you are telling us that Obama’s task as a community organizer was to step in where he and his cohorts had already failed.

Seems to me that if the Chicago Democrats did the job right the first time, the so-called community organizing wouldn’t have been necessary. That’s hardly a great recommendation, especially since he made no attempt to make that organization work better for the “community”.

These are the people addressing the problems or crime and poverty etc.

Aha…so judging by the results, it’s safe to say he was a failure at that task.

Unless, of course, “community organizer” really means something different. Like, maybe, teaming up with organizations like ACORN that pad voting rolls with phantom voters, perhaps?

A fairly liberal friend of mine sent me this response to McCain’s speech:
THAT was the best speech of either convention.
He wasn’t the most polished – his listeners were rude at times – but fuck, I believed that he believed in what he said….

Because that worked out so well for President Bush. Doesn’t anyone remember that “W” campaigned on his bi-partisan governing style in Texas?

How many of the liberals and Democrats that Bush appointed spent their time in his administration screwing up their jobs, leaking false stories to reporters and after being fired writing books all about how eeevil George Bush is?

How many? All of them!

And McCain vows to give us more of the same instead of appointing patriots.

This is why I am voting for Palin, not McCain.

Yes that is the world’s most annoying background.. and i imagine more distracting when you’re there… although from home it looks a bit like sci fi blue screen… will Mc be beaming in this evening?

Had not heard Cindy speak.. another well spoken, approachable intelligent republican woman – was wondering about the amount of time reserved for a candidates mate, not just running mate, but the wisdom of it is becomes wonderfully obvious.

Obama was looking for change…. i think we’ve already found it … and on THIS side of the rainbow.

Not as bad as Mary Fallin. That was terrible.

Anyway, you know, I should really chime in on something that ST posted:

And speaking of Obama, some of his staunch supporters are upset at the cracks Gov. Palin and Rudy took last night at community organizers. Tom Maguire has humorous commentary on the “outrage” as always. I wonder if those same folks will express outrage, too, over Obama’s dismissal of “small town mayors” as though it’s not a real job? Not holding my breath.

I’d say that Rudy took more of a shot at the community organizers than Palin, but there is a significant difference between them and the mayors. I mean, these are the people who are helping out where the government is falling short. These are the people addressing the problems or crime and poverty etc.; the cause “greater than oneself” that this ticket supposedly embraces. Instead, the people who are out there trying to address the consequences of failed policies are now frowned upon. Strange. In fact, I think we’ve approached the surreal parallel universe where beauty queens are mocking community organizers.

Anyway, Obama was rebutting a specific critique on the level of executive experience. He didn’t say “small town mayor, what is that?” a la Rudy, and it certainly wasn’t delivered with the snideness a la Palin.

Oh well, hopefully for Palin, losin the community organizer vote was worth it. All those people from across the political spectrum doing God’s work and all that.