Posted on 10/05/2008 7:13:59 AM PDT by kellynla
Back in February, several political lifetimes ago, I was on the radio with Laura Ingraham and she played Stevie Wonder’s campaign song for Barack Obama, whose lyric, in its entirety, runs:
Ba-rack O-ba-ma Ba-a-rack O-ba-a-ma Ba-ra-ack Obama-a...
(Repeat until coronation.)
And Laura and I had a good laugh about it, until it occurred to me that, in politics as in pop, the tune is more important than the words. A guy can run for president with all the right lyrics — on the war, the economy, the social issues — but what matters is whether people respond to the underlying music: not what he’s saying, but how he’s saying it. At the time, I was reflecting on Mitt Romney: The song looked great on paper, but when he stuck it on the stand and started to warble it never quite soared.
(Excerpt) Read more at article.nationalreview.com ...
They should realize by now that Sarah Palin is as BIG a deal to come down the mountain as I've seen in a long, long time.
She IS a GAME CHANGER to say the least.
L0L! Brilliant
This is a brilliant piece, by far the most effective of the current run of ‘John, simply be yourself and unleash Sarah now!’ columns.
As for what I would advise the McCain/Palin camp, I just don’t know now. Unless he’s willing to accept the fact that he is running as a Republican in an age when ‘Pubs are strongly conservative and faintly populist against a statist and elitist Democrat Party, he’s simply not going to succeed. It’s one thing to turn to the opposite side of the chamber and invite them to come across to do the right thing. You do that once you’re in a position to make offers. You do not do such a thing while you’re trying to convince people you should be in that position. Until John does the latter, he’ll never get to try the former.
And we’ll all have to be vewy vewy qwiet, because the wabbit will be hunting us.
What we've been sayin'.
“As for Katie’s Restaurant, ah, I’m sure it was grand but apparently it closed in 1990. In the Diner of the Mind, the refills are endless and Senator Joe is sitting shootin’ the breeze over a cuppa joe with a couple other regular joes on adjoining stools while Betty-Jo, the sassy waitress who’s tough as nails but with a heart of gold, says Ol’ Joe, the short-order cook who’s doing his Sloppy Joes just the way the Senator likes ‘em, really appreciates the way that, despite 78 years in Washington, Joe Biden is still just the same regular Joe Six-Pack he was when he and Norman Rockwell first came in for a sarsaparilla all those years ago. But, alas, while he was jetting off for one-to-one talks with the Deputy Tourism Minister of Waziristan, the old neighborhood changed.”
LOL
The problem was that it all sounded drearily senatorial. Mention any global crisis — civil war in Bosnia, genocide in Darfur, Russian aggression in Georgia, the lack of five-star restaurants in Wales — and Biden has been there, usually within the last two weeks, and always at public expense.
To funny!
This wasn't just brilliant, it was really funny.
Steyn is a treasure, we need manna from him, J. Goldberg and a just a few others, The rest of the Conservative pundantry George Will included, should be taking up hobbies like wooden boat construction in the their garages. It Golden Years time for a whole lot of them IMHO....
ping
Any day with Mark Steyn is a good day.
Another great one by Steyn. He had me laughing out loud as usual. Boy would I love him to be coaching Palin like he mentioned. You know she would love him.
ROTLMAO!! SNL could take a few lessons from Mr Steyn
Did I hear ‘wink’?
DUmmie Funnie classic:
“This woman is pure chilling. I am usually right on with the evil vibes and this one leaves me shaking she is so vile.” [As if that wasn’t bad enough, the DUmmie raves on] “What was with the stupid WINKS? Yuck.”
“I don’t like her any more than I did before, but I felt like she did an OK job. But when she did that winking thing, my husband said, “We have to get this bitch, she’s evil.” Not sure why the winking set him off, but he is still bitching about it this morning.”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/bloggers/2096653/posts?page=23
Styne missed the one that made me spit up the beer I was drinking. Biden said Article I of the Constitution was about the Executive branch (it is the Legislative) and that the VP is only talked about in that Article making the VP a Executive position (the VP is discussed in both Article I and II ).
The guy has been part of the Legislative branch for over 30 years and doesn’t know it is Article I? I can excuse mixing up Article I and II, but he goes on to say that the VP job is only in the Executive Article and that is wrong any way you look at it.
Maybe Senator Biden should have read the job description of the position he is nominated for.
GretaWire announced last night that the California state President of NOW has declared she is supporting Gov. Sarah Palin (and McCain) in the upcoming election.
Looks like women are going to support McCain/Palin in ever larger numbers. Shouldn’t be surprising, since Obama doesn’t seem to like women.
They’ve been trying to say on CNN and the others that women hate Sarah Palin—well I guess not all women.
Holy Cow(s)! Thats remarkable.
LMAO!I needed that.It is the monster in the room nobody is talking about.I find it funny that as mayor of wasilla ak,Pallin got more votes than biden did for his pres.run.Thats just funny.
Yup. Looks like he shoved that angry wife of his in the closet. (Is she to Black?)
..by all means LOL!
“Shouldn’t be surprising, since Obama doesn’t seem to like women.”
That’s why he can’t close the deal on women over 40 who are ‘uneducated’. Oh, they’re educated all right - they have a degree from the School of Hard Knocks. Burn me once, shame on you; burn me twice, shame on me.
To me, that wink means “I’m talking past the media and over the heads of the elite, directly to you.”
He nails it again.
bttt
ping
The front page declared that Biden won the debate, and credited that fact to a CBS poll of 500 people. Sheesh! A formerly-conservative paper pushes the brainchild of slimy CBS and terms it "definitive news". Makes ya sick.
Once you see “CBS poll,” stop reading, because everything that follows is compost.
Our big-city daily is the Charlotte Observer, and it’s a useless liberal fishwrap. We can get the movie schedules from their website, and that’s the only reason we ever bought one. The county seat daily, which also stinks, gives us a free issue every week; we use it line the snake’s cage.
For useful information, we have an independent weekly paper with county news, and “Human Events,” always a couple of weeks behind, but informative anyway. And Free Republic. It’s funny, whenever my husband says he heard some news on the radio, I can always say, “Yeah, I saw that on FR a couple of days ago!”
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