Posted on 01/27/2010 9:35:18 PM PST by Free ThinkerNY
Sarah Palin analyzes President Obama's State of the Union address.
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It is just bizarre to have the "leader of the free world" doing that. It is as if he can't understand why the world isn't the old Coca Cola commercial.
"I'd like to buy the world a Coke ..."
He says "I didn't expect things to suddenly change just because I took office" (to paraphrase.) But his lecturing on civility and cooperation says he does think that. He did in fact say when he was elected "This is the day the seas begin to recede..." or some such crap.
“Lecture” - right on. All the blah-blah-blah from everyone else, and she perfectly captures it in one word.
She’s great.
“Lecture” “Fundamental disconnect” “Condescending”
Sarah nails him, again.
I LOVED the video feed, it was so much better then having to hear her on the phone. Last time she was on Greta’s show via phone, I couldn’t hear anything she was saying, this time, MUCH better..she was articulate and made great points. It was a lecture, it was boring, and Obama as usual was just full of himself. Most boring speech EVER
Nope, her accent is fine.
It lets people know just how big and diverse this country is. The east cost liberals mocking her is like mocking any other minority - the worm will turn on those that do the mocking.
No, he is NUTS...it’s time for the 25th amendment be invoked...give him a knock out drug and haul his ass to a padded cell...
Yes, yes, you’re right on all counts. Very good memory. I don’t think I’ve ever heard a President laughed at during a SOTU before. He deserved it though.
I keep waiting for Palin to start her answer to a question with “well”, and it never happens. Most every politician does that. Reagan started with “well’ regularly. Palin does not, and this contributes to the conciseness and clarity of her presentation.
Reagan was broadcast standard if I ever heard it.
I just want the widest number of voters to have no qualms with her in 2012, because you know she’s going to get the nom.
Reagan was a broadcaster.
I still don't understand why anybody would have "qualms" about somebody's accent. JFKs "Cuber", for example, didn't seem to be a concern.
Similarly, I don't understand why a candidate is somehow offensive simply because they like country music.
Nor do I see the point in objecting to a candidate because they didn't graduate from a "good school". Reagan, as you know, graduated from Eureka College -- hardly a paragon of the Ivy League.
Fact is, most of the nation's problems trace to the legacy of Ivy League graduates -- like the "Best and the Brightest" of the Viet Nam era, Bill Clinton and the current catastrophe. Meanwhile, some of our very best presidents never went to college (see Truman, Harry).
It's as if Free Republic has become a home for wayward snobs (present company excluded).
True. Good points. I’m far more concerned about a candidate’s policies than where he or she went to college. As SP keeps repeating, solving our country’s problems takes common sense and not the overthinking that comes with attempts to reengineer society.
I just know that the reason Obama won is because he energized people and got them all out to vote for him. Sarah has the potential to do that, and she already has done that to us on the right. To get the “Obama youth” if you will, (assuming that they aren’t already disillusioned enough not to bother voting in 2012), Sarah needs to be “cooler,” and her accent just isn’t the coolest. I have overheard an alarming amount of “I just can’t stand the way she talks,” during discussions of SP, and I don’t want something like that to keep her from winning an election. Yes, the accent is superficial, but it’s also getting negative attention and invites mockery. Anything that might stand between her and a successful 2012 race should be addressed.
You realize, of course, that there is no way we (or SP) can get the "Obama youth". Nor, I would hazard, we wouldn't want them.
Gov. Palin does have "it". Star-power. She can command a room. She can command a stage. She's the first GOP candidate to have "it" since Ronald Reagan.
And a major part of "it", in her case, is her authenticity. She's genuine. She is who she is. You can tell it from her speaking and her writing. Anything lacking in authenticity -- an affected accent, whatever -- will detract from her appeal.
If somebody is going to make a voting decision on something so superficial as an accent, they simply aren't a conservative voter to start with. If she loses them because they're so superficial, she'll pick up more people from the middle -- who will respond to her as she is.
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