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Thursday, October 2, 2008
Not a good night for Palin’s team
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
You have to give it to Joe Biden. No question he had the far better grasp of details of legislation that has gone through Congress in the 35 years he has been there. You have to give it to him, too. He succeeded in something Sarah Palin should have done more effectively, and that’s targeting the top of the other party’s ticket.
Biden’s experience in Senate debate and in running for President allowed him to distill his talking points and he delivered them very effectively.
To be honest, Palin missed a number of opportunities to draw distinctions between her team and the other party’s. She also acquiesced to Biden’s insistence that greed and corruption on Wall Street were the major cause of the financial meltdown that has occurred.
Her strategy was to talk straight to the American people. Did it work? Maybe, had she stayed more consistently on message. She didn’t.
She pretty much gave Biden free rein to lambast McCain. Not a good night for her team.
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Last minute advice for Sarah
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Joe Biden’s job is to show up, keep the smirks to a minimum, and try not to be himself.
Sarah Palin’s is to be herself, be disciplined in her responses, and ignore Joe Biden.
He doesn’t matter. Her target is Barack Obama. This debate is about her. And it’s about Obama. Her inexperience is his inexperience, except that she’ll be in training to be the decision maker and he’ll be learning on the job. Plus, she’s done it — made decisions that matter — and he hasn’t. His speciality is Monday morning quarterbacking.
Palin’s target audience is the people who don’t live and die by the day’s polls or those who join advocacy groups. It’s Middle America. They like her. They identify with her. She’s the one person on either ticket they’d like to have over for Sunday dinner.
Last minute advice: Be upbeat, Describe the stakes in the election and the difference that she and McCain represent. Joe’s not there. He’s Washington furniture. Biden’s talked for decades sounding intelligent, but as with Obama, nothing’s come of it.
People are looking for somebody they want to be in their lives for the next four years, somebody they like, somebody whose character and judgment inspires confidence.
In short: Be Sarah.
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Mission: Destroy Sarah Palin
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Every Lefty in America will be gathered around the television set tonight waiting for the Gotcha Moment. If it comes, not a one of them would consent to die before they can get to the office tomorrow to compare hoots on her performance. Such is the anticipation of the Left.
Sarah Palin is their most hated and feared woman in America. Her politics are frightening to them — frightening in the sense that she has what has been called a Reagan-like ability to connect with ordinary Americans. They hate her, even more than they hate George Bush, because she’s not “progressive,” meaning she’s not in their camp on abortion. She’s pro-life. She handles guns. She talks openly about her faith. She’s an outsider. She didn’t wait her turn.
Her turn would come after Hillary had blazed the trail by occupying the White House for eight years and after liberals had made it clear to all women in America that they should think alike, with the women of the Left are their role models.
That ain’t Sarah.
While the Left is watching Sarah waiting for something they can put on YouTube, the Right will be watching Gwen Ifill, the moderator. She’s writing a book, “The Breakthrough: Politics and Race in the Age of Obama” scheduled for publication on the day he is inaugurated as President of the United States. When chosen to moderate tonight’s panel, she neglected to mention her certainty that this is the “Age of Obama” and that her publisher’s preparing to release it on Jan. 20, 2009.
Impartial? She’s clearly not, but her questions could be.
The “Age of Obama.” The Left is certain it’s here and is on the verge of predicting a landslide affirmation from all across America. All they need is to marginalize Sarah. Tonight, they pray, will give them their material.
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