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I completely agree. Let me be upfront: I'm an Obama supporter, so my opinion is sure to be biased. That being said, I find myself wondering how her speech will be accepted by the much-wanted independents and women in particular. I can't speak for women, of course, but it seems that most (but surely not all) Clinton women will be turned off by Palin's right wing beliefs, and this speech did not help that. Secondly, I think there is a real tiredness among voters this year for the usual attacks from both parties; and last night's speech by Palin was a whole of what we've heard before from Republicans with very little substance. Of course, as the McCain campaign pointed out, this election is not about issues.

"Strong women"?!? Is that what they're called?

I can't tell if this is serious or very subtle sarcasm but if this post is serious, you are a waste of skin.

I love how obama and all of his supporters are trying to run against Pres Bush. I have news for you, he is not running. McCain and Palin are. I think obama knows he shallows in comparison to either of them, thats why he will try to make this election about Pres Bush. If he had any cojones he would actually tell us what his views are and let people decide on the differences between him and McCain. Instead he is just trying to hide behind Pres Bush's poor approval ratings. But then when you are part of the crooked IL political machine (I am embarrassed to admit I live in IL) and have no real experience doing anything but scamming voters, what else do you have to run on.

I think she pretty accurately pointed out that obama has zero experience. Thanks to playing ball in the IL political machine he went from hustler to state legislature to senator. All the while accomplishing nothing but getting his name out there. Sarah may not be a seasoned washington politician, but at least she has executive experience and knows how to balance a budget.

To make this more related to TV, the only reason he got the keynote speech at the 2004 convention and was elevated to a national figure was because Jeri Ryan (7 of 9) didnt want to go to freaky sex clubs.

Backstory- Jack Ryan ex husband of Jeri was the repub candidate for senate. He was forced to drop out of the race when it came out from divorce papers that Jack wanted Jeri to go to freaky europe sex clubs and she wouldnt. The repubs couldnt recover in time and it was obvious obama would win so he was given a prime time speech at the convention. So its all 7 of 9's fault that we have the worst candidate in my memory as the democratic nominee for president.

This is from a lifelong democrate voting for McCain/Palin

Sarah Palin’s much-awaited speech at the Republican National Convention on Wednesday night may have shown she could play the role of attack dog, but it also showed her to be short on facts when it came to touting her own record and going after Obama’s.

We found Rudy Giuliani, who introduced her, to be as factually challenged as he sometimes was back when he was in the race. But Mike Huckabee may have laid the biggest egg of all.

* Palin may have said “Thanks, but no thanks” on the Bridge to Nowhere, though not until Congress had pretty much killed it already. But that was a sharp turnaround from the position she took during her gubernatorial campaign, and the town where she was mayor received lots of earmarks during her tenure.

* Palin’s accusation that Obama hasn’t authored “a single major law or even a reform” in the U.S. Senate or the Illinois Senate is simply not a fair assessment. Obama has helped push through major ethics reforms in both bodies, for example(and many more, n the 110th Congress Obama sponsored 152 bills and introduced 113 himself. This is not including bills he cosponsored and does not include purely ceremonial bills (like naming Post Offices.) And this is just from one congressional session.

* The Alaska governor avoided some of McCain’s false claims about Obama’s tax program – but her attacks still failed to give the whole story.

* Giuliani distorted the time line and substance of Obama’s statements about the conflict between Russia and Georgia. In fact, there was much less difference between his statements and those of McCain than Giuliani would have had us believe.

* Giuliani also said McCain had been a fighter pilot. Actually, McCain’s plane was the A-4 Skyhawk, a small bomber. It was the only plane he trained in or flew in combat, according to McCain’s own memoir.

* Finally, Huckabee told conventioneers and TV viewers that Palin got more votes when she ran for mayor of Wasilla than Biden did running for president. Not even close. The tally: Biden, 79,754, despite withdrawing from the race after the Iowa caucuses. Palin, 909 in her 1999 race, 651 in 1996.

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Huckabee was obviously being tongue in cheek when he said Palin got more votes for Mayor than Biden did in his presidential campaign. Give me a break. It was a joke. And a good one that got a lot of laughs.

Obama got 3.5 million PBS viewers. He still topped Palin.