McCain’s speech

On policy and leadership in the White House, McCain wins.

On crowds and motivation, change for change sake, Obama wins.

Education is the civil right issue of the century. So true and profound.. among a host of other profound statements. Not the best delivery and his best delivery is always in town hall meetings, but when he told his story about what changed him as a man, I was moved to tears.

What’s scary is the Nielson ratings for Palin came close to Obama - and forget about Biden’s ratings.

http://apnews.myway.com/article/20080904/D93079DG4.html

Watching McCain’s biographical video and then comparing it to Obama’s, whose work experience is community organizer, made me remember what a light-weight joke Obama is. It leaves me thinking of the “community organizers” we have in Atlanta and trying to imagine one of them running for President.

Mr. profile-in-courage, voting present 130 times in the state senate, is trying to argue with Palin over who has more experience. Somebody remind Obama he’s not running for VP.

Hillary said it best when she said, “McCain will bring a lifetime of experience…Obama will bring a speech that he gave in 2002.”

Great convention. Thought the speeches of McCain, Palin, Guiliani, Huckabee were particularly strong and memorable. Romney’s speaking style not the greatest, but he showed intelligence and genuineness. Who else did I miss?

“Nielson ratings for Obama speech exceeded American Idol Finals, Acadamey Awards and Opening Night for Olympics.”

Who gives a crap what people watch on TV?

Hey, PD…in case you have missed the newsflash: The Dimocrats are SO F*CKED this November 4th!

It is amazing how a man show dull in the arena forum, has such a workhorse record of respect in the Senate.

Total opposite of Obama.

Go McCain! Go McCain! Go McCain! Go McCain!

Jason-

McCain was not directing that to Ralph personally - as Ralph would agree with him. That comment was directed at corruption.

Democrat voters hate corruption as much as we do. It reminded them that we share this and McCain can be trusted to blow the whistle,

GOPeach, you are a real…

…well Peach.

>he couldn’t even keep a bunch of dirty dumb hippies out of his convention.

The Republicans tried to keep them out.
The Democrats invited them in.

I wanted to put this link here for ya’ll, b/c I think it is a great assessment of what Palin represents for the GOP and conservatism. Potential thread here, I think, in a natl blog setting.

http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/comment/columnists/gerard_baker/article4677799.ece

If the link doesn’t work, it is a main story on RCP, and you can access it that way.

GOPeach
re: “Democrat voters hate corruption as much as we do.”

Do you have an example of how you’ve ever exposed fraud and corruption from the current administration?

Game - Sure do ….

I was the ONLY blogger WHO FOUGHT to ELECT Congressman Paul Broun!!! EVERYONE fought me on his race. Even Erick! Now you all are singing his praises…. He is “The Ron Paul” of Georgia! Because I am much older than you fellas … I have been fighting corruption for many decades…

I FIGHT the biggest most hennas corruption -
MURDER of UNBORN CHILDREN!!!!

Yes… that is a HUGE bureaucratic racket!

Oh and FYI- The Pink Ribbon Campaign Coming up in October … funds ABORTIONS!

I FIGHT THAT TOO!!!

“Now you all are singing his praises…. ”

um, no. Not all.

GOPeach, just how old are you.

Decatur,

The years spent in a university setting are nigh worthless compared to any amount of time out in the real world when it comes to leadership. What does law school teach you about leading people? In college you learn a great deal about a bunch of theoreticals, but until those are put into practice, one is nothing but a rookie.

Is it too much to ask for our supposed leaders to do the one thing that 99.999% of us do, get a real job.

Spelling test?

http://www.mediabistro.com/tvnewser/politics/protesters_get_very_little_airtime_during_mccain_speech_on_cablers_85691.asp

Same old d-bag Dem bullsh*t

McCain/Palin = I am a CNN clip.

Obviously I’m avoiding work this morning.

If I was Obama, I would hire GOPeach to go around the country promoting McCain and Palin. The landslide for him would be huge.

GAWire
Literally working on campaigns since 2004 (presidential in 04, congressional in 06) can give you a little perspective on what works and what doesn’t, I’ve been on both sides of that coin. I can promise you, were I interested in working for a Republican campaign…he would have at least not been in front of a green backdrop, been washed out by stage lighting, or wearing a black suit that made him look like an undertaker. He would have delivered a speech that focused on his strengths and not attempted to hand some kind of olive branch to Obama, nor should he have co-opted the change argument, now making him look like he’s following Obama’s lead.
This is the second McCain speech I’ve seen that was this poorly planned (the first was the much publicized speech he gave the night of Obama’s nomination - aka “that’s not change we can believe in”).
Presentation is more important than you might think. A poorly planned speech can turn off a voter who doesn’t really pay much attention to the issues, and I don’t think we’ll argue that there’s lots of those.

My favorite line was I am not a perfect servant, but I am a servant. I want a President that knows his job is to serve his country and his people. I am a veteran and I would follow McCain to war. I am a working mother of 4 and I think Palin represents all mothers and working women. We do it all because we have to and because we want to. I have faith in her gumption and her experience.

McCain’s speech was in pedestrian terms - GREAT - the average american knows what he stands for. Obama is right up there with the usual Democratic jargon - “Please define is”. Someone pass him a cigar.

Those styrofoam Greek temple columns are again on the back lot is just killing you Obamamaniacs. Just admit it.

But it’s the star power, the American idol, no substance circus act that matters.

Kyle,

It wasn’t a “green screen” but a picture of (I think) the White House and its expansive green lawn.

I hope we get some more uttertances from actor-morons like Alec Baldwin and Julia Roberts stating they will “move out of this country” if a Republican gets elected.

“The years spent in a university setting are nigh worthless compared to any amount of time out in the real world when it comes to leadership. What does law school teach you about leading people? In college you learn a great deal about a bunch of theoreticals, but until those are put into practice, one is nothing but a rookie.”

Doug, you’ve obviously not been to school for a long, long time (or maybe ever with a professional degree).

Even in a field as individualistic as engineering, teamwork is drilled into you over and over again on projects. Dealing with dead-wood, uncooperative people, fighting over schedules and popularity contests … all that petty crap that people seem to be able to inject into even the most rational exercise - been there, done that. Also had to train people, bring them up to speed, brief industry leaders and managers and convince skeptical crowds that our work is not simple handwaving and actually has some benefit to them.

Managing something like the Harvard Law Review means dealing with big egos and a probably a lot of country-club pricks that thought their family name should promote them over the Uppity One.

So, yes, school matters and it isn’t for the piece of paper. There is a lot that goes on outside the curriculum in college and especially for advanced degrees.

There’s plenty of room for mustangs and real-world education as well, but at non-UGA colleges, school can be rather useful.

tb,
You don’t happen to be in Clayton County by any chance do you?
Graduate of Lovejoy High here lol

Kyle, been there/done that too, buddy. If you have, then you’d know it’s a little more complicated than it looks/sounds. Everyone wants to be the QB, right? Everyone thinks they’re presidential speechwriters, in full Rob Lowe style. Oh and working 72 hr Victory Program doesn’t count for real national campaign work. Maybe if you would have said you did advance or something, then you’d know about planning events. Listen, I’ll admit McCain’s speech didn’t have the aesthetics that others had, but it’s McCain … he’s never been pretty and he doesn’t hide it b/c he doesn’t care. Btw, I know the people running the show at the convention - they’re the best out there, short of Hollywood producers, which some of them are (or at least NY media producers). Again, it’s easy being the expert from the couch.

Ga Wire,

I also think they intentionally wanted it to not look like a perfectly executed Hollywoodesque production to contrast McCain and Obama.

Obama decided to play up the celebrity side of his candidacy, which I think was the real mistake.

Kyle, nope..born and raised in another state. Moved out of original state to georgia seeking a job and affordable housing. Lost my shirt when I did 14 years ago. I was educated in a private Catholic school system back then.

bah, I hate HTML, but you gusy know what I meant.

“Do you really think that Biden and Obama know anything about what it is like to be a normal person? Really?”

Honestly, I don’t think any national-level pol knows what it’s like to be a normal person. Biden has probably lived the closest to a normal person out of the whole quartet, but the Senate is a far cry from carrying a lunch pail.

Now, it’s probably pretty obvious which pair I believe takes the normal person’s story more to heart and has a better policy plan. But, no, I don’t have much illusions that any of these guys would stop by my lunch table for a beer unless I had something they *really* wanted to hear.

And I’m also cognizant that even as a “normal person,” I pretty much owe my current existence to the magic of the SAT.

I might have been a tinkerer/inventor like my first boss otherwise, but School of Hard Knocks has a very slow and inefficient curriculum.

This was written by a friend, and he e-mailed it around:

This was written by a friend:

I have to say, I am quite breathless over this latest development in the campaign – Sarah Palin. I’ve been waiting to see what sort of person we got here, and I have to say so far she’s looking pretty good. There have been a few, shall we say, “surprises” in her family unit, but it strikes me still as a completely normal – and warmly American – family. At first, I have to admit, I thought McCain was pulling in a “skirt” as a cheap stunt in order to shake up the press and try to steal some Hillary-ites. But when I saw her bio I thought, that ain’t happening. No Hillary supporter is going to switch over to McCain just because of Palin. At least not enough to matter.

And then I saw her speak last (Wed.) night. Wow…she could not have been any better. I saw a real folksy, honest, smart, tough woman who also happened to be a great mom; a great wife, an outstanding governor and somebody Joe Biden had better be careful with when they meet in their debate. I mean, he will probably beat her on the basis of foreign affairs & maybe the national economy (maybe) but he won’t make her look silly. On the other hand she just might end up stealing the show from him before the nights out. She has that potential.

I had 90% made up my mind I would not vote for John McCain for a number of reasons. McCain-Feingold, McCain-Lieberman, McCain-Kennedy, Gang of 12, the lies (by somebody) about those mysterious Bush North Carolina “push-poll” calls back in 2000 that were never actually made, McCain’s swallowing the idiotic theory of SUV-caused Global Warming, his big-mouthed mother telling me I was going to HAVE to just hold my nose and vote for her son..(grrrrrr!!!)..lots of reasons.

But it gets tougher and tougher to stick to my non-vote. Obama gets worse and worse, the more I read about him. I am convinced that, while this guy may not be a Muslim, but he IS a radical communist. He will ruin our economy with his idiotic tax policies; he will probably appoint Supreme Court Justices who are to the Left of Lenin. Guys like Cornel West. Or, maybe even Hillary. Or Bill. Or both. And there’s his friendship with Bill Ayers, the ex-Weatherman terrorist. The worst thing about this guy isn’t the few bombs he planted, the worst thing about this guy is the fact that he’s now a college professor teaching future K-12 teachers to teach their little charges the wonders of socialism. In a piece written by a Sol Stern, we learn that, Ayers isn’t just an “English professor”, as Barak described him.

“Would that Ayers were just another radical English professor. In that case, his poisonous anti-American teaching would be limited to a few hundred college students in the liberal arts. But through his indoctrination of future K–12 teachers, Ayers has been able to influence what happens in hundreds, perhaps thousands, of classrooms.

That’s scary stuff. And with a friend in the White House, who knows how far Ayers could spread his propaganda.

So, all is looking pretty black for America and along comes Sarah “Barracuda”…

…and I have to say I’m getting a funny feeling about her arrival on the scene. Think about this; just when things are blackest, the Lord has always sent somebody to bail us out. George Washington, John Adams & Thomas Jefferson. Then Abraham Lincoln and U.S. Grant. Then FDR, Gen. George S. Patton & Enrico Fermi.

And then Ronald Reagan came along followed by Geo. W. Bush. I believe all of these men were sent by God to save us from sure destruction at critical times. He has never failed us. And now, just when it looks as though there is nothing standing in Obama’s way except a tired old man, when BAM!!! Sarah changes everything. It’s literally like a switch was flipped. Today An Obama presidency is no longer a sure thing. Today I see a good, decent and honest woman who could be in the White House for 16 years, if she’s just a little lucky. If we’re a little lucky. I mean, I was getting very emotional listening to her speak at the convention and I thought, “This is the woman who could lead us out of the wilderness!” And then tonight I’m listening to John McCain speak and the SOB really impressed me. He spoke quietly from the heart and then he got to the big finish and he really got wound up. I hope you heard him, if not try to find it on the internet. It was a spectacular speech. He NEVER gives spectacular speeches!

So now I’m thinking, maybe this isn’t all just coincidence. Maybe God is going to bail us out one more time….

Who am I to ignore Him?

I guess I’m going to hold my nose after all…..God help us!

Blessings to you all,

Tony A.

Palin family exercises their rights to consider an abortion

“Bristol Palin, one of Alaska Gov. Palin’s five children with her husband, Todd, is about five months pregnant and is going to keep the child and marry the father, the Palins said in a statement released by the campaign of Republican presidential candidate John McCain.

Bristol Palin made the decision on her own to keep the baby, McCain aides said. ”

The emphasis here is “made the decision”. What decision would that be? The decision to carry the baby to full term. Apparently Bristol and her parents recognize that she has a right and a choice to keep the baby. According to the statement, Bristol exercised that right and that choice. Her ability to have a choice and to make a decision is conveyed upon them via Roe V Wade. However, Sara Palin doesn’t want other 17 year-olds, or 44 year-olds to have the choice, or to be able to MAKE THE DECISION that her daughter just made.

Prog Dem, you’re trying to make a stupid argument with facts everyone knows, all the while missing the actual point. Who gives a sh*t if she made a choice not to or was forbidden to have an abortion? The baby will get to live. That’s the point. Either way, overturning RvW is not anyone’s radar (at least not for real), so why debate it? The *choice* which you think must be there (despite the costs) is there right now. Either way, I’m sure all the children that were aborted would have loved to have a *choice* but since you don’t think they’re ‘qualified’ to have the very choice you’re advocating for, I guess we’ll just go on with your absurd argument. Congratulations, we’ve come full circle.

That’s what’s so fascinating about this whole national argument in this election. And it has come full circle in my lifetime.

I never thought anyone would dare play the race card on Bill Clinton, sexists on the press and the Democrats.

Oprah won’t have Palin on, etc, etc, etc.

And to beat it all, a male Presidential nominee of African American decent that thus far, has focused on running against a white female VP nominee.

Dang, the Maverick and his advisors have pulled one of the most facinating parodoxes of all time.

GW

The fact is she exercised her right to choose. Why did they acknowldge that she made a choice? Why didn’t they just say, she looks forward to the birth of her child. Apparently they considered their options.

Education as qualification is a TRAP

Remember this the next time your candidate from either party graduates from a lesser known college.

Harvard Republican vs Bulldog Democrat
Duke Democrat vs Georgia State Republican

Oh sure like which college matters……

JSM, Somehow I doubt that in a scientific survey that 93-95% of mothers precisiely said or agreed with the statement “they were killing their babies because they were avoiding responsibility”. I can believe someone else said that about them, but I doubt those are the words they used to describe their decision.

Democrats : Please run an ad questioning Bristol’s decision.

I think it could turn Georgia Blue

I’m not questioning her decision.

However, following the Wednesday night speech, voters are fairly evenly divided as to whether Palin or Obama has the better experience to be President. Forty-four percent (44%) of voters say Palin has the better experience while 48% say Obama has the edge. Among unaffiliated voters, 45% say Obama has better experience while 42% say Palin.

Did I miss something - Obama is running for President, Palin is running for Vice President. Why is his experience being compared to hers? His experience should be compared to McCain’s. But it doesn’t so he is pitting himself against Palin - who still trumps him.

Neither side is going to campaign on abortion. Nobody likes discussing it. The campaign acknowledged that she had and made a choice. Don’t you think it is ironic that Sarah Palin doesn’t think others should others have the choice that her daughter recently made?

Prog Dem, I find it ironic that you’re justifying the realization that ‘progressive’ apparently means ignorant and ‘Dem’ means dipsh*t.

Sheppie, I thought the same thing too.

Yet Savannah GOP welcomes RR on the 27th as our keynote speaker………..

Go Figure.

There were several of us that felt a little uncomfortable for Ralph. We were not thinking that the line was specifically about him or aimed at him.

The USA chants were to drown out the protesters.

Anyone besides me waiting on BoyReporter to give us an explanation about the McCain speech being viewed by 500K more viewers than the Obama speech?

Oh, here’s the link:
http://www.publicallies.org/site/c.liKUL3PNLvF/b.3960231/

Here’s McCain in rare form. He really ought to record a CD!!! http://video.yahoo.com/watch/160614/1275877

I spoke with a Republican-Lite type this evening. He initially said people like us were making too much out of the Ayers business. I patiently explained some facts….like for example Obama was the guy Ayers set up to be the treasurer of their little committee that doled out $100 million of Annenberg money on behalf of hard leftist causes and curriculum changes that were planned to de-Americanize schools - not to mention some of that money undoubtedly went to buy off politicians and opinion makers to pave the way for BO’s House and Senate runs, and fund the Obama campaign finance committee. My friend allowed that if we can fill in details that we may be onto something. I told him that a respected, experienced researcher is working to document and report on the findings. We will soon know a lot more, most likely.