On Oct 3, 10:58 am, frankg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My guess is it’s because those who weren't predisposed to dismiss or
> disagree with Palin didn't see it the way you did.
I was personally looking for her to appropriately define her role as
VP, should she be elected, to describe how she would engage on a
learning curve, due to her life decision not to be better read and
informed, and to indicate her professional demeanor, which is partly,
but not wholly , lacking.
>
> I thought her demeanor was very good, very professional.
I did not. The black suit in the debates was respectable, but the
heels were too high, the skirt too narrow. There was too much
repetition of set phrases and not enough fresh initiative. It has
gotten to the point that the self labeling of these candidates as
mavericks has become not only specious but abhorrent. I personally
cringe when I hear the word. Difference for the sake of difference is
not commendable and there has been little in the way of statements
explaining any McCain, much less Palin, sense of change. There is
little of the show how and say why to Governor Palin. I found the
dismissal of good points of debate as just history to be particularly
irritating and sad, primarily because it was her way of getting out of
debate or distancing herself from topics of which she was ignorant,
and partly because she ha ssuch a poor command of history .
She shouldn't
> need to apologize because she wasn't a stone cold, robotic,
> personality-free, male-wanna-be. She’s a professional woman who isn’t
> afraid of being a woman. My wife gave her a better grade than I did.
I don't like her Joe six pack and soccer mom illusions. It demeans the
American public. For the former, it either refers to characterizing
males in terms of either alcohol consumption or the state of their abs
(the two being not so compatible in reality), a rather sad image of
the state of mankind, and of women not in the boardroom but as someone
who ferries people back and forth to root at sports games. I imagine
in her household, it's either house hubby ferrying the kids back and
forth and nanny taking over when he's engaged in long distance
snowmobile racing. She seems like a nice enough person but she "wings
it" so much that I seriously worry about her judgement. The fact that
she isn't better read and prepared by her age and political
inclination is very sad. I'd pit any member of my church or
neighborhood of any political party against her in terms of
preparedness
>
> Where I did feel uncomfortable with her was that she still doesn't
> have sufficient depth of knowledge in many areas, especially on
> international issues, and you could tell when the knowledge well ran
> dry and she'd spin off into some rhetoric that she apparently feels
> more comfortable with. McCain would have been wise to settle on her a
> month earlier and spend that extra month ingraining her with more
> facts and figures.
That would be very unfortunate. Wisdom isn't a cram course. And you
can't learn Washington dynamics in a short period of time.
There’s no substitute for knowledge, and no better
> way to show off that you don’t have it than to participate in a
> national debate.
It's fortunate that we have a debate between the Vice Presidential
hopefuls. Ross Perot immediately lost ground over his VP pick. In an
election, it would be good to remember that even a candidate that does
not win, gains or looses influence ground through the conduct of the
campaign.
>
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