Monday, September 29, 2008

Greeting McCain-Palin in Columbus

A friend and I met near her home and drove to Franklin Park Conservatory on Columbus' east side, then boarded a bus to Capital Center on the campus of Capital University. The huge line wound around the streets of Bexley, down an alley, past all the t-shirt, political button and bumper sticker hawkers, until finally we got inside the building. It was great fun with the opportunity for a lot of people-watching before the candidates arrived to loud cheers, roars and music. Of course, there were a lot of university students there, but also people with babies and children. I was surprised by how many disabled people had made the effort to be there--and it was not a comfortable environment if you were on crutches, a cane or in a wheelchair. Palin's promise to be a voice for those with special needs in the White House was met with loud cheers. Although, she could've given the weather report and been cheered. The crowd loved her. Eat your heart out Katie Couric (if you have one). You should be so popular.

4 comments:

Anonymous said...

Interesting. Either you didn't like Katie Couric's questions, or you didn't like Palin's inability to put together a coherent sentence in her answers.

What happened to the pitbull who can take on the world? Suddenly she's supposed to be above answering anything but creampuff questions from Hannity?

Which of Couric's questions was out of bounds for someone campaigning to be a heartbeat away from running the country?

Did you hear any "gotcha" questions? I didn't, unless you think asking a potential president to name more than a single supreme court decision (she couldn't) a gotcha question.

Was it a gotcha question to give her time to hang herself while explaining why living close to Russia makes her a foreign policy expert?

Was it a gotcha question to let her show how ignorant she is about the economy by asking about the bailout?

A gotcha question would have been to ask her why she thinks humans and dinosaurs were hanging out together 4,000 years ago, or if she used to speak in tongues at her Pentecostal church.

Or how she thinks she can balance raising a family with governing the country when she's shown that she can't keep an eye on her daughter while governing Alaska.

So far Palin is making Dan Quayle look like Cicero.

Don't blame Couric for that.

Anonymous said...

I like that Sarah Palin dares to answer questions head on rather than dance around them like Joe Biden does. I watched a Meet the Press interview with Joe Biden a few weeks ago, and he would talk in circles in order to avoid the full impact of questions. One of the things he was asked about was his support of a bankruptcy bill that Obama opposed. He didn't explain why he felt the bill was needed. He said that though MBNA had lobbied for the bill, he didn't vote for it until there was a version of it that some other special interests supported. He said that his son Hunter didn't lobby him. He said he never meets personally with lobbyists unless they are the CEO of a company (apparently, he's an emperor, not just a senator). Other lobbyists have to talk to his staffers, not him. Through all that, he still didn't offer a compelling reason why he, himself, Joe Biden, pushed for passage of that bankruptcy bill. The media applauds Biden for artfully dancing around the question when they know he has no good answer. Sarah Palin just flat out gives her answer, whether it's a good one or not, and the media attacks her candor. As far as I'm concerned, I prefer Sarah Palin's direct approach to the crafty used-car-salesman-approach employed by most professional politicians any day. My admiration for Sarah Palin can be explained as easily as: She's one of us, not one of them.

Anonymous said...

SHE IS A LIGHT-WEIGHT and on main stream television.I would be surprised if her numbers didn't go down. Sorta like the stock market.But she's a good ole girl,like Hillary,only Hillary had brains AND experience and we didn't like her ,remember.But she IS Cute and CUTE counts on TV.

Norma said...

Well, you should know. What Obama doesn't have in the guilt-relief department, he makes up for in good looks and great TV persona.