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Sarah Palin's speech at the Republican convention still has the whole country talking. I just heard a talk show host who is a bona fide supporter of Obama refer to Palin's speech as 'sensational'.
It drives me insane that Obama gave the speech of his life to a crowd of 80,000, yet somehow the Republican VP candidate seems to have stolen his thunder. Weeks after the conventions ended, folks are still talking about her speech, not Obama's.
I refused to watch her speech, convinced that I would never get that hour of my life back. The speech was clearly the jet fuel that propelled her meteoric rise as a so-called political phenomenon.
I cannot understand how a man like Obama, who drew 200,000 people to hear him speak at the crossroads of Europe in Berlin, could have been so overshadowed by a woman who was a complete unknown. Obama's night at the convention was carefully orchestrated and hyped for months. Everyone expected that he would have gained unstoppable momentum after the convention ended.
Yet Palin managed to use her convention speech to push the Republican ticket headed by a feeble old geezer, into a leading position in the race for the White House for several days.
Check out this quote from nationaljournal.com article "Are We Due For Another Momentum Shift?
"Next came the Democratic convention, which was the political equivalent of a Chinese dinner. It looked, smelled and tasted great; it was a perfectly enjoyable experience -- and diners were hungry just a few hours later.
As well organized and impressive as the Denver convention was, it's pretty clear that viewers knew little more about Obama on the Friday after the convention than they did on the Monday morning before it began. The ball was not advanced ...
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I will never understand Palinmania. Thank God her intellectual vapidity and prevarications are now overshadowing her charisma or we would be toast.