The mind of a certified genius

If that's "right out of the park" and "nailed it," it only goes to show how eight years of George W. Bush's poor speaking skills and mangling of the English language have dumbed down our perceptions, expectations and sense of quality.

Palin's speech was both uninspired and uninspiring, lacking in substance and style. I expected something truly historic and groundbreaking, not a tepid high school valedictorian performance. "Snarky cheerleader" and "homespun schoolmarm" came through loud and clear; "decisive leader" and "presidential replacement" did not.

Palin needed to communicate her vision for America, but she harped on what the opposition would supposedly do (as warped through her own subjective prism) -- rather than concentrate on what *she* would do. She gave us nothing new or concrete to stir the heart and mind, just more of the same worn-out partisan vitriol. Her string of stock cliches also contained more than a few convenient, hypocritical omissions, untruths and contradictions. How can she inveigh against bigger government, growing deficits, rising taxes and scarce vetoes, when those are precisely the fruits of her party's virtually unchallenged governance over the past eight years? What of her flip-flopping on the "bridge to nowhere" pork barrel project to save political face (supporting it until public outcry made doing so untenable) or the $20 million debt she left tiny Wasilla, Alaska (population 9,000) as a "fiscal conservative" mayor? How about the conditionless talks Bush agreed to hold with Iran this past June, despite his previous "appeasement"…

"The only difference between a pitbull and a soccer mom is the lipstick"? Palin said "hockey mom," not "soccer mom" -- but perhaps that's just evidence of your not listening to the speech too carefully, Wizard, which might explain the glowing review you gave it.

LOL ..S Joe just like his “Great Black hope” did not even watch the speech!!!!! What a loser you are , trying to talk bad about something you are ignorant about.
Any one els use your split screen to watch all the networks at the same time ? (O yea that just me) anyway Obama was on CNN rebutting Sarah Palin's speech ...to bad he was talking trash an hour before her speech started...you guys crack me up !

Wiz, I could not agree more! Governor Palin was unbelievably awesome! She chewed up Obama and spat him out!

She has truly shown her competence and ability to hold the office of Vice President, and no one with even two brain cells to rub together could possibly deny that!

She will beat down Biden so bad during the VP debates he will wish he was never born! The humiliation will be fulfilling for me, even orgasmic. I can't wait for that, and I will record it so I can watch it over and over!

So, ladydanielle, help me out here.

Young girls need to be controlled, and can't be trusted on their own responsibility? They should be told whom to date, when, etc?

That's your opinion of young girls?

maybe the government should just tell us all how many kids we're allowed to have?

at least the Palin's kids and grandchild will have a mother and father who love and support them.

I think that's a pretty good idea. Let's face it- Not a single one of us ever ASKED to be here-we just got thrown into this world & we do the best we can! Sad, but true- maybe there should be a cap on children~ It's a good and controversial thought...other countries have resorted to it due to the aforementioned problems. That would be a good blog topic~

As for "realist" I don't know what to say to you. You are all over the place, and I think you are mentally retarded yourself!
What nonsense!

Certainly looks the part!