{"id":3216,"date":"2008-09-04T06:13:39","date_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:13:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3216"},"modified":"2008-09-04T06:13:39","modified_gmt":"2008-09-04T11:13:39","slug":"obamas-best-qualities","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/?p=3216","title":{"rendered":"Obama’s best qualities…"},"content":{"rendered":"

Charisma.<\/p>\n

Magnetism.<\/p>\n

Youth.<\/p>\n

Vigor.<\/p>\n

Icon for Change.<\/p>\n

Oratorical Skills.<\/p>\n

Accomplishment.<\/strike><\/p>\n

…were all trumped last night. Every last one of them…only Sarah Palin actually possesses\u00a0the last one.<\/p>\n

Sarah Palin dashed the hopes of Obamanistas by standing\u00a0in front of thousands as millions watched, and nailed it – never sounding artificial and never not being herself. She confidently delivered a masterful speech with a dash of Alaskan twang,\u00a0 then pulled out the whoopin’ stick and gave Obammy a lickin’ only she could deliver.<\/p>\n

…and he was stinging already as Romney, Huckabee and Giuliani had already softened him up for her.<\/p>\n

And to the media…<\/p>\n

“Here’s a little news flash for all those reporters and commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek their good opinion. I’m going to Washington to serve the people of this country.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Despite her disdain for them, they gushed for her.<\/p>\n

Media swoons over Palin’s fiery speech<\/a><\/p>\n

Fired-up Palin rocks arena, rips her foes<\/a><\/p>\n

Palin Assails Critics and Electrifies Party<\/a><\/p>\n

Afterwards, John McCain ambled onstage in a surprise early appearance, and wisely had little to add. Essentially saying “See?”<\/p>\n

Obama’s camp responded<\/a> with already well-worn talking points; a veritable knife in a gunfight.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe speech that Gov. Palin\u00a0gave\u00a0[]well delivered, but it was written by George Bush\u2019s speechwriter and sounds exactly like the same divisive, partisan attacks we\u2019ve heard from George Bush for the last eight years. If Gov. Palin and John McCain want to define \u2018change\u2019 as voting with George Bush 90 percent\u00a0of the time, that\u2019s their choice, but we don\u2019t think the American people are ready to take a 10 percent\u00a0chance on change,\u201d said Bill Burton, Obama campaign spokesman.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

And now they must scramble to\u00a0adjust…again.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charisma. Magnetism. Youth. Vigor. Icon for Change. Oratorical Skills. Accomplishment. …were all trumped last night. Every last one of them…only Sarah Palin actually possesses\u00a0the last one. Sarah Palin dashed the hopes of Obamanistas by standing\u00a0in front of thousands as millions watched, and nailed it – never sounding artificial and never not being herself. She confidently […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":228,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3216","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-campaign-08","category-republicans"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/228"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=3216"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3216\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3216"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3216"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shotinthedark.info\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3216"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}