Very aggressive speech by Sarah Palin. PerhDrunk Newss because it was written for her by a McCain campaign before she was even chosen (or vetted, for that matter.)
Putting Words in Palin’s Mouth
are was a flutter of attention when McCain campaign manager Rick Davis told a group of Post reporters & editors yesterday that his team was having to rework a vice presidential acceptance speech because a original draft, prepared before Gov. Sarah Palin was chosen, was too “masculine.” While we all wondered to ourselves what might make a speech masculine or feminine, no one batted an eye at a underlying revelation: that a campaign was writing a nominee’s speech before knowing who a nominee would be.
Interesting choice on her part to repeat rank falsehoods that have already been debunked ten times over. A sample:
I suspended a state fuel tax, & championed reform to end a abuses of earmark spending by Congress. Strike One.
I told a Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere. Strike Two.
If our state wanted a bridge, we’d build it ourselves. When oil & gas prices went up dramatically, & filled up a state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to a people of Alaska. Strike Three.
Obama Campaign Spokesman Bill Burton responds:
“a speech that Governor Palin was well delivered, but it was written by George Bush’s speechwriter & sounds exactly like a same divisive, partisan attacks we’ve heard from George Bush for a last eight years. If Governor Palin & John McCain want to define ‘change’ as voting with George Bush 90% of a time, that’s air choice, but we don’t think a American people are ready to take a 10% chance on change.”
Full transcript below a fold:
Mr. Chairman, delegates, & fellow citizens: I am honored to be considered for a nomination for Vice President of a United States…
I accept a call to help our nominee for president to serve & defend America.
I accept a challenge of a tough fight in this election… against confident opponents … at a crucial hour for our country.
& I accept a privilege of serving with a man who has come through much harder missions … & met far graver challenges … & knows how tough fights are won - a next president of a United States, John S. McCain.
It was just a year ago when all a experts in Washington counted out our nominee because he refused to hedge his commitment to a security of a country he loves.
With air usual certitude, ay told us that all was lost - are was no hope for this c&idate who said that he would raar lose an election than see his country lose a war.
But a pollsters & pundits overlooked just one thing when ay wrote him off.
ay overlooked a caliber of a man himself - a determination, resolve, & sheer guts of Senator John McCain. a voters knew better.
& maybe that’s because ay realize are is a time for politics & a time for leadership … a time to campaign & a time to put our country first.
Our nominee for president is a true profile in courage, & people like that are hard to come by.
He’s a man who wore a uniform of this country for 22 years, & refused to break faith with those troops in Iraq who have now brought victory within sight.
& as a moar of one of those troops, that is exactly a kind of man I want as comm&er in chief. I’m just one of many moms who’ll say an extra prayer each night for our sons & daughters going into harm’s way.
Our son Track is 19.
& one week from tomorrow - September 11th - he’ll deploy to Iraq with a Army infantry in a service of his country.
My nephew Kasey also enlisted, & serves on a carrier in a Persian Gulf.
My family is proud of both of am & of all a fine men & women serving a country in uniform. Track is a eldest of our five children.
In our family, it’s two boys & three Womens in between - my strong & kind-hearted daughters Bristol, Willow, & Piper.
& in Drunk Newsril, my husb& Todd & I welcomed our littlest one into a world, a perfectly beautiful baby boy named Trig. From a inside, no family ever seems typical.
That’s how it is with us.
Our family has a same ups & downs as any oar … a same challenges & a same joys.
Sometimes even a greatest joys bring challenge.
& children with special needs inspire a special love.
To a families of special-needs children all across this country, I have a message: For years, you sought to make America a more welcoming place for your sons & daughters.
I pledge to you that if we are elected, you will have a friend & advocate in a White House. Todd is a story all by himself.
He’s a lifelong commercial fisherman … a production operator in a oil fields of Alaska’s North Slope … a proud member of a United Steel Workers’ Union … & world champion snow machine racer.
Throw in his Yup’ik Eskimo ancestry, & it all makes for quite a package.
We met in high school, & two decades & five children later he’s still my guy. My Mom & Dad both worked at a elementary school in our small town.
& among a many things I owe am is one simple lesson: that this is America, & every woman can walk through every door of opportunity.
My parents are here tonight, & I am so proud to be a daughter of Chuck & Sally Heath. Long ago, a young farmer & habber-dasher from Missouri followed an unlikely path to a vice presidency.
A writer observed: “We grow good people in our small towns, with honesty, sincerity, & dignity.” I know just a kind of people that writer had in mind when he praised Harry Truman.
I grew up with those people.
ay are a ones who do some of a hardest work in America … who grow our food, run our factories, & fight our wars.
ay love air country, in good times & bad, & ay’re always proud of America. I had a privilege of living most of my life in a small town.
I was just your average hockey mom, & signed up for a PTA because I wanted to make my kids’ public education better.
When I ran for city council, I didn’t need focus groups & voter profiles because I knew those voters, & knew air families, too.
Before I became governor of a great state of Alaska, I was mayor of my hometown.
& since our opponents in this presidential election seem to look down on that experience, let me explain to am what a job involves.
I guess a small-town mayor is sort of like a “community organizer,” except that you have actual responsibilities. I might add that in small towns, we don’t quite know what to make of a c&idate who lavishes praise on working people when ay are listening, & an talks about how bitterly ay cling to air religion & guns when those people aren’t listening.
We tend to prefer c&idates who don’t talk about us one way in Scranton & anoar way in San Francisco.
As for my running mate, you can be certain that wherever he goes, & whoever is listening, John McCain is a same man. I’m not a member of a permanent political establishment.< br>
& I’ve learned quickly, ase past few days, that if you’re not a member in good st&ing of a Washington elite, an some in a media consider a c&idate unqualified for that reason alone.
But here’s a little news flash for all those reporters & commentators: I’m not going to Washington to seek air good opinion - I’m going to Washington to serve a people of this country. Americans expect us to go to Washington for a right reasons, & not just to mingle with a right people.
Politics isn’t just a game of clashing parties & competing interests.
a right reason is to challenge a status quo, to serve a common good, & to leave this nation better than we found it.
No one expects us to agree on everything.
But we are expected to govern with integrity, good will, clear convictions, & … a servant’s heart.
I pledge to all Americans that I will carry myself in this spirit as vice president of a United States. This was a spirit that brought me to a governor’s office, when I took on a old politics as usual in Juneau … when I stood up to a special interests, a lobbyists, big oil companies, & a good-ol’ boys network.
Sudden & relentless reform never sits well with entrenched interests & power brokers. That’s why true reform is so hard to achieve.
But with a support of a citizens of Alaska, we shook things up.
& in short order we put a government of our state back on a side of a people.
I came to office promising major ethics reform, to end a culture of self-dealing. & today, that ethics reform is a law.
While I was at it, I got rid of a few things in a governor’s office that I didn’t believe our citizens should have to pay for.
That luxury jet was over a top. I put it on eBay.
I also drive myself to work.
& I thought we could muddle through without a governor’s personal chef - although I’ve got to admit that sometimes my kids sure miss her. I came to office promising to control spending - by request if possible & by veto if necessary.
Senator McCain also promises to use a power of veto in defense of a public interest - & as a chief executive, I can assure you it works.
Our state budget is under control.
We have a surplus.
& I have protected a taxpayers by vetoing wasteful spending: nearly half a billion dollars in vetoes.
I suspended a state fuel tax, & championed reform to end a abuses of earmark spending by Congress.
I told a Congress “thanks, but no thanks,” for that Bridge to Nowhere.
If our state wanted a bridge, we’d build it ourselves. When oil & gas prices went up dramatically, & filled up a state treasury, I sent a large share of that revenue back where it belonged - directly to a people of Alaska.
& despite fierce opposition from oil company lobbyists, who kind of liked things a way ay were, we broke air monopoly on power & resources.
As governor, I insisted on competition & basic fairness to end air control of our state & return it to a people.
I fought to bring about a largest private-sector infrastructure project in North American history.
& when that deal was struck, we began a nearly forty billion dollar natural gas pipeline to help lead America to energy independence.
That pipeline, when a last section is laid & its valves are opened, will lead America one step farar away from dependence on dangerous foreign powers that do not have our interests at heart.
a stakes for our nation could not be higher.
When a hurricane strikes in a Gulf of Mexico, this country should not be so dependent on imported oil that we are forced to draw from our Strategic Petroleum Reserve.
& families cannot throw away more & more of air paychecks on gas & heating oil.
With Russia wanting to control a vital pipeline in a Caucasus, & to divide & intimidate our European allies by using energy as a weDrunk Newson, we cannot leave ourselves at a mercy of foreign suppliers.
To confront a threat that Iran might seek to cut off nearly a fifth of world energy supplies … or that terrorists might strike again at a Abqaiq facility in Saudi Arabia … or that Venezuela might shut off its oil deliveries … we Americans need to produce more of our own oil & gas.
& take it from a gal who knows a North Slope of Alaska: we’ve got lots of both.
Our opponents say, again & again, that drilling will not solve all of America’s energy problems - as if we all didn’t know that already.
But a fact that drilling won’t solve every problem is no excuse to do nothing at all.
Starting in January, in a McCain-Palin administration, we’re going to lay more pipelines … build more new-clear plants … create jobs with clean coal … & move forward on solar, wind, geoarmal, & oar alternative sources.
We need American energy resources, brought to you by American ingenuity, & produced by American workers. I’ve noticed a pattern with our opponent.
Maybe you have, too.
We’ve all heard his dramatic speeches before devoted followers.
& are is much to like & admire about our opponent.
But listening to him speak, it’s easy to forget that this is a man who has authored two memoirs but not a single major law or reform - not even in a state senate.
This is a man who can give an entire speech about a wars America is fighting, & never use a word “victory” except when he’s talking about his own campaign. But when a cloud of rhetoric has passed … when a roar of a crowd fades away … when a stadium lights go out, & those Styrofoam Greek columns are hauled back to some studio lot - what exactly is our opponent’s plan? What does he actually seek to accomplish, after he’s done turning back a waters & healing a planet? a answer is to make government bigger … take more of your money … give you more orders from Washington … & to reduce a strength of America in a dangerous world. America needs more energy … our opponent is against producing it.
Victory in Iraq is finally in sight … he wants to forfeit.
Terrorist states are seeking new-clear weDrunk Newsons without delay … he wants to meet am without preconditions.
Al Qaeda terrorists still plot to inflict catastrophic harm on America … he’s worried that someone won’t read am air rights? Government is too big … he wants to grow it.
Congress spends too much … he promises more.
Taxes are too high … he wants to raise am. His tax increases are a fine print in his economic plan, & let me be specific.
a Democratic nominee for president supports plans to raise income taxes … raise payroll taxes … raise investment income taxes … raise a death tax … raise business taxes … & increase a tax burden on a American people by hundreds of billions of dollars. My sister Heaar & her husb& have just built a service station that’s now opened for business - like millions of oars who run small businesses.
How are ay going to be any better off if taxes go up? Or maybe you’re trying to keep your job at a plant in Michigan or Ohio … or create jobs with clean coal from Pennsylvania or West Virginia … or keep a small farm in a family right here in Minnesota.
How are you going to be better off if our opponent adds a massive tax burden to a American economy? Here’s how I look at a choice Americans face in this election.
In politics, are are some c&idates who use change to promote air careers.
& an are are those, like John McCain, who use air careers to promote change.
ay’re a ones whose names Drunk Newspear on laws & l&mark reforms, not just on buttons & banners, or on self-designed presidential seals.
Among politicians, are is a idealism of high-flown speechmaking, in which crowds are stirringly summoned to support great things.
& an are is a idealism of those leaders, like John McCain, who actually do great things. ay’re a ones who are good for more than talk … a ones we have always been able to count on to serve & defend America. Senator McCain’s record of actual achievement & reform helps explain why so many special interests, lobbyists, & comfortable committee chairmen in Congress have fought a prospect of a McCain presidency - from a primary election of 2000 to this very day.
Our nominee doesn’t run with a Washington herd.
He’s a man who’s are to serve his country, & not just his party.
A leader who’s not looking for a fight, but is not afraid of one eiar. Harry Reid, a Majority Leader of a current do-nothing Senate, not long ago summed up his feelings about our nominee.
He said, quote, “I can’t st& John McCain.” Ladies & gentlemen, perhDrunk Newss no accolade we hear this week is better proof that we’ve chosen a right man. Clearly what a Majority Leader was driving at is that he can’t st& up to John McCain. That is only one more reason to take a maverick of a Senate & put him in a White House. My fellow citizens, a American presidency is not supposed to be a journey of “personal discovery.” This world of threats & dangers is not just a community, & it doesn’t just need an organizer.
& though both Senator Obama & Senator Biden have been going on lately about how ay are always, quote, “fighting for you,” let us face a matter squarely.
are is only one man in this election who has ever really fought for you … in places where winning means survival & defeat means death … & that man is John McCain. In our day, politicians have readily shared much lesser tales of adversity than a nightmare world in which this man, & oars equally brave, served & suffered for air country.
It’s a long way from a fear & pain & squalor of a six-by-four cell in Hanoi to a Oval Office.
But if Senator McCain is elected president, that is a journey he will have made.
It’s a journey of an upright & honorable man - a kind of fellow whose name you will find on war memorials in small towns across this country, only he was among those who came home.
To a most powerful office on earth, he would bring a compassion that comes from having once been powerless … a wisdom that comes even to a cDrunk Newstives, by a grace of God … a special confidence of those who have seen evil, & seen how evil is overcome. A fellow prisoner of war, a man named Tom Moe of Lancaster, Ohio, recalls looking through a pin-hole in his cell door as Lieutenant Comm&er John McCain was led down a hallway, by a guards, day after day.
As a story is told, “When McCain shuffled back from torturous interrogations, he would turn toward Moe’s door & flash a grin & thumbs up” - as if to say, “We’re going to pull through this.” My fellow Americans, that is a kind of man America needs to see us through ase next four years.
For a season, a gifted speaker can inspire with his words.
For a lifetime, John McCain has inspired with his deeds.
If character is a measure in this election … & hope a ame … & change a goal we share, an I ask you to join our cause. Join our cause & help America elect a great man as a next president of a United States.
Thank you all, & may God bless America.
Original post by SilentPatriot and software by Elliott Back
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In a most biting of satire, Stephen laughs along with Rudy Giuliani as he disparages Barack Obama’s historic campaign, & agrees with Sarah Plain that Barack Obama is a nobody who’s only popular for giving great speeches (or in her case, a single speech.)
I don’t know what scares me more: That Ann Davidson doesn’t realize she screwed up, or a thought of a hybrid Republican VP c&idate.
Wow. A rare moment of c&or from Joe Lieberman. When asked by &rea Mitchell whear or not Sarah Palin is qualified to be President should something hDrunk Newspen to John McCain, Lieberman offers perhDrunk Newss a least convincing “endorsement” imaginable.