This was truly a Poor Speech

[MadBadger]

The speech electrified the right and infuriated the left. The question is, what do the people in the middle think? I think the independents will hate this speech. They will view it as bitterly partisan with very little substance. They dont like bitter partisanship, where as Obama's speech may be partisan at some points, it wasnt bitter. None of the dems speeches were as mean-spirited and divisive as hers. I think the independents will look poorly at the speech and therefore it will have failed.

[dkf]

1. I'm not so much infuriated as puzzled.

I don't get why anybody was excited and whooped and hollered. Even Pat Buchanan was moved by Obama's speech, but I don't see anyone who is not already in that corner being the least bit enthused about anything she said.

If she was going for the attack thing, Rudy was waaaay better at it than she was.

[goodgd_yall]

2. I think you're right.

About how Independents will receive her speech.

[sandnsea]

3. Depends what the media plays out of it

If they play the Bridge to Nowhere part, without rebuttal, and her taking on the Alaskan corruption, there might be a few in the middle who will accept her. But anybody who watched the whole speech, I don't think they'll find much to like. She offered no new ideas at all. Just the same Bush policies that haven't worked in 8 years.

[stolivodka]

4. I do know

..that the media will be talking about Sarah Palin's speech more than John McCain's. The VP upstaging the Presidential nominee isn't a good sign for their chances in November. It clearly shows how McCain isn't in control of much of anything in the GOP.

[tabatha]

5. The speech was about bitterness, guns, religion.

Proved a point, I suppose.

[earthside]

6. I agree.

And I also think that while the speech certainly caught the buzz this evening -- it was so devoid of substance, but so full of snide bile that it will be mostly forgotten ... except for the bitter after taste of her sarcasm.

[Frank Booth]

7. You're right, for people who watched it.

For people who didn't, the media will be shoving down their throats how she "beat expectations."

Never mind that all she had to do to beat expectations was refrain from using her speech to unlawfully pressure yet another official.

[4lbs]

11. All she had to do to beat expectations....

was not screw up her lines like George Bush has done millions of times the past 8 years, and how Letterman frequently displays on his show.

[Frank Booth]

12. Nope. That still would have beat expectations.

She was expected to read at a second grade level, and it turns out she can read at at least a ninth grade level. Hence, according to the media, it was a good speech.

[Egnever]

8. The funny thing is

it worked for the room. They slopped it up. Tomorrow they will be left flat by mcsame in comparison.

it will leave him looking old and infective.

[Merlot]

9. No matter what she said, the "room" would have eaten it up

They aren't questioning or discerning. They accept without comment or reservation whatever the repubs shove down their throats.

[life_long_dem]

10. He will lay out his plan.

Prunes and applesauce for breakfast, a three hour nap, metamucial for lunch, another nap, a warm glass of milk and in bed by seven.

[Heather MC]

13. Can I be the first to call it? ANGRY WHITE WOMAN

be afraid be very afraid

[Cha]

14. The Dems' speeches were all brilliant, just teeming

with facts and, yes, they were inspiring. palin's speeches Engergized our Base, too, with all her lies and insults about Obama's "community organizing" ..it's not just Obama who's early history included that in his resume. It's all over America in every town and city:)