I'll pass on a couple of posts from NRO The Corner. I didn't see today's Palin interview but I didn't really have to. I knew from watching yesterday's 'gotcha' exercise that the bits that made her look worse had all been put together and shown first, and that she would look better in today's interview, as obviously she would if they just let her talk about herself or her record in office.
Jonah Goldberg posted some more info on McCain and typing.
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Gibson and Palin – Day 2 [Yuval Levin]
If yesterday’s portion of the Charlie Gibson interview of Sarah Palin was good but not great for her, today’s was fantastic. She was calm and at ease, poised, clear, and—like yesterday—substantively right on target. The portion at the end of the newscast, about balancing motherhood and political leadership, could well be worth more than all the ads the McCain campaign has purchased lately.
Stylistically, today was far better than yesterday for her. But the more striking thing is that substantively, her answers in both cases were more or less exactly what they should have been. If after two fairly intense interviews like this the closest thing to a gaffe she’s committed is to share in what turns out to be a widely shared uncertainty about the definition of the Bush doctrine, she’s in good shape. And if lots of people see today’s portion of the interview, she’s in great shape.
09/12 07:32 PM
From Forbes, Via Ace of Spades who is all over this thing:
In certain ways, McCain was a natural Web candidate. Chairman of the Senate Telecommunications Subcommittee and regarded as the U.S. Senate's savviest technologist, McCain is an inveterate devotee of email. His nightly ritual is to read his email together with his wife, Cindy. The injuries he incurred as a Vietnam POW make it painful for McCain to type. Instead, he dictates responses that his wife types on a laptop. "She's a whiz on the keyboard, and I'm so laborious," McCain admits. |
