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To: TimF who wrote (415184)	9/8/2008 11:30:33 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1576159

A friend of mine has been watching the conventions and speeches much more than I do. She really liked parts of Palin's speech, but was turned off by negative statements and implications about Obama. I wonder what your friend thought of the bashing that Palin underwent in the days leading up to her speech? A sarcastic response was totally appropriate given the vicious attacks she suffered at the hands of the Left -- both the Obama campaign and the media. It is far better than responding "in-kind" to the attacks, which is what most of us would have done. I think a lot of people have criticized Palin in the way your friend has, but anyone who was being objective about it should see that the sarcastic counter-attacks were pretty much necessary given the circumstances. The media had already told us there would be no "red meat" in Palin's speech, so her delivery of a tough speech packed with red meat is what put her on the map, IMO. I think it was just right, personally. Sarcastic enough to make Obama look silly on his experience attack, yet not mean-spirited. I just don't know what else she could have done under the circumstances -- just stand there and take it?

To: TimF who wrote (415184)	9/8/2008 12:14:05 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1576159

Tim, A friend of mine has been watching the conventions and speeches much more than I do. She really liked parts of Palin's speech, but was turned off by negative statements and implications about Obama. Of course is normally the VP candidates job to pull down the other side, and from what I saw of the speech Palin did a good job of it without coming off as mean spirited. I think it is to be expected that someone, who supports a candidate to the point of buying (and wearing?) his T-shirt, would be a little rattled when she hears a credible criticism of her candidate - quite possibly for the first time, given the media coverage. She saw a recent speech by McCain and was really impressed. She even seemed to be wavering in her support for Obama, but in the end I think she will wind up voting for Obama. Almost all her friends are Obama supporters, she has an Obama t-shirt, buys in to the whole idea of "change" (without the details of the change seemingly being all that important) etc. One issue that pulls her toward the Republican side is oil. She basically supports drill everywhere, drill now. Other issues pull her more to the Democrats, but in the end I think she will vote Democrat because she identifies more with them, and hangs around more people who support them, rather than for concrete policy reasons. That's not uncommon. A lot of people vote mostly because of such reasons, and I'd say a majority vote at least partially for such reasons. It seems that McCain campaign at least got her attention... Joe