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To: bentway who wrote (422033)	10/3/2008 11:48:32 AM
From: Alighieri	Respond to of 1574097

Ann Wojcicki, co-founder of 23andme, told me: "I was dying to hear something -- anything! -- from Palin that wasn't pre-rehearsed." Throughout the entire 90-minute debate, Palin came across as an over-wound windup doll, sporting a pasted-on-smile expression that never varied, except when she winked. Which she did repeatedly -- and pathetically. It was the folksiest appearance since Hee-Haw went off the air. "The home-spun homilies have to go," Martha Stewart told me. "And, oh my god, words do have ending consonants." In the greatest disconnect of the evening, Palin repeatedly went to the Reagan well, offering up such Gipper classics as "there you go again" and that "shining city on the hill." But, really, during a week in which John McCain hopped on board Bush's $700 billion bailout, did Palin not see how incongruous it was to insist that government isn't the solution, it's the problem? And declare that all we need to get this country back on track is for the government to get out of our way? Isn't that what got us where we are today? Or had she been so busy cramming for the debate she didn't have time to read one of the so-many-she-can't-name-one newspapers she reads? Joe Biden's only insincere moment was when he told her: "Governor, it was a pleasure to meet you." A better exit line would have been: "Governor, it's a pleasure to think that, God willing, in 33 days, you'll be back where you belong -- shootin' moose and takin' on those big oil companies in Alaska." My patience with Palin is waving the white flag of surrender. huffingtonpost.com

To: bentway who wrote (422033)	10/3/2008 11:50:03 AM
From: tejek	Respond to of 1574097

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