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Originally Posted by mccoyred
I think that she did well in terms of speech delivery - diction, eye contact, body language, etc. She did not make many of the mistakes that novice speakers make.
However, the substance of her speech as well as those of Juliani and Romney were weak. They were filled with innuendos, sarcasm, half-truths and outright lies. Wait until Politifact.com ( http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/) and FactCheck.org ( http://www.factcheck.org/) get a hold of those speeches! The partisanship was clearly evident.
They could not keep Barack Obama's name out of their mouths! Every other sentence was about Obama. If they fired up their base, they also fired up Obama's base; last night immediately after her speech, I sat down and sent another donation to Barack Obama.... |
The same thing happened at the Dem Convention; even Obama's speech had a number of things to say about McCain.
As for Palin's speech - I thought it was good, but I'm unsure if that was because of my own low expectations going in. I really just wish he had chosen Hutchison if he was set on having a woman on the ticket.
I'd like to see, after all this is over, some explanation on how the McCain camp made its choices during this election season. I'm guessing it will make one heck of a book (like the one written on the 1988 Presidential election).
The Republican speeches definitely were heavy on partisanship, but the same can be said about the Democratic Convention. Neither party was immune.