Bye Bye Palin...

[justNancy]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Where do you get that? He's got 5 young, white guys that write his speeches. LOL

I guess I'm the only one who is looking that the facts.
When you work for a newspaper or you write a book, you will always have editors, proofreaders, etc. Most politicians employ speechwriters. However, that's much different from reading a pre-written speech you memorized for 5 days. The "pit bull" line was original, since she's used it in other speeches. However, even McCain's campaign manager confirmed the speech was written weeks in advance for a male candidate and they needed to rework it. Speech writer Marc Scully (who BTW wrote most of Bush's speeches) said he had to tailor it for Palin. I wasn't criticizing her for the speech, since she did a great job delivering it. Biden also has speech writers. I was simply saying we need to hear her when she hasn't been carefully coached, briefed and scripted.

I read that Obama wrote his own acceptance speech in many articles and news sources, but is Time Magazine good enough for you?

[URL="http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1837368,00.html"]How Obama Writes His Speeches - TIME[/URL]

BTW, why did you mention that his speechwriters are White? Hmm...
Are you saying that a man who has a degree from Columbia and a Doctorate of Law from Harvard and was President of the Harvard Law Review, taught college, etc., cannot think for himself because he is Black?

Edit: Here is an article from the NY Times from January about being an Obama speech writer. It says writing a speech for Obama is like being Ted Williams batting coach. In other words, he's an accomplished author and keynote speaker.

[URL]http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/20/fashion/20speechwriter.html[/URL]

[shipm8]

Originally Posted by sanrene

Where do you get that? He's got 5 young, white guys that write his speeches. LOL

I assume you're joking, sick joke btw, but if not please supply a link.

[Hate Shrubs]

It makes no difference what the Obama or McCain supporters think about Palin’s performance. I don’t think that anybody who already made up his/hers mind how to vote will change their mind. The one that count are all those undecided women... Women generally don’t like a war. And Palin came across as somebody who is very ignorant about the world and who will start a war at the drop of a hat. And don’t tell me that she was technically right about NATO, All those mothers heard is that she will start a WAR with Russia over Georgia.

[justNancy]

Originally Posted by Hate Shrubs

[FONT=&quot]It makes no difference what the Obama or McCain supporters think about Palin’s performance. I don’t think that anybody who already made up his/hers mind how to vote will change their mind. The one that count are all those undecided women... Women generally don’t like a war. And Palin came across as somebody who is very ignorant about the world and who will start a war at the drop of a hat. And don’t tell me that she was technically right about NATO, All those mothers heard is that she will start a WAR with Russia over Georgia.[/FONT]

Good point!